Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, together with its equal joint venture partners Morgan Est, Morrison Construction and Sir Robert McAlpine, will be responsible for a contract to design and construct an 8km extension to the M74. This extension will significantly reduce congestion on the busiest stretch of the M8 through Glasgow.

Interlink M74 Joint Venture will now start the detailed design in readiness for the commencement of construction work on site in May 2008.  When complete at the end of 2011, the extension will link the M74 from where it currently ends, at Fullarton Road Junction near Carmyle, to the M8 just west of the Kingston Bridge.