Balfour Beatty bags £170m deal at Heathrow

12 July 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded a £170 million contract to modernise baggage handling at Heathrow Airport.

 
The project, which has been awarded through the Heathrow Airport Limited Delivery Integrator Framework to which Balfour Beatty was appointed in 2014, involves upgrading and installing baggage screening and handling systems at Heathrow’s eastern baggage facility.
 
The company will use its technological expertise across the project including the latest Building Information Modelling techniques to define the most efficient approach to design, manage logistics and to interface with live airport operations.