Contract

Gleeson(M J)Group PLC
12 September 2000


£350M AWARDS CONSOLIDATE GLEESON AS TOP WATER CONTRACTOR

M  J  Gleeson  Group plc, the construction, housebuilding
and property group, announces that West of Scotland Water
has  awarded  the  contract for the  Loch  Katrine  water
supply  scheme to Stirling Water, the consortium made  up
of  Gleeson,  Thames  Water and Montgomery  Watson.   The
estimated value of the project is £75m.

Gleeson  has  also been awarded two long-term  partnering
contracts by North of Scotland Water Authority having  an
estimated combined value of more than £37m.

The  latest awards consolidate Gleeson's position as  the
leading  contractor  to the UK water  industry.   Already
this year it has secured or renewed partnering agreements
of  between three and five years with Thames Water, South
West  Water  and Yorkshire Water and become  a  framework
contractor for Northumbria Water.  Together with the  two
Scottish  projects, