Balfour Beatty has announced the award of two UK coastal defence contracts totalling £73 million for Blackpool Council and Wyre Council.

The £20 million Anchorsholme Scheme for Blackpool Council and the £53 million Rossall Scheme for Wyre Council will replace over 2.9km of the original 1930's seawalls as part of the promenade renewal and beach management projects.

The firm will utilise Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology on both schemes at design development stage and throughout construction to create a virtual environment to mitigate risks and manage interfaces prior to starting works on site. Upon handover of the schemes, Blfour Beatty will train teams from both Councils to use BIM for asset management purposes including ongoing operations, maintenance planning and monitoring.


Andrew McNaughton, Balfour Beatty Chief Executive Officer said: "We are delighted to be continuing our relationship with both Blackpool Council and Wyre Council.

"Drawing on our extensive experience of delivering coastal defence schemes, we will utilise innovative construction methods such as BIM to deliver first class civil engineering schemes that will protect over 12,000 properties and local infrastructure from the risk of coastal flooding."

Works on both contracts will commence on site this winter with completion for Anchorsholme in summer 2015 and completion for Rossall in the summer of 2017.

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