Directorate Change

Balfour Beatty PLC
9 July 2002


                        BOARD APPOINTMENTS AT BALFOUR BEATTY PLC


Balfour Beatty, the international engineering, construction and services Group
announces today, three Board appointments.


As a result of Balfour Beatty's substantial growth in size and scope in the
recent past and the Group's determination to continue to build shareholder
value, the new post of Chief Operating Officer has been created, reporting to
Mike Welton, Group Chief Executive.  Mr Welton will retain overall
responsibility for all aspects of the Group's activities.


Ian Tyler, currently Finance Director of Balfour Beatty, is appointed Chief
Operating Officer with effect from August 14, 2002.  Mr Tyler, who is 42, joined
Balfour Beatty in 1996 from the Hanson Group where he was Finance Director of
ARC, having previously been Hanson's Group Financial Controller.


He will be succeeded as Finance Director by Anthony Rabin, currently Managing
Director of Balfour Beatty Capital Projects, the arm of the Group responsible
for the development and management of its privately financed concession
operations.  Mr Rabin, who is 46, is qualified as both a chartered accountant
and a barrister.  He becomes a director with immediate effect.


Three Group Managing Directors who are responsible for the executive management
of the Group's operating businesses will report to Ian Tyler.  Jim Cohen who is
responsible for Rail Engineering and Services and Investments and Developments
and Malcolm Eckersall who is responsible for Civil and Specialist Engineering
and Services are already in post and members of the main Board.


Alistair Wivell is appointed to the Board as Group Managing Director with
responsibility for Building, Building Management and Services.  He will take up
his new executive responsibilities on 14 August 2002.  In this capacity he
succeeds Paul Lester who left the Company at the end of June.  Mr Wivell, who is
57, was previously Managing Director of Balfour Beatty Construction Limited.  He
is a civil engineer and joined Balfour Beatty in 1966.



Enquiries to:

Tim Sharp, Director of Corporate Communications
Tel: [phone]


Notes to Editors


1.   Anthony Rabin has been responsible for Balfour Beatty's Capital Projects
business, which bids for and manages PPP concessions, since 1995.  Prior to
joining Balfour Beatty, Mr Rabin was a partner at Coopers and Lybrand and before
that a senior assistant director at Morgan Grenfell.


2.   Alistair Wivell was responsible for Balfour Beatty Construction Limited,
the Group's £500 million turnover UK building and regional engineering business
from 1990 to early in 2002.  Over the last 3 months he has been responsible for
determining the appropriate management structure for the Group's regional,
specialist and major projects engineering businesses.


3.   Consequential Management Appointments


Balfour Beatty Major Projects and the UK Regional Civil Engineering Business
will now be managed by Brian Osborne (49) who will implement and manage the
changes which Alistair Wivell has set in hand.  Mr Osborne has been with the
Company since 1973.  He will report to Malcolm Eckersall.


Ian Rylatt (37) will succeed Anthony Rabin as Managing Director of Balfour
Beatty Capital Projects.  He has been with Balfour Beatty Capital Projects since
1998, latterly as Director of Infrastructure and Project Finance, with the
development of the LUL PPP concessions under negotiation through Metronet as a
major responsibility.  He will report to Jim Cohen.


                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange