Balfour Beatty

HS2 is to carry out what it claims will be the first ‘box slide’ bridge installation of its kind over a UK motorway. It plans to slide a 10,000-tonne bridge into position over the M42 near Junction 9 in Warwickshire in late 2022. The bridge was originally designed as a…

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick and EJ Parker Technical Services have been chosen to deliver the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) framework contract at Sellafield, worth £150m-250m over its 18-year life. Sellafield’s programme and project partners team said the package was the first of several to be awarded spanning the next…

Wates has poached Balfour Beatty's associate director for sustainability, as part of an effort to hit the firm's environment targets by 2025. Bekir Andrews (pictured) has been appointed as Wates’ environmental sustainability director, a brand-new role in the contractor’s environment team. Andrews will be responsible for Wates’ efforts to decarbonise…

Galliford Try’s Highways business has made two new senior appointments to its team, hiring industry veterans from Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty. Alison Chippington, who has worked for Morgan Sindall for more than 31 years, most recently as head of bid management and proposals, is to become the firm’s pre-construction…

Fifteen contractors, including Balfour Beatty, Kier and Morgan Sindall, have won places on a new £500m framework to deliver new-build, infrastructure and refurbishment works for the public sector in Scotland. The Scottish Procurement Alliance’s Public Buildings and Infrastructure framework, also known as PB3, is open to public sector organisations to…

The Scottish Government has announced that a new campus being delivered by Balfour Beatty for Fife College can proceed to the delivery phase of a net-zero college building. The campus in Dunfermline is part of a new 58-acre scheme where the college and two high schools will be relocated in…

Balfour Beatty has secured a sustainability-linked loan it claims is the largest in the construction sector. The contractor told the City this morning it had converted its existing £375m revolving credit facility to a sustainability-linked loan. It has also extended the loan to mature in October 2024. Under the terms…

The Midland Metropolitan Hospital, which was started by Carillion and is being finished by Balfour Beatty, is now “unlikely” to meet its 2022 opening date target. A board meeting of the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust was told last week that the hospital, which has been under construction…

Beijing-headquartered China Railway Electrification Engineering Group is in the running for a £300m rail systems deal on HS2, it has emerged. The firm, a subsidiary of the 290,000-strong state-owned China Railway Engineering Corporation, was officially shortlisted for the overhead catenary system that will provide power to trains on the rapid…

Balfour Beatty has launched an initiative to showcase its work towards a “zero-carbon construction site” on a project in Scotland. The contractor said it would monitor emissions created throughout its supply chain on the delivery of the first phase of the £70m Edinburgh Biomes scheme. This will include ‘Scope 3’…