Group Structure
We work in partnership with customers in public, regulated and private sectors.
As assets grow in scale and complexity, infrastructure owners increasingly want to work with a trusted partner who can deliver more complete solutions.
We have four businesses operating in professional services, construction services, support services and infrastructure investments. Each is strong in its own right, with its own leading market position.
Together, they are the four components of a full-service infrastructure business: they can be brought together in any combination to provide an integrated capability for customers.
We are differentiated by the breadth of our capability. Today less than a third of our business is in construction: the rest spans a range of related activities from finance to long-term facilities management.
Around half our revenue now comes from outside the UK with over
30% from the US and around 15% from the rest of the world.
Professional
Services
Construction
Services
Support Services
Infrastructure
Investments
Professional Services
We are one of the world’s leading companies in professional services. The acquisition of Parsons Brinckerhoff in 2009 transformed our capabilities. We believe being able to offer professional services as part of a comprehensive service to customers improves our competitive position.
Specialist areas
Programme and project management, architectural services, project
design, technical services, planning and consultancy.
Construction Services
Well-known and respected across several market sectors, Balfour Beatty offers an extensive range of construction services from building and design to rail engineering.
We are strongly differentiated by the breadth and depth of our expertise and knowledge of the markets in which we operate around the world.
We are now established as a leader in the delivery of UK civil and social infrastructure.
Internationally, we have substantially developed the scale and capability of our US business through a series of acquisitions since 2007. Over time, we aim to have a US business of similar scale and depth to our UK business.
In the attractive growth markets of South East Asia and the Middle East we have expanded our presence through strategic alliances with local partners.
Specialist areas
Building, design, construction management, refurbishment and
fit-out, mechanical and electrical services, civil engineering,
ground engineering and rail engineering.
Support Services
Our support services business provides ongoing operation and maintenance of assets after they have been constructed, together with business services outsourcing.
Support services comprises our utilities, facilities management, rail renewals and highways management activities.
This is a long-term business, where contracts range from five to 30 years, and is a significant growth area for us. The key to success is the quality of customer relationships and the ability to provide continuous improvement for customers, to build partnerships that broaden the scope of contracts and extend them through renewals.
Specialist areas
Facilities management and business services outsourcing; upgrade
and maintenance of water, gas and electricity networks; highways
network management, operation and maintenance; and rail
renewals.
Infrastructure Investments
Our investments business is a leader in the PPP market, with 31 concessions in the UK, 18 in the US and one in Singapore.
We see major growth opportunities in the US. We are a leader in the military housing market, one of the most developed PPP markets in the US so far, and we are well positioned to undertake privatisation projects in other sectors.
Our strategy includes applying the skills we have acquired in the UK and US PPP markets to the wider non-PPP market, particularly where there are attractive opportunities to take management control and improve asset quality.
We are a direct investor in infrastructure assets including stakes in Blackpool and Exeter International Airports and Barking Power Station.
Specialist areas
Operate a portfolio of long-term PPP concessions in the UK,
primarily in the education, health and roads/street lighting
sectors.
Operate a portfolio of long-term military accommodation PPP
concessions in the United States.
We have interests in non-PPP assets in the UK.
