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Balfour Beatty is on track to boost its revenue and operational profit in 2025, it has announced. In a trading update this morning (4 December), the UK’s largest contractor said it expected its turnover ─ including revenue from joint ventures ─ to be more than 5 per cent higher than the £10bn it achieved in

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This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Balfour Beatty has plenty of faith in the infrastructure construction market both in the U.K. and the U.S. as the company remains on track to deliver its full-year expectations , leaders of the London-based builder said during its earnings call on Wednesday. But

Interim results from Balfour Beatty show improvement in UK performance offset by a loss in US construction, due to cancellation of a civils project in Texas. For the six months to 27th June 2025, group revenue was up 10% at £5,150m (2024 H1: £4,677m). While underlying operating profit was flat at £77m, with a £7m

Balfour Beatty has named Richard Watts as the next managing director of its UK Rail business. He will join the company later this year before formally stepping into the role in January 2026. Watts is currently rail sector director at BAM Nuttall, where he is responsible for the delivery and performance of national rail frameworks

Balfour Beatty chief financial officer Philip Harrison Nearly a third of Balfour Beatty’s shareholders rebelled against a pay package increase for chief finance officer Philip Harrison at the company's annual meeting this morning (8 May). The UK’s biggest contractor saw 70.25 per cent of its shareholders vote in favour of the 2024 remuneration report in

Balfour Beatty boss Leo Quinn has pushed back against suggestions by HS2 bosses that construction contracts on the London to Birmingham rail scheme could be renegotiated. In December, Construction News reported comments made to MPs by HS2 chief financial officer Alan Foster , saying that contractors accepted that the legal agreements in place to build

The UK’s biggest contractor is engaged in a drawn-out £34.4m legal case over defects at a London student accommodation site it completed in 2009. Balfour Beatty has denied allegations it was responsible for “significant defects” on the six-storey Hive building in Bethnal Green, according to court documents seen by Construction News. The claimant, which owns