{"id":163441,"date":"2026-07-07T11:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=163441"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:52:16","slug":"balfour-beatty-invests-10m-pi-labs-accelerate-built-environment-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/balfour-beatty-invests-10m-pi-labs-accelerate-built-environment-technology\/163441\/","title":{"rendered":"Balfour Beatty invests \u00a310m in Pi Labs to accelerate built environment technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Balfour Beatty has announced a strategic \u00a310m investment in Pi Labs\u2019 Fund IV, an early-stage venture capital fund and platform focused on technologies transforming the built environment<\/h2>\n<p>The investment will strengthen Balfour Beatty\u2019s access to emerging built environment technologies that could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/what-construction-professionals-should-know-about-predictive-maintenance\/163275\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve productivity<\/a>, delivery certainty, safety and performance across major infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>By working with entrepreneurs across the UK, the US, and Europe at an early stage, it will be able to identify relevant innovations sooner, build targeted partnerships, and explore how practical technologies can be tested and applied across its construction projects around the world.<\/p>\n<h3>Increasing efficiency across critical infrastructure delivery<\/h3>\n<p>As investment in critical infrastructure accelerates across energy, water, defence, transport and digital connectivity, the industry must find better ways to deliver with greater certainty and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The investment supports Balfour Beatty\u2019s Evolve, Energise and Explore strategic growth plan: strengthening how it delivers for customers today while expanding access to the technologies and partnerships that could help shape the infrastructure of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<h3>How built environment technologies can meet these goals<\/h3>\n<p>The investment also reflects Balfour Beatty\u2019s wider focus on improving how infrastructure is planned, delivered, maintained and operated \u2013 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/why-the-built-environment-needs-asset-intelligence\/162152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">better use of data and technology<\/a> to more sustainable ways of working.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Hoare, Balfour Beatty Group chief executive, explained: \u201cTo deliver the scale and complexity of infrastructure our customers and communities need, we have to keep finding better ways to work.<\/p>\n<p>Our investment in Pi Labs will give us earlier access to entrepreneurs and built environment technologies that could improve delivery, build capability and capacity and create long-term value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThis is a strategic investment in practical innovation, focused on the partnerships and insights our key markets need for the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Delivering long-term value across a technology-focused built environment<\/h3>\n<p>Together, Balfour Beatty and Pi Labs will bring promising innovation closer to the projects, customers and communities it can benefit most \u2013 supporting new ways to improve productivity, delivery certainty and long-term value across the built environment.<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Butt, founder and managing partner of Pi Labs, concluded: \u201cBalfour Beatty\u2019s commitment reflects a shared belief that technology and AI can improve how the built environment is designed, delivered, maintained and operated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ambition is to accelerate innovation across the sector and back the entrepreneurs working on some of its biggest challenges \u2013 from productivity and 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