Our expert approach to highways maintenance means we do more than fix the potholes and make sure the street lights are on when they should be, we improve everyday lives by minimising disruption and help our customers to manage their budgets through forward planning.
Working for local authorities, Balfour Beatty Living Places provide highways maintenance, street lighting and public realm services.
We deliver Right First Time by engaging with our customers, investing in our people and using the latest technology to create positive, more efficient long term outcomes – ultimately creating communities where people want to live, work and play.
Our solutions include consultancy, finance, design and maintenance of the entire streetscape. We're shaping places, creating economic growth and meeting the needs of a changing society.
Working with our customers, we regularly survey all highways assets to capture information on their current condition.
Over a period of time we monitor how their condition develops and plan our work to deliver timely maintenance. This makes sure that the general public can continue their day-to-day lives with minimal disruption and helps our customers to plan their budgets through knowing what works will need to be delivered and when.
Balfour Beatty Living Places can act as an essential point of contact for the Police, monitoring CCTV on behalf of cities and supporting the emergency services in keeping cities safe through real time alerts and liaison.
During contracts we can offer enhanced efficiency and achieve greater cost savings for councils.
Utilising Operational Control Hubs allows our team to have cross-service visibility to manage our activities and resources. From routine maintenance, major capital schemes to emergency works, the hub enables us to deploy the nearest team with a click of a button. Through the Operational Control Hub in Herefordshire, we have seen an increase of productivity of 13% due to the ability to monitor performance and analyse real-time data.
Street lighting is a key community asset. It helps to keep people and property safe and is vital to economic activity out with daylight hours. It also represents a significant cost to local authorities for whom we have a proven track record of developing long-term solutions that reduce budgets and improve the overall standard of lighting.
From the initial design of a street lighting system and throughout its operation, our strategy is focused around sustainable outcomes such as turning the lights off during off-peak hours to reduce energy costs. We also install innovative energy efficient products such as LED lamps and use technology to monitor their performance and plan the efficient delivery of maintenance.
We create safe, flexible and dynamic public spaces. We are right at the heart of a vital place-shaping agenda that brings together local authorities, local communities, central government and the private sector. Our projects are geared towards community need, economic growth and sustainability.
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How to plan and build a modern city
Simon Taylor describes how Balfour Beatty Living Places is working in Southampton to plan, design and build a modern city. Our Experts use innovative long-term strategies to create better places to live, work and play. With subtitles. #expertengineers
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How do you efficiently maintain Herefordshire’s public realm from one single control room?
The operational control hub provides our team with cross-service visibility to manage our activities and resource across Herefordshire. From routine maintenance, major capital schemes to emergency works, the hub enables us to deploy the nearest team with a click of a button. We have seen an increase of productivity of 13% due to the ability to monitor performance and analyse real-time data.
