Balfour Beatty

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The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice chief executive Rhona Baillie has announced that Balfour Beatty is the contractor for work to build a new home for Glasgow’s Hospice as the first JCB arrived on site at Bellahouston Park. The announcement marked the start of a project to build a state-of-

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Major infrastructure projects in the UK are now under threat as construction firms are increasingly faced with limited access to labour and finance, a new paper from Balfour Beatty has warned. With an “anticipated infrastructure investment of £411 billion in 564 projects and programmes from 2015/

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A £47 million finance deal for a state-of-the-art academy in Aberdeen has been agreed as the project moves to the next phase. Aberdeen City Council and development partner hub North Scotland have now signed the financial deal to allow building work to begin.

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The City of Edinburgh Council has revealed that the new Portobello High School will open in October this year - three months earlier than expected. The school was originally expected to open this summer but water drainage issues meant a delay until January next year.

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Balfour Beatty has started work on a new £47 million state-of-the-art secondary school at Bobby Calder Park in Aberdeen. Aberdeen City Council’s convener of education and children’s services committee, Councillor Angela Taylor cut the first sod to mark the start of construction of the south of

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British Transport Police (BTP) are appealing for information after “extensive damage” was caused to a construction site in Edinburgh. Vandals broke in to the Edinburgh Gateway site and caused damage to vehicles, construction machinery and buildings between 7.30pm – 9pm on Saturday, 11 June.

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SES Engineering Services has landed a substantial mechanical and electrical (M&E) role on the new Edinburgh Gateway railway station and interchange. Working alongside main contractor Balfour Beatty, SES will provide full M&E services to the new station, including lighting, heating, ventilati

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A further eight week time extension for the new £22.3 million Third Don Crossing project has been agreed between Aberdeen City Council and the main contractors Balfour Beatty. The local authority said the extension was agreed “due to problems with weather, re-routing underground utilities and unf

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An upgrade to a notorious bottleneck on the A96 at Inveramsay Bridge where traffic lights have been in place for decades, is set to open under traffic management tomorrow. The £10.2 million Balfour Beatty project which will carry the A96 over the Aberdeen-Inverness railway line, will end queuing at

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The opening of the new Portobello High School is set to be delayed by four months, according to staff at the school. Balfour Beatty has informed the school that it is unable to meet the planned completion date that would have allowed pupils to move in to the campus in August 2016. It is now likely t

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