Birmingham Hospital

The Group benefits from two distinct generic business streams which are mutually supportive. With a current portfolio of 27 PPP infrastructure projects, and the anticipated acquisition of GMH Military Housing, our investment business provides a consistent and growing equity return and generates long-term, reliable cash flows. It also provides substantial workflows for our contracting businesses. Over the last five years it has generated substantial contracting orders to our construction and service businesses.

To return the compliment, our market leading capability in design, planning, programme management, construction services and whole life asset management is frequently a key factor in our customers’ choice to work with our investment business as its concession partner. An excellent example of this balance in action is provided by the £550m Birmingham Hospital project. Balfour Beatty Capital has brought extensive hospital planning, operation and management and a £23m equity investment to the task of creating a new 1,213 bed acute hospital and a 137 bed specialist psychiatric hospital and teaching facility. The hospital is being built to the very latest healthcare standards and will use the latest technical equipment.

The construction and long-term service provision to the hospital is all being carried out by Balfour Beatty Group companies.