Type Private Area served United Kingdom Website Birse Founded 1970 | Industry Civil engineering Products Construction projects Parent organization Balfour Beatty Number of employees 786 | |
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Headquarters 3 Grimston Grange, Sherburn Road, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire LS24 9BX, England | ||
Birse Civils is a civil engineering company based in North Yorkshire, England. It was formerly a separate civil engineering company simply known as Birse Group, but is now owned by Balfour Beatty.
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History
The company was founded as the Birse Group in 1970. It was based in Doncaster.
In February 2002, it separated its building (houses), civil engineering, rail, underground and process divisions into Birse Build, Birse CL, Birse Rail, Birse Metro and Birse Process.
Acquisition
In June 2006, it was bought by Balfour Beatty for £32 million. Birse Build was integrated into Balfour Beatty's Mansell company.
The remaining Birse companies continued to function as independent OPCO's under the Balfour Beatty flag.
Structure
Products
Buildings it has built include:
References
Birse Civils Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA