Director/PDMR Shareholding

Balfour Beatty PLC
20 April 2006

Notification of a transaction of a Director and notification of Directors'
interests in ordinary shares of an issuer, pursuant to s 324 Companies Act 1985 
and Disclosure Rule 3.1.4 R (1) (b)

Name of issuer:
Balfour Beatty plc (the 'Company')

Name of individual Director:
Ian Paul Tyler

Reasons for responsibility to notify:
Executive director

Description of the financial instrument:
Ordinary shares under the Company's long term incentive scheme, the Performance
Share Plan 2001 (the 'Plan'), the shares being held by the Balfour Beatty
Employees' Trust ('Trust').

Nature of transaction:
Exercise under the Plan of a vesting award of 88,101 ordinary shares in the
Company, the sale of 36,122 shares comprised in the award to meet the PAYE and
NI liability arising on exercise, and retention of the balance (51,979 shares).

Date of transaction:
19 April 2006

Price and volume:
No consideration is payable for the award, but PAYE and NI are due in full on
exercise.

Consequent upon the transaction described above and upon a transaction of a
similar nature by a retired former senior employee, the Executive Directors of
the Company, who are (among other employees) beneficiaries of the Trust, are
deemed to have an interest in a total of 1,812,555 ordinary shares now held by
the Trust.

Contact:
Company Secretary
0207 216 6800



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