Balfour Beatty secures £425m highway deals

Construction group Balfour Beatty has secured a place on two major highway projects by deploying new technology to improve delivery.The initial packages of work are worth £425 million and are for the B6 in the South East, worth up to £1.1 billion, and B8, in the North worth up to £2 billion, part of Highways England’s Delivery Integration Partnership Framework.This regional six-year framework will see contractors work with Highways England as partners responsible for designing and constructing motorway and major A-road projects across England.Balfour Beatty’s digitally-enhanced way of working was instrumental in securing the work. In collaboration with their design partner, Atkins, Balfour Beatty will utilise BIM to improve efficiencies in delivering works and will also deploy off-site manufacturing techniques.This is a direct result of the group’s own lean strategy to reduce onsite activity by 25% by the year 2025, driving greater project efficiency and safety and lower waste by moving away from traditional industry methods.