Balfour Beatty's burgeoning order book delights the City

摘要

Infrastructure specialist Balfour Beatty has reported a strong performance over the past five months.The construction giant has a confirmed order book of £13.7bn, thanks in part to the recent acquisition of US-based Parsons Brinckerhoff, and said performance had been in line with expectation. Less positive was the news from its rail, utility and ground engineering businesses.However, a trading update said contracts for educational establishments in Hull, Lincolnshire, Stoke-on-Trent and West Sussex had resulted in a good UK construction per-formance.