Balfour Beatty

Leo Quinn, the boss with the biggest wage bill in construction, has given a cautious welcome to the Budget. Chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday (30 October) announced a 1.2 percentage point rise in employers’ national insurance (NI) contributions and lowered the threshold at which employers start paying them. But Quinn, chief…

Construction firms have begun jostling for position to win the jobs to build two carbon capture and storage (CCS) sites that were backed by the prime minister last week. Balfour Beatty and Costain said they had the tools and skills to deliver the “mega” projects announced by the prime minister.…

Balfour Beatty has said that use of a digital platform co-run by its chief executive’s nephew has helped it achieve a record safety performance. The plc has been working with AI-powered platform Site Assist since 2021 to digitise and streamline permit to work procedures on its sites. Statistics provided by…

Galliford Try has won the contract to complete a link road in Buckinghamshire. The firm announced yesterday (24 September) that its infrastructure business had been appointed to a contract worth £88.9m to complete the South East Aylesbury Link Road (SEALR) project. The firm will build 1.1 miles of dual carriageway…

Balfour Beatty has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit in North Carolina for $80,000 (£60,300), according to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).  The federal agency launched action against Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc in September 2023 after a female truck driver working in Craven County, North Carolina, allegedly faced sexual…

Balfour Beatty has been picked for £363m worth of cabling job in East Anglia.  The UK’s largest contractor will undertake the Bramford to Twinstead reinforcement job for National Grid, building new lines and cables to upgrade the electricity network.  Balfour Beatty will replace the existing high-voltage electricity network between Bramford…

Balfour Beatty is keen to be involved in the new government’s potential use of private finance for infrastructure projects, its chief executive has said. Speaking to analysts yesterday (14 August) after the publication of the contractor’s half-year results, Leo Quinn said he “would love to use our expertise” in the…

Balfour Beatty's UK construction revenue dipped in the first half of the year, though the contractor’s worldwide turnover ticked up. Half-year results released this morning (14 August) show UK construction turnover stood at £1.46bn in the six months to 28 June 2024, down from £1.52bn in the same period in…

Balfour Beatty has become the first major contractor to mandate human-recognition cameras on large plant, in an effort to cut site deaths. The system uses cameras attached to machine ‘blind spots’ and AI software trained on images of humans to detect when someone is near heavy machinery, and then alerts…

Costain was the largest single supplier to National Highways in 2023/24, just ahead of the Balfour Beatty-linked consortium that carries out M25 upgrade work, Construction News can reveal. It marks the third successive financial year that the contractor and consultant topped the roads body’s league table, and came despite a…