The Waveney, Lower Yare and Lothingland Internal Drainage Board has awarded Balfour Beatty a contract to deliver new flood and coastal defences near Benacre, south of Kessingland in Suffolk.

Temporary works specialist Mabey Hire has installed a temporary structure during the replacement of a footway attached to the 13th-century listed Otley Bridge in West Yorkshire.

Balfour Beatty has announced a £7.2m investment in Microsoft Copilot, a generative AI assistant that helps with work tasks by providing suggestions and automating actions across various Microsoft 365 apps.

Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall Infrastructure are among the five companies appointed by National Grid to a new Electricity Transmission Partnership (ETP).

Balfour Beatty’s Roger Frost remembers a champion of construction excellence who worked on major projects including Hinkley Point C.

Balfour Beatty hosted an MP drop-in event in Westminster on Tuesday (1 July) to raise awareness and tackle abuse against road workers.

Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics have formed a “Civil Works Alliance” to deliver the main civil works at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £833m contract to build what it aims to be the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage at Teesside.

In this month’s Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) column, Desiree Blamey looks at how construction project managers can enhance the natural environment at a local level.

Balfour Beatty Group’s chief executive, Leo Quinn, has been appointed life president of The 5% Club.

Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV), HS2’s construction partner for the West Midlands, is celebrating an apprenticeship milestone

Balfour Beatty’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure business Urban Fox has agreed a contract with Newport City Council.

The contractor’s employee engagement programme has become a “powerful cultural tool”

Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn will step down from the group’s board after over a decade at the top of the UK’s biggest contractor.

Engineer Adam Jeffery MCIOB has spent the past decade working in three global cities: first in London, then in New York, before returning to his native Melbourne.

More than 1,800 apprentices have previously secured roles on the high-speed rail project

Balfour Beatty has signed a £12.6m delivery agreement with Nottingham City Council for an 85-metre-long walking and cycling bridge over the River Trent.

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.