Tag: Balfour
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Balfour appoints new leadership to focus on ‘core’ UK markets
Balfour Beatty has appointed three executive committee group sector leads to focus on the group’s “core” UK growth markets, including energy, defence and transportation. Steve Tarr, who currently serves as divisional CEO of Balfour Beatty’s power transmission and distribution, rail and Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick businesses, has been appointed to be the group sector lead for…
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Balfour JV can resume groundworks after HS2 and EA resolve dispute
The Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) joint venture can continue earthworks at two HS2 sites in Warwickshire after the high-speed railway company and the Environment Agency (EA) resolved a lengthy dispute through arbitration. Freedom of Information requests sent by CM to HS2 and the EA confirm that the public bodies have settled the case and don’t…
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Charity fundraiser set up in memory of Balfour CIOB fellow
Former Balfour Beatty colleagues of CIOB fellow Lindsay McGibbon have set up an online charity fundraiser in his memory. McGibbon died earlier this month aged 57 after being diagnosed with cancer, CM understands. He was a senior executive at Balfour Beatty involved in the recently inaugurated Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. He had previously been managing…
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Video | How Balfour is restoring Edinburgh’s historic North Bridge
Balfour Beatty is refurbishing Edinburgh’s Grade A-listed North Bridge. The 160m-long structure was built between 1894 and 1897 by Sir William Arrol & Co, the same company that constructed the Forth Bridge. Balfour Beatty’s restoration project includes: Structural steelwork repairs Grit blasting and repainting of the structural steelwork Repairs to the cast iron facades Repairs…
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Video | Balfour partnership upgrades track in narrow Victorian tunnel
The Central Rail Systems Alliance – a partnership between Network Rail, Balfour Beatty, Atkins and TSO – has completed a complex track renewal through a narrow Victorian railway tunnel on the West Coast Main Line. Engineers began working on New Year’s Eve to replace 400m of railway line through the Northchurch Tunnel between Berkhamsted and…