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This is a Balfour Beatty supplement published in association with Building<br />
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Steven Marshall<br />
Chairman, Balfour Beatty<br />
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Balfour Beatty's first 100 years have been nothing if not action<br />
packed. Technological innovation, major transportation and<br />
infrastructure networks, and reg<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 1" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=1"> Welcome to the Digital Edition of Building Balfou</a>r Beatty supplement. If you click on or pull over the corners of the magazine the page will turn. You can Zoom into the page by clicking your mouse,
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 2" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=2"> 1909- 2009 100 years of BalfourBeatty January 20</a>09 This is a Balfour Beatty supplement published in association with Building
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<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 4" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=4"> Steven Marshall Chairman, Balfour Beatty Balfou</a>r Beatty's first 100 years have been nothing if not action packed. Technological innovation, major transportation and infrastructure networks, and reg
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 5" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=5"> 06 09 24 18 04 100 years of Balfour Beat</a>ty January 2009 Editor Kate Wheal Design Mark Bergin Printed by St Ives Reprographics ITM Publishing Services This is a Balfour Beatty publication p
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 6" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=6"> 29 32 05 </a> 32 The next generation Innovation has become a key motivator for graduates joining Balfour Beatty – we meet three rising stars 36 Corporate c
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 7" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=7"> “He toldme I was unfit to employ” </a> … So said James Hanson (now Lord Hanson) when a young Ian Tyler joined his conglomerate. So how di
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 8" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=8"> 07 100 years of Balfour Beatty January 2009</a>
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 9" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=9"> Not all the decisions you make will be 100% succe</a>ssful but when things go wrong you have to learn from that and get on with things” > stil
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 10" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=10"> 09 Empire building An international stra</a>tegy need not be about conquering the world. As Thom Gibbs reports, Balfour Beatty has increasingly been concentrating its efforts on key regions O
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 11" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=11"> > with the acquisition of Centex </a> Clients Construction (now Balfour Beatty recognise Construction US) and PPP and facilities people
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 12" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=12"> Previous page: the 70-storey office building One </a>Island East, Hong Kong Left, clockwise from left: Burj Mall; Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai; Venetian Hotel, Macau Below, left to right: Fort Stewart, Ge
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 13" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=13"> Back in </a> 1909… 12 It is the year of Balfour Beatty's
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 14" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=14"> Selfridges (The Builder, 3 April 1909) “On Monday</a> last were opened Messrs. Selfridge & Co's new premises in Oxford Street. The design of the venture is as much a novelty as the venture itself. With o
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 15" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=15"> Clifton Suspension Bridge </a> > Unemployment in construction was high ? 16% of carpenters and joiners were out of work. In the first decade of t
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 16" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=16"> …A POWERHOUSE IS BORN The early story of Balfour </a>Beatty is one of power and enterprise, harnessing emerging forms of energy. It had its beginnings in the financing and construction of early power sta
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 17" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=17"> > entrepreneurs such as Balfour and Beatty</a>, who had long since standardised the voltage throughout large areas of the Midlands where they controlled supply. It wasn't until 1
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 18" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=18"> 1986 East 1954 Great 1995 Coast</a> Lakes Main Line M25 England Canada England Over the next two decades the group diversified, not always successfu
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 19" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=19"> ALL SYSTEMS GO From underground rail networks to </a>large PFI contracts, complex projects call for innovative solutions – and Balfour Beatty has a growing reputation for managing and delivering them. We
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 20" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=20"> C hthaemwboerds E“mngelgisah”dtwicotiomneaarynign</a>igvse:sa 1980s colloquialism meaning excellent and a prefix, from the Greek megas, meaning large or great. Both are equally applicable to the mega-pro
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 21" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=21"> T5 proves vital link to Heathrow work </a> New platform: the 20 T5 project has involved plenty of logistical, interteam
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 22" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=22"> Building a station out of a hole at King's Cross </a> Balfour Beatty Management has played a key role in the ongoing redevelopment of King's Cross St
