Balfour Beatty

Balfour builds boutique hotel-style hospice

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Welsh slate exterior, Danish brickwork and wallpaper from France, the completed Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice will be a grand design befitting its royal name.

The building has been paid for by the people of Glasgow, and groups of them have been invited this week to have a look at…

Balfour’s turnaround tale is just what industry needs

Tom Fitzpatrick leader

Balfour Beatty’s return to form is a tonic for construction.

It’s easy to forget the UK’s largest contractor was in chaos a few years ago, with repeated profit warnings, leadership shake-ups and a strategy that appeared to change on a weekly basis. Imagine what might have been had Carillion completed a…

Balfour Beatty: 5 things we learned from its results

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Leo Quinn was notably relaxed in front of analysts today – even smiling at one point – as he unveiled the work he is doing to steer Balfour Beatty’s continued turnaround. 

It’s understandable that the former civil engineer was on good form. As Mr Quinn admitted today, when asked about Carillion…

Hong Kong: How to tap its £400bn pipeline

Hong Kong skyline

Filled with well-established heavyweight construction firms, fitting into the Hong Kong construction market can be a huge challenge. So how go you go about doing it? Lucy Alderson investigates.

For decades, Hong Kong has been the go-to destination for international companies looking to tap into the highly lucrative and rapidly growing…