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RNS Number : 5646T

Galliford Try PLC

21 November 2013

 



GALLIFORD TRY SECURES £38 MILLION FORBURY PLACE OFFICE CONTRACT

Galliford Try plc, the housebuilding and construction group, announces that its Building business has been appointed to build the Forbury Place project in Reading by client M&G Real Estate and Bell Hammer under a £38 million contract.

The contract will see the creation of 185,000 sq ft of Category A office space in the first of two new office complexes on the site of the former Energis House in the town. The eight storey building will target a BREEAM Excellent rating and provide an additional 450 parking spaces which will service both buildings on completion.

Galliford Try Chief Executive Greg Fitzgerald remarked: "This successful contract win further cements our position as a leading contractor within the office sector in the South East and we look forward to working with our partners at M&G Real Estate and Bell Hammer to provide a landmark new building for business in Reading."

For further enquiries:

Galliford Try -                 Greg Fitzgerald, Chief Executive              01895 855001

                                    Graham Prothero, Finance Director

Notes to Editors

Galliford Try plc is a leading UK housebuilding and construction group. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 250. The housebuilding business - through its Linden Homes brand - sells distinctive homes to the public and affordable homes to housing associations and local authority providers across the South and South East of England.  The construction business carries out building and infrastructure work across the UK with clients ranging from major Government departments through to regulated utilities and private sector companies. At the end of the last financial year to 30 June 2013, the Group generated revenues of £1.5 billion.

 

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