Balfour Beatty

A former Balfour Beatty worker has been given a suspended jail sentence after stealing £75,000 of cabling from the contractor. Paul Stott, 52, was discovered after he attempted to sell the cable to the same scrap metal dealer that Balfour Beatty uses, according to the Derby Telegraph. Stott worked at…

The government has scrapped its plans for the roll-out of smart motorways. The Department for Transport (DfT) and the prime minister decided to cancel all 14 of the planned motorway upgrades, following a “summer campaign pledge” made by Rishi Sunak in his bid to become leader of the Conservative Party.…

Balfour Beatty has won a contract with NHS Highland for two projects in Caithness. As the principal supply chain partner and managing contractor for the Lochaber and Caithness hospitals redesign projects, Balfour will lead the design and construction of a new hospital in Fort William as well as the refurbishment…

A joint venture between the US subsidiary of Balfour Beatty and Metcon is to deliver a $650m ($526m) phased construction programme at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) in North Carolina. In a construction manager at-risk function for the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, Balfour Beatty will work on landside expansion of Terminal 2…

Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn has hailed the group’s “transformation into a well-balanced and lower-risk group” after reporting £287m profit for 2022. The UK’s largest contractor has seen its profit increase by 230 per cent, from £87m in 2021, while its turnover increased by 8 per cent, from £8.26bn…

Balfour Beatty has won a £97m contract to provide coastal defences to communities in Wales. The contractor is set to deliver two coastal defence schemes on behalf of Denbighshire County Council. The schemes have been awarded through the Scape civil engineering framework. The Central Rhyl Coastal Defence Scheme will see…

The government has delayed several road projects, including the £8bn Lower Thames Crossing. The London infrastructure project was delayed by two years by transport secretary Mark Harper, who also slowed HS2’s phase 2a and the building of the high-speed rail project’s Euston station by two years. The decision will mean…

Balfour Beatty is set to lose control of highways maintenance in Herefordshire, with the county outlining plans to bring the work in-house. The UK’s largest contractor won a £200m contract from the council in in 2013. The deal covers highways maintenance and improvement works, street lighting, public parks and open…

Balfour Beatty workers will carry out three 36-hour strikes on consecutive weekends next month in a dispute over pay. The RMT rail union announced the action following a ballot of Balfour staff working for the Central Rail Systems Alliance (CSRA), a joint venture between the firm, Network Rail, Atkins and…

Partners in a new two-year industrial trial have claimed they will produce the world’s first zero-emission cement by transforming a byproduct of steel recycling. The Cement 2 Zero consortium is led by the Materials Processing Institute (MPI) and includes £6.5m of government funding from UK Research and Innovation. Participants in…