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The U.S. Justice Department said it resolved probes into Balfour Beatty Communities, one of the U.S. military's largest private landlords, after it pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of ...
Throughout the 1970s, Balfour Beatty expanded its presence in the road construction sector through schemes such as the M73 motorway and the Glasgow Inner Ring Road. Between 1986 and 1995, Balfour Beatty operated Balfour Beatty Homes; after a collapse of the housing market, Balfour Beatty Homes was renamed Clarke Homes and then sold to Westbury ...
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc. is a heavy civil contractor operating in the United States. Established in North America in 1990, the company constructs highways, bridges (over land and water), tunnels, wastewater and potable water treatment plants. Its parent company is Balfour Beatty plc.
A landing ground known as Penston was used by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Subsequently, an adjacent site was developed as Macmerry airfield by the Edinburgh Flying Club, and this was used for scheduled flights by North Eastern Airways from 1936 to 1939. In 1942 Macmerry was expanded to encompass the former Penston site.
The Howard Wright House in Everett. Howard S. Wright was a cabinetmaker who founded Howard S. Wright Construction Co., in Port Townsend, Washington in 1885. The company moved to Everett in 1893 and to Seattle in 1929.
The company is re-branded as Balfour Beatty Construction. [3] Balfour Beatty Construction has embarked on a series of acquisitions including Charter Builders in 2006, R.T. Dooley [19] and SpawMaxwell in 2009, [20] Barnhart and Charter Builders in 2010, [21] and most recently in June 2011, Howard S. Wright. [22]
The FTC required Balfour to issue contracts going forward under new ground rules. [8] In the 1970s, Balfour began producing a much wider variety of products for sports champions. When L.G. Balfour died in 1973, the ownership of the company was placed in a trust administered by the Bank of New England. In the late 1970s, Balfour acquired the ...
George Balfour joined the Blackness Foundry in Dundee as an apprentice in 1888. He subsequently qualified as a mechanical and electrical engineer. [1] In 1909, together with Andrew Beatty, an English accountant, he founded Balfour Beatty which was to become an international construction business. [1]