Two rivals will now lock horns for a £230m Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project in the East Midlands. Derby City Council has pared the contestants down to Vinci Education and Balfour Beatty. The news means expulsion for a third bidder, Galliford Try. Join discussion...

Ealing Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme has narrowed their shortlist down to two bidders. Balfour Beatty Education and QED Education Environments have been chosen to go forward to the next stage of the £300m contract. Seventeen existing schools are set to benefit from the scheme along with a new school which is to be built in the north of the borough. Join discussion...

Balfour Beatty has been awarded preferred bidder status on a £450m Building Schools for the Future project in the North West by two councils that have decided to run their programmes in partnership. Blackburn with Darwen Council and Bolton Council will work alongside Balfour Beatty to deliver their capital secondary schools project subject to financial close. Join discussion...

Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton Councils’ joint BSF bid has appointed Balfour Beatty Education as the preferred bidder for its £450 million schools development programme. The BDB Learning Partnership, led by Laing O’Rourke are the bidder losing out at this final stage. Join discussion...

The UK’s Balfour Beatty has launched a friendly takeover of American professional services giant Parsons Brinckerhoff for US$626 million. With this major cross-Atlantic purchase, Balfour Beatty chief executive Ian Tyler (pictured) said the company wants to set up a global professional services business with over 14,000 employees, to secure a prominent place in the US civil infrastructure market and to extend its global reach Join discussion...

Balfour Beatty chief operating officer Andrew McNaughton has hailed the contractor’s success through the recession. Balfour last month reported half-year turnover including joint ventures of £5 billion – putting it on course to be the UK’s only £10bn contractor. Join discussion...

Carlisle's north-west bypass has been granted Full Approval by the government after financial close was reached on the £176m private finance initiative being used to deliver the scheme. The Department for Transport will pump up to £158m into the project to build the Carlisle Northern Development Route, a new 8.3km single carriageway road which will provide a north-west bypass of Carlisle connecting the A595 at Newby West with junction 44 on the M6 motorway. Join discussion...

A consortium of John Laing and Skanska has finally seen offf Balfour Beatty Power Networks to clinch Surrey County Council's £65.5m street-lighting private finance initiative (PFI) deal, in one of the longest run PFI procurements. Join discussion...

Four teams have qualified for the next stage of the £1 billion Hertfordshire Building Schools for the Future programme. Following the council’s notice in OJEU, four consortia have successfully met the qualification criteria. They have been invited to take part in the next stage of the decision-making process, the ‘Invitation to Participate in Dialogue’. Join discussion...

Balfour Beatty, Galliford Try and Vinci Education have been shortlisted for the £220 million Derby Building Schools for the Future contract. The three contractors will battle it out for the right to work on 14 schools for the East Midlands council. Join discussion...