Director/PDMR Shareholding

Balfour Beatty PLC
11 April 2006



                           DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING
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Name of issuer:

Balfour Beatty plc


Names of individuals:

James Lionel Cohen (director)
Anthony Leon Philip Rabin (director)
Ian Paul Tyler (director)
Peter John Louis Zinkin (director)

Brian Osborne (PDMR)
Michael John Peasland (PDMR)
Andrew Edward Rose (PDMR)


Description of the financial instrument:

Ordinary shares


Nature of the transaction:

Awards of shares under the Company's Deferred Bonus Scheme 2006 ('Scheme'), to
be transferred to individuals for nil consideration in three years time subject
to the rules of the Scheme


Date and place of transaction:

10 April 2006


Date of notification of the transaction:

10 April 2006


Price and volume of the transaction (numbers of shares awarded):

J L Cohen 13,155 shares
A L P Rabin 13,573 shares
I P Tyler 19,629 shares
P J L Zinkin 14,116 shares

B Osborne 10,524 shares
M J Peasland 14,520 shares
A E Rose 11,447 shares

Notification is made under s 324 Companies Act 1985 and under Disclosure Rule
3.1.2.


Contact:
Company Secretary
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