Result of Meeting

Balfour Beatty PLC
18 May 2006


Class Meeting Result

At the adjourned Separate Class Meeting of the Company's Preference Shareholders
held this afternoon, the following resolution, giving the Directors the
Authority to purchase the Company's Ordinary and Preference Shares, was passed
as an Extraordinary Resolution:

THAT the holders of the Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares of
1p each in the Company hereby sanction the passing and implementation of
Resolution 10 set out in the Company's Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 6
April 2006 and each and every contract to purchase shares entered into within
the terms of the authority thereby conferred.


18 May 2006


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