Balfour Beatty Honored by Los Angeles Black Business Leaders with Public Works Contractor of the Year Award
April 23 2019 - 10:52AM
Business Wire
Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber
of Commerce honors company as part of annual Economic Leadership
Awards program
The Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce
(GLAAACC) has honored Balfour Beatty with its Public Works
Contractor of the Year Award as part of its annual Economic
Leadership Awards program. The GLAAACC awards program recognizes
individuals, small businesses and corporations who have contributed
to the economic growth and development of the African American
small business community.
Joe Reed, vice president of alternative delivery for Balfour
Beatty, accepted the award on behalf of the company and expressed
gratitude to GLAAACC for recognizing Balfour Beatty’s work both in
the field and the community. “It’s an honor to have our efforts
recognized in Los Angeles by an organization as extraordinary and
active as GLAAACC,” Reed said. “Balfour Beatty supports all of
GLAAACC’s events year-round, including business development
seminars for members, charity drives and business mixers. GLAAACC
has been instrumental in helping us exceed our small business
inclusion goals by providing us with great opportunities to develop
working relationships with the Los Angeles small business
community.”
As a part of its commitment to making long-term investments in
the communities it serves, Balfour Beatty and its LAX Integrated
Express Solutions (LINXS) joint venture partners awarded $120,000
to GLAAACC’s Education Fund and Foundation Scholarship program. For
nearly two decades, GLAAACC Education Fund and Foundation (Ed Fund)
has awarded scholarships to deserving college-bound high school
seniors from Crenshaw, Dorsey, Washington Preparatory and Jordan
High Schools.
GLAAACC has been active in its advocacy and support of African
American business enterprise by providing a variety of programs and
services to assist in their growth and development. GLAAACC works
to combine the resources of the African American business community
and other business organizations in order to secure solutions for
expanding business opportunities. In addition to lobbying to city,
state and federal lawmakers on issues affecting business
enterprises, GLAAACC assists in providing information, resources
and referrals to the community at large.
About Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty is an industry-leading provider of general
contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build
services for public and private sector clients across the United
States. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, the
company is part of Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY), a leading
international infrastructure group that provides innovative and
efficient infrastructure that underpins our daily lives, supports
communities and enables economic growth. Consistently ranked among
the nation’s largest building contractors, Balfour Beatty is the
No. 6 Domestic Building Contractor in the United States as ranked
by Engineering News-Record. To learn more, visit
www.balfourbeattyus.com.
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