Director/PDMR Shareholding

Balfour Beatty PLC
21 April 2006


Notification of a transaction of a Director and a PDMR and notification of
Directors' interests in ordinary shares of an issuer, pursuant to s 324
Companies Act 1985, Disclosure Rule 3.1.4 R (1) (b) and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.

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

Name of individual Director:
Anthony Leon Philip Rabin ('Mr Rabin')

Name of individual PDMR:
Andrew Edward Rose ('Mr Rose')

Reasons for responsibility to notify:
Executive director and PDMR respectively

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 by Mr Rabin under the Plan of a vesting award of 73,891 ordinary shares
in the Company, the sale of 30,296 shares comprised in the award to meet the
PAYE and NI liability arising on exercise, and retention of the balance (43,595
shares).

Exercise by Mr Rose under the Plan of a vesting award of 49,450 ordinary shares
in the Company, the sale of 20,275 shares comprised in the award to meet the
PAYE and NI liability arising on exercise, and retention of the balance (29,175
shares).

Date of transaction:
20 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 transactions described above, 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 1,739,785 ordinary shares now held by the
Trust.

Contact:
Company Secretary
0207 216 6800



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