Construction firm Galliford Try's building business has been awarded three contracts worth over £100m.

The firm has been appointed selected panel member for the North and North East Lincolnshire batch of schools under the Education Funding Agency's (EF's) Priority Schools Building Programme.

The batch, which is worth £47.6m in total, includes three new secondary schools, The Vale Academy, Oasis Academy and Baysgarth School, as well as five new primary schools, Brumby Junior School, Burton-upon-Staither, Crosby Primary School, Grange Lane Primary School and Great Coates Primary School.

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St Modwen has chosen Galliford Try to build the next phase of student accommodation at Swansea University's Swansea Bay Campus in a contract worth over £20m. The project will deliver an additional 545 student apartments for occupation in early 2016, as well as new facilities including a gym, sports hall, Student Union offices and meeting space, launderette and crèche.

The Building business has been selected as preferred bidder by St Andrew's Healthcare to build a new residential building for young people with mental illness, autism and learning difficulties in Northampton. Galliford Try has won the contract, worth £37m, to build the facility, which will be the largest of its kind in Europe.

(CD/JP)