Galliford Try has scooped a £55m contract to build a school on the Scottish Borders. The contractor’s Scottish subsidiary Morrison Construction took the contract to develop the Galashiels Community Campus, which will replace the existing academy with a 1,000 pupil school facility. The new campus was approved by the Scottish…
Another 11 firms, including Galliford Try and VolkerWessels, have joined the Construction Leadership Council’s (CLC) carbon reduction programme. Launched in March this year, the CO2nstructZero industry change programme brings together firms to act as “business champions” for carbon reduction in the construction sector. The 11 new firms to sign up…
Tier-one bosses have called for both subcontractors and Whitehall to help increase diversity in the industry. Galliford Try CEO Bill Hocking told the Construction News Summit that senior leaders have been on “a crusade” for years to get more diversity into their businesses. While he claimed younger-aged employees at his…
Leaders of tier one firms have called for the spirit of cooperation that emerged among contractors in the early days of the pandemic to continue, as the industry tackles major challenges such as the climate crisis and a skills shortage. Speaking at the Construction News Summit in central London on…
Galliford Try’s Highways business has made two new senior appointments to its team, hiring industry veterans from Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty. Alison Chippington, who has worked for Morgan Sindall for more than 31 years, most recently as head of bid management and proposals, is to become the firm’s pre-construction…
McAleer & Rushe has topped the October league table thanks to two huge project wins, as the rest of the top 10 also reported large resi-scheme wins. The contractor won almost £600m of new work during the month, over £330m more than the second-highest-placed firm. Its bumper haul was thanks…
A 30-storey, build-to-rent development in Cardiff that Galliford Try Investments is backing is set to be approved. Cardiff County Council has been recommended to sign off the scheme on Guildford Crescent in the city centre. The tower, which is comprised of three conjoined blocks rising to 22, 26 and 30…
Vistry chief executive Greg Fitzgerald has told the board he is willing to lead the business beyond 2022. Fitzgerald had only previously committed to serving as CEO until the end of 2022. The timeframe was set out when Bovis acquired Galliford Try’s Linden Homes and Partnerships business in January 2020.…
Galliford Try has bought the bulk of failed contractor NMCN’s water-sector interests for £1m. The Uxbridge-headquartered firm said it had agreed to acquire “substantially all of NMCN’s water business” including specialist water process and control subsidiaries Nomenca and Lintott, and added it expects the business to generate annual revenue of…
ISG topped the league tables in September after it secured a £100m job to revamp Barclays’ headquarters in Canary Wharf. The contractor beat Morgan Sindall to the top spot last month, putting pen to paper on £271.1m worth of contracts according to construction intelligence provider Glenigan, which compiles the data.…
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