Balfour Beatty

Kelvinside Academy has joined forces with Balfour Beatty to open Scotland’s School of Innovation, the first of its kind in the UK. Set to open its doors in August this year, the building will be a beacon for the construction sector as it will be the country’s first sustainable building d

Balfour Beatty has partnered with Leeds Beckett University, White Frog Publishing and Coventry University to create a new, automated solution to tackle challenges faced by the construction industry in adopting Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology. BIM is an intelligent 3D model-based

Balfour Beatty has moved on site to begin construction work on a new £12.8 million primary school in south Elgin for Moray Council. Linkwood Primary School was originally expected to open in summer last year as part of a Springfield Properties housing development.

A new bridge will be built over the A90 near Kirkliston after a £3 million construction contract was agreed by councillors. Deterioration of joints in the original structure meant the old Burnshot Bridge had to be taken down in November 2017.

Balfour Beatty has hailed the ongoing impact of its Build to Last transformation programme after the firm returned to industry standard margins profit margins of 2.4%. The company’s 2018 results, which represent the culmination of the three-year turnaround and streamlining plan, revealed a pre

Balfour Beatty has secured a £70 million contract to deliver the University of Edinburgh’s flagship Edinburgh Futures Institute refurbishment and extension project. The contractor will be responsible for restoring and connecting six wards; unlocking the building’s wide corridors to

CEOs and directors from 32 energy and utilities employers have launched a sector inclusion commitment to attract more diverse and inclusive talent. Sector employers including Amey, Balfour Beatty, Clancy Docwra, Keltbray, Kier and Morrison Utilities are among the contractors signing up.

Construction and engineering contractor Taylor and Fraser has worked with Abellio Scotrail to deliver a £1.8 million project to extend the rail depot service shed at Haymarket Depot alongside main contractor Balfour Beatty. The work carried out from April to December 2018 was required due to t

Transport Scotland has named Farrans Construction as the preferred contractor to deliver the A90/A96 Haudagain Improvement project in Aberdeen. The firm was named on a final shortlist of two in March alongside Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd, which pulled out of the running later in the year.

A Balfour Beatty-supported competition entry with St Gerardines Primary in Lossiemouth has been announced as a UK winning entry in this year’s Considerate Constructors Scheme Honor Big Build competition. As part of community benefits delivery on the new Lossiemouth High School, schools in the

Hopes the final section of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) would open before Christmas have been dashed after the Aberdeen Roads Ltd (ARL) consortium confirmed it will not meet the deadline it set itself just over a fortnight ago. Balfour Beatty and Galliford Try’s consortium told

Balfour Beatty has announced the appointment of Matthew Steele as managing director of its gas & water business. Matthew joins from Network Rail where he was commercial and development director. Previously, he was programme director at Crossrail and head of power, communications and cooling upgr

Pupils across Moray have benefited from a series of dedicated construction sector workshops – the first event of its kind in the region. The ‘Constructing Your Future’ events were developed, and hosted, by Robertson and Moray Council as part of the ‘Moray Skills Pathway&rsquo

Balfour Beatty has forecasted that its performance for the year will be above previous expectations as a result of an additional infrastructure investments sale in December. The construction group, which has been delivering the Aberdeen bypass in a joint venture with Galliford Try, said today that t

The final stretches of the long-awaited Aberdeen bypass are to be fully open by Christmas with the completion of work on the River Don Crossing – though the £745 million project bill is now more than £1 billion, members of a parliamentary committee were told today. A document submi