Birse Civils is a civil engineering company based in North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...

. It was formerly a separate civil engineering company simply known as Birse Group, but is now owned by Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty plc is a British construction, engineering, military housing, rail and investment services company. It is one of the largest construction companies in the UK, and the 15th largest in the world...

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History

The company was founded as the Birse Group in 1970. It was based in Doncaster

Doncaster

Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny"...

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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.

Structure

• Birse Traffic Flow is in Barton on Humber
• Birse Coastal is in Preston, Lancashire
• Birse Nuclear is in Cheadle Hulme
  Cheadle Hulme
  Cheadle Hulme is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. It is southwest of Stockport and southeast of the city of Manchester. It lies in the Ladybrook Valley on the Cheshire Plain, and the drift consists mostly of boulder clay, sands and gravels...
  
  

Products

Buildings it has built include:

• B & Q's headquarters in Chandlers Ford
• The BBC's headquarters in Leeds
• The Walkers Stadium
  Walkers Stadium
  The King Power Stadium is a football stadium which hosts home matches of English football club Leicester City. The all-seater stadium, inaugurated in July 2002, holds 32,500 and has the 19th largest stadium capacity in England. The stadium is named after King Power, a company owned by club owner...
  
   in Leicester
  Leicester
  Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
  
   (Birse Construction), at a cost of £35 million
• Huntington Stadium
  Huntington Stadium
  Huntington Stadium is the stadium of English rugby league team York City Knights.-History:The stadium was completed in October 1989 by contractors Birse Construction Ltd. It is situated two miles north of the city centre at Monk's Cross, close to the A1036 Malton Road...
  
  , a rugby league ground in York
• The Reebok Stadium
  Reebok Stadium
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  in Bolton