Educational Systems

Delivering complex infrastructure to the highest standards in the most cost-effective manner frequently involves doing things in new and different ways.

Each customer has unique needs. Balfour Beatty applies techniques and ideas appropriate to each of its customers’ objectives, constantly searching for new and better solutions and sharing best practice across customers and its own organisational boundaries.

Our work in the education sector, for example, is increasingly differentiated by our in-depth knowledge of the latest educational techniques and developments. In Singapore, we have recently been awarded a £90m PPP project to design, build and operate the new Institute of Technical Education, College West. We offered an education-led design – developed in consultation with local and international educationalists. This has created a total learning environment – laboratories, classrooms and shared lecture facilities able to accommodate the most up-to-date teaching and learning techniques.

In the UK, Balfour Beatty is creating seven new learning centres in Knowsley on Merseyside under the UK Building Schools for the Future initiative. Once again we are engaged not just in the building and management of new premises but in the future development of a clear educational vision through researching and evaluating progressive learning environments and teaching models from around the world.