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Carillion PLC
20 December 2004



Carillion secures Canadian contracts worth £100 million


Support services and construction company Carillion has secured work with a
total value of £100 million in Canada.


Royal Ottawa Hospital


In joint venture with its two partners, Carillion has reached financial close
for the new state of the art Royal Ottawa Hospital, Canada, to be built under
the Public Private Partnership (PPP).


This is the second Canadian hospital project in Ontario to be delivered by The
Healthcare Infrastructure Company of Canada who will finance, design, build,
property manage, maintain and provide non-clinical services at the facility.


In addition to investing equity in the 188-bed hospital, education and research
facility, the project is expected to generate £63 million of construction and
facilities management turnover for Carillion over the 20-year life of the
concession.


The redevelopment of the Royal Ottawa Hospital will see it evolve from an acute
psychiatric hospital serving Ottawa - Canada's capital region - into a highly
specialised tertiary and research facility for people with severe and persistent
mental illness throughout Eastern Ontario.


The delivery of mental health services remains the responsibility of the
hospital board.


Roads maintenance


In addition, Carillion Canada's road maintenance joint venture, TWD, has been
named preferred bidder on the £36 million Hamilton area maintenance contract by
the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.


Consisting of 648, two-lane equivalent kilometres of highways around the Golden
Horseshoe communities of Toronto, Burlington, Oakville, Vaughan, Hamilton and
Brantford, the contract includes year-round maintenance, summer and winter road
patrolling, vegetation management and maintenance of illumination and traffic
lights.


Commenting on these successes, Carillion's chief executive John McDonough said,
'We are delighted to have reached financial close on The Royal Ottawa Hospital,
our second PPP project in Canada and to have been appointed as the preferred
bidder for another highways maintenance contract in Ontario.


'Developing our healthcare and transport businesses through transferring our
public private partnership and business services skills to our international
regions are a key part of our strategy for growth. Having recently reached
financial close on Canada's first PPP hospital, the new William Osler Hospital,
in Toronto, our success with the Royal Ottawa has established Carillion as a
leader in this important market. We look forward to working with the Royal
Ottawa Hospital to provide a state of the art hospital and research facility
together with the services necessary to support the delivery of first class
healthcare.


'Our highways maintenance business in now the largest in Ontario having won
contracts worth a total of £200m. We shall continue to work closely with the
Province of Ontario to provide high quality value for money services focused on
the needs of road users.'


Note to editors

The Healthcare Infrastructure Company of Canada, comprises Carillion Canada,
Borealis Infrastructure Management and the EllisDon Corporation.


Last month, a Carillion-led consortium reached financial close to finance,
design, build, property manage, maintain and provide non-clinical services at
the new 608-bed William Osler Health Centre in Brampton, Ontario, the first to
be procured as an AFP project. It is expected to generate around £420 million of
construction and facilities management turnover over the 25-year concession for
Carillion, in addition to the returns Carillion will get on its equity
investment in the project.


Carillion is also the preferred bidder on four other PPP projects - the Queen
Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, a schools projects in Renfrewshire, an
Independent Sector Treatment Centre in Basildon and a social housing project in
North East Derbyshire, together worth £1.2 billion.


For further information contact

John Denning, Director Group Corporate Affairs            01902 316384

Paula Manning, Corporate Communications                   01902 316444






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