Galliford Try

Galliford Try expects to report increased revenue and pre-tax profit for the year to the end of June, it has revealed in a trading update. The company said that after making good progress against its strategic targets, it expected to report full-year pre-exceptional profit before tax “at the upper end…

Galliford Try topped the June contractor’s league table for the first time in more than four years, thanks to a road improvement scheme in Gloucestershire. The firm landed the M5 Junction 10 scheme, which involves building two new slip roads, as well as a new link road connecting the A4019…

Galliford Try has rebranded its highways business as Galliford Try Infrastructure, as it targets a more diverse workload.  The tier one contractor said the newly established division would focus on highways, but would also take on “urban, multi-modal transport schemes that embrace lower-carbon travel choices”.  Galliford Try said the name…

Galliford Try has entered into an early contractor involvement agreement with Gloucestershire County Council to design proposed improvements to junction 10 of the M5 motorway near Cheltenham. The scheme, which is subject to planning approval, is being funded through a £249m award from the government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund. It would…

Galliford Try is to receive a cash payment of £26m to settle a “complex and challenging” dispute with a major infrastructure fund. In a statement to the London Stock Exchange, the Uxbridge-based contractor said that as a result of the settlement it expected to report a one-off, non-cash write-off of…

Seven contractors have won a place on a new £5.1bn, 10-year Strategic Alliance Contract from the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Galliford Try, Graham, ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke, Lendlease and Morgan Sindall will conduct the design-and-build elements of a new delivery, commercial and procurement strategy process within the MoD’s 25-year Defence…

Galliford Try has been appointed to build the new North East Melton Mowbray Distributor Road in Leicestershire. The new single carriageway will connect branches of the A606 around the north-east edge of Melton Mowbray, reducing congestion and rat-running through the West Midlands town. Galliford Try has formally signed a £85m…

Galliford Try has signed a £39m contract to redevelop a school in County Durham. The deal is the first contract signed by Galliford Try under the new Department for Education (DfE) construction framework. Construction of the new Woodham Academy, a 1,200-pupil secondary in Newton Aycliffe, was agreed on behalf of…

Wates rose 13 places to the top of the contractors' league table in March by securing £418m worth of contracts from a total of 14 projects, including two major housing deals. According to data gathered by construction intelligence provider Glenigan, one big factor behind Wates topping the table is a…

Galliford Try has won a £75m contract to deliver a build-to-rent residential building at the Brent Cross Town mega-development in north London. The project will create 249 new homes across three blocks. In addition, Midgard has been appointed to build a market-sale residential building including 107 homes. The contracts are…