Holding(s) in Company

Balfour Beatty PLC
23 March 2005


'Balfour Beatty plc ('the Company') today received notice from Citibank, N.A.
London Branch, on behalf of Standard Life Investments Limited, in turn reporting
on behalf of Standard Life Group ('Standard Life') that Standard Life's material
notifiable interest in the ordinary share capital of the Company now comprises
17,077,289 ordinary shares, representing 4.03% of the issued ordinary share
capital of the Company.'


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