Balfour Beatty wins education contract
ENGINEERING, construction and infrastructure giant Balfour Beatty has secured a major education contract on Teesside.
The group has been awarded the initial scheme of the £95m Hartlepool Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme by Hartlepool Council.
The Hartlepool BSF programme involves the rebuilding and replacement of six schools over the next five years.
Construction of the initial sample school, Dyke House Sports and Technology College, will begin this summer with completion by Christmas 2011.
A core office is due to be established by Balfour Beatty to handle the contract, but it’s not yet known where staff will come from.
The company already has an office in Middlesbrough.
Balfour Beatty chief executive, Ian Tyler, said: “We are delighted to have been selected to deliver first-class learning environments for the students, teachers and communities of Hartlepool.
“We have made a commitment to regenerate and sustain the local economy as part of our contract and we look forward to delivering these commitments throughout the construction period.”
Balfour Beatty has committed to a minimum of two-thirds of the supply chain - including suppliers and subcontractors - used on the Dyke House sample school scheme being local companies.
It has also committed to placing a minimum of 24 apprentices on the BSF programme as a whole.
The other schemes within the Hartlepool BSF programme include building, refurbishing or remodelling Catcote Business and Enterprise College (SEN), Manor College of Technology, High Tunstall College of Science, and English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College with a new pupil referral unit.
Balfour Beatty’s commitment to developing local supply chains and apprenticeships as part of the contract was a determining factor in the award and forms part of Balfour Beatty’s sustainability vision.
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