Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty has blamed supply chain issues and the pandemic for a delay to its £25.7m refurbishment work at a Victorian park in Aberdeen. The contractor was due to complete a section of the Union Terrace Gardens for a soft opening on Tuesday this week, but the event was called…

Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) has apologised for late payments to workers on the West Midlands leg of the £100bn High Speed 2 (HS2) scheme. The joint venture is to give labour suppliers direct access to its Time and Attendance system to tackle the problem. BBV is building 90km of infrastructure…

Balfour Beatty’s former regional managing director for the south, Beth West, has been brought in to lead the project promoter behind the East West Rail project. She will assume the role of chief executive at the East West Railway Company, which is delivering the Oxford-to-Cambridge railway project. West (pictured) left…

Wates has made a commitment to appoint more women to senior roles, as a condition attached to a £90m loan. The contractor secured a three-year sustainability-linked loan, facilitated by a syndicate led by Lloyds Bank along with HSBC and AIB, which each put in £30m. The terms of the loan…

The government is set to take a 20 per cent stake in Sizewell C, EDF’s £20bn proposed nuclear power plant in Suffolk. According to a BBC report, French state-owned energy firm EDF will match the UK government’s 20 per cent stake. It is expected that the twin investment will attract…

Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) is looking to fill 3,000 job vacancies in the West Midlands to support the delivery of HS2 over the next four years. The joint venture, which also runs the Balfour Beatty Vinci Skills Academy in Birmingham, said that this recruitment drive was closely tied with upskilling…

Senior figures at Balfour Beatty, Mace and L&G participated in a roundtable with the prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday (21 March) to discuss future nuclear energy projects in the UK. The summit between industry leaders was hosted by Downing Street to work up a pipeline of nuclear projects in the…

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick and Doosan Babcock have been appointed to deliver mechanical piped services for Sellafield, a former nuclear site in Cumbria, which is in the process of being decommissioned. The value of the project, which will run over the next 18 years, is estimated at between £112m and £237m.…

Balfour Beatty has appointed Louise Hardy to sit on its board as a non-executive director. Hardy brings more than 30 years' experience to the role, having held senior positions at contractors, consultants and clients. A civil engineer by trade, Hardy’s most recent executive role was as European project-excellence director for…

Balfour Beatty chief executive officer Leo Quinn has warned that dramatic rises in inflation would be devastating for the construction sector.  Quinn has cautioned that no contractor of any size would be able to absorb the cost rises associated with hyperinflation, such as those seen in the 1960s or 70s,…