Balfour Beatty Construction, formerly Centex Construction, is a commercial

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company, headquartered in

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, with full service offices in the

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. Balfour Beatty Construction's parent company is

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in London.

History

Balfour Beatty Construction's roots emerge from two regional construction businesses, Frank J. Rooney Construction Company in Miami, Florida, and Eugene Simpson and Company in Washington, DC, which were both founded in 1933. Centex Corporation acquired these, and other regionally-based construction companies through the 1960s and 1970s to form Centex Construction, the commercial building arm of Centex Corporation. Centex Construction operated through early 2007, when it was acquired by Balfour Beatty. Since then, the United States branch of the construction company has operated as Balfour Beatty Construction.

Timeline

* 1933: Frank J. Rooney Construction Company (now Balfour Beatty Construction's Florida division) 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. * 1966: Centex acquires J.W. Bateson. * 1971: Completion of the

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and other projects at Disney World, which opens to the public. * 1972: Completion of

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, former home of the Dallas Cowboys. * 1987: Centex purchases the backlog and other assets of Rogers Construction Company in Nashville, Tennessee; the newly formed company is named Centex-Rodgers Construction. * 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. * 1995: The

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, built by J.W. Bateson, is the target of terrorist bomber

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. * 1996: Completion of the

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Mission Control in Houston, Texas. * 2001: The company forms a startup division (Southeast Division) in Charlotte, North Carolina. * 2003: Centex Construction is chosen to build the

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to victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack in Washington, D.C., the

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, and the

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. * 2004: Completion of the Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. * 2004: Completion of the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. * 2007: Centex Construction is acquired by

plc, a U.K.-based international engineering and construction group. The company is re-branded as Balfour Beatty Construction. Balfour Beatty Construction has embarked on a series of acquisitions including Charter Builders in 2006, R.T. Dooley and SpawMaxwell in 2009, Barnhart and Charter Builders in 2010, and most recently in June 2011, Howard S. Wright.

Operations

Balfour Beatty Construction offers several services: Construction management, general contracting, cost consulting, design-build, preconstruction services, public-private partnerships, and IDIQ/JOC. The company has been identified as a Top Ten Green Builder, loss prevention (a safety record that is more than three times better than the industry average), and employee engagement (named one of Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For in four consecutive years).

References

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External links

Official Website
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