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Balfour Beatty Balfour Beatty has acquired Dean & Dyball, the construction company with offices in Ringwood, Exeter, Bristol, Maidstone, Birmingham, Swansea and Stevenage, for £45m. 20-Mar-2008 Balfour Beatty is to acquire GMH Military Housing, the US-based military accommodation business with 800 staff and 42 bases, from GMH Communities Trust for £180m. 13-Feb-2008 Balfour Beatty has acquired Covion, the Reading-based integrated facilities infrastructure services business with 600 staff, for £33m. 19-Oct-2007 Balfour Beatty has acquired Cowlin Group, the regional building firm with 300 staff in Bristol, Cardiff, Plymouth and Yeovil, for £52m. 31-Aug-2007 Balfour Beatty has acquired NAP Partnership, the Middlesbrough-based contract consultancy, as well as Chris Britton Consultancy and Carillion's Swedish rail contracting business, for a total £9m. 02-Aug-2007 Balfour Beatty is to acquire Centex Construction, the US-based construction company, for £184m. 02-Feb-2007 Balfour Beatty and Carillion have won a £363m contract to extend the East London rail line between West Croydon and Dalston Junction in time for the 2012 Olympics. 24-Oct-2006 Devon County Council is to sell Exeter Airport to a consortium of Balfour Beatty and London City Airport for £60m. 19-Oct-2006 Balfour Beatty is expanding its new project management division at Wynyard Park on Teesside, and the workforce is expected to rise from 18 to 100 over the next year. 06-Sep-2006 Balfour Beatty has won contracts worth up to £180m to build two hospitals in Glasgow by 2009, including one at the Stobhill Hospital site and one at the Victoria Infirmary. 24-Aug-2006 Balfour Beatty is to acquire Birse, the regional construction, civil engineering and plant hire company, for £32m. 27-Jun-2006 Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall have formed a consortium that has been selected as preferred bidder by Northern Gas Networks for a £420m contract to replace gas mains in Yorkshire, Cumbria and the north-east. 08-Jun-2006 Balfour Beatty has acquired Edgar Allen, the rail track products manufacturer, from Carillion for £9.5m. 10-Apr-2006 Balfour Beatty has acquired Pennine Group, the Lancashire-based ground engineering company, for £8m, as well as German signalling contractor SBB for £10m. 11-Aug-2005 Balfour Beatty has won a £5.4m contract from Hampshire County Council to build a nursing home in Emsworth. 02-Jun-2005 Balfour Beatty has won a £14m contract from the City Mental Health NHS Trust for development work at the East Ham Memorial Hospital. 03-Mar-2005 Balfour Beatty is seeking acquisitions to expand its construction operations in the US. 12-Aug-2004 Balfour Beatty is to sell Andover Controls, the US-based supplier of building management controls with subsidiaries in the UK, Germany, Poland and France, to Schneider Electric for £226m. 20-May-2004 Balfour Beatty has been selected as preferred bidder for a £521m contract to build the new Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham, as part of the Consort Healthcare consortium. 22-Jan-2004 Balfour Beatty is to acquire Mansell, the Croydon-based construction services company with 2,430 staff at 29 locations, for £42m. 20-Nov-2003 Balfour Beatty is to shed 40 of the 900 jobs in its construction division, which will affect offices across the country. 25-Sep-2003 Balfour Beatty has won a £6.5m contract to refurbish the headquarters of Stratford-upon-Avon District Council. 28-Aug-2003 Balfour Beatty is looking to make a major overseas acquisition over the next six months, in order to reduce its dependency on the UK. 14-Aug-2003 Balfour Beatty is to combine its John Kennedy and Kentons subsidiaries into a new gas and water operating company called Balfour Beatty Utilities. 29-Nov-2002 Balfour Beatty's Heery International division has won a contract worth up to £100m to manage the redevelopment and expansion of five National Blood Service centres in Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and London. 27-Nov-2002 Balfour Beatty has won a £16m contract to build a whisky bottling plant in Livingston for the Glen Turner subsidiary of Lamartin Aquaise. 31-Oct-2002 Balfour Beatty has won a £12m contract from Lomond & Argyll Primary Care NHS Trust to build a healthcare unit at the Mid Argyll Hospital site in Lochgilphead. 17-Oct-2002 Balfour Beatty has acquired UK-based distribution cable service provider Walgrave Contracting Services and US-based electronic access systems supplier Security International for £8m. 15-Oct-2002 Balfour Beatty has paid £7m for a 49% stake in Romec, the property management company that manages 3,000 buildings for Consignia. 