About us > Key facts
Founded: 1926
Employees: 4,300
Revenues: £483.1m (2009/2010)
Group office: Norwich, Norfolk
Offices: More than 60 across the UK
Core services:
Highway Services
May Gurney is the market leader in highways maintenance services to local authorities, maintaining over 37,000 kilometres of roads and more than 500,000 street lights and illuminated signs across the country. We deliver highway services to eight Councils and ten London Boroughs, all under long-term contracts. Our core services include highways maintenance, street lighting and surface dressing.
Environmental Services
We deliver environmental services for 20 local authorities, covering more than 2.2 million households across the UK. Our focus is on working with our clients to develop better ways of collection in order to extract the maximum value from recycled materials and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. Our core services include kerbside recycling and refuse collections, street cleansing and the management of household waste recycling centres (HWRCs).
Facility Services
We deliver facility services for local authorities, with a specific focus on the education sector and regional frameworks. Our core services include new build, refurbishment and maintenance. We have established partnerships
for additional services such as design and information technology, enabling us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions for our clients.
Utility Services
We deliver utility maintenance and enhancement services in water and telecommunications. Our core services include clean and waste water improvements, asset and infrastructure maintenance, mechanical and electrical design and maintenance, inspection and maintenance for bridges and masts, site investigation and design.
Rail Services
We work in long-term framework contracts with our client Network Rail to deliver vital maintenance and refurbishment works on rail structures, rail property and in the signalling environment. We have an enviable safety record and have won numerous awards for the quality of our delivery, including nine industry awards for our heritage maintenance works on the High Level Bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Waterways Services
We play an essential role in the regeneration, maintenance and renaissance of the UK’s waterways network. We deliver heritage maintenance services, including mechanical, civil and electrical engineering for British Waterways across the national canal and river network infrastructure, and with the Environment Agency to protect communities from flooding.
Our long-term clients include:
Anglian Water; BaNES Council; British Waterways; Cambridge Water; East Sussex CC; Environment Agency; Ericsson; Essex CC; Essex & Suffolk Water; Gloucestershire CC; Hampshire CC; Hertfordshire CC; Highways Agency; Kelda Water; Kent CC; MBNL; Lincolnshire CC; Monmouth Community Recycling; Network Rail; Norfolk CC; Northamptonshire CC; North Lincolnshire Council; Orange; Plymouth City Council; Severn Trent Water; Somerset Waste Partnership; SmarteEast; South Staffs Water; Severn Trent Water; South West Water; Somerset Waste Partnership; Suffolk CC; Thames Water; Wessex Water; West Sussex CC; Western Power Distribution; and the London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Sutton, Redbridge, Bexley, Bromley, Tower Hamlets and the Royal Borough of Kingston.
