Cars
Working with our strategic partner, Lex Autolease, we deliver a comprehensive, managed service for circa 3,500 company cars utilised across Balfour Beatty. Our fleet is one of the most sustainable in the UK and includes a range of sustainable options, including plug-in or standard hybrids and all-electric vehicles.
The comprehensive service delivery model ensures that vehicle requirements are identified, understood, and delivered in the right way and at the right time. We are focused on ensuring the delivery of our sustainability roadmap, which sets out Balfour Beatty’s ambition to go beyond net zero carbon by 2040.
Our services include; Group company car list & policy, vehicle quote, order & delivery, in-life management & maintenance, 24/7/365 helpline support including breakdown management, and reporting and governance of our Operators Licence to ensure a safe, legal & compliant fleet.
We manage over 650 heavy goods vehicles, including a variety of specialist equipment for winter maintenance, highways maintenance, suction excavation, road sweeping and road repairs. Our solutions are tailored to ensure that our fleet is efficient, safe and in line with legislation.
We proactively manage our vehicles to maximise their time in use and have a team of over 70 experts who deliver over 3,000 planned maintenance inspections per annum to help to keep our vehicles on the road. We also provide a 24/7 service desk to deal with breakdowns and deliver technical advice and our allocations team provide hundreds of additional and replacement vehicles throughout the UK when required.
Our vehicles are operated under the Operators Licence, which is controlled and governed by our team of Transport Managers, to ensure vehicles are operated in compliance with the Transport Commissioner’s rules.
Adrian Wanford
Group Transport Compliance Manager
Email: adrian.wanford@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07967 669 535
Heavy goods vehicles
Working with our strategic partner Lex Autolease, we provide circa 2,500 light commercial vehicles across Balfour Beatty. We ensure that the right asset is procured to meet operational needs and these assets are then managed and maintained throughout their lifecycle to minimise downtime.
Our service delivery model ensures that vehicle related requirements are identified, understood and delivered in the right way and at the right time. Supported by our extensive network of expert third-party suppliers, we focus on meeting the needs of our drivers and are working towards achieving Balfour Beatty’s ambition to go beyond net zero carbon by 2040.
Our services include providing Balfour Beatty’s company car list and policy, vehicle specification, quotes, orders & deliveries, in-life management & maintenance, 24/7/365 helpline support including breakdown management, reporting and governance of Balfour Beatty’s Operators Licence.
Eric Renfrew
Strategy & Business Development Director
Email: eric.renfrew@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07977 130 589
Light commercial vehicles
Eric Renfrew
Strategy & Business Development Director
Email: eric.renfrew@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07977 130 589
Our suction excavator and road sweeper teams are on-hand to make sure that you get the right solution, first time. Drawing on their wealth of experience, they will discuss your project needs and challenges, ensuring you are provided with right equipment from our modern and reliable range, on either an operated or self-drive basis.
From large excavations to trial holes, our industry leading specifications coupled with the latest technology and training packages ensures you are utilising your equipment at its optimum capacity.
Our operated service gives you access to highly experienced and skilled operators to ensure your project is completed safely and efficiently. All our operators are trained to the highest standards. From CPCS to
in-house safety behavioural awareness, these skills are a key component to the delivery of a first-class service.
Steve Hoskisson
Business Manager - Specialist Plant
Email: stephen.hoskisson@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07805 300 711
Suction excavators and sweepers
Our modern, state-of-the-art fleet of crawler cranes incorporate the latest technology to meet the safety requirements of the construction industry.
Our rental fleet is available to hire across the UK and includes many of the latest hydraulic crawler cranes ranging from 50 to 300 tonne capacity. All our cranes are available to hire with fully trained, experienced and directly employed Crane Operators, who hold CPCS blue cards and are trained to CSCS standards where applicable.
Liam Connor
Business Manager - Lifting Services
Email: liam.connor@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07773 480759
Crawler cranes
Every winter we travel over 800,000 miles and spread tens of thousands of tonnes of salt to keep the UK’s transport networks operational. Working in collaboration with our customers, our team of over 70 experts provide essential winter maintenance services including communications to road users and support to the emergency services.
