Infrastructure Matters

Consistent communication and early contractor involvement has been crucial to maintaining a collaborative supply chain. Working on the project for the last seven years, our Bid Manager, Richard Ayres, sits down with key speakers from our mechanical and electrical partners – NG Bailey – and our secondary and architectural steelwork partner – AMI – to reflect on how we maintained a collaborative supply chain.

Despite market trends over the last 10 years constantly changing, our team’s collaborative approach to risk and cost management ensured the project not only met expectations but exceeded. Hear from our Project Commercial Director, Chris Parker, as he discusses with the University of Manchester and Arcadis how we worked together as a team to overcome any challenges.

Although the COP26 conference has finished, the conversation about climate change needs to continue.

Katherine Rusack, Senior Sustainable Procurement Manager hosts a panel discussion with representatives from National Highways, Aggregate Industries, Story Contracting and Supply Chain Sustainability School, as they reflect on the key takeaways from the climate summit and discuss the findings from Balfour Beatty's latest research on 'Greening the Chain'.

Collaborative working has been central to the success in the building of the Manchester Engineering Campus Development. We worked with our project managers, Buro Four, and our client, University of Manchester, right from the beginning of the project. Not only did we select the supply chain partners we thought were perfect for the project, but we worked together on the academic future of the students to add small details, which makes a huge difference to them.

Construction technologies such as BIM and Revit are crucial tools for stakeholder communication. Find out how we used them to share project progress with the University of Manchester as we were building the Manchester Engineering Campus Development. Our Design Manager on the project, John Billing takes to the mic with hosts Caroline Thomas from our design partners Arup and Paul Owen from architects BDP.