Balfour Beatty is a global business with a reputation for innovative engineering excellence in major infrastructure projects.

At Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions, we apply new ways of thinking to engineer solutions that are safer, better, leaner and faster, helping our clients to deliver improved service resilience and create more sustainable network infrastructure to meet future demands.

Often the demanding requirements of a project have meant that incremental improvements to existing technologies and processes will not deliver the results required. Our dedicated, engineering-led innovation team has developed radical solutions that redefine the whole approach taken to a particular problem to deliver tangible improvements in safety, efficiency and reliability.

Our approach to innovation applies just as much to ‘how’ we operate as to ‘what’ the technical requirements of a project might be. We embrace cultural innovation through a more collaborative way of working that involves the wider supply chain to address key challenges.

Our own Innovation Centre provides a focus for sharing knowledge and developing skills and provides clear evidence of our commitment to collaborate within our own teams, with partners and with clients. We work with clients from the initial planning stage enabling us to respond to specific challenges with unique solutions.

Our case studies provide further information on a wide range of innovative engineering solutions.