Drawing on over 40 years of experience and utilising real-time Met Office data, along with the latest tracking technology across our fleet of specialist vehicles, we minimise safety risks to the millions of drivers and pedestrians using the UK’s network of roads and walkways.
We pride ourselves on ensuring 99% availability of our vehicle assets during winter periods. To make sure our vehicles remain operational, we deliver over 3,000 planned maintenance inspections across the fleet of 650 vehicles every year – with each vehicle off the road for no more than two hours in each maintenance cycle.
Eric Renfrew
Strategy & Business Development Director
Email: eric.renfrew@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07977 130 589
Winter fleet
Available to projects across the UK, our dedicated survey and drone team offer photogrammetry, project progress, pre-condition and full site surveys.
With a wealth of experience and a range of the latest technology and equipment at their fingertips, our in-house experts work with you to create flexible site-specific survey solutions tailored to your project.
From automatic levels, rotating and dual grade lasers, 360° capture cameras through to high density scanning, mobile mapping, and UAV’s we can support you with site and pre-condition surveys, inspection work and measurement of earthwork quantities. Our
high-resolution video, photography and aerial photography can also be used in the production of 3D modelling, specification, marketing and progress materials.
Survey, drones and digital technology
Our modern fleet of heavy earthmoving equipment and traditional highways attendant plant is available for hire on both operated and self-drive arrangements. We have a team of expert, CPCS certified operators, who have been inducted through Balfour Beatty onto our machinery, ready to support your requirements.
We continually invest in modern plant and we offer 14 – 25 tonne tracked or wheeled excavators and 30 tonne articulated dump trucks.
Partnering with industry leading original equipment manufacturers, we offer and supply technologically advanced, sustainable and efficient plant and machinery whenever you may require it.
Steve Hoskisson
Business Manager - Specialist Plant
Email: stephen.hoskisson@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07805 300 711
Earthworks equipment
Available for projects across the UK, our diverse fleet of tower cranes can be utilised to optimise lifting solutions on site. We continually invest in our fleet to ensure we introduce innovative technology and drive continuous improvement, ensuring our service offering remains industry leading.
Our fleet contains both saddle-jib and luffing-jib tower cranes.
Saddle-jib cranes are suitable for heavy lifting on complex projects and luffing-jib cranes are an ideal solution for sites with space constraints, such as congested urban areas. The modular design allows for simple erection, dismantling and maintenance and our cranes have the adaptability to be used in several different applications; from lifting bridges into place to building cladding works.
For over 50 years we have been delivering safe and efficient tower crane solutions and our expert in-house maintenance team respond to any on-site issues to maximise crane productivity.
Liam Connor
Business Manager – Lifting Services
Email: liam.connor@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07773 480 759
Tower cranes
The Site Mobilisation Hub supports the mobilisation and de-mobilisation of temporary site set ups. We have security advisors who specialise in providing site risk assessments and security solutions and our in-house fire technicians provide fire risk assessments, training and fire safety solutions.
Our services include mobilising bespoke welfare accommodation and modular compounds, engaging with project teams at an early stage to ensure utilities, IT, furniture and property licenses are organised and in place ready for the project starting.
Our wide-ranging expertise enables the team to work alongside projects to find suitable solutions to an array of different challenges including fires services, specialist fleet, plant and equipment. Our bespoke M-Site system manages the access and egress of all personnel on-site, ensuring that time on site can be logged and unauthorised personnel are prevented from entering our projects.
Lisa Foster
Head of Site Mobilisation
Email: lisa.foster@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07791 925 307
Mobilisation hub and hire
Our expert driver risk management team analyse telematics data from our commercial vehicles. This information is then shown on a single dashboard, allowing you to make quick and informed choices about driver behaviour and training requirements. The team also deliver a wide range of services including behavioural safety training and the latest technology solutions to help you improve safety and reduce fleet costs.
Our permit to drive scheme calculates a risk score for each driver based on factors such as history, experience and attitude. We use the information produced from both our permit to drive scheme and telematics system together to make training interventions for the most ‘at risk’ drivers. Certain risk factors can be dramatically improved using a combination of these data sources and appropriate targeted training.
