Appointment

Balfour Beatty PLC
26 September 2001

                   NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT BALFOUR BEATTY



Balfour Beatty, the international engineering, construction and services
group, announces today the appointment of Mr Robert Walvis as a non-executive
Director of Balfour Beatty plc.

Mr Walvis, 54, has recently retired from the Shell Group after a distinguished
30-year career, most recently as Chairman of the Corporate Centre of the Royal
Dutch Shell Group of Companies.



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