Balfour Beatty

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 near the village of Mottram,…

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 legal challenge period that ended…

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 Inverness in 2022. Balfour Beatty…

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 Beatty was named as the…

More than 100 Balfour Beatty maintenance workers are set to strike over pay terms. According to Unite the Union regional officer Phil Silkstone, staff working at five sites on the M25 voted to strike after the contractor “repeatedly refused” to offer them a reasonable pay offer. The staff, numbering about…

Balfour Beatty delivered a “solid performance” last year with revenue growth of 7.8 per cent to £9.6bn, chief executive Leo Quinn has announced. In an update published via the London Stock Exchange this morning (13 March), the UK’s biggest construction company stated that pre-tax profit for the year ending 31…

The Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture (JV) working on HS2 has announced the launch of a women’s only training course to mark International Women’s Day. The course, called Introduction to Construction, is designed to equip women with the skills and accreditation they need to start a new career in the…

John F Hunt has appointed Balfour Beatty regional build director Darren Potter as its new operations director. The Essex-headquartered demolition specialist said in a statement that Potter would add to the significant experience in the business and bring detailed knowledge of sectors including aviation, defence, HS2, infrastructure, rail, nuclear and…

A Balfour Beatty roadworker in Southampton was attacked with a baseball bat by a driver trying to get through a road closure, it has emerged. The incident was highlighted by the firm and Southampton City Council as part of an attempt to stamp out abuse of roadworkers. A survey by…

Balfour Beatty has been selected to build a £67.8m Passivhaus-accredited secondary school in Edinburgh. The UK’s largest contractor will build a replacement campus for Liberton High School, whose existing building is being demolished after a 12-year-old girl was crushed to death when a wall collapsed in 2014. The mixed-use campus…