WATKIN JONES PLC (WJG) — Half Year Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the WATKIN JONES PLC Half Year Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO, Alex Peace. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, and thank you all for joining us this afternoon. Here to present our half year results for FY twenty six. So I'm Alex Pease, the chief executive, and I'm joined today by Simon Jones, our CFO. So in terms I'll just turn to the agenda. So in terms of the agenda for today, I'll give you an overview of the business and the performance in the half year, what we've seen, the key themes that we'd like to sort of draw out in terms of our performance over that that year, and, I guess, importantly, looking at the strategies that we're adopting and how we're addressing sort of current market conditions. I'll also then move into a bit of review of the the wider investment markets that we operate and before handing over to Simon, who will take you through the sort of financial numbers and the outlook before we do a bit of a deeper dive into some of our key sort of operational divisions and some case studies, which I think help bring to life the business and and some of the scale complexity projects that we're delivering. We'll then have a a decent amount of time to do q and a, and so we'll try to answer as many of the questions as possible. So turning to sort of the overview for half year twenty six. Look. I I think it will surprise no one to hear that, you know, the market conditio...