Re Contract

Balfour Beatty PLC
06 March 2008


6 March 2008


BALFOUR BEATTY SECURES £445 MILLION M74 COMPLETION CONTRACT IN SCOTLAND
                                IN JOINT VENTURE

Balfour Beatty, the international engineering, construction, services and
investment group, announces today that it has been awarded a contract, as part
of the Interlink M74 Joint Venture, by Glasgow City Council to complete the M74
motorway in Scotland.

Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, together with its equal joint venture partners
Morgan Est, Morrison Construction and Sir Robert McAlpine, will be responsible
for a contract worth £445 million to design and construct an 8km extension to
the M74. This extension will significantly reduce congestion on the busiest
stretch of the M8 through Glasgow.

Commenting on the award today, Balfour Beatty Chief Executive, Ian Tyler, said:

'We are delighted to be awarded this very significant civil engineering project
to complete a vital part of the West of Scotland's motorway network. Balfour
Beatty has a strong presence in Scotland and this award gives us an ideal
opportunity to demonstrate further our well-established technical skills and
strengthen our existing relationships with Transport Scotland as well as Glasgow
City, South Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire councils. We look forward to working
closely with our joint venture partners to deliver successfully this
eagerly-awaited scheme.'

Interlink M74 Joint Venture will now commence the detailed design in readiness
for the commencement of construction work on site in May 2008. When complete at
the end of 2011, the extension will link the M74 from where it currently ends,
at Fullarton Road Junction near Carmyle, to the M8 just west of the Kingston
Bridge.

                                      ENDS

Enquiries to:

Tim Sharp
Tel: [phone]
www.balfourbeatty.com


Notes to Editors
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1.  Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering is the UK's leading civil engineering
    company. Its regional business has been responsible for the M77/Glasgow 
    Southern Orbital DBFO project and many other key motorway and trunk road 
    contracts in Scotland. It is currently working on many other projects 
    throughout the UK including the upgrade of the A1 between Bramham and 
    Wetherby in Yorkshire, the infrastructure for East Midlands Parkway, a new 
    park and ride train station to serve East Midlands Airport, the 
    infrastructure for Phase 1 of the Ravenscraig Redevelopment in North 
    Lanarkshire as well as the Forth Bridge restoration contract.

    Its major projects division is also currently working on major projects for 
    the A3 bottleneck alleviation at Hindhead and the Devil's Punchbowl, the 
    widening of the M1 between Junctions 6a and 10 and the new Northern Ticket 
    Hall as part of the development of King's Cross Underground Station.

2.  Balfour Beatty is a world-class engineering, construction, services and
    investment business, well-positioned in infrastructure markets which offer
    significant long-term growth. We work in partnership with sophisticated
    customers who value the highest levels of quality, safety and technical
    expertise. Our skills are applied in appropriate combinations to meet 
    individual customer need. Balfour Beatty's financial position, with 
    significant net cash and with strong operating cash flows, offers continuing
    flexibility to add additional capacity and expertise to the business mix and
    to make appropriate investments in PPP and other long-term growth 
    opportunities.




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