Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty is a UK infrastructure and construction group whose Scottish operations are based at the Maxim Office Park at Eurocentral, off the M8 in North Lanarkshire. The group is listed on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered in London, with operations across the UK, the US, and Hong Kong. This profile covers its activity in Scotland.

In 2017 the company brought seven Scottish offices, including sites in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Shotts, into a single regional base of about 43,600 sq ft in the Maxim 7 building. Its UK Construction Services Regional Scotland business is led by managing director Nick Rowan, appointed in August 2025 after three decades with the company. Scottish contracts have included enabling works for the redevelopment of Glasgow Queen Street Station for Network Rail and the new home of the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow.

The company's Scottish link dates back to its formation in 1909. Its first contract was to build the Dunfermline and District Tramways in Fife, which opened in November 1909 for the company's own subsidiary, the Fife Tramway Light and Power Company.