In Dallas, Balfour Beatty Construction US has been selected, as part of a joint venture, to manage construction of the new hospital for the Parkland Health & Hospital System.

The $1.2bn programme will include a new, 862-bed acute care hospital, separate clinic building, office building, parking structures and other support facilities. Balfour Beatty's share of the work will be about $250m. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2011 and complete in 2014.

Also in Dallas, the group has won a contract with the Dallas Museum of Natural History to serve as construction manager for the new $80m Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas.

In Kansas, Balfour, in joint venture with Walton Construction, was selected by the US Army Corps of Engineers to provide preconstruction and construction services for the replacement hospital at Fort Riley, with an option for construction services which is anticipated to be awarded in September 2009.