A project led by Balfour Beatty and the CLC’s net zero programme has published a report with recommendations to increase the uptake of EVs in the construction industry.

Balfour Beatty is working with tech giant Microsoft to explore AI opportunities in construction.

Construction equipment company Conquip has worked with Balfour Beatty and Laing O’Rourke subsidiary Select Plant Hire to design, manufacture and test a set of accessories to improve the safety of concrete skips.

Balfour Beatty is using 70,000t of aggregate to build a £25m coastal defence along the shorelines of Cromer and Mundesley in Norfolk.

Housebuilders and contractors are working to conserve nature and improve biodiversity on sites around the UK. CM looks at some of their initiatives.

Balfour Beatty has been fined £285,000 after a worker died and another was seriously injured in a scissor lift accident.

Balfour Beatty’s Midland Metropolitan University Hospital has been given the green light to open on 6 October – six years behind its original completion target.

Balfour Beatty said that it achieved 26% carbon reduction during road tests after it retrofitted two salt spreader HGVs hybrid hydrogen technology.

Balfour Beatty has started construction on the new Clearmount footbridge near M25 Junction 10.

Balfour Beatty said it has become the first tier one contractor to mandate human recognition cameras on certain items of plant and machinery across all of its UK operations. 

Balfour Beatty has installed 72 concrete beams which will form the second of the M25’s new Junction 10 gyratory bridges and lifted two new gantries into place.

Balfour Beatty’s Midland Metropolitan University Hospital secured the prestigious Digital Construction Project of the Year trophy, sponsored by Revizto, at the Digital Construction Awards last night (2 July).

Balfour Beatty has restored the A-listed 145-year-old Old Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh into the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute.

Urban Fox – a partnership between Balfour Beatty’s investment arm and startup Urban Electric Networks – has unveiled what it claims is Europe’s first fully retractable EV chargers in Dundee, Scotland.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted 165 entries this year, 84 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlisted entries for Digital Construction Project of the Year, sponsored by Revizto.

Balfour Beatty’s Steve O’Sullivan FCIOB was recently appointed senior project director on HS2’s ‘superhub’ station at Old Oak Common. He tells Will Mann about imposter syndrome, 4D planning and what makes a successful major project.

AtkinsRéalis, Hinkley Point C, Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing O’Rourke are among the nominees for the Digital Construction Awards 2024.

Balfour Beatty has appointed Steve O’Sullivan FCIOB as project director for the HS2 Old Oak Common station project.