08:00 Tue 16 Aug 2016
Balfour Beatty PLC - Balfour Beatty Awarded $697m Caltrain Contract
BALFOUR BEATTY AWARDED
TO ELECTRIFY CALTRAIN RAIL CORRIDOR
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"We are pleased our unique capability has been recognised with this award which contributes to our strategy to increase our design-build rail market share across the US."
The project is due to start this autumn with completion expected in spring 2020. A workforce of over 300 will be employed at project peak which will include 50 apprentice opportunities.
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Balfour Beatty plc (www.balfourbeatty.com) is a leading international infrastructure group. With 34,000 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.
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UK , US,Middle East andSouth East Asia . Over the last 100 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including theLondon Olympics' Aquatic Centre,Hong Kong's first Zero Carbon building, the world's biggest shopping mall inDubai , theNational Museum of the Marine Corps in the US and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc. , headquartered inAtlanta, GA , designs, constructs and maintains commuter rail, light rail, highways, bridges, tunnels, wastewater and potable water treatment plants. Its services include industry-leading design, engineering, construction and maintenance for state department of transportations, transportation authorities, rail transit authorities, Class 1 and regional/short line freight, industrial railroads and ports.
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc. has completed three contracts along the active Caltrain corridor - theSignal System Rehabilitation Project in 2013, theBurlingame track reconstruction and grade crossing construction project in 2008 and theNorth Terminal Operations Improvement Project in 2007. The company also led the joint venture for the design-build electrification contract for the 150-mileNorthend Electrification Project on the east coast of America, in addition to the first corridor on the new 36-mile Eagle P3 Commuter Rail network inDenver, CO. To learn more aboutBalfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc. , visit www.bbiius.com.
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