Tag Archives: Balfour Beatty

BBV (Balfour Beatty Vinci JV) has completed the first 18m tall pier for the Water Orton Viaducts for High Speed 2 (HS2).

There will be 32 of these piers in total to carry the twin viaducts, which will be part of the Delta Junction in the West Midlands, the high speed…

SSEN Transmission has named Balfour Beatty, Siemens-Bam JV and J. Murphy and Sons among its preferred bidders to deliver critical onshore transmission infrastructure across its £10bn electricity transmission network plan.

The programme, known as Pathway to 2030, is an interconnected set of major projects in the north of Scotland that will…

The project to replace the southern viaduct of the A985 Kincardine Bridge near Falkrirk, Scotland has moved to the next stage with Balfour Beatty starting piling works for the construction of a temporary bridge that will minimise disruption to road users during the main construction phase.

The Category A listed structure,…

Effectively embedded collaboration results in better design decisions says Balfour Beatty's Steve Tarr.

Collaboration is a much debated topic in many areas of industry, but in the engineering and construction sector where stakeholders can have conflicting priorities, success can be elusive. Balfour Beatty transport, energy and power major projects chief…

Balfour Beatty has completed the installation of all 116 T-pylons for the Hinkley Connection Project to power homes in the south west of England with nuclear energy.

Considered a “world first”, the T-structures were first designed by Danish firm Bystrup, which won an international competition organised by the Royal Institute of…

Contractors Balfour Beatty, Bam Nuttall, Farrans and John Sisk have been chosen for a £360M major works contractor framework covering highways and transportation projects in Yorkshire.

Works to be carried out by the appointed contractors will include construction works for highways and roads, as well as consultative engineering and construction services…

A consortium of contractors responsible for the repair and maintenance of the Historical Railways Estate (HRE) has “risen” to the challenge, according to National Highways.

Contractors Amco Giffen, Balfour Beatty, Beaver Bridges, Bethell, Dyer & Butler and ECS have been conducting a maintenance and repair programme of 265 works over the…

A Balfour Beatty ground engineering worker suffered a fatality on the Atomic Weapons Establishment site in Aldermaston on Thursday 6 July.

The worker was 57 years old and was airlifted to hospital where he died. Balfour Beatty has not released further details on the incident. The site has been temporarily closed…

National Highways, working with delivery partners Kier, Balfour Beatty and Keltbray, worked under Project Speed principles to collaboratively create a robust development consent order (DCO) application for the £1.3bn A66 North Trans-Pennine upgrade, the project manager told NCE.

Designed by an Amey-Arup integrated team from the preliminary stages, the A66 upgrade…

Bringing the failed Nuneham Viaduct up to modern standards and reopening the railway line in 10 weeks required team alignment, iterative design and supply chain utilisation, NCE has learned from key players involved in the bridge's restoration.

Nuneham Viaduct is a bowstring truss bridge crosses the River Thames near Abingdon in…