Russ O'Neil
Transport & Driver Risk Manager
Email: russell.oneil@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07791 925 731
Driver risk management and compliance
Our helpline service operates all day, every day and is tailored to suit the requirements of all clients. Using our incident reporting system, alerts are issued to bespoke distribution lists within pre-determined service level agreements and logged on client systems, ensuring immediate visibility to all. We co-ordinate calls around the business ensuring that the services provided are consistent across Balfour Beatty. We also offer the same services to our our joint ventures.
Our services include accident and incident reporting, customer management including high profile complaints and bespoke services such as weather alerts and capturing the loss and theft of assets.
Holly Dey
Head of Helpline
Email: holly.dey@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07791 927 149
Balfour Beatty helpline
The overhead line and cabling assets department is a key support function for our Power Transmission and Distribution business, providing all the specialist plant, logistic and associated support activities required to deliver overhead line and cabling projects. This includes the management, maintenance and supply of over 13,000 assets including specialist overhead line and cabling plant. We also manage, maintain and supply a logistic stock holding with an average value of £6 million.
Our experts support site operation teams with specialist product and technical expertise, along with knowledge of industry working methods. We are adept at working with the customer throughout the process from proposal and design to implementing product innovation and development. We also operate an in-house LOLER/PUWER inspection process with a competent team ensuring all relevant equipment issued meets the regulatory standards.
James Gobey
Strategic Plant Manager
Email: james.gobey@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07791 926 400
Power assets: overhead line and cabling
Our plant centre of excellence manages complete plant hire throughout Balfour Beatty working with specialist suppliers to ensure a clear focus on safety, technical standards and customer service. Our core objectives include providing a new level of consistency, harnessing innovation and creating and assuring new common equipment standards.
Our contractual arrangements with Tier 1 suppliers ensure that our customers receive excellent service and quality. This allows us to maintain and improve the safety and technical standards of the plant and equipment in use. We deliver around 100,000 transactions per year and manage up to £100 million spend across all plant and equipment activities. As well as utilising plant from internal Balfour Beatty assets, we have partnerships with key equipment suppliers that allows us to offer the most used plant and equipment such as excavators and access towers.
Roy Hinchcliffe
Head of UK Plant Hire
Email: roy.hinchcliffe@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07791 925 907
External Plant Hire Desk
Modular buildings are designed to maximise off-site construction and reduce environmental impact. Our buildings are comprised of
pre-finished modules/slices that typically range from 6 to 12 metres in length and are usually 2.45 to 3 metres wide. The buildings are assembled on-site to form the finished superstructure. Completely scalable and with several standard module sizes, our solution has the flexibility to suit most site footprints and is capable of multi-storey configuration, up to six-storeys high.
Key benefits of our modular buildings include 10% less carbon footprint compared to ‘traditional’ builds, conception to handover is 50% quicker, greater design flexibility, cost effectiveness, reduced site risk, maximum space efficiency and optimal team environments.
Our team will work with you to deliver cost-effective building solutions to meet your exact site requirements. Available to hire or purchase, our modular buildings create modern, flexible workspaces.
Matt Cooper
Modular Accommodation Manager
Email: matthew.cooper@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07873 625 402
Modular accommodation
Our in-house engineering and innovation team bring expertise in feasibility, design, development and manufacturing to solve complex challenges on our projects. We have vast experience in delivering bespoke technical solutions for projects across Balfour Beatty.
We pride ourselves on our ability to help our clients make the right decisions and provide optimal solutions to complex problems. We offer a complete in-house solution starting with an accurate scope of your requirements to ensure our project team understand the engineering challenges involved. We work together with you as an integrated team, taking on full responsibility for the project, including assurance management, risk mitigation, scope of works production, training and more. We have worked on major infrastructure projects across the UK providing bespoke solutions to the industry’s most complex challenges at Hinkley Point C, Eleclink and HS2.
Mark Oliver
Business Manager – Energy, Engineering & Innovation
Email: mark.oliver@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07967 669 633
Engineering, design and innovation
Established by Balfour Beatty Flannery, the Operator Skills Hub provides innovative, future-focused training solutions for plant operators in the UK construction and infrastructure sector.
