Purchase of Own Securities

Balfour Beatty PLC
06 March 2003


Balfour Beatty plc


Repurchase of Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares of 1p

Balfour Beatty plc announces that on 6th March 2003 it purchased for
cancellation 300,000 Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares of 1p
each from Hoare Govett's associate, ABN AMRO Equities (UK) Ltd, at a price of
134p per share.

Contacts
Tim Sharp             Balfour Beatty plc                          020 7216 6800
Bob Pringle           Hoare Govett Limited                        020 7678 8000


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