Balfour Beatty division relocates to Solihull

ONE of the UK’s largest mechanical and electrical building services businesses has opened a Centre of Excellence in Solihull.

Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) has relocated its Health and Education and Regional Business operations to a new state-of-the-art office at Blythe Valley Business Park.

The team was previously based in Tamworth, Staffordshire.

Around 80 staff will be based at the Trigen House building in the park and will support a vast array of the firm’s health and education contracts including highly complex projects such as phase one of the £316m Acute Birmingham New Hospital which BBES recently completed ten months ahead of schedule.

Health and Education divisional managing director Alex Currie will be responsible for the new office.

He said: “Trigen House will combine key areas of technical expertise to enable us to provide a high and improved level of project support for our customers across the UK. The office provides a first class environment for all of our staff.”

Paul Rubincam, of Liberty Property Trust UK, which owns Blythe Valley Park in partnership with Doughty Hanson & Co Real Estate, said he was delighted to welcome the company to the business park.

“Balfour Beatty Engineering Services is a major player in the international engineering world and will be co-ordinating highly complex projects across the country from the park,” he said.

“We look forward to working closely with the company’s management team and assisting BBES with their growth plans in any way we can.”

Blythe Valley Park boasts more than two million sq ft of office space and is home to companies such as Arup, Virgin, Scott Wilson and UK Athletics.

Pictured: Alex Currie, Balfour Beatty health and education divisional managing director, left, with Kate Smith, of Liberty Property Trust UK.