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Balfour Beatty features in Concrete Connect discussing its record-breaking pile installation at Bridgwater GiGaFactory

13 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering has featured in Concrete Connect discussing its record-breaking pile installation at the Bridgwater GiGaFactory, the UK’s largest electric car battery plant. 

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Balfour Beatty VINCI reaches halfway point on key HS2 ‘green tunnel’

13 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty VINCI’s work to build HS2’s 700-metre-long Burton Green Tunnel in Warwickshire has reached the halfway mark.

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Balfour Beatty pledges its allegiance to veterans and reservists by re-signing the UK Armed Forces Covenant

12 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty today announces that it has re-signed the UK Armed Forces Covenant, marking nearly a decade of dedicated support for veterans, reservists, cadet force adult volunteers and their families since the company first pledged its commitment in 2015.    

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Balfour Beatty VINCI reaches key milestone as over half of the concrete needed for HS2’s West Midlands structures has been poured

8 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty VINCI and its UK materials suppliers have now provided over one million cubic metres of concrete for HS2 in the West Midlands as the railway’s network of viaducts and bridges continues to take shape.

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The power of collaboration: Balfour Beatty joins forces with Microsoft to ‘hack’ the biggest business opportunities

7 November 2024

UK

Jon Ozanne, Chief Information Officer, discusses Balfour Beatty’s recent ‘Big AI Challenge’, the power of collaboration and the importance of data in driving productivity

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The Big AI Challenge

7 November 2024

UK

Combining our strengths as market leaders in infrastructure and construction with Microsoft as leaders in AI technology we recently held ‘The Big AI Challenge’. Seventy of the greatest minds from Balfour Beatty and Microsoft united, working collaboratively to prove concepts and build working prototypes of an AI solution that would help shift the dial on productivity and the way we work. Watch our video to find out more!

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Reaching new heights at Balfour Beatty's overhead line training facility

6 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty has featured in Construction News, exploring how the company is actively training a new generation of overhead power workers to help tackle the construction and infrastructure industry's well-documented skills shortage and to meet the demands of tomorrow, as the UK moves towards creating a greener energy grid.

Press Release (RNS)

Balfour Beatty secures $746 million (£575 million) Texas Interstate contract

5 November 2024

US

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces that it has been awarded a $746 million (£575 million) contract by the Texas Department of Transportation to rebuild part of the Interstate 35 (I-35) through Austin in Texas.

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Balfour Beatty features in New Civil Engineer discussing the complex marine work at Hinkley Point C

4 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty has featured in New Civil Engineer discussing its role in delivering one of the world's most complex marine engineering projects and supporting the construction of the UK's first new nuclear power station in a generation.

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Balfour Beatty grows UK’s largest bespoke overhead line equipment fleet

1 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty has invested over £5 million in new overhead line strategic assets to support the substantial growth in its Power Transmission & Distribution business.

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Balfour Beatty selected for $170 million Inglewood high school reconstruction in Los Angeles, US

30 October 2024

US

Balfour Beatty has been selected to deliver the approximately $170 million (£130 million) reconstruction of Inglewood Unified School District’s (IUSD) Inglewood High School in Los Angeles.

Press Release (RNS)

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

29 October 2024

Group

Balfour Beatty announces that Rudolph (Rudy) Wynter has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 December 2024.