01-Oct-2002 Balfour Beatty is to create 50 new jobs at its Barnsley-based Kentons business, having won a £30m contract to provide utility services for South East Water. 16-Aug-2002 Consignia and Balfour Beatty are planning a joint venture to manage Consignia's 3,000 properties, and the venture will be awarded a £1bn seven-year contract. 15-Apr-2002 Balfour Beatty has acquired Kentons, the Yorkshire-based utility services contractor, for £28m. 20-Mar-2002 Balfour Beatty has acquired the rail electrification business of ABB for £25m, which includes 350 staff and operations in Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and the UK. 24-Dec-2001 Balfour Beatty Capital Projects and Charterhouse Project Finance have been selected as preferred bidder to build and maintain a £86m public-private partnership hospital in Blackburn. 17-Oct-2001 Balfour Beatty is to acquire John Kennedy Holdings, the Manchester-based utilities service company, for £43m. 11-Oct-2001 Balfour Beatty is to acquire National Engineering & Contracting, the Ohio-based civil engineering company, for £12m, in order to expand its coverage of the US market. 23-Aug-2001 Balfour Beatty's Heery International division has won a £17m construction management contract to refurbish the National Galleries of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy. 21-Mar-2001 Balfour Beatty has acquired the US rail systems business of ABC-NACO for £14m. 27-Feb-2001 Balfour Beatty has bought the rail electrification business of Adtranz for £94m, which will strengthen its presence in markets such as Germany and Sweden. 21-Sep-2000 Balfour Beatty is in discussions to acquire the fixed-equipment operations of Adtranz, in order to expand its rail electrification systems business. 14-Sep-2000 Amec, Balfour Beatty and Building & Property Group have won a £225m private finance initiative contract to redevelop University College Hospital in London, which will involve 669 beds and a 40-year contract to supply support services. 13-Jul-2000 Balfour Beatty is planning to acquire Integral Technologies, the US developer of security and surveillance technology, for up to £33m, in order to increase the capabilities of its Andover Controls business. 04-Jul-2000 Balfour Beatty is to relocate its London headquarters to the Stockley House office complex in Victoria later this year. 22-Jun-2000 Balfour Beatty is to acquire US rail track companies Marta Track Constructors, based near Pittsburgh, and Metroplex for about £40m. 12-Apr-2000 Balfour Beatty has shed 75 jobs at its rail renewals division in Sidcup. 15-Jul-1999 BICC is to sell its energy cables division to General Cable of the US for £275m, in order to focus on its Balfour Beatty construction business. 08-Apr-1999 Balfour Beatty has won a £75m contract to build a 16km section of the Channel Tunnel rail link from Ashford to Folkestone. 06-Apr-1999 British Aerospace has awarded a £11m contract to Balfour Beatty to build an aircraft wings factory in Broughton, Chester. 04-Mar-1999 Railtrack is in discussions with Amec and Balfour Beatty about an £80m railway infrastructure maintenance contract in the West Anglia and North London region. 05-Nov-1998 Railtrack has extended its contract with Balfour Beatty for the renewal of track in its southern zone for another three years. 28-Jul-1998 Balfour Beatty has won a £100m contract from Railtrack to redesign the railway tracks outside Euston station in London, as part of the upgrading of the west coast main line. 08-Jul-1998 Balfour Beatty has won contracts worth over £100m for the construction of a 9km section of the M60 Manchester Outer Ring Road and for the construction of a bridge in North Carolina. 23-May-1998 BICC is to merge its Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering and Balfour Beatty International divisions to provide greater focus in the international projects market for work over £40m. 06-Feb-1998 Tarmac, Balfour Beatty and other construction companies, are said to be considering the idea of taking small equity stakes in London & Continental Railways in order to improve the chances of the high-speed rail link between London and the Channel tunnel being finished on time. 02-Jan-1998 Balfour Beatty is setting up a joint venture with First Philippine Holdings which will buy Ecco-Asia, the construction and steel fabrication concern based in the Philippines. 21-May-1997 Redland has won a major contract to supply Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering with most of its requirements for road surfacing materials. 26-Nov-1996 BICC's Balfour Beatty subsidiary has acquired three British Rail track maintenance companies - Eastern Infrastructure Maintenance Company, Southern Track Renewals Company and South East Infrastructure Maintenance Company - for a total £50m. 04-Apr-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008