Balfour Beatty

Please name the main purpose of your business.
Balfour Beatty has been operating in Scotland for over a century. Today, the company employs 2,000 people across Scotland and works with a supply chain that includes a substantial proportion of local businesses.

Balfour Beatty is committed to delivering on its principle of social impact in Scotland and we work closely with our customers to deliver real, tangible social value to the communities in which we operate.

Significant projects in the Company’s current portfolio include :

• Edinburgh Futures Institute & Institute for Regeneration and Repair for the University of Edinburgh
• National Treatment Centre, Inverness
• University of Strathclyde’s Learning and Teaching Hub
• Union Terrace Gardens renovation for Aberdeen City Council
• Glasgow Queen Street Station Redevelopment for Network Rail
• HMP Highland for Scottish Prison Service
• Dunfermline Learning Campus for Fife College
• Victorian Palm House Refurbishment for Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• North Bridge Refurbishment for Edinburgh City Council
• Stockingfield Bridge Glasgow for Scottish Canals

Upcoming Build Projects – North of Scotland

• Lochaber Hospital and Caithness Refurbishment on behalf of NHS Highland
• Nairn Academy on behalf of Highland Council

How do you connect to your local customers?
Prior to a project even starting on site we engage early with local community groups, chambers and charities within the area. We hold Meet the Buyer events encouraging local supply chain to engage with us early prior to projects even starting.

Our Social Impact team work hard to leave a lasting legacy on the communities we work within.

Why are you part of Moray Chamber of Commerce?
We are part of other Chambers around Scotland and each membership is a great local voice for us. We get a thorough understanding of what matters to the local communities and other members, a really valued insight.

What are you most proud of?
Balfour Beatty are hugely proud of our Scottish Heritage as stated above. It is unique in our industry to have such a rich heritage which underpins the company over such important era in our country’s history and this continues to drive our next hundred years.

Personally, I grew up in Speyside and went to school in Moray, so for me I am hugely proud of being able to deliver incredible infrastructure projects to the communities that I grew up in.

Finally, name one misconception that people have about your business.
I think that many do not realise the depth of Balfour Beatty’s Scottish heritage and the incredible journey that Andrew Beatty (an accountant) and George Balfour (a mechanical and electrical engineer) made, with their significant contribution to the whole hydro electric power generation programme across the highlands of Scotland. Balfour Beatty were integral to bringing renewable energy to the homes and businesses of the highlands and central Scotland, all those years ago.

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