Result of Class Meeting

Balfour Beatty PLC
19 May 2005


Class Meeting Result


At the adjourned Separate Class Meeting of the Company's Preference Shareholders
held this afternoon, the following resolution, giving the Directors the
Authority to purchase the Company's Ordinary and Preference Shares, was passed
as an Extraordinary Resolution:

THAT the holders of the Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares of
1p each in the Company hereby sanction the passing and implementation of
Resolution 11 set out in the Company's Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 6
April 2005 and each and every contract to purchase shares entered into within
the terms of the authority thereby conferred.


19 May 2005


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