Galliford Try announces £60m of wins

Contractor Galliford Try has announced a clutch of wins totalling over £60m.

The firm has been appointed by developer Muse to build the second phase of its Chatham Place regeneration scheme in Reading.

The job is worth £24m and will entail the firm building two separate apartment blocks containing 184 homes, with retail space on the ground floor.

The firm has also been appointed by LHA London to build a new hostel in Torquay Street in London. The £13m project will create 158 micro-flats with communal facilities for young people and students.

Galliford Try has also been chosen to build a scheme with 24,500ft2 of office space for Lothbury Investment Management at 55 St James Street in London. The scheme will also include a basement and residential accommodation o the sixth floor. Once it is completed in 2015.

Lastly, the firm has reached financial close with the English Cities Fund on a deal for the £13.5m E3 Salford regeneration project. The development will create 97 homes for private sale and further retail units.

Greg Fitzgerald, chief executive of Galliford Try, said: “These awards reconfirm that we are securing contracts in line with our strategy across the country. The South East in particular remains a key market for us and we look forward to working with all our partners going forward to deliver these important schemes for each of them.”