Director/PDMR Shareholding

Balfour Beatty PLC
25 April 2006


Notification of a transaction of a Director and notification of Directors'
interests in ordinary shares of an issuer, pursuant to s 324 Companies Act 1985,
Disclosure Rule 3.1.4 R (1) (b).

Name of issuer:
Balfour Beatty plc (the 'Company')

Name of individual Director:
Peter John Louis Zinkin ('Mr Zinkin')

Reasons for responsibility to notify:
Executive director

Description of the financial instrument:
Ordinary shares under the Company's long term incentive scheme, the Performance
Share Plan 2001 (the 'Plan'), the shares being held by the Balfour Beatty
Employees' Trust ('Trust').

Nature of transaction:
Exercise by Mr Zinkin under the Plan of a vesting award of 82,417 ordinary
shares in the Company, the sale of 58,104 shares comprised in the award (33,791
of which were to meet the PAYE and NI liability arising on exercise), and
retention of 24,313 shares.

Date of transaction:
24 April 2006

Price and volume:
No consideration is payable for the award, but PAYE and NI are due in full on
exercise.
The value of the shares sold was £220,557.31, of which £125,150.21 represents
income tax and national insurance due.

Consequent upon the transaction described above, and other similar transactions
by senior employees, the Executive Directors of the Company, who are (among
other employees) beneficiaries of the Trust, are deemed to have an interest in a
total of 1,696,190 ordinary shares now held by the Trust.

Contact:
Company Secretary
0207 216 6800



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