Director Shareholding

Balfour Beatty PLC
18 June 2004


On 17 June 2004 Balfour Beatty plc ('the Company') was notified that Mr P J L
Zinkin, an executive director, had sold 25,000 ordinary 50p shares in the
Company at a price of £2.61 each. The shares sold comprise some of the shares
transferred to Mr Zinkin on 7 June 2004 following the vesting of an award under
the Company's long term incentive scheme, the Performance Share Plan 2001. As a
result of this sale, the total number of ordinary shares in the Company held by
Mr Zinkin and his immediate family becomes 49,789 shares.



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