The Construction Companies London industry is a vital sector, shaping the city’s architectural landscape and driving economic growth. Leading companies such as Mace Group, Balfour Beatty, Kier Group, and Morgan Sindall exemplify excellence and innovation.
They embrace digital technologies and sustainable practices to address industry challenges. They also focus on safety and security.
Skanska UK
Skanska UK, with its parent company Skanska AB in Sweden, is one of the world’s leading construction companies. The firm has a strong reputation for safety and innovation, offering competitive solutions on traditional and complex assignments. It also places a high value on sustainable development and environmentally friendly projects.
The company’s services include construction, civil engineering and infrastructure maintenance. It is a member of the FTSE 250 and is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The firm’s leadership team includes UK President and CEO Katy Dowding and a senior management team.
Skanska’s projects are diverse and include the new Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, the refurbished Heron Tower in London, the boutique Trophy office building in Oslo, and the redesigned Nordic Light office property in Prague 4. These buildings meet the highest environmental standards and are built close to the existing infrastructure. The company also provides specialty tunnel refurbishment and geotechnical work. In the UK, it has a number of specialist contracts for National Grid and Network Rail tunnels.
Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty provides construction and infrastructure services. The Company offers design-build, at-risk construction management, and project development capabilities. It also invests in privately funded infrastructure assets. The Company serves transportation, social infrastructure, power and energy, water, and commercial sectors worldwide.
Balfour Beatty recently completed a project to strengthen and renovate one of London’s major overbridges using their innovative ‘mega tent’. The project was designed to accommodate the high traffic demands of one of the busiest commuter hubs in Europe and support the future extension of the Piccadilly line, which will allow trains to run every 135 seconds at peak times.
During World War II, BICC’s construction efforts were dominated by work supporting the war effort, including blocking access to Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and building six Mulberry harbour units. In 1999 new CEO Alan Jones began the divestment of all BICC’s cable units in order to focus the company on its infrastructure business.
Multiplex
Multiplex is an international construction company with operations in Australia, Europe and the Middle East. It specializes in high-rise buildings, studio, luxury residential, mixed use and infrastructure projects. Its portfolio includes prestigious commercial and cultural developments, such as the London Bridge Tower.
The company also offers a variety of workplace health and wellbeing products. These include on-site health screening and access to a GP helpline. These are designed to reduce absenteeism, enhance productivity and improve employee engagement.
Brookfield’s Australian contracting division, Multiplex, is on the shortlist to build the first phase of the Battersea Power Station development. It will join Laing O’Rourke, Lend Lease and Sir Robert McAlpine. The project is due for completion by 2022. The apartments at Strata are located in Southwark and are just a 4-minute walk from Elephant & Castle underground station. They come in a choice of one-, two- and three-bedroom arrangements. They also offer retail space and restaurants. Multiplex employees can enjoy a range of benefits, including free on-site health and wellbeing screening.
Laing O’Rourke
Laing O’Rourke is a leading international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and building projects across the UK, Middle East, and Australia. Their vision is to shape the world’s future through engineering innovation and project leadership, driving change and delivering better outcomes for their clients.
To increase their ability to deliver projects with certainty, they needed reliable digital verification methods for actual build versus BIM. They turned to Leica Geosystems’ laser scanning digital verification solution, using the MS60 fully robotic multistation instrument and Cyclone suite of powerful software solutions. This allowed them to capture and process data in the field, and then share and register data, create 3D information accompanied by an end quality report, all in a single tool.
