Rail, jails and NHS...its many projects

SCHOOLS

Carillion provides school dinners and cleaning services at 875 schools. It built around 150 schools. The most recent £1 million school-building contract was awarded in November after profit warnings.

HOSPITALS

The firm carries out maintenance work and manages facilities at hospitals, including 00 operating theatres and covering 11,800 beds. Its caterers make almost 19,000 patient meals a day.

RAIL

The company has been involved with the electrification of the central Scotland line through Shotts, Lanarkshire, and is working on extensions to Waverley Station in Edinburgh. It will do much of the construction work for the £56billion HS rail link from London to Birmingham.

ROADS

It is currently constructing the £745million Aberdeen bypass and is building smart motorways for the Highways Agency to ease congestion by adjusting lanes or speed limits.

ARMED FORCES

Carillion maintains 50,000 army base homes for the Ministry of Defence. In July it signed a £158million contract to manage services such as catering at 33 military facilities.

PRISONS

It carries out maintenance and repairs at up to a half of the country’s prisons.

LIBRARIES

The firm manages a number of libraries in England.

ENERGY

It builds substations and puts up overhead cables for the National Grid.