Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group has announced the acquisition of Omnicom Engineering Limited.

Omnicom Engineering is a UK company which specializes in the development of vehicle borne software and hardware platforms for asset survey, inspection and monitoring for use across the transportation sector to enhance effectiveness of infrastructure assets.

The company, based across Derby and York, has a client base which includes Network Rail in the UK and Australia’s largest rail freight operator, Aurizon.

This investment in Balfour Beatty’s UK rail business will offer clients expertise across the rail infrastructure lifecycle; from feasibility studies and planning through to design and implementation, maintenance and asset management.  

Mark Bullock, Managing Director of Balfour Beatty’s UK Rail business, said:

“Omnicom Engineering is a true innovator which is benefiting from over twenty years of investment in research and development. We will leverage this expertise alongside the high speed laser measurement technology that already exists within Balfour Beatty, to provide unrivalled technical solutions to clients in the growing high-speed and unattended data collection market in which we see opportunities for increasing our business. 

“Together, Omnicom and Balfour Beatty’s range of asset management solutions will offer an unrivalled richness of information to support the maintenance of roads and railways across the world.”