Galliford Try

Wates took top spot in June’s league table for contract wins. The contractor secured £194.6m worth of work across eight projects during the month. Its largest was a £100m contract with Essential Living to deliver 184 flats in Swiss Cottage, north London. The job helped to put it well ahead…

BoKlok UK has appointed Sisk regional director Noel Sheehan as its new delivery director. Sheehan, who has previously worked as a construction director for Vinci and operations director for Galliford Try, has already started work at the offsite housing developer, which is a joint venture between Skanska and Ikea. BoKlok has…

Galliford Try’s investment business has teamed up with Chinese firm CIMC for two high-rise buildings in Leeds. The pair have submitted a planning application for one 15 and one 11-storey build-to-rent tower at Flax Place close to the centre of the city. The towers will be connected at lower ground-floor…

Galliford Try has landed two wins worth £85m across the first set of contracts awarded on Argent Related’s £500m Tottenham Hale regeneration. The contractor will deliver two sections of the Argent Related masterplan: 1 Ashley Road (pictured) and 2 Ashley Road, featuring a total of 281 homes. 1 Ashley Road…

Kier secured top place in May’s contract awards league table thanks to a large healthcare project. A deal to build a new four-storey facility for a Birmingham hospital contributed £97.1m to its £260.1m haul of contracts for April, according to construction intelligence provider Glenigan. The quarter-of-a-billion pounds worth of work…

Galliford Try subsidiary Morrison Construction has won a £42m contract to build a new manufacturing centre for the University of Strathclyde. The firm will deliver the 11,500 square-metre National Manufacturing Institute Scotland. It will be built in the advanced manufacturing district, located near Glasgow Airport, which was established last August.…

Vistry suffered a shareholder revolt yesterday as two in five voted against the pay deal set out for the housebuilder's directors. The annual general meeting saw 43.7 per cent of votes cast against approving the directors’ remuneration. The revolt focused on a new pay deal for group finance director Earl…

More jobs are set to go at Vistry as it continues to merge Bovis Homes with the business is acquired from Galliford Try at the start of the year. Consultations with staff are under way as the company looks to cut around £9.5m in operating costs. The move is part…

Morgan Sindall, McAlpine and Morrison are in line to work for the University of Glasgow after winning places on its £250m construction framework. The capital projects framework is divided into four lots by value. Winners on the highest value lot, for work worth more than £3m, were Sir Robert McAlpine,…

The Stonehenge Tunnel, part of the A303 upgrade, is one of five major projects to be hit by delays to planning decisions. Transport secretary Grant Shapps told the House of Commons yesterday that he would need up to three-and-a-half months longer to decide on whether to grant approval to road and…