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Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty has acquired Strata Construction, the Doncaster-based housebuilder, for £10m. 31-Dec-2009

Balfour Beatty is to acquire SpawMaxwell, the US interior contractor, for undisclosed terms. 16-Nov-2009

Balfour Beatty is to acquire Parsons Brinckerhoff, the US-based engineering design group with 12,650 staff, for £380m. 21-Sep-2009

Balfour Beatty is considering plans to close its Mansell building operation in Ringwood, Hampshire, with the loss of up to 40 jobs. 04-Aug-2009

Balfour Beatty is planning to shed an unspecified number of jobs at its Cowlin Construction offices in Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth, Swansea and Truro. 17-Jun-2009

Balfour Beatty is cutting 74 jobs, including 60 at its Balfour Kilpatrick division in the North West and 14 at its northern construction division. 21-May-2009

Balfour Beatty has acquired RT Dooley, the US construction firm, for £27m. 24-Feb-2009

Balfour Beatty ProCure21 has won a £9.6m contract to refurbish wards at Bootham Park hospital and other health projects in North Yorkshire. 23-Feb-2009

Balfour Beatty has acquired Colledge Trundle & Hall, the Surrey-based supplier of energy control systems for buildings, for £2.8m. 02-Dec-2008

Balfour Beatty has acquired Schreck-Mieves, the German rail engineering firm, for £28m. 23-Jun-2008

Balfour Beatty is relocating its Balfour Kilpatrick engineering services operations in Scotland to Hillingdon Park in Glasgow. 19-Jun-2008

Balfour Beatty has acquired Douglas E Barnhart, the US construction management company with 450 staff, for £58m. 06-Jun-2008

Balfour Beatty is to raise £180m in a share placing to fund acquisitions and organic growth for its building and civil engineering business. 16-May-2008

Balfour Beatty is to acquire Blackpool International Airport from Mar Properties for £14m, in order to expand its Regional & City Airports division. 07-May-2008

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



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