Sustainability
Balfour Beatty Capital promotes sustainability by employing long-term thinking and planning for all our projects.
Improving our performance
Over the last six years, the companies of Balfour Beatty reduced our
relative contribution to global warming by 30%. We have also reduced
our water consumption by 18% since 2005. Close to 74% of our
operations achieved ISO 14001 or its equivalent in 2008. Read more
in our
2008Corporate Responsibility Report (PDF).
Planning for high sustainability
Our environmental policy has three primary goals.
 | We work alongside our clients to achieve innovative and realistic environmental and sustainability objectives |
 | We strive to be a leader in environmental practices on all of our operational sites |
 | And, we continually improve the environmental performance of our own communities, offices, and vehicle fleets |
Enhancing the environment through our work
In undertaking our responsibilities, our model for sustainability
has been developed to take account of the physical, social and
economic environments that we work in. The principles and
commitments within our health and safety, quality and sustainability
policies are reflected through all aspects of our work.
Developing and sharing new initiatives
At Balfour Beatty Capital, we continually establish beneficial policies and develop new initiatives on the environment, energy and sustainability. These principles and commitments guide the direction of our work. Read more about our Sustainability Policy below.
- CEP Policy (PDF)
- Energy Policy (PDF)
- Sustainability Policy (PDF)
- Health & Safety Policy (PDF)
- Quality Policy (PDF)
Texas SH121 (Dallas)
Reconstruction of more than five miles of existing highway and replacement of an existing at-grade interchange with a three-level interchange.
Golden Gate Bridge
Balfour Beatty led the massive seismic retrofit of San Francisco's world-famous Golden Gate Bridge, building a continuous truss system that strengthened five individual trusses on the Golden Gate's north approach.
Shared risk. Shared reward.
PPPs work because the higher level of responsibility provided by the private company results in a shared public-private risk for project success. Read more >