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Leading the charge: Balfour Beatty Flannery trains 1,000 workers to bridge UK construction skills gap

25 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty Flannery, a partnership between Balfour Beatty and Flannery Plant Hire, has trained its 1,000th student at its Operator Skills Hub - showcasing its commitment to diversity and inclusion, transforming lives and bridging the construction skills gap.

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Balfour Beatty selected for over $36 million (£26.8 million) in projects in the Carolinas, US

21 November 2024

US

Balfour Beatty’s Carolinas operations have been selected to deliver over $36 million (£28.6 million) in special project works within the corporate office, entertainment/hospitality and mixed-use/retail sectors.

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Balfour Beatty features in Highways Magazine discussing its M4 and M5 safety enhancement works

20 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty has featured in Highways Magazine discussing its successful delivery of enhancement works on the M4 and M5 - coming in £2 million under budget and with a perfect safety record.

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Balfour Beatty’s restoration of Edinburgh Futures Institute features in Scottish Construction Now and Project Scotland

15 November 2024

UK

Balfour Beatty’s restoration the restoration of the 145-year-old Grade A listed Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, transforming it into the Edinburgh Futures Initiative -a high-quality modern teaching and learning facility for the University of Edinburgh - has featured in the Scottish Construction Now and Project Scotland.

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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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Reaffirming our commitment to the Armed Forces

12 November 2024

UK

Marking nearly a decade of dedicated support for veterans, reservists, Cadet Force Adult Volunteers and their families, on the 7 November 2024 we re-signed the UK Armed Forces Covenant.

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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.