Balfour Beatty Construction

Balfour Beatty Construction's roots date back to 1933,[1] when two regional construction businesses were founded—Frank J. Rooney Construction Company in Miami, Florida, and Eugene Simpson and Company in Washington, DC.

Centex Corporation acquired these, and other regionally-based construction companies through the 1960s and 1970s to form Centex Construction,[2] the commercial building arm of Centex Corporation.

Centex Construction operated through early 2007, when it was acquired[3] by Balfour Beatty. Since then, the United States branch of the construction company has operated as Balfour Beatty Construction.

• 1933: Frank J. Rooney Construction Company (now Balfour Beatty Construction's Florida division)[4] and Eugene Simpson & Company (now Balfour Beatty Construction's Washington, D.C. division) are founded.
• 1936: J.W. Bateson Company (now Balfour Beatty Construction's North Texas division) is founded.[5]
• 1966: Centex acquires J.W. Bateson.[6]
• 1971: Completion of the Cinderella Castle and other projects at Disney World, which opens to the public.
• 1972: Completion of Texas Stadium, former home of the Dallas Cowboys.[7]
• 1987: Centex purchases the backlog and other assets of Rogers Construction Company in Nashville, Tennessee; the newly formed company is named Centex-Rodgers Construction.[8]
• 1989: Completion of the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas.
• 1994: Centex Construction is ranked as the second largest general contractor in the U.S. and also the third largest builder of healthcare facilities.[9]
• 1995: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, built by J.W. Bateson, is the target of terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh.[10]
• 1996: Completion of the NASA Mission Control in Houston, Texas.[11]
• 2001: The company forms a startup division (Southeast Division) in Charlotte, North Carolina.[12]
• 2003: Centex Construction is chosen to build the Pentagon Memorial to victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack in Washington, D.C.,[13] the National Museum of the Marine Corps,[14] and the United States Air Force Memorial.[15]
• 2004: Completion of the two largest contracts to date, the Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas and the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. (Both contracts exceeded $350 million.)
• 2007: Centex Construction is acquired by Balfour Beatty plc, a U.K.-based international engineering and construction group. The company is re-branded as Balfour Beatty Construction.[16]

Balfour Beatty Construction has embarked on a series of acquisitions including Charter Builders in 2006, R.T. Dooley[17] and SpawMaxwell in 2009,[18] Barnhart and Charter Builders in 2010,[19] and most recently in June 2011, Howard S. Wright.[20]

Balfour Beatty Construction offers several services: Construction management, general contracting, cost consulting, design-build, preconstruction services, public-private partnerships, and IDIQ/JOC.[21]

The company has been identified as a Top Ten Green Builder,[22] loss prevention (a safety record that is more than three times better than the industry average),[23] and employee engagement (named one of Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For in four consecutive years).[24]

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