Director/PDMR Shareholding

Balfour Beatty PLC
25 August 2006


RNS announcement 25/8/06


Notification of PDMR interests in ordinary shares of an issuer, pursuant to
Disclosure Rule 3.1.4 R (1) (a)


Name of issuer

Balfour Beatty plc (the 'Company')


Name of individual PDMR

Brian Osborne


Reasons for responsibility to notify

PDMR


Description of the financial instrument

Ordinary shares held by the Trustees of the Balfour Beatty Employees' Trust
('the Trust') for the Company's long term incentive scheme, the Performance
Share Plan 2001 ('the Plan') and the Company's Deferred Bonus Scheme 2005


Nature of transaction

Exercise of a vesting award, under the Plan, of 38,366 ordinary shares and
retention of 8,000 shares after the sale of (a) 15,731 shares to meet the PAYE
and NI liability arising on exercise and (b) a further 14,635 shares


Date of transaction

24 August 2006


Price and volume

Sale of 30,366 shares at 363.87 pence each


Notification

Consequent upon the exercise of this award, the Executive Directors who are
(among other employees) beneficiaries of the Trust, are deemed to have an
interest in a total of 1,242,809 ordinary shares now held by the Trust.


Contact
Company Secretary
020 7216 6800



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