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 23" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=23"> From water mains to grass verges </a> Volt from the blue: 22
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 24" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=24"> Prefab push for Birmingham hospital </a> This year's module: offsite construction continues to play a big part in the construction stage of the project Balfo
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 25" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=25"> As the creation and management of its assets beco</a>mes ever more demanding, the National Grid is expecting much more from its supply chain partners, as Tony Whitehead hears. Illustration by Patrick Lew
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 26" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=26"> T hofetshtearUtlKin'sgpfaocwtetrhgatenmeoraretitn</a>hgapnlantthwirdill need to be replaced over the next 15 years – much within the next 10 – has increasingly become a front-bench political issue. With
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 27" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=27"> Five-year contracts mean we are able to give cont</a>ractors more insight into planned workloads and better understand their resource requirements” > £2.5bn over the five years, 15 contracting
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 28" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=28"> difference becomes gainshare – that is, it is spl</a>it 50:50 between client and supplier. There is also a cost ratchet mechanism, so that if, say, a 10% saving is made in the first year, that the
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 29" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=29"> 100 years of Balfour Beatty January 2009 </a>> improve remains but there is a recognition that outside circumstances can change.” There is also a certain amoun
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 30" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=30"> A recently launched health and safety campaign pr</a>omises to cut out serious accidents altogether. Too good to be true? James Clegg meets the man behind Zero Harm The zero hour A nlodoykRofsdeisisb
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 31" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=31"> 30 > behavioural psychology messages of the cam</a>paign, he set out to open his team's eyes to the dangers of being unwittingly “half asleep” on the job. “It's about engaging the workforce to
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 32" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=32"> This is a four-year mission… What we're doing wit</a>h this project is driving the stakes so firmly into the ground there's no going back” Andy Rose So how do you go from this point to
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 33" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=33"> Flying starts Joining a large construction compan</a>y as a graduate is no pushover these days. We meet three Balfour Beatty newcomers who've all brought something extra to the job 32 100 year
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 34" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=34"> CLASSOF2005 Emma Garner Construction planner Bal</a>four Beatty Construction Northern Site engineering was a bit of a let-down for Emma Garner – “I got a bit bored; it wasn't as interesting as I though
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 35" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=35"> We want people who can communicate with colleague</a>s upwards, downwards, internally and externally. Then they have to have leadership and business skills” 100 years of Balfour Beatty January 2009 34
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 36" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=36"> JAMES TURNER </a> Michael Gibson The economic Customer services manager
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 37" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=37"> VANDALS RULE ON SCHOOLS PFI PROJECT… 36 </a> Givingitsome As if it weren't enough to erect iconic buildings, maintain the UK's roads, railways and utilities and nurture an overseas business, Ba
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 38" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=38"> ILLUSTRATIONS: NICK KOBYLUCH programme can be sh</a>own as a success, not just as a vandalism prevention project.” It also demonstrates that corporate responsibility has a direct impact on a comp
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 39" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=39"> Ready for action: mayor Boris Johnson launches th</a>e 2008 London Youth Games 38 > the actions of both group headquarters and the operating businesses.
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 40" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=40"> For as long as it has existed Balfour Beatty has </a>been a part of the rail industry. But the acquisition of Adtranz in 2000 has pushed it up the global contracting premier league Thebeatentrack H
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 41" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=41"> 40 There's no escaping the gloomy fo</a>recasts, so it's more important then ever that construction firms offer their clients more. Graham Ridout finds out how Balfour Beatty is gearing up f
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 42" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=42"> M25, where a 30-year concession to design, build,</a> finance and operate the motorway is being finalised. The concession covers operational management and maintenance, together with any upgrading or wid
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 43" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=43"> Building in the future </a> Scotland, Wales and the South Despite the recession, Balfour Beatty Construction Scot
<a title="BLD BALFOUR BEATTY page 44" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrgdhq&pageid=44"> Somewemadeearlier Here's how buildings constructe</a>d by Balfour Beatty have left their mark across the world Animal Kingdom Lodge, Disneyworld, Florida: Balfour Beatty has completed 22 projects
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