Major contractors back Heathrow runway expansion

摘要

Major contractors including Balfour Beatty and Laing O'Rourke have backed a new runway at Heathrow in a letter to chancellor George Osborne. Bosses at 13 firms - which also include Bam, Ferrovial, Mace, Morgan Sindall, Atkins, Mott MacDonald and Turner & Townsend - have signed a letter which calls on the chancellor to live up to his declaration that "we are the builders" and back expansion at the airport. The letter says a third runway at Heathrow would bring a "£15.6bn order book to the UK supply chain" and allow the contractors to "continue to invest in tens of thousands of skilled jobs this country badly needs".