Balfour Beatty

The US Air Force has suspended its payment of incentive fees to Balfour Beatty, according to news agency Reuters. It comes a week after the firm launched an investigation into allegations that staff at its US real estate subsidiary falsified maintenance records on military housing. Reuters has reported that Balfour…

Balfour Beatty has launched an investigation into allegations that staff at its US real estate subsidiary falsified maintenance records on military housing maintenance. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wrote to the firm following allegations in a news report claiming that Balfour Beatty Communities filed false paperwork on maintenance work carried…

Balfour Beatty has won a £37m contract to deliver two community hospitals in Scotland. The two hospitals will be built for NHS Highland on behalf of hub North Scotland, an infrastructure partnership between public and private sector organisations. Badenoch & Strathspey Community Hospital and Health Care Centre will be in…

The Department of Health has said it wants to support the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust to build the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital “as quickly as possible”. The trust board noted this week that it is a concern that “external approvals” could be delayed. It had hoped to…

Balfour Beatty has announced the appointment of Steve O’Sullivan as head of aviation for the construction of UK projects. He previously worked at Crossrail's Whitechapel station, as senior project director for Balfour's joint venture with Morgan Sindall and Vinci. Having joined Balfour Beatty as an electrical engineering apprentice in 1980,…

The winning bid on HS2’s Old Oak Common station posed a “significant delivery risk to HS2” according to one of its assessors, new court filings have revealed. Earlier this year, it emerged in a legal dispute between losing bidder Bechtel and HS2 that the billion-pound Old Oak Common contract awarded to…

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a  £50m National Grid contract to replace a high-voltage substation in Kent. The contractor will design, supply and construct the large substation at Littlebrook Power Station in Dartford, work which will include installation of cabling and connecting it to the grid. Work on the project,…

A Balfour Beatty joint venture with Fluor has won a $1.7bn (£1.33bn) interstate upgrade contract in the US. The JV has been conditionally awarded the job to widen 18 km of interstate highway around Dallas, Texas. The number of lanes on Interstate 635 will be increased from eight to 12.…

More than 90 per cent of Balfour Beatty’s shareholders voted in favour of the directors’ remuneration policy at its AGM. Chief executive Leo Quinn (pictured) was awarded £4.3m in 2018 while chief financial officer Philip Harrison received £1.3m. This was down on the £5.3m and £1.9m the pair received in…

Unite has settled its long-running blacklisting case against companies who used a secret vetting system for workers, with £1.9m in compensation agreed. As part of the overall settlement, which is subject to court approval, 53 blacklisted workers will share the compensation, while the firms involved will also pay the union’s…