Partnering with education and infrastructure providers, we aim to create a diverse and inclusive sector by attracting the best talent and equipping our existing workforce with the skills required to deliver efficiently on a modern day, digitally enabled construction site.
Our purpose-built facility in Birmingham offers state-of-the-art training simulators as well as the latest semi-autonomous plant and equipment, specialist test areas and demonstration zones. The centre is accredited by Compliance Plus, Construction Plant Competence Scheme, National Open College Network and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education We are also delivering the new Trailblazer Plant Operative Apprenticeship.
Operator Skills Hub
Asset & Technology Solutions
Cars
Heavy goods vehicles
Light commercial vehicles
Suction excavators and sweepers
Crawler cranes
Winter fleet
Survey, drones and digital technology
Earthworks equipment
Tower cranes
Mobilisation hub and hire
Driver risk management and compliance
Balfour Beatty helpline
Power assets: overhead line and cabling
External Plant Hire Desk
Modular accommodation
Engineering, design and innovation
Operator Skills Hub
Tim Fieldhouse
Southern Delivery Director
Email: tim.fieldhouse@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07967 369 618
Winter Fleet
Cars
Heavy goods vehicles
Light commercial vehicles
Suction excavators and sweepers
Crawler cranes
Survey, drones and digital technology
Earthworks equipment
Tower cranes
Mobilisation hub and hire
Driver risk management and compliance
Balfour Beatty helpline
Power assets: overhead line and cabling
External Plant Hire Desk
Modular accommodation
Engineering, design and innovation
Operator Skills Hub and training
We provide a comprehensive range of plant, vehicle and equipment services across the UK.
Cars
Heavy goods vehicles
Light commercial vehicles
Winter Fleet
Crawler cranes and piling equipment
Suction excavators and sweepers
Balfour Beatty helpline
Driver risk management and compliance
Mobilisation hub and hire
Tower cranes
Earthworks equipment
Survey, drones and digital technology
Operator Skills Hub and training
Engineering, design and innovation
Modular accommodation
Plant hire desk: inventory and logistics
Power assets: overhead line and cabling
Operator Skills Hub and training
CCTV
Our CCTV Centre of Excellence facility in Derby, deploys the latest digital security and CCTV assets, including traffic management to projects across the UK.
Real-time surveillance can act as a serious deterrent for anyone thinking of carrying out illegal activities. The sight of a CCTV camera infers an air of risk of capture and the presence of the law. CCTV footage can also be valuable in the event of a safety incident, enabling our teams to perform a quick review of activities on site.
We are currently demonstrating our expert capability with customers including National Grid and National Highways.
Nicola Roberts
Fire & Security Services Manager
Email: nicola.roberts@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07395 882 895
CCTV
CCTV
We offer a wide range of training, testing and competency assessments for anyone looking to renew, progress or a complete career change. Delivered by a team of UK-wide trainers, with over 100 years of combined experience, we can provide a cost-effective solution by delivering various courses at your own premises utilising your own equipment, where possible. Alternatively we can deliver training at our own venues including our newly opened Lifting School at Bottesford.
Our courses are fully accredited with professional bodies, including the National Plant Operators Registration Scheme (NPORS), Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS) and the Association for Lorry Loader Manufacturers and Importers (ALLMI).
All courses vary in length from 1 to 10 days. For a full list of the available courses, click here.
Plant and lifting operations training
Caroline Moore
Training Co-ordinator
Email: PFStraining@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07745 592360
Plant and lifting operations training
Plant and lifting operations training
Survey as a Service:
Leo Remizov
Survey Services Operations Manager
Email: Leonid.Remizov@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07548 780 449
We provide a turnkey solution for all temporary site services including: design, supply, installation, maintenance and testing. We have a dedicated and directly employed team of project managers, engineers, quantity surveyors and 100% JIB/BESA registered tradespeople who are highly experienced in developing the most suitable temporary service solutions for your project. Our team are security cleared, hold numerous passports to work and operate using standard BB processes including BIM 360 Field, enabling us to seamlessly integrate into any project delivery team.
