Business model and strategy

Our business is organised into three divisions: Building, Infrastructure and Specialist Services, which includes Investments, FM and our dry lining and piling businesses.

• Building operates across the UK, designing, constructing and refurbishing assets across markets where we have proven expertise and significant opportunities, particularly the education, health, defence, justice and commercial sectors. Our Facilities Management business works with Building, with an emphasis on the education and health sectors. Our capabilities include delivering high-quality, full life-cycle solutions to our clients, including green retrofit.
• Infrastructure comprises our Environment and Highways businesses, which carry out vital civil engineering projects across the UK. Environment covers the water and sewage sectors, where we are one of the largest players and carry out capital delivery and maintenance, and asset optimisation. Our work in Highways has contributed substantially to the national infrastructure network, from major project delivery of large-scale schemes to delivering road surfacing works and maintenance as a leading player.
• Investments has historically specialised in managing construction through to operations for major building projects via public private partnerships. These skill sets are now being used to progress co-development opportunities, with a focus on the PRS (Private Rented Sector). Our expertise in leading bid consortia and arranging finance to devise and secure the right solution on an individual basis makes us attractive to clients.

Our network of regional offices is a key advantage, offering clients the benefit of national strength with local delivery and we are focused on sectors where we have proven strengths, operating predominantly in the public and regulated sectors.

Prior to 2020, Galliford Try was a FTSE 250 construction, housebuilding and regeneration group. The business disposed of its housebuilding divisions Linden Homes and Galliford Try Partnerships on 3 January 2020 becoming a well-capitalised, standalone construction-focused group. In 2021, Galliford Try announced its Sustainable Growth Strategy and acquired the water business of nmcn, including Lintott, following administration of the company. As part of the £1 million acquisition, circa 900 employees joined Galliford Try. In July 2022, we acquired MCS Control Systems.

Sustainable Growth strategy

Our strategy is to deliver high-quality buildings and infrastructure in a socially responsible way and provide a sustainable return for our shareholders.

Our strategy targets sustainable growth across revenue and margin. Our focus is on margin growth, with revenue targeted where markets support growth.

Growth will be achieved by:

• Increasing volumes in our existing markets within Highways, Environment and Building by growing in our existing geographies.
  
  Why?
  
  We understand these markets and their risk profiles and are already working in these sectors, predominantly in frameworks. We have the potential to grow within these areas by bringing all of our business units up to critical mass.
• The second main growth area is in complementary and adjacent markets and has three main strands: i) Private Rented Sector (PRS). ii) Green retrofit. iii) Capital maintenance and asset optimisation within the existing Environment sector.
  
  Why?
  
  These are all higher-margin activities and will contribute considerably to our margin growth targets. The nature of the work is complementary to our existing capabilities, we are present in these markets across the UK, and they have risk profiles within our appetite.

Sustainability, driven by digitalisation, decarbonisation and social value, is at the core of our strategy, responding to stakeholder needs and increasing the long-term operational and financial resilience of our organisation.