Balfour Beatty Reviews 62

recieved alot of racism from them and they love covering there steps once got loads of people to lie about a crane fall by writing it never happened curruption of highest degree terrible please government take note and fire them from government contracts as they are terrible company and treat people badly

Twice this week I've tried to get into our local town and twice road has closed no warning signs no diversion no delays no signs saying of upcoming closure terrible company. Company should be sued

Balfour Beatty or there contractors damaged my fence , emailed them and their contractors all denied doing it. Came up with some old bu.. s.... certainly wouldn't have them doing anything for me if that's the response you get, very unhelpful , and being such a reputable company to.

We purchased a new home in 2018 from Balfour Beatty at Pentland View, Gorebridge. A number of serious problems have been found on all of the houses built at the same time as ours. We are currently waiting for a list of works required. We will need to leave the house for probably around 8 weeks for the work to be done. Some of the houses were worked on last year when lockdown was eased and the owners had to vacate them. The company hired did not fix many of the problems and the owners will have to vacate the houses again. In some cases they will have had to leave three times. In additions the company hired workers who were swearing and shouting a lot, not pleasant for young families on the estate. Balfour Beatty are planning to build further houses on the estate hence we will probably be facing several more years living on a building site. Neighbor informed me that they will have to build a retaining wall behind our houses which will mean removing fences and most probably part of our gardens so need not have bothered trying to make it look nice.
I would certainly not recommend buying a new home from Balfour Beatty. To top it all off I would like to sell the house and cannot see anyone wanting to buy it with all the problems.

Their trucks tyre burst on motorway and hit my car. They accepted this incident as I have many evidences. But they didn’t help me. Its been 4 weeks now and I am still waiting. They didn’t help me.

This company were contracted to build our local health centre facilities. It cost many millions of pounds but after only a few years of operation, the entire complex needed a major overhaul due to the terrible quality of the build. Not least of which was the large swimming pool with diving facilities- a swimming pool that had major leak problems. Quite literally the one thing you expect from a pool is that it holds water. But not a Balfour Beatty pool!
My main complaint is that the diving facilities have been ‘being fixed’ for well over a year now and they keep changing the time frame of when they will reopen. This diving facility is the only one in the entire South West. My daughter is a diver and it is her joy and passion; a passion this company have stolen from her with their shoddy workmanship and broken promises. I find their attitude to their work to be morally questionable at best.

This is the most unethical company you can ever have working in your local community. Another morning being woken up at 5am in rhyl without a complete disregard to the residents of rhyl. Refuse to have this company working in your area. Maximum disturbance and poor quality work. Partition against any work being completed by this company in your area otherwise you will be sorry. They will also do damage to your property and refuse to take liability. The royal Alexander hospital is leaking all over the place since they started work opposite and many offices can not not be used. Staff and residents have experience frightening shaking and vibrations. Pictures have fallen off walls and cracks have appeared. Denbighshire councel is also courrpud because they apparently allow them to do the work and offer to pay for surveys with a company they use and they are not impartial. Paul the community officer is a joke. He phones with his biased agenda days after the complaint calls to say sorry we woke you up at 5am but we have a permit to terrorise the community at 5am from Denbighshire Council like it is fine. People are losing sleep and it is impacting on their health. The liaising is a joke and so is this company. If you see planning notices with this company carrying out work object otherwise you will be sorry. All throughout the pandemic the practices are bad on this site and has probably been a source of transmission for covid 19. Avoid anything to do with this company. Read the comments. It is a disgusting company. Why do Council use tax payers money to pay companies like this.

I wanted to try this company and I thought I should first read the reviews and comments from people who have tried it already. Wow wow not good at all. It seems the company couldn't care less for its customers. Thank God for the reviews, I can't trust this company with these kinds of comments. Thanks so much people for your remarks!

Recent gas mains repairs in our area..
Poor communication: failed to communicate when our gas was being reconnected.Left us and more importantly a frail older couple with health issues,without gas for 3 days,no heating,no hot water.
Dishonest: lied about when the power was going to be reconnected on numerous occasions.
Unethical : promised a goodwill gesture of £80 to those whom they had let down.That of course never happened.
Poor, unethical, shoddy !

Extremely bad experience during Gas mail line repair work. The gas has been off for 3 days in cold weather with no prior warning. The 24 hour customer service response line do not respond before 11 am and after 5 pm and it takes hours before they respond. The Customer service rep then informs that there is a lack of staff both for manning the helpline and field staff for putting the gas on. Repeated requests to talk to someone senior but despite promising a call back several times there is no call back or information. The staff just keeps passing responsibility to others and there is no will to resolve the issues . Vulnerable people are left in cold conditions and being told just to put up with it and not given even the expected time of resolution .

We have been waiting for a month for Balfour Beatty to respond to us regarding our unsafe building. Other than saying they will pass our concerns onto the relevant party, we have heard nothing.

Our building lacks fire stopping both internally and externally and leaseholders are having to foot the bill for this whilst Balfour Beatty bury their heads.

Advice to anyone buying an apartment designed and built by Balfour Beatty, check that they installed fire breaks and used correct materials. Ask your surveyor to look in dry risers etc to check the fire stopping before you part with any money.

During gas main replacement work I was left with no supply on 2 occasions, once overnight and all last weekend from early Friday 18 Sept. to lunchtime 21 September. Although the problem was identified there was no attempt to rectify the issue till 2 hours before they were due to finish the job when they ever realised they would have to sort it out. Totally useless

Awful. Just called the call centre as was having problems applying for a job on a website. After being on hold for 25 minutes I spoke to an incredibly rude woman who clearly didn’t want to help me

Company with customer service and operators that do not have a clue about humanity.
They put you on hold and forget about you.
They cut of my gas service and do not want to reconnect the service.
I was told that a reasonable person will contact me to give me an answer. No chance!
Very insane company.

22-09-2020
I spoke to several people for an update.
They are simply ridiculous.
They have no systems in place to handle the job that they are doing.
They are digging the road with no plan.

Disgusting Company
They have long had plans to change the successful Ledbury High Street - the town and traders objected very strongly - now under CV19 disguise they are going ahead in destroying a successful small town by removing vital parking spaces and changing road layouts at great cost - money grabbing vermin.....

absolutely disgusting money grabbers, still charging for use of their carparks at Edinburgh royal infirmary during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Medical staff trying to treat. and save lives and still refusing to cancel daily charges.

Charging nhs workers for parking in this climate is the lowest you can go

Had work done on road outside my house nothing to do with me, contractors damadged my van , that was parked on a private drive, they employed the contractors not me ? They just don’t want to know anything about repairing my van , very disappointed. They couldn’t care less about. 3rd party. Would not want them near my property again,customer care seems non existent,🙁🙁🙁contractors were daneways,and Balfour Beatty

DISGRACEFUL.
If I could leave no stars at all I would.
For two weeks I have been waiting to have my porch door mended, following one of your engineers pulling it off its hinges. I have been in touch on many many occasions, and have had promises made, but they are never fulfilled. I don't think it is acceptable to be lied to.
I am at the moment on the phone to one of your colleagues, let's hope that they will be listening now that I am leaving this review. What a shame to have such a bad view of a company I have never dealt with before.

I would like to say thankyou to your engineers who are replacing the gas lines in the Winstanley area of Wigan. They are working in difficult conditions due to the amount of parked cars and are causing minimal disruption. Also the PGL pipeline guys who are struggling in the large vehicle they drive and the Cadent Engineers who are putting the gas back on ensuring the public are safe.