We can deliver a range of services, including: electrical high and low voltage transformers to electric vehicle chargepoints, portable waste services and foul drainage plumbing solutions, air conditioning installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance, a range of testing services, from periodic testing on our installations through to PAT and water testing. We also offer the service of deploying dedicated teams on large scale schemes to provide maintenance services to suit the project's needs.
Temporary site services
Alyn James
Business Manager
Email: alyn.james@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07817 024063
Temporary site services
Fire services
Temporary site services
Our fire services division delivers comprehensive and bespoke fire lift safety solutions to maintain the capability to help, prevent, detect, and monitor your fire risks. We offer an end-to-end service from initial design, supply, and installation, through to ongoing maintenance and monitoring. We have a highly qualified team that hold BAFE accreditations to expertly deliver the solutions.
Our service offerings span across the following categories:
• Active mechanical fire
• Automatic fire
• Fire assessments
Fire services
Nicola Roberts
Fire Services Manager
Email: Nicola.Roberts2@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07395 882 895
Fire services
The logistics services helpdesk provides a one stop shop for all of your national and international haulage requirements. Through our third party (minimum FORS silver accredited) haulage suppliers and in house capability, we can arrange movement of anything from small parcels to piling rigs and everything in between.
All movements are processed through our Roadrunner haulage software, utilising a bespoke bidding system and making optimal use of shared and return loads to drive best price.
Additional services available include lift plans, route planning, site surveys, swept path analysis and customs import and export clearances.
For enquiries please contact: logisticsserviceshelpdesk@balfourbeatty.com
Logistical services
Jeremy Brookes
Logistics Manager
Email: jeremy.brookes@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07791 926817
Logistical services
Logistical services
Our modern, state-of-the-art fleet of piling rigs incorporates the latest technology to meet the safety requirements of the construction industry.
Our rental fleet is available to hire across the UK for a range of disciplines, including Rotary or LDP, CFA, Driven or Precast, D-wall or general ground improvements. State-of-the-art rig instrumentation systems provide the ability to monitor installations and measure data such as depth, concrete pressure, volume and productivity.
Piling equipment
Anna McHale
Business Manager - Piling Equipment
Email: anna.mchale@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07731 991128
Piling equipment
Piling equipment
Energy management unit
Providing expertise in energy management to support energy reduction, fuel efficiency and carbon reductions across the business, our Energy Management Unit (EMU) can provide analysis and specialist insight for projects at all stages. The EMU works closely with wider ATS functions like the Mobilisation Hub, Hire Desk and Plant teams to identify and assess opportunities to reduce energy consumption and/or carbon emissions and deliver practical solutions into the business.
Power & Plant profiler tools, effective implementation of the mandated energy efficiency requirements, energy efficiency audits, support in optimising site compound setup, low carbon technology mobilisation, on site generation and renewables, diesel free & low carbon site feasibility, off grid vehicle charging.
Energy management unit
Stuart McLeod MEI, CEM
Senior Energy & Sustainability Manager
Email: stuart.mcleod@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07873 627316
Energy management unit
Services
Ian Holt
Survey Equipment Operations Manager Email: Ian.Holt@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07514 732 950
Plant and Equipment Telematics
Balfour Beatty Asset & Technology Solutions provides earth-moving and mobile road construction machinery telemetry data across all Balfour Beatty projects, working in partnership with JCB LiveLink.
This gives Balfour Beatty the ability to manage the plant and equipment on all our projects across the UK efficiently and sustainably.
Asset & Technology Solutions provides the platform for projects to:
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This allows projects to make commercial and safety decisions regarding assets from a software platform developed for plant management. It is also an additional project planning tool for decision making and driving efficiency. We can monitor operator behaviour and measure working times, providing data for training and development.
Plant and Equipment Telematics
Mike Omond
Plant Manager
Email: Michael.omond@balfourbeatty.com
Tel: 07892 776979
Manage and track the performance of equipment
Manage various metrics such as utilisation, idle time, fuel spend and CO .
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Plant and Equipment Telematics
