May Gurney strives to remove barriers

May Gurney has revamped its business structure. David Sterry, chief executive, said this week: "We have eliminated internal barriers."

Sterry, who led a management buy-out of the company a year ago, has been looking to integrate the group's diverse capabilities and improve customer focus.

May Gurney's divisional structure has gone, replaced by six sectors.

Five of these will operate under the May Gurney brand: rail; utilities; environmental engineering; highways maintenance; and civil engineering/building. The sixth sector, trading as Ayton, is a products business, specialising in bitumens, asphalts and aggregates.

Three managing directors will head up the six new divisions: Richard Dean, Ian Findlater and Chris Wallace.

May Gurney has recently secured £110m-worth of orders, including a further three-year contract with Waste Recycling Group (£70m), the extension of a maintenance contract with Essex County Council to 2005, an access road for Kent County Council (£10m) and a groundworks project for Bovis Lend Lease (£8m).