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Today, we were delighted to introduce Scottish Minister for Higher and Further Education, Graeme Dey MSP to our young apprentices at the The Duke of Edinburgh's Award event ‘Youth Without Limits Live: Beyond the CV’ in Edinburgh. As Scotland achieves its highest-ever number of modern apprentices, Balfour Beatty remains committed to creating opportunities for young people to further their careers in construction. Read more below.
At Balfour Beatty, we don’t just build things, we help our customers turn their visions into reality! That’s exactly what our Regional Scotland and Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick teams have done at the Institute of Regeneration and Repair, BioQuarter Expansion. Our customer The University of Edinburgh had a vision to be part of the team to transform Edinburgh BioQuarter into a world-leading, vibrant mixed-use neighbourhood which has the potential to support a community of more than 20,000 healthcare innovators. Procured via the SCAPE Scotland Civil Engineering framework, our team of experts have successfully completed essential enabling infrastructure works for the state-of-the-art, five-storey, 6,500 m2 research centre and laboratory. Find out more about how we played a part in the creation of the new Health Innovation District in Edinburgh:
Huge congratulations to our Rail Graduate, Paige Stevens who was named ‘Female Rising Star of the Year’ at Thursday’s Women in Rail awards in recognition of her contribution to improve diversity and inclusion within the UK rail industry! The award recognises the outstanding achievements of young woman who have shown potential in shaping the future of our industry through empowering others to take up a career in rail.
We’re delighted to announce that we have been awarded a £42 million contract by National Grid to construct the Little Horsted Substation Grid Supply Point in East Sussex, UK. The two year contract see Balfour Beatty design and build a new 400 kilovolt substation as well as two new terminal towers which will support the electrical conductors transmitting the high-voltage electricity to the Little Horsted Substation Grid Supply Point. Once complete, the new substation will form a key part of National Grid’s ‘Little Horsted Connection Project’ which will allow local electricity distributer, UK Power Networks, to connect with the National Grid – improving the electricity supply in East Sussex. Find out more about the works below.
Today is the final day of Mental Health Awareness Week at Balfour Beatty! Colleagues from across the business worked together to create a fantastic schedule of activities to help raise awareness, signpost our support tools and encourage conversations on this year’s theme ‘anxiety’. From podcasts, live webinars with leading mental health charities, deskercise, ‘start the conversation’ training sessions, toolbox talks to donut walls – it’s been great to see our offices and projects getting involved in such an important topic. #MHAW23
Yesterday our Gender and Allies Affinity Network hosted its first networking event of 2023 to help move the dial on gender diversity. ‘The Power of Connection’, hosted alongside Shepherd and Wedderburn, saw our Non-Executive Director, Louise Hardy and Procurement Lead, Mukta Hashmi join Shepherd and Wedderburn's Iain Drummond to explore the barriers which women in the industry face - highlighting where we're making progress and where there's more to do. Thank you to our speakers on the evening and to everyone who attended making the event such a huge success. We look forward to the next one!
On Friday 2 June, we’re hosting an Armed Forces Insight Day in Cobham (M25 junction 10), to share how a career in infrastructure offers the Armed Forces community a chance to turn their commitment, experience and adaptability to a new challenge. Attendees will also meet some of our ex-Forces colleagues to hear first-hand about their experience working in the industry as well as finding out about our fantastic career opportunities. To register your interest or to find out more, please complete our form by Friday 26 May. #ShapeEverything #ArmedForces #Event #Veteran #Careers
Today marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s theme is anxiety. With over a third of construction workers suffering with elevated levels of anxiety every day, we recognise the importance to educate and raise awareness of mental health within our workforce. We’re proud of our progress so far. We’ve built a network of over 500 mental health first aiders across the UK. Partnered with industry-leading charities such as Mates in Mind to create our ‘Listen, Support, Signpost’ training to develop the skills of our mental health first aiders, and we have delivered 12,000+ ‘start the conversation’ sessions to help break down the stigma associated with poor mental health. Colleagues from across the business have created a fantastic schedule of activities for the week which include podcasts, panel discussions, toolbox talks, local events and more to encourage conversations. If you’re a Balfour Beatty employee, please visit our dedicated site on The Hub to find out more and to get involved. #MHAW23 #BuildingNewFutures
Our Director of Data and Digital Technology, James Veitch has featured in Construction News sharing his thoughts on investing in digital technologies to deliver efficiency and productivity benefits. In the article, James details Balfour Beatty’s strategy towards digital adoption and the considerations needed to realise the full benefits of integrating these solutions into day-to-day workflows. Read the article in full here: https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/tech/bits-bytes-and-bricks-how-to-invest-wisely-in-technology-02-05-2023/
We’ve recently reached a major milestone on the Core Valley Lines Transformation project in South Wales! Canton Rail Depot has been successfully energised, marking the first step of the project’s complex energisation sequence as part of a major upgrade to the Core Valleys Lines, a vital part of the South Wales Metro. Once complete, the scheme will significantly improve connectivity throughout South Wales and enable more frequent services, improve capacity and provide a better customer experience – making it one of the most comprehensive and complex infrastructure rail upgrades in the region for a generation.
