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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.
Balfour Beatty also has interests in non PPP assets in the United Kingdom. Balfour Beatty is a member of several industry and trade bodies, associations and institutions. These include, for example, the CECA, the Nuclear Industry Association, the Rail Industry Association and Women into Construction. [75]
Painter Brothers was founded in Hereford, England in 1920 [1] and incorporated in 1929. [2]In conjunction with Callender's Cable and Construction Co Ltd, Painter Brothers provided the steelwork for the first Callender-Hamilton unit-construction hangars ordered by the British Air Ministry in the pre-World War II rearmament programme.
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.
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]
The company was founded by Peter Birse as the Birse Group in Doncaster in 1970. [1] It was floated on the stock market during 1989; [2] one of the results of which being that the German civil engineering company Bilfinger Berger acquired a 15% shareholding in the firm. [3]
Gloucestershire County Council bought the land for a waste plant at Javelin Park in 2009 for £7.4 million. [4]In March 2011, contractors Complete Circle and Urbaser with Balfour Beatty were invited to refine their proposals for the incinerator and in December 2011 Gloucestershire County Council awarded a consortium of Urbaser and Balfour Beatty (UBB) the 25-year contract, which is set to end ...