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Balfour Beatty (www.balfourbeatty.com<\/a>) is a leading international infrastructure group. With 30,000 employees, we provide innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins our daily lives, supports communities and enables economic growth. We finance, develop, build and maintain complex infrastructure such as transportation, power and utility systems, social and commercial buildings.<\/p>\n

Our main geographies are the UK, US and Far East. Over the last 100 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including the London Olympics\u2019 Aquatic Centre, Hong Kong\u2019s first Zero Carbon building, the world\u2019s biggest shopping mall in Dubai, the National Museum of the Marine Corps in the US and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.<\/p>\n

Over the last 20 years, we have delivered more than 75 coastal protection and flood defence projects amounting to over \u00a3500m for clients including local authorities and the Environment Agency (EA). We have reduced the risk to approximately 100,000 properties on schemes completed since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Balfour Beatty (www.balfourbeatty.com) is a leading international infrastructure group. With 30,000 employees, we provide innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins our daily lives, supports communities and enables economic growth. We finance, develop, build and maintain complex infrastructure such as transportation, power and utility systems, social and commercial buildings. Our main geographies are the UK, US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBalfour Beatty - Balfour Beatty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Balfour Beatty's main geographies are the UK, US and Far East. Over the last 100 years they have created iconic buildings. 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