| Headquarters | 999 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 |
|---|---|
| Key people | Ray Bond, President and CEO Joe Reed, Vice President, Transit Mark Snailham, Vice President, Rail Services[1] |
| Revenue | $130 million (2009)[2] |
| Employees | About 400[3] |
| Parent | Balfour Beatty plc |
| Website | www.bbri.com |
Balfour Beatty Rail, Inc. is a rail infrastructure contractor specializing in construction and maintenance services for the public and private railroad markets. Clients include Class 1, regional and short line freight, industrial railroads, ports and rail transit authorities. The company operates locally through a network of regional offices around the country.[4]
Company headquarters and business offices are in Atlanta.[5] The parent company is Balfour Beatty plc, a 100-year-old global organization based in the United Kingdom.[4]
Balfour Beatty Rail has regional offices in Jacksonville, FL, (Rail Services) and El Monte, CA (Transit). Other locations include a Transit division office in Denver and Rail Services locations in Indianapolis, Thibodaux, LA; Wilmington, CA; Washington, PA; Davie, FL; Houston; Salt Lake City; Ethel, WA; Gillette, WY; and Anchorage, AK.[5]
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Through its Transit division, Balfour Beatty Rail performs trackwork, designs and installs catenary lines, installs and maintains signals, and furnishes AC and DC traction power to mass transit.[6] [7] The division also performs communication systems work (closed-circuit TV, emergency telephones, fiber optic networks, etc.).[8]
The Rail Services division provides track maintenance and rehabilitation services, including asset management, continuous-welded rail, rail welding and crosstie replacement. Within the Rail Services division is the Track Solutions group, which provides various ballast maintenance and technical services.[9] The division added several technology solutions in 2008.[10]
Balfour Beatty Rail was selected as part of the Denver Transit Partners (DTP) team by the Denver Regional Transportation District (Denver RTD) to construct the 46-year, multi-billion dollar Eagle P3 commuter rail project.[11] The company's roles on the project include a 50-percent share of the engineering, procurement and construction contract, as well as a 33-percent share in the operations and maintenance contract.[11]
The Gold Line project in Los Angeles was a joint venture with Steiny and Co. It involved the extension of rail line, along with the installation and testing of all system components. The project, which wrapped up in November 2009, begins at the southern limit of the Los Angeles Union Station and runs to Pomona and Atlantic.[12]
The Broad Street Subway/signal system upgrade project formed part of Balfour Beatty Rail, Inc.'s acquisition of ABC-NACO's Signaling Division in 2001. This project entailed the design and installation of a signal system in one of the country’s oldest subway systems, built in the 1920s. The job was completed in 2007.[13]
Balfour Beatty Rail was a major subcontractor for sister company Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc. and joint venture partner Jay Cashman on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Greenbush Old Colony Commuter Rail Line project in Boston. Completed in October 2007, the project featured an 18-mile rail line with 28 grade crossings.[14]
Balfour Beatty Rail completed the Burlingame Station project in August 2008. The team performed wiring in the station and two miles of trackwork reconstruction. Shimmick Construction of Oakland, CA, was a joint venture partner.[15]
The maintenance contract for the Alameda Corridor, which runs through 2012, includes track, signal, communications and right-of-way maintenance. Metroplex Corp., a Balfour Beatty company, built the trackwork for the Alameda Corridor freight expressway linking Long Beach, CA, and Los Angeles to the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe and Union Pacific rail yards near downtown Los Angeles. The railway opened in April 2002.[16]
In 2007, the Houston office constructed 88,000 track feet of rail, along with 48 turnouts at the Union Pacific Intermodal Yard in San Antonio, TX.[17]
The Rail Services team from the Gillette, WY, office installed 11.5 miles of new ribbon rail for the Arch Coal Black Thunder Mine near Wright, WY, in 2008. The job included loop track that takes coal trains over a scale to certify their weight.[18]
Balfour Beatty Rail, Inc. was contracted to install about 65 track miles of materials supplied by Kansas City Southern. The job, which ran from Victoria to Rosenburg, TX, was completed in the spring of 2009.[19]
The Rail Services team installed more than 850 bridge timbers for the South Branch Valley Railroad on a wooden trestle bridge more than 1,000 feet long. The project in Romney, WV, also called for installation of 60 bridge timbers on another trestle bridge. The team completed work in 2007.[20]
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure has several sister companies, operating in the United States as part of Balfour Beatty plc. They include the following:
Balfour Beatty Capital Group, based in Newtown Square, PA, works with government entities and public sector firms through a Public-Private Partnership model. Its divisions include Balfour Beatty Capital, Balfour Beatty Communities, Balfour Beatty Energy Solutions and Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions.[21]
Balfour Beatty Construction, LLC provides commercial construction services to both public- and private-sector clients in the United States. Formerly Centex Construction, the company has headquarters in Dallas and 12 offices around the United States.[22] [23]
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc. is a heavy civil contractor that constructs highways, bridges (over land and water), tunnels, wastewater and potable water treatment plants. Established in North America in 1990, the company headquarters and business offices are in Atlanta. Most of the client base consists of municipal, county, state and federal agencies, particularly state Departments of Transportation and expressway authorities.[24]
Heery International, Inc. is an architecture, interior design, engineering construction management and program management firm. Projects include the 1996 Olympic Stadium/Turner Field in Atlanta and many educational, health care and correctional facilities. The firm has headquarters in Atlanta and 30 offices across the country.[25] [26]
Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) develops and operates infrastructure in all major markets, including transportation, power and energy, buildings, water and wastewater, environmental services and community development. Based in New York City, PB serves both public and private clients. [27]