Jakob Hartley-Bate
Balfour Beatty
senior GIS analyst
Jakob Hartley-Bate
Jakob Hartley-Bate is a senior GIS analyst with extensive experience applying GIS across both military and civil engineering environments. He brings a strong background in military GIS, where geospatial intelligence and spatial analysis are critical to operational planning and decision making, and has successfully transferred these skills into the delivery of major infrastructure and construction projects within the UK construction sector.
Now working within Balfour Beatty’s Project and Technical Development team, Jakob specialises in the practical use of GIS to support engineering design, project planning and construction delivery. His work focuses on demonstrating how proven military geospatial approaches can be adapted to improve insight, efficiency and outcomes across civil engineering and construction projects. Jakob is particularly passionate about bridging the gap between defence-led innovation and everyday engineering practice, making advanced GIS techniques accessible and valuable to the wider construction industry.
