Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty has won a £103m seven-year roads maintenance contract Telford Wrekin Council.

The deal will see the firm take responsibility for the upkeep of 1,000 km of highways and 1,200 km of footpaths. Balfour will provide drainage cleansing services as well as winter gritting and reactive highways maintenance. The contractor claims the deal, which includes…

Balfour Beatty has won the £10m early works contract on the stalled Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Birmingham.

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust revealed the appointment in its board papers published ahead of a meeting today. Balfour Beatty is scheduled to start on site in November and will spend the…

Balfour Beatty has publicly backed the National Infrastructure Commission’s £900bn spending plan.

The contractor published a paper, entitled Building on firm foundations, in response to the NIC’s National Infrastructure Assessment report. Published in July, the NIC’s report proposed the UK spend £30bn a year to improve infrastructure through to 2050. In Balfour’s paper, chief…

Balfour Beatty and NG Bailey are to lead a new joint venture that will deliver mechanical, electrical and heating and ventilation (MEH) work at the £20bn Hinkley Point C nuclear plant.

The two contractors, which are already working in joint venture to deliver electric cabling and equipment installation, will now join…

Balfour Beatty has hired McLaren’s managing director for construction Dave Smith as its new construction MD for the South of England. 

Mr Smith (pictured) will join Balfour next month after nearly 18 months heading up McLaren’s construction division. Before joining the contractor, Mr Smith spent 32 years at Wates in a range of…

Balfour Beatty’s Far East joint venture Gammon Construction has landed a HK$2.3bn (£223m) deal to widen a highway in Hong Kong.

Gammon, the 50:50 JV between Balfour and Hong-Kong based Jardine Matheson, will team up with Sanfield for the Sai Sha road scheme in Sai Kung, Hong Kong. Jardin Matheson is a…

Balfour Beatty has been picked to deliver a £60m learning and teaching facility for the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

The £33m contract was awarded through the university’s major building construction framework, to which Balfour Beatty was appointed in February 2018. Balfour will be responsible for refurbishing and extending the existing Grade II-listed…

Balfour Beatty has started redundancy proceedings for staff working on its Whitechapel Crossrail site, Construction News can exclusively reveal.

The contractor began the redundancy consultation process on Thursday last week, the day before news broke that Crossrail was to be delayed until autumn 2019, CN has learned. CN understands the redundancies…

Balfour Beatty has been chosen for the latest section of a £3bn dualling programme linking central and north-eastern Scotland.

Transport Scotland is set to appoint the contractor to widen a 9.5 km stretch on the A9 between Luncarty and Pass of Birnam, which is expected to cost £96m. Balfour Beatty was…

Balfour Beatty has reaffirmed its pledge to cut work onsite 25 per cent by 2025 through the introduction offsite and modular techniques.

The firm first revealed the target in December 2017 in light of the government’s 2025 industrial strategy, which is linked to the £420m sector deal. A paper released by the…