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Quinn was raised in Ladbroke Grove and was educated at the London Oratory School. [1] As a young man Quinn worked at his father's business in West London. [4] He attended University of Surrey intending to study electronic and electrical engineering before transferring to Portsmouth Polytechnic, where he switched to civil engineering.
Throughout the 1970s, Balfour Beatty expanded its presence in the road construction sector through schemes such as the M73 motorway and the Glasgow Inner Ring Road. Between 1986 and 1995, Balfour Beatty operated Balfour Beatty Homes; after a collapse of the housing market, Balfour Beatty Homes was renamed Clarke Homes and then sold to Westbury ...
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George Balfour (1872 – 26 September 1941) was a British Conservative Party politician and engineer. He was of Scottish parentage where he also spent part of his upbringing but was born in Portsmouth, England. He served his long parliamentary career representing a constituency in the County of London and lived much of his life in England.
The company is re-branded as Balfour Beatty Construction. [3] Balfour Beatty Construction has embarked on a series of acquisitions including Charter Builders in 2006, R.T. Dooley [19] and SpawMaxwell in 2009, [20] Barnhart and Charter Builders in 2010, [21] and most recently in June 2011, Howard S. Wright. [22]
BICC also owned construction company Balfour Beatty and, following the sale of its cable operations, BICC renamed itself Balfour Beatty in early 2000. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Beyond the name change, the company's business strategy shifted considerably; beyond focusing on the construction of infrastructure projects, Balfour Beatty diversified into the ...
Since leaving EDS and HP, Thomas has been appointed to the boards of directors of several companies: GFI Software (since 2011), Xchanging (2011–16), Balfour Beatty (2013–14) and The Co-Operative Bank (since 2013); he joined the board of Spirent Communications in 2016 and has served as its chairman since 2017.
The hospital was designed by BDP Architects and construction, which was undertaken by Balfour Beatty [11] at a cost of £545 million, began in June 2006. Five Liebherr 280 EC tower cranes were used during construction. Three of the cranes were among the tallest free-standing structures in the UK.