Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £16m contract by Network Rail Infrastructure to deliver a series of substations and associated civil works associated with the Crossrail project.

The contract involves the detailed design, construction and commissioning of eight 25kV auto transformer substations and associated civil works located between Shenfield and Pudding Mill Lane in the east and north east of London, and the Kensal Green auto transformer feeder station and Maidenhead, Berkshire.

Work starts this month and should complete in 2017.