Director/PDMR Shareholding

Balfour Beatty PLC
15 December 2006


RNS announcement 15/12/06

THE FOLLOWING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT RELEASED TODAY AT 15:18 UNDER
RNS NUMBER 0357O

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 PDMRs

James Lionel Cohen (executive director)
Brian Osborne
Michael John Peasland
Anthony Leon Philip Rabin (executive director)
Andrew Edward Rose
Ian Paul Tyler (executive director)
Peter John Louis Zinkin (executive director)

Reasons for responsibility to notify

PDMRs

Description of the financial instrument

Ordinary shares of 50 pence each held by the Trustees of the Balfour Beatty
Employees' Share Ownership Trust (the 'Trust') for the Company's Deferred Bonus
Scheme 2005 (the 'Scheme')

Nature of transaction

Pursuant to the rules of the Scheme, the award of additional ordinary shares to
add to existing awards as a dividend equivalent following payment by the Company
of an interim dividend for the year ending 31 December 2006

Date of transaction

13 December 2006

Price and volume

No price is payable for these awards

Volume

Name of PDMR       Number of additional ordinary shares awarded

J L Cohen          114
B Osborne          95
M J Peasland       131
A L P Rabin        122
A E Rose           103
I P Tyler          177
P J L Zinkin       127

Notification

Consequent upon the award of additional ordinary shares described above and the
award of additional ordinary shares pursuant to the Scheme to employees who are
not PDMRs, the executive directors who are (among other employees) beneficiaries
of the Trust, are deemed to have an interest in a total of 1,595,458 ordinary
shares now held by the Trust.

Contact
Company Secretary
020 7216 6800



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