Like many college baseball players, Dave Campbell had big league dreams. But destiny, steered by a defiant knee that found itself on the wrong end of a surgeon’s scalpel, threw an unexpected curveball. As the University of North Florida (UNF) student considered a future outside the diamond, it didn’t take long for him to discover the similarities […]
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Building a Winning Partnership: An Interview with Bayer CropScience’s Tony Jackman
In December 2014, Balfour Beatty Construction finished work on a 160,000-square-foot renovation of the main office building at the Bayer CropScience headquarters in Research Triangle Park. Tony Jackman works as the project manager for Bayer CropScience “Modern Office Project,” and we were able to get his thoughts on working with our team. Originally from Ireland, […]
Industry Veteran, Amy Knowles, Joins Mid-Atlantic Division Leadership Team
Balfour Beatty is proud to announce the recent hire of Amy Knowles as the Mid-Atlantic Division’s new vice president of Finance. Serving as a strategic business partner to Division president Leon Blondin, local Business unit leaders and our operations teams, Amy will assess Balfour Beatty’s current processes and provide recommendations for streamlining them. In doing so, the […]
“Can Do” Attitude!
Several teammates from Balfour Beatty’s Mid-Atlantic Division recently competed in Canstruction, an annual charity event in which teams from different companies build structures made entirely out of canned food. The public exhibition is held at the National Building Museum where the sculptures can be viewed and judged by museum visitors. Following the week-long display period and […]
Achieving Zero Harm Through Caring vs. Criticism
Did you ever get up in the morning, get ready for work and before you headed out the door think to yourself “today I think I’m going to take some risks, maybe a couple of short cuts, break some rules, so I can get more done, because I probably won’t get hurt”? I doubt that […]