Update Summer 2010
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updatesummer 2010 The magazine for all Balfour BeaTTy people Values IN aCTION Putting integrity, teamwork, excellence and respect at the heart of what we do INsIde Welcome to the Summer issue of update. Our business world is more complex and challenging than ever before. The pace and scale of change in recent times has been dramatic, but what has and will endure are the qualities that set us apart. This edition is dedicated to those qualities – the values that unite us as we build our future. Integrity is about trust, OUR VALUES between ourselves, our ARE QUICKLY customers and the communities in which we work, and how BECOMING we conduct ourselves as a SECOND Group. Teamwork is how NatURE 22 we are working together on projects and increasingly sharing knowledge across sectors and geographies. How we deal with each other and the outside world on a daily basis shows what Respect means to us, while Excellence is about delivering the best performance for our customers and colleagues. As the following pages reveal, our values are quickly becoming second nature. I hope you enjoy the issue. Andrew McNaughton, Chief Operating Officer regulars 4 Group hub 15 Letter from... Australia 35 Backtofront 33 Kevin Brown Kevin Cover image: Dallas Convention Convention Dallas image: Cover Center Hotel By By Hotel Center UPDATE SU MMER 2010 >grouphub Highlights from across Balfour Beatty The beat Preliminary results goes on uK roW April 2010 witnessed the third annual Heery 54% from the Heart Community Service Month, when employees dedicate themselves to 15% addressing the needs of the communities in revenues which they live and work. Already the proud winner of a national Communitas Award, the programme touched 31 different organisations us and charitable groups around the United States. Both Heery and Parsons Brinckerhoff, which joined in the activities this year, benefitted from 31% the experience. “We enjoyed working side by side with our new Heery colleagues to make a Pre-tax profit up difference,” said CEO George J. Pierson. 7% to £267 million 44 Calling at... Fort what Illinois...Ohio...Florida it’s worth “There’s no reason why Europe or China should have the fastest Balfour Beatty Construction US has added the trains when we can build them right here in America,” said world’s third-busiest airport, Dallas Fort Worth President Obama as he awarded high-speed rail grants worth International Airport (DFWIA), to the Group’s $8 billion under the AmericanThis means Recovery that PandB is R managingeinvestment projects Act growing list of airport infrastructure projects. (ARRA). Parsons Brinckerhoffaccounting is managing for a combined projects US accounting$4 billion of for It will be at the centre of an approximate around half of the total.the US$8 billion American Recovery and $900 million renovation at the North Texas Reinvestment Act (ARRA) high-speed and airport, as part of a joint venture team, intercity passenger rail grants awarded by the called BARC. Across the US, Balfour Beatty Federal Government in 2010. also has experience at O’Hare and Midway International Airports, Chicago; Seattle-Tacoma Airport; and Reagan National and Dulles International Airports in Washington. adding up to zero carbon The UK education sector represents 15 per cent of the public sector’s carbon emissions and 2 per cent of total UK emissions. Although carbon is only one aspect of a school’s environmental impact, it has become a key area of focus in delivering sustainability in the sector through zero-carbon schools by 2016. Balfour Beatty Capital’s website shares research, best practice and case studies on what can be achieved beyond carbon reduction, including wider environmental and social impacts. See www.towardssustainableschools.org £47m is the estimated value of the UK fire service’s biggest public private partnership (PPP) project, for which Balfour Beatty Fire and Rescue has been appointed preferred bidder. The PPP contract will see 16 fire stations upgraded for North West Fire and Rescue Services. The upgrades will include meeting rooms, lecture rooms and gyms. 5 5 Making a light splash An eco-friendly swimming fantastic pool is at the heart of a major Abu Dhabi is not your contract recently won by average city. It is home Gammon Construction, worth to the Yas Marina Hotel, HK$928 million. Gammon which straddles the will harness natural energy, Formula 1 race track. reuse waste and use recycled Its defining feature is an materials for the incredible architectural redevelopment of gridshell of LED lights that Hong Kong’s mimics the throw of a local fishing net and lights up the night Victoria Park sky for miles around. BK Gulf, the mechanical and electrical swimming pool engineering business jointly owned by Balfour Beatty and and leisure Dutco, commissioned and installed the lights. complex. UPDATE SU MMER 2010 >grouphub