Balfour Beatty Plc history, profile and history video
Balfour Beatty Plc is an infrastructure services company that operates across the infrastructure lifecycle in major markets. It offers a broad range of capabilities in construction, civil engineering, and mechanical & electrical engineering services. The company operates its business through the following segments: Infrastructure Investments, Professional Services, Construction Services, and Support Services. The Infrastructure Investments segment operates a portfolio of long-term public-private partnership concessions in the United Kingdom primarily in the education, health, and roads/street lighting sectors, as well as in non-public-private partnership assets in the United Kingdom. This segment also operates a portfolio of long-term military accommodation public-private partnership concessions in the U.S. It serves the rail, road and power systems, defense, rail, airports, health, water, education, facilities management, buildings and complex structures markets. The Professional Services segment engages in design, planning and programme management. Its professional services range from consultancy and planning to design and engineering and programme, project and construction management services. The Construction Services segment offers building, design, construction management, refurbishment and fit-out, mechanical and electrical, civil engineering, ground engineering and rail engineering services. The Support Services segment is focused on infrastructure and provides facilities management, business services outsourcing, utility infrastructure, and rail renewals and highways management. This segment also provides ongoing operation and maintenance of assets after they have been constructed, and a broadening range of business services outsourcing. The company was founded by George Balfour and Andrew Beatty on January 12, 1909, and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.“
“Balfour Beatty story
We are Balfour Beatty, a global infrastructure group operating around the world – designers and planners, engineers, builders, project and facilities managers, analysts, consultants, and more.
For more than 100 years we have created and cared for the vital assets that enable societies and economies to grow: road and rail; airports, seaports, tunnels and bridges; health and education facilities; heat, light, power and water; places to live and places to work – the infrastructure that underpins all our lives and drives progress.
From our beginnings, in 1909 we have grown to become a global business operating in over 80 countries, in emerging and mature economies alike. We are now one of the few companies with the skills to deliver complex projects of huge scale and take advantage of the growth in long-term infrastructure markets.
Our impact is in iconic structures and bold engineering feats, hidden innovation and buried pipes and pumps, and all the joined-up thinking, financing and partnerships that make up the world’s great infrastructure projects today.
The combined breadth of our capabilities and the depth of our technical expertise makes us a true global leader in infrastructure. The dedication of our people and the shared values that unite us give our many stakeholders the confidence to trust us and do business with us. We have a collective commitment to operate sustainably and safely wherever we operate.”
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