Balfour Beatty

Costain was the largest recipient of National Highways spending in each of the last two financial years, Construction News can reveal. The contractor and consultant was paid £522.4m by the government-owned roads body in 2022/23,£129.74m more than its nearest rival – Connect Plus, a consortium including Balfour Beatty – a…

Balfour Beatty has been selected as one of 10 preferred bidders on SSEN Transmission's £10bn onshore transmission framework. The other preferred bidders are: a joint venture between Siemens Energy and Bam; J Murphy & Sons; Wood Power Solutions; a joint venture between Omexom and Morgan Sindall Infrastructure; Burns & McDonnell;…

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of work on Eastern Green Link…

A 57-year-old Balfour Beatty worker has died following a “serious incident” on a construction site at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) campus in Aldermaston, near Reading. The individual was airlifted to hospital on Thursday evening (6 July) following the accident, which is believed to have happened during piling, but later…

A Scottish council has appointed Balfour Beatty for a roads-upgrade project worth up to £40m. Councillors at Falkirk Council agreed to appoint the UK’s biggest contractor for its Westfield A9/A904 improvement scheme.  The work will involve widening carriageways, building major crossing points and implementing road changes, and will kick off…

Irish engineering services business Obelisk has bought Balfour Beatty's telecoms division. Obelisk will retain Balfour Beatty’s existing team of employees and partners and acquire new UK headquarters in Southampton. The team will deliver services and turnkey infrastructure solutions for clients in the UK and Irish telecoms and energy sectors. The…

Balfour Beatty’s joint venture, Gammon, has won a £378m contract to build a development at a Hong Kong government-owned tech business park. Gammon, which is a 50/50 partnership between the FTSE 250-listed firm and conglomerate Jardine Matheson, was awarded the contract to develop the scheme at Cyberport in Hong Kong’s…

Balfour Beatty has chosen Jacobs to replace WSP as one of its three engineers of choice for complex projects. Jacobs joins Mott MacDonald and Atkins as a pre-appointed consultancy in Balfour Beatty’s strategic design partnership, which aims to improve project procurement, design and delivery. The partnership specialises in devising solutions…

Birmingham City Council has approved plans for a 150-metre section of viaduct to carry HS2 high-speed trains into the city’s Curzon Street Station. Client HS2 Ltd obtained Schedule 17 consent for the Curzon No. 2 Viaduct – also called the Bellingham Bridge after Birmingham-born footballer Jude Bellingham – which will…

Balfour Beatty has said its order book stood at £17bn at the end of March, down from £17.4bn at the close of 2022. In a trading update published this morning (12 May), the UK’s largest contractor said the drop in value of its lined-up work comes despite it winning new…