Derby rail firm bought by Balfour Beatty

Derby-based Omnicom Engineering has been bought by civil engineering giant Balfour Beatty.

Omnicom is a railway asset monitoring company that counts the likes of Network Rail as customers.

Mark Bullock, managing director of Balfour Beatty’s UK Rail business, said: “Omnicom Engineering is a true innovator which is benefiting from over twenty years of investment in research and development. We will leverage this expertise alongside the high speed laser measurement technology that already exists within Balfour Beatty, to provide unrivalled technical solutions to clients in the growing high-speed and unattended data collection market in which we see opportunities for increasing our business.”

“Together, Omnicom and Balfour Beatty’s range of asset management solutions will offer an unrivalled richness of information to support the maintenance of roads and railways across the world.”