Key Facts
- Client: US Navy
- Balfour Beatty company involved: Balfour Beatty Construction US
- In March 2007, Balfour Beatty Construction US was awarded a privatised housing project contract by the US Navy, worth $525 million
- The contract was won with its long-term partners, GMH, a leading US concession company in the field of privatised military and student housing projects
- Work will be undertaken at naval bases in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Texas
- The project comprises accommodation at 11 Navy bases, involving some 2,100 individual housing units, community centres and additional amenity features
- This is the Navy’s biggest - and one of the military’s largest - housing scheme let to date and is Balfour Beatty Construction’s eleventh such project
- Construction work commenced in November 2007 and is due for completion by December 2012
- This award takes the Balfour Beatty Construction’s military housing order book to over $1.2 billion
