Caring for Our Communities

We are committed to making a positive difference in the places where we work and live by supporting organizations and causes that are important to our business, our employees and our communities. It’s a core part of our culture. Our teammates help raise funds for and volunteer with hundreds of local and national charitable organizations across the country.

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A Place Where Everyone Contributes

At Balfour Beatty, we are every bit as committed to creating a workplace that is diverse, equitable and inclusive as we are to our high standards of safety and operational excellence. We prioritize having a range of talents and perspectives on our team — not only is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

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Make Safety Personal

Balfour Beatty is committed to the safety and wellbeing of every employee and person who comes into contact with our projects and work sites. Safety is personal for us. Going home to our families each night is personal to us.

Zero Harm extends beyond physical wellbeing to include mental wellbeing. Construction can take a toll with long days and early mornings and we offer employees and their families a variety of resources to tap for help when it is needed most.

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We're Not One to Brag

Our accolades and awards don’t give us bragging rights, but they do indicate the passion and expertise that our Relentless Allies pour into their work–day in and day out. From sector industry rankings to safety industry organization awards, each recognition represents the hard work and dedication of our teammates that set Balfour Beatty apart in the industry. We are beyond proud of their accomplishments and point to their work with the utmost pride!

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Ideas Drive Change

Balfour Beatty engages our employees and their ideas to bring about positive business change that benefits our business, clients, communities, industry and environment. Our employees are our experts. They have fresh and insightful ideas about how things could be done better or more efficiently. Through My Contribution, we tap into this rich seam of creative thinking from people who understand our business better than anyone and want to make a meaningful contribution.

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Here's What Excites Us

Balfour Beatty is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. That’s really exciting and easy to get passionate about!

 

We're excited!

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Our teammates have an instinctive passion to innovate that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ Lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors, by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc.

More than ever, our clients and trade partners are looking to us to find new, improved ways of delivering projects without sacrificing commitment to safety, quality, time or impact to communities or the environment.

We want our lasting impression, our legacy, to be one that improves, enhances and connects our communities. One that our employees and their families will point to with pride.

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Giving Back is What it is All About

Our Relentless Allies are driven by the opportunities to do more and to make a difference. It’s how we leave a positive legacy and footprint in our communities and give meaning to the work we do. Beyond the numerous company-sponsored events, outreach opportunities and charitable giving we undertake as a team, we extend our giving to each employee to make it even more personal. Balfour Beatty gives each staff teammate eight paid hours to volunteer with a charity or non-profit organization of their choice. Check out some of the organizations we partner with below.

 

American Heart Association

American Heart Association supports cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy-living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke.

 

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Bridges to Prosperity

Bridges to Prosperity partners with local governments to connect rural, underserved communities via pedestrian bridges.

 

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Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scouts of America prepares young people by teaching responsible citizenship, character development, and self-reliance through participation in a wide range of outdoor activities and educational programs.

 

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Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity partners with people in your community, and all over the world, to help them build or improve a place they can call home and achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better life for themselves and for their families.

 

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Hospitality House

Hospitality House offers a warm, friendly and peaceful environment where families can relax and rest while visiting their incarcerated loved ones in the state of Texas.

 

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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation improves lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent and treat type 1 diabetes and its complications.

 

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Make a Wish

Make a Wish grants life-changing wishes of children with a critical illness.

 

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Teach for America

Teach for America enlists, develops, and mobilizes as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence.

 

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United Way

United Way works to improve the health, education and economic mobility of communities around the world.

 

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Wounded Warrior Project

Wounded Warrior Project honors and empowers veterans who incurred a physical or mental injury, illnesses, or wound during military service on or after September 11, 2001.

 

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My Contribution: Engaging employees

My Contribution is an engagement program that connects all our employees and enables everyone to collaborate. Teammates can take part by proposing and implementing really beneficial changes in the business that need to be made. It starts simply and effectively with an idea – a “my contribution” – where a teammates identifies something we need to do, or that you can see doesn’t work well or could work so much better.

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My Contribution: Empowering employees

My Contribution encourages and empowers everyone to be an innovator and for innovation to take place across every part of our business. It has played a key role in helping Balfour Beatty go from strength to strength, and has proven its value most recently during the COVID-19 pandemic, when our workforce used it to share ideas to ensure that Balfour Beatty was able to innovate and adapt to new ways of working.

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My Contribution: Crowd-sourcing and ideation

My Contribution enables us to harness the enthusiasm, knowledge and expertise of our employees. It provides an open channel for real-time collaboration, which crosses over functions, business units and geographic locations, bringing together experts from across our business to crowd-source ideas, innovate and problem solve.

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My Contribution: Everyone contributes

Most importantly, My Contribution delivers a clear message that each and every one of our employees can drive change and deliver benefits for our stakeholders. My Contribution allows creative thinking to flourish and helps ensure our workforce is invested in driving our business forward.

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