Director/PDMR Shareholding

Balfour Beatty PLC
21 March 2006


NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
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Name of issuer:
Balfour Beatty plc

Name of individual:
Anthony Leon Philip Rabin

Reasons for responsibility to notify:
Executive Director

Description of the financial instrument:
Executive share options

Nature of the transaction:
Exercise of 10,227 executive share options granted on 17 April 1996 at 3.442p
each, and subsequent sale of shares

Date of the transaction:
20 March 2006

Date of notification of transaction to the issuer:
Same as above

Price and volume of the transaction:
10,227 shares were sold at a price of 387.79p each, following exercise of the
options

Notification:
Notification is made under section 324 Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule
3.1.2

Contact:
Company Secretary
Telephone: [phone]



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