Galliford Try

Three major new road schemes on the A47 in Norfolk are a step closer to going ahead after a legal challenge was dismissed by the Court of Appeal – although campaigners could take the case to the Supreme Court. The roads are: a dual carriageway and junctions between Blofield and…

Galliford Try has reported moderate increases in profit and turnover. The contractor turned over £1.39bn in the year to 30 June 2023, a 13 per cent increase on a year earlier. Revenue at its infrastructure arm grew substantially from £441.9m to £590.8m, while growth at the company’s larger building division…

A construction firm has agreed an out-of-court settlement with a Scottish Government agency over a funicular railway that had to be closed 17 years after construction due to safety concerns. Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) announced this week that it will receive £11m relating to two separate claims. The first…

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of work on Eastern Green Link…

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…