Galliford Try

A site worker on a Galliford Try project near Brighton was knocked unconscious after a colleague dropped a bottle filled with urine from a 50m crane. Police were called to investigate after the bottle, launched by the crane operator, struck an unnamed co-worker at the site of a new health…

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has given the go-ahead for Galliford Try's £200m upgrade to the A47 between North Tuddenham and Easton in Norfolk. The minister signed off on a development consent order (DCO) for the scheme, which forms the latest part of a £500m upgrade of the A47 and will…

Galliford Try was paid £2.9m for “pre-construction” work it completed on an inland border facility that has since been abandoned, Construction News can reveal. The firm was contracted to deliver the 15-hectare site in Dover, Kent, under a two-stage design-and-build contract, to the value of £27.9m. It was intended for…

A legal challenge to a new section of the A47 road in Norfolk has been launched by a campaigner who hopes the case will have national implications for road-building plans. Lawyers have written to the government ahead of an attempt to obtain a judicial review of the £100m Blofield to…

Galliford Try expects to return to profit by the end of this year, thanks to what it says is “careful management of its supply chain”, and the role of clients in helping to mitigate risk against shortages and inflation. The tier one contractor, which posted a short trade update to…

National Highways has demanded that its tier one contractors submit details of their anti-fraud policies as part of a crackdown on suspected malpractice on its contracts.  Malcolm Dare, executive director for commercial and procurement at National Highways, has given contractors two weeks to submit evidence of their own internal safeguards…

The final phase of a £133m road project in Lincolnshire has hit a construction hurdle, which is expected to delay its delivery and drive up costs. Galliford Try’s highway business was appointed to work on the third phase of the Grantham Southern Relief Road in 2021. The final phase, valued…

A job to dual part of the A47 in Norfolk has received the go-ahead. The news about the A47 dualling job, between Norwich and Acle, comes more than a decade after the project was dropped by the government due to a lack of available funding. The dualling of the 4km…

Balfour Beatty is one of four contractors to have secured a spot on a four-year highways framework, worth £1bn. The UK’s biggest contractor is joined by Galliford Try, John Sisk & Son and Eurovia Infrastructure on the scheme, which covers work in more than 30 local councils in England. Oxfordshire…

The government has scrapped a £28m inland border facility, which was due to be built by Galliford Try. In an update to its inland border plans, HMRC announced that after looking into the volume of “cross-channel traffic” at Dover and the need for customs checks, the government had decided not…