Balfour Beatty has been appointed to deliver up to £180m of infrastructure works for Heathrow Airport Limited.

The company is to collaborate with Heathrow over the next three years to maintain and upgrade Terminals 1, 2 and 4, through the 'Delivery Integrator Framework Lot 1'.

The move marks the first of four new-style framework contracts to be awarded by Heathrow, each for a different section of the airport, as part of a total investment package of £1.5 billion.

Balfour Beatty has been appointed programme manager and contractor for various stages throughout the lifecycle of the framework, delivering individual projects worth between £500,000 and £70 million. Projects are expected to range from structural improvements to multiple asset replacements such as escalators and passenger conveyors, passenger and goods lifts, air conditioning systems, retail areas, CCTV, access and security systems. At the end of 2016 there will be an option to extend the framework for a further two years, which will be worth up to an additional £70 million.

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Steve Marshall, Balfour Beatty Executive Chairman, said: "I am delighted Balfour Beatty has been appointed to Heathrow’s new style of framework contracts. We have worked in partnership with Heathrow for fifteen years and we will continue to bring our leading capabilities in areas such as Building Information Modelling and safety to our work at Terminals 1, 2 and 4; and play our part in helping Heathrow maintain its position as a leading travel hub."

(IT)