Balfour Beatty News, Contracts and Projects | Construction News https://www.constructionnews.co.uk Read UK Construction Industry News, Analysis, Opinion and data Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:02:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://emap-romulus-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/07/favicon-cn192-70x70.png Balfour Beatty News, Contracts and Projects | Construction News https://www.constructionnews.co.uk 32 32 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/logo.gif Construction News https://www.constructionnews.co.uk 125 75 Read UK Construction Industry News, Analysis, Opinion and data Balfour scoops £185m Highlands dualling job https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/balfour-beatty/balfour-scoops-185m-highlands-dualling-job-10-07-2024/ https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/balfour-beatty/balfour-scoops-185m-highlands-dualling-job-10-07-2024/#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:02:24 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=502102 Balfour Beatty has nabbed a bumper job to dual part of the A9 in Scotland. The contract, worth £184.7m, will cover a 9.6km stretch of road between Tomatin and Moy. Once complete, there will be around 33km of continuous dual carriageway stretching from Inverness to…

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Balfour Beatty names new construction boss https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/balfour-beatty/balfour-beatty-names-new-construction-boss-27-06-2024/ https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/balfour-beatty/balfour-beatty-names-new-construction-boss-27-06-2024/#respond Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:18:10 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=501468 Balfour Beatty has hired Alstom Transportation’s UK and Ireland managing director to be its new head of construction. Nick Crossfield will become chief executive of Construction Services at the UK’s largest building firm, filling the role formerly carried out by Mark Bullock for three years…

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Balfour boss ‘embarrassed’ if margin doesn’t double https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/balfour-beatty/balfour-boss-embarrassed-if-margin-doesnt-double-25-06-2024/ https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/balfour-beatty/balfour-boss-embarrassed-if-margin-doesnt-double-25-06-2024/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:00:10 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=501360 Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn has said he would be “embarrassed” if the company does not double its roughly 2 per cent margin “in the current environment”.  Speaking on The Investor Download Podcast, published by asset manager Schroders, Quinn also said the UK’s largest…

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Balfour lands £192m substations job https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/balfour-beatty/balfour-lands-192m-substations-job-19-06-2024/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:51:14 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=501020 Balfour Beatty has won a contract to build a trio of electrical substations in Argyll, western Scotland, worth £192m. The contractor has been selected by SSEN Transmission to build the three new 275kV substations in Craig Murrail, An Suidhe, and Crarae. The new substations form…

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Sisk scores top league spot after signing for £300m stadium job https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contracts/construction-league-tables/sisk-scores-top-league-spot-after-signing-for-300m-stadium-job-06-06-2024/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:00:47 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=500439 John Sisk scooped top spot in the May league table after winning a bumper job at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium. The £300m job, which will see Sisk build a new North Stand at the 53,000-seat stadium, sees Sisk take its first gold spot of 2024,…

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Balfour scoops Rolls-Royce nuclear sub plant expansion job https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/balfour-beatty/balfour-scoops-rolls-royce-nuclear-sub-plant-expansion-job-09-05-2024/ Thu, 09 May 2024 10:56:15 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=498807 Rolls-Royce has appointed Balfour Beatty as construction partner to double the size of an industrial complex used for key components of nuclear attack submarines. The aerospace and defence manufacturer selected the contractor to deliver expansion of its Raynesway site in Derby in line with increased…

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Judge rejects Balfour Beatty roads scheme legal challenge   https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/legal/judge-rejects-balfour-beatty-roads-scheme-legal-challenge-01-05-2024/ Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:05 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=498465 Construction can now go ahead on a Balfour Beatty road scheme worth at least £228m near Manchester after objectors withdrew their legal challenge. Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) had sought a judicial review into the A57 Link Roads project, which will create two roads…

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Bumper road project delayed again as legal challenge comes in https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/civils/bumper-road-project-delayed-again-as-legal-challenge-comes-in-30-04-2024/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:59:29 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=498302 A £1.49bn project to develop the A66 has hit another stumbling block in the form of a legal challenge. The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project received development consent last month. The project would see a 50km section of road upgraded to dual carriageway. But during a…

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Balfour signs contract for Scottish prison https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/balfour-signs-contract-for-scottish-prison-11-04-2024/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:04:15 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=497112 Balfour Beatty has signed a £119m deal to build a flagship net-zero Scottish prison – with the total scheme cost now four times the original estimated price. The tier one contractor was appointed to a preconstruction contract for the 18,500 square metres HMP Highland in…

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Balfour and Costain named on £4bn power station job https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/civils/balfour-and-costain-named-on-4bn-power-station-job-18-03-2024/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:46:13 +0000 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/?p=496028 Balfour Beatty and Costain are among a host of contractors named on a set of works involving a new power station and carbon-capture scheme. The £4bn package is to build a gas-fired power station in Teesside with a pipeline to a new storage facility. Balfour…

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