Balfour Beatty – the only way is Essex

INFRASTRUCTURE specialist Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract to build a £800 million waste water treatment plant in Essex.

The deal was won in partnership with Urbaser, which will operate the site on behalf of Essex County Council and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, and comes just weeks after the pair secured £500m-worth of similar work in Gloucestershire.

Balfour Beatty – which was founded in 1909 by George Balfour, a Scottish mechanical engineer – will pump £7m into the project.