GALLIFORD TRY HOLDINGS PLC (GFRD) — HALF YEAR RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025

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Everybody. I'm Bill Hocking, chief executive GALLIFORD TRY HOLDINGS, CFO. So welcome to this presentation. What I'm going to do is I'm going to run through the presentation, the sort of the the front end of it, give you a general overview of the company for those who aren't that familiar with us. Then Chris will go through some of the numbers, and I'll get through some of the strategy. But the important thing, of course, is for questions. So I'll try to go through at a fair roll pace, and we'll get to questions. Okay. So the first thing I think which is really important to understand about GALLIFORD TRY as a contracting business is what we call our engine for sustainable growth. This is a philosophy of how we run the company. And as you can see on the left hand side there, we start with everything revolves around people. So we've got about four and a half thousand permanent employees at the moment and growing all the time. And we employ those people for attitude, for values, for ethics, for all of those things, safety, that we find really important in our business and any contracting business, to be honest. And then around those people, we put a really good strong foundation of process, how we do stuff around here. And the most important part of that for GALLIFORD TRY is our attitude to risk and our risk awareness and how we manage risk both on projects and before we decide what we're going be doing. So that high degree of selectivity comes to play in our order book. And the top round that you see there demonstrates that. So this high selectivity means that everything in our order book is work that we can do with a high degree of confidence in the right geographies, with the right people, with the right supply chain, with the sensible clients. And that means that we ...