Balfour Beatty Wins Heathrow Contract

Balfour Beatty has secured a £350m BAA contract to deliver its Midfield Pier project at Heathrow. The project, which will complement the new Heathrow East Terminal, will be built in three phases.

Construction work begins in the spring of 2008, with phases 1 and 2 to be undertaken between 2008 and 2011. The firm said a Remote Passenger Transfer Stand may also form part of the first two phases, which are due for completion in 2012, and would be worth a further £78m.

In phase 3, which would start following the completion of the preceding work, a further Southern Section is due to be built at a value approaching £100m.

Ian Tyler, Balfour Beatty chief executive, said: "Having achieved preferred supplier status for BAA's programme of complex building works in the coming period, we are delighted to have secured the planned work on the Midfield Pier project at Heathrow.”

Balfour Beatty has worked closely with BAA over many years on a number of their key airport developments and, most recently, has been involved over the last six years in the design, management and delivery of some £450 million of work at Heathrow Terminal 5.