Your guide to... Balfour Beatty Capital Group Inc. by President and CEO Bruce Robinson (FAU) project, which is a joint dollars go. That said, if we can venture between US Balfour pursue strategic opportunities Beatty Capital and Balfour and have some success, then Beatty Construction, we can people looking for solutions all build on that success. Also, will come to us. We’re state and local governments excited, but it’s an uphill climb are experiencing the same in the US compared with the issues because tax revenues UK and Canada. are down. We believe using What is unique about the P3 model will solve these your culture? problems. Renewable energy We have spent a lot of is relatively new, but there are time trying to create tremendous opportunities – an environment where the Department of Defense employees feel appreciated, aims to cut its energy usage and find work challenging and by 20 per cent by 2020. rewarding. In 2009 and 2010, How does the P3 we received a “best places to Dr John Pritchett, President (Interim) of Florida Atlantic University and market in the US differ work” award in the greater Bruce Robinson, President and CEO of Balfour Beatty Capital Group Inc. from those elsewhere? Philadelphia area, based on 66 blind ballots from employees. Why did you rebrand government. The opportunity This shows that employees as the Balfour Beatty was there to take the Balfour recognise what we are trying Capital Group? Beatty name, reputation and to accomplish, and believe we Previously we were all our operating companies are a good firm to work for. primarily involved in and team up with existing What have you learned development, investment Canadian partners to give the EMPLOYEES from working with and facilities management customer the best scenario. BELIEVE WE other Group businesses? with military housing, but What is your most There is an opportunity over the past year we promising market? ARE A gooD to team successfully have been expanding into There is real potential COMpaNY to with Balfour Beatty higher education, social in the higher education, companies across North infrastructure and renewable social infrastructure and WORK FOR America. We’ve been energy and we needed the energy markets. Many capital shortlisted for a hospital bid in marketplace to see that projects on campuses have Bermuda and a courthouse in diversification. been put on hold because of Canada – both with other You’ve recently lack of investment – but as US-based Balfour Beatty opened an office in that market begins to fully companies – and this shows Canada. How is business? understand the public private Every state is like its that our footprint is growing. There is a mature partnership (P3) model, we own country in the US, The recent Florida FAU (see market with regard to are optimistic that there is so funding is driven by state, page 8) demonstrates the privatisation in Canada. It’s real growth potential. With city and local governments. power of the Group to create similar to the UK, where the recent award of the And in many cases they all opportunities that might not decisions are driven by central Florida Atlantic University have a vote as to where exist if we were going it alone. W h s ai t the Ethics H e pl nil e ? If you have a serious concern that something may breach our code, please speak up. Raise it with your manager or someone in HR, legal or compliance. If you’re not comfortable doing that, you can contact our confi dential Ethics Helpline: L o g o n t o : www.bbethicshelpline.com or call free on: 023 0555 8798 Neighbourhood watch See the Code of Conduct for more guidance. It is always a good idea to major reconstruction of location and the out-of-hours keep the neighbours on the Thameslink rail line in working required, Balfour side, especially when the London. A major part of the Beatty introduced high-tech If you have a concern about builders are in. The bigger job involves the widening measures to combat noise behaviour that may breach Balfour Beatty’s Code of the project, the greater and strengthening of pollution, including super- Conduct, you can now contact a the risk of disturbance, Blackfriars Bridge and the silenced plant and machinery confidentialE thics Helpline at and that is certainly the construction of a new station and acoustic curtains to limit www.bbethicshelpline.com case with Balfour Beatty’s across it. Because of the site demolition noise. 7 news landmark investments in brief Gone to plan The first phase of London’s £1.4 billion East London line has been completed on time thanks to Balfour Beatty Rail and project partners. The mammoth three-year project involved track, third On the surface, you would you will discover that they are with Darwen and Bolton rail electrification, be forgiven for wondering part of an exclusive group – Building Schools for the Future signalling and what Barking Power Station, Balfour Beatty’s infrastructure programme.