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Balfour Beatty Dubai orders may hit $1.4bn

by Sean Cronin on Thursday, 03 July 2008
DUBAI DEALS: Balfour Beatty, Britain’s biggest builder, expects to win contracts worth about $1.4 billion in Dubai this year. (Getty Images)

Balfour Beatty, Britain’s biggest builder, expects to win contracts worth about $1.4 billion in Dubai this year.

The company made the disclosure in a statement to the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

Dutco Balfour Beatty has won projects in Dubai that include a $440 million order to install mechanical and electrical works for University Hospital, as well as a separate hotel construction contract in the Al Barsha area of the city.

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The company also delivered the first phases of the mega-project to extend Dubai’s famous Creek.

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