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RNS Number : 3667R

Galliford Try PLC

11 September 2014

 



GALLIFORD TRY APPOINTED TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WORTH OVER £100 MILLION

Galliford Try plc, the housebuilding and construction group, announces that its Building business has been appointed to three new contracts worth over £100 million.

Firstly, Galliford Try has been appointed selected panel member for the North and North East Lincolnshire batch of schools under the Education Funding Agency's (EFA's) Priority Schools Building Programme.

The batch, which is worth £47.6 million in total, includes three new Secondary schools - The Vale Academy, Oasis Academy and Baysgarth School - as well as five new Primary schools -Brumby Junior School, Burton-upon-Staither, Crosby Primary School, Grange Lane Primary School and Great Coates Primary School.

The batch is the second success for Galliford Try under the EFA main contractor framework having previously announced in June its appointment to the Hull and East Riding batch 1.

Secondly, leading developer St Modwen has contracted Galliford Try to build the next phase of student accommodation at Swansea University's Swansea Bay Campus in a contract worth over £20 million. The project will deliver an additional 545 student apartments for occupation in early 2016 as well as new facilities including a gym, sports hall, Student Union offices and meeting space, launderette and crèche. 

Finally, the Building business has been selected as preferred bidder by St Andrew's Healthcare to build a new residential building for young people with mental illness, autism and learning difficulties in Northampton.  Galliford Try has won the contract, worth £37 million, to build the facility, which will be the largest of its kind in Europe. It will provide 110 residential beds, a school, sports and therapy areas, and a number of activity and landscaped courtyards.

Galliford Try Chief Executive Greg Fitzgerald commented: "We are delighted that our Building business has managed secure such significant contracts all across the country. These contract wins demonstrate the strength of our offering across a variety of sectors and provide further impetus to our stated strategy to continue to grow our construction activities."

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 and Galliford Try Partnerships brands - sells distinctive homes to the public and affordable homes to housing associations and local authority providers.  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.

On 10 July 2014 Galliford Try acquired Miller Construction.  Miller Construction is a UK construction business which delivers building and infrastructure projects to both the public and private sectors.

 

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