Balfour Beatty has been picked for £363m worth of cabling job in East Anglia.
The UK’s largest contractor will undertake the Bramford to Twinstead reinforcement job for National Grid, building new lines and cables to upgrade the electricity network.
Balfour Beatty will replace the existing high-voltage electricity network between Bramford substation in Suffolk and Twinstead Tee in Essex with a new 18km, 400 kilovolt overhead line.
The project was won via National Grid’s £1.5bn RIIO-2 framework, which was let in 2021. Balfour Beatty is one of just two contractors to be included in the lots for both overhead lines and underground work, alongside Morgan Sindall.
The project also involves delivering 11km of underground cable through the Stour Valley and Dedham Vale between Ipswich and Colchester, which is designated as an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Balfour Beatty will start construction in the first half of 2025, employing 200 workers at the peak of the project before completing in 2028.
Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn said: “This award demonstrates the momentum we are capturing in the energy security and transition market.
“As the largest power transmission provider in the UK, we have a long and proud history of working with National Grid. This latest award will once again enable our expert teams to deploy their proven capability to successfully deliver overhead lines and underground cabling works in complex and challenging landscapes.”
This summer, the company won a £690m project to deliver the first phase of a 137km power line in Skye, as well as a £192m job to build three substations in Argyll.
