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Balfour Beatty

  • HS2 ‘ignored concerns’ about winning bidder for £1.3bn Old Oak Common contract

    April 21, 2019

    HS2 ignored warnings about a contractor’s ability to build a key station before awarding it the £1.3bn tender, according to a High Court claim. HS2 acknowledged a joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Vinci was “severely under-resourced [and] a real risk to the safe and timely completion and handover” of the crucial Old Oak Common station [...]

  • Balfour Beatty wins preferred bidder status in decade-long £1.5bn Network Rail contract

    March 14, 2019

    Construction firm Balfour Beatty is set to be tasked with overseeing a wide-ranging program of railway track renewals and crossings for Network Rail for the next decade, in a £1.5bn contract. The UK’s biggest constructor, which carries out key public infrastructure projects such as Hinkley Point and Crossrail, has been selected as “preferred bidder” for [...]

  • Balfour Beatty: UK’s largest construction firm returns margins to ‘industry standard’

    March 13, 2019

    Balfour Beatty’s turnaround plan has returned the once troubled construction firm to “industry standard” margins, according to chief executive Leo Quinn. The biggest constructor in the UK reported an increase in profits and an order book growing more than a tenth year-on-year in its 2018 results, prompting shares to rise 1.2 per cent in morning trading. [...]

  • HS2 hit with legal claim from American engineering giant Bechtel over Old Oak Common contract

    March 3, 2019

    HS2 has been hit with a legal claim by American engineering giant Bechtel after it failed to secure a £1bn contract to build Old Oak Common station. Last year Bechtel signed a £170m contract to deliver phase 2b of the railway, which will stretch from Crewe to Manchester, and the West Midlands to Leeds. The [...]

  • HS2 station contracts worth £2.56bn awarded to Mace, Balfour Beatty and Vinci

    February 6, 2019

    HS2 has tasked construction firms Mace, Balfour Beatty and Vinci with building the project’s London terminus and west London super-hub at Old Oak Common, in deals worth £2.56bn. Mace and joint venture partner construction firm Dragados will take on the work at Euston, worth £1.65bn, in an award which will come as a blow to [...]

  • Lloyds prepares for Brexit with Berlin banking licence

    January 18, 2019

    Lloyds Banking Group has secured a banking license for its Berlin subsidiary as the Brexit deadline date approaches. The lender has previously run the office on a standard passporting licence, however all British banks with customers in the EU could lose the licence after March 29 therefore Lloyds is seeking further regulatory approval, Reuters reported. [...]

  • Business titans tell ministers ‘next six months are critical’ in post-Brexit vote conference call

    January 16, 2019

    Some of the UK’s highest-flying executives reportedly lashed out at the government after its historic defeat on Theresa May’s Brexit deal in parliament yesterday. The bosses of Balfour Beatty, Amazon and Tesco confronted cabinet members who failed to rule out a no-deal Brexit following the government’s massive defeat in a heated conference call immediately after [...]

  • A year on from Carillion: 12 months that brought outsourcing to its knees

    January 15, 2019

    On the anniversary of Carillion’s dramatic collapse, two more public sector outsourcing giants, Interserve and Kier Group, are up against the ropes. ​In the intervening 12 months, outsourcers have lurched from one crisis to another, with profit warnings, massive project failures and revelations of systemic late payment of suppliers. City A.M. charts a year which [...]

  • Balfour Beatty set to grow revenues against backdrop of struggling construction rivals

    December 14, 2018

    Balfour Beatty is on course to beat expectations after selling off more of its infrastructure investment stakes in December, the engineering firm said today. The engineering firm expects to net about £65m in profit from the disposals over the full year, which come under its Build to Last transformation programme that will also see it sell [...]

  • Rail regulator fines TfL and Balfour Beatty over £400,000 for injury of rail worker

    December 3, 2018

    The rail regulator has fined London Underground and Balfour Beatty more than £400,000 for breaking health and safety laws that led to a worker suffering life-changing injuries. London Underground was fined £100,000 while construction giant Balfour Beatty was hit with a £333,000 fine. Both bodies pleaded guilty to breaking the laws, which resulted in worker [...]

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