Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty’s maintenance arm has scooped a £176m highways maintenance contract with Buckinghamshire Council. The eight-year contract has been awarded to Balfour Beatty Living Places to oversee the maintenance of highway assets across the county. The contract, which starts in April 2023, comes with an option to extend for a…

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has raised concerns over competition on HS2 bidding due to the proposed merger of Bouygues and Equans. In November 2021, Bouygues struck a £6bn deal to buy Equans, the construction and services business owned by Engie, including the latter’s UK Regeneration and facilities-management arms.…

Balfour Beatty, the country’s biggest contractor, has resigned its membership of trade body Build UK. Construction News understands the departure from the body, whose motto is “leading the construction industry”, has been made “without animosity” on the part of the £7bn-turnover company. CN understands the firm believes that due to…

Balfour Beatty has rolled out a set of automated cone-laying machines (ACLM), which it says will reduce the dangers faced by construction workers. The vehicles will be able to collect or lay out traffic cones in under ten seconds per cone, replacing the need for workers to handle the cones…

Drone technology is helping HS2 contractors save £50,000 per year. Joint venture Balfour Beatty and Vinci (BBV JV) has adopted ‘site scan’ technology, allowing it to carry out faster and cheaper surveys by drones on a site in the Midlands, which stretches for 90km, from Long Itchington in Warwickshire northwards…

A hospital in the Midlands that was being worked on by Carillion before it collapsed has suffered further delays to its opening date and will now be six years late. The Midland Metropolitan Hospital, which Balfour Beatty took on in 2019, following Carillion’s collapse, requires a new façade to meet…

Balfour Beatty’s Asian joint venture, Gammon Construction, has won two schemes worth a combined £635m. The contractor has been chosen to build a £280m, 25-storey tower, accommodating a new college known as the Kwun Tong Composite Development for the Hong Kong government, as well as five residential towers worth £355m.…

Balfour Beatty is one of four contractors to have secured a spot on a four-year highways framework, worth £1bn. The UK’s biggest contractor is joined by Galliford Try, John Sisk & Son and Eurovia Infrastructure on the scheme, which covers work in more than 30 local councils in England. Oxfordshire…

A judge has ruled against Balfour Beatty’s attempt to dismiss from court a cost claim made against it for cladding remediation on a residential scheme in Dorset. The High Court’s Technology and Construction Court judge Justice Morris ruled that Orchard Plaza Management had a right to claim costs for issues…

The joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Vinci (BBV JV) is looking for suppliers for a £50m contract to assist on HS2 work in the north of England. BBV JV has been the main contractor for £2.5bn worth of civils work for HS2, working on the section designated as area…