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What do you do when your client developing a nearly 1 million-square-foot, mixed-use project in a busy urban city center asks you to cut your already tight schedule even further?

Project delivery within the construction industry continues to evolve toward increasingly collaborative environments. Our clients are placing greater emphasis on a heightened sense of communication between project partners and many are committing to a relatively new type of project delivery for the design and construction world – Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).

Our UK colleagues explain the Large-Diameter Piling technique in use on the foundations of the One Nine Elms towers project in London.

Check out the time lapse video of the construction at our 300 S. Tryon project in Charlotte.

Balfour Beatty leverages virtual reality technology to explore and test future construction designs prior to building anything in the physical world.

Here at Balfour Beatty, we have expanded the notion of what the preconstruction phase of a project really means—for us, it’s about more than just assessing cost. We pride ourselves on delivering a truly personal and customized preconstruction experience and believe that no two projects are alike, approaching each one with a fresh perspective.

In this video, an expert from our Major Projects team in the UK explains how the scanners measure millions of times per second to build up a full 3D model. All the information is captured in one site visit, making the process extremely efficient. "With the speed and accuracy of the scanners only improving, it is taking Balfour Beatty forward to the next level of digital engineering."

Experienced construction professionals would never allow a crane operator to be engaged in a phone conversation while operating a crane. Why? Because we know intuitively that that operator must give his undivided attention to the task at hand – operating that crane safely - so no one is put at risk by his actions. So why is it so many of those same wise professionals think nothing of driving a 3,500-pound vehicle down the road at 60-plus miles an hour while engaged in a phone call?