Balfour Beatty wins £200m of support services work

Balfour Beatty has been awarded £200m worth of support services work from the Highways Agency, Yorkshire Water and Anglian Water.

Yorkshire Water has awarded the contractor five years of work on the AMP5 capital programme. The job, which includes investigation, design and build of its water networks, is worth £70m and starts in April 2010.

Anglian Water has awarded Balfour Beatty its water networks repair and maintenance with developer services contract.

The three-year contract, which will commence in April 2010, is worth £60m, with an option for a two-year extension and covers an extensive area from the Humber Bridge to Dunstable, including Lincoln, Grimsby, Grantham, Peterborough, Northampton and Milton Keynes.

The Highways Agency has extended the contractor’s area 2 enhanced managing agent contractor work for a further year. This includes covering the strategic motorway and trunk road network in the south-west and is worth around £70m.

The initial £400m contract was awarded in late 2004 and covers operations, maintenance and improvement schemes for part of the strategic road network, as well as maintenance of technology assets for the whole of the region.