Our capabilities

Balfour Beatty can offer a total, end-to-end solution for major infrastructure projects: from debt and equity finance, design, planning and project management, construction and engineering, and asset management, maintenance and operation.

Our core strengths are the breadth of our capabilities, our fully integrated approach and our commitment to working in close partnership with our customers, local communities and suppliers.

In essence, every element, at every stage, throughout the investment’s lifecycle.

Maintenance and operations

Balfour Beatty provides a full range of facilities management services to both private and public sector customers.

Working collaboratively with our customers to find the best solutions, we combine strong industry expertise, powerful capabilities and innovative thinking to ensure the smooth and safe running of assets ranging from maintenance, catering and cleaning to network operations.

We make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements to the performance and operational consistency of organisations, to help to achieve greater efficiencies in long-term investment projects.

Construction

Balfour Beatty has an accomplished track record in the delivery of commercial construction services to both public and private sector clients.

Our expertise covers all aspects of renovation, refurbishment and construction, ranging from general contracting, construction management, design-build and cost consulting, to specialist construction services.

We have engineering expertise covering mechanical, electrical, data, instrumentation and building services, along with related design and specialist manufacturing disciplines.

We work closely with customers, partners and the local communities in which we operate to minimise disruption to all stakeholders throughout the construction phase.

Design

Balfour Beatty’s success has been driven by our commitment to innovation, with flexible, reliable and sustainable design.

In today’s world, flexibility is a critical part of design, and our school and hospital facilities are built to embrace change. Sustainability is a key objective and we promote the use of renewable, recycled and locally-sourced materials wherever possible.

We create lasting, reliable designs that exist in harmony with their environment.

Finance

Balfour Beatty has committed investments totalling over £500 million and its scope of activity covers cost and financial modeling, financial structuring, hedging, contract negotiation and transaction execution.

We have raised over £8 billion of debt for our PPP projects in the UK and Asia.
During the credit crisis in 2009, in the UK, we achieved financial close on four projects representing approximately 40% of the UK PPP market. In the US, we have raised over US$3.6 billion of debt for our PPP military housing projects which has created in excess of US$4.5 billion in asset value.

We have reached financial close on projects involving all sources of debt, including commercial bank debt, EIB funding, wrapped and unwrapped bonds and various combinations of these. We have strong, established relationships with all major banks and financial institutions operating in PPP, with government departments and with leading financial, legal and technical advisers