The UK’s largest inland flood risk scheme has moved forward with the award of a major appraisal study to GBV, a joint venture comprising Galliford Try and Black & Veatch.

Galliford Try, in a joint venture with Black & Veatch, has announced that its Infrastructure business has secured one of six places on the Environment Agency’s Water and Environment Management (WEM) framework.

A consortium comprising Galliford Try Investments Ltd, Equitix Holdings Ltd, Kier Projects Investments Ltd and John Graham Holdings Ltd, has reached financial close on the South West Scotland hub initiative to deliver £600 million of public sector infrastructure projects over the next ten years.

Galliford Try Infrastructure is understood to be the main contractor for Anglian Water’s new £44million reservoir near Newton-on-Trent.

Galliford Try, the housebuilding and construction group, announced this morning that it has, in partnership with Imtech Process, been awarded a £35m contract to construct two advanced anaerobic digestion plants for Anglian Water at sewage works in Basildon and Ipswich. 

The GBM joint venture of Galliford Try, MWH Treatment and Mott MacDonald, been awarded a suite of contracts worth £80m under its current AMP5 framework contract with Thames Water.