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Galliford Try PLC

05 March 2012

 



GALLIFORD TRY WINS TWO WATER CONTRACTS TOTALLING £49 MILLION

Galliford Try, the housebuilding and construction group, announces that it has been awarded a pair of contracts worth a total of £49 million by Yorkshire Water to upgrade the Blackburn Meadows waste water treatment plant in Sheffield.

The larger of the contracts is worth £31m and will ensure that Blackburn Meadows meets the requirements of the EU's Freshwater Fish Directive. The programme will last approximately 18 months. The second scheme is worth £18 million and will result in a new mesophilic anaerobic digestion plant.

Greg Fitzgerald, Chief Executive of Galliford Try, commented:

"We are delighted to secure such substantial and significant schemes from one of our longest standing clients. We have considerable expertise and experience of anaerobic digestion from other water clients and we're glad to have the opportunity to share this with Yorkshire Water."

For further enquiries:

Galliford Try -                     Greg Fitzgerald, Chief Executive                  01895 855001

                                        Frank Nelson, Finance Director

                                        Louise Mantio, Communications Director

Note to Editors

Galliford Try has annual revenues of £1.3 billion in housebuilding and construction.

The Group's construction order book is £1.6 billion.  £550 million is in building (covering health and education projects through to commercial buildings and sports facilities), £900 million in infrastructure projects (ranging from water, rail, highways and flood alleviation to renewable energy and land remediation) and £150 million in affordable housing contracting.

Galliford Try recently completed the £100 million refurbishment and rebuilding of St Pancras Chambers in London and the new Court 3 as part of its long term work with the AELTC at Wimbledon.  It has recently been appointed preferred bidder for the £80 million 'Resort World at the NEC' project for Genting UK and is building the £790 million Forth Road Crossing project in a four party consortium.

The Group's housebuilding business, Linden Homes, develops distinctive homes across the south and east of England.  It completed 2,200 homes in its last financial year, has a landbank of 10,700 plots and is currently undertaking a significant programme of growth.

 

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