Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty has appointed Robert MacLeod as a non-executive director and member of the Audit & Risk Committee with effect from 8 March 2024. Following the 2024 AGM, Robert will succeed Dr Stephen Billingham CBE as chair of the Audit & Risk Committee, as Stephen steps down from the board a

A planning application has been submitted for the construction of a replacement secondary school, car parking, sports pitches and demolition of the existing Nairn Academy.

More than 5,000 pupils from across Scotland have benefitted from a new classroom session looking at how technology is transforming the construction industry.

Balfour Beatty said today it remains on course to deliver against its full year expectations. In a trading update covering the period to 7 December, the firm said its 2023 revenue is expected to be about 5% ahead of the prior year (FY2022: £8.9 billion),

The shortlist of contractors for the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project has been announced by transport minister Fiona Hyslop MSP.

Richard Lochhead MSP, minister for small business, tourism, innovation and trade, visited the site of the new £250 million Dunfermline Learning Campus last week to hear about the progress of a national campaign to improve construction quality.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £67 million contract by the City of Edinburgh Council to deliver a replacement campus at Liberton High School. The firm will be responsible for the design and construction of the new 13,470 square metre campus alongside facilities for the local community

Balfour Beatty has launched its refreshed UK Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, Value Everyone, as part of its ongoing commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. Having launched its first Diversity and Inclusion Strategy in 2018, Balfour Beatty said the refreshed strategy builds on th

A number of Fifers currently looking for work have attended a Construction Academy at Fife College.

Fife College’s new campus in Dunfermline is on course to meet Scottish Government carbon targets for its use of a unique steel/timber construction, according to its structural engineer.

Residential real estate investment and management company Balfour Beatty Communities has appointed David Berman as its first chief compliance officer. In his role, David will drive operational and regulatory compliance programmes across the business, as well as lead new and enhanced initiatives desi

Jo Gilroy, group director of sustainability at Balfour Beatty, discusses the benefits and pitfalls of introducing hydrogen solutions on site at the company’s zero carbon construction site at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. It’s been a few months since we last updated on our progre

Balfour Beatty has become the first construction company to secure funding from the Scottish Government’s Emerging Energies Technology Fund to retrofit carbon intensive vehicles to run off both hydrogen and diesel, also known as dual fuel. As part of the project, the Scottish Government has pr

Fife College principal Jim Metcalfe welcomed the new education minister Graeme Dey MSP to the site of the new Dunfermline Campus to check progress of the construction project.

Balfour Beatty has begun work on Falkirk Council's A9/A904 Westfield infrastructure improvement project. The first phase of the contract will see the international infrastructure group undertake preparatory work, which includes establishing a compound on the former Met-Tech site in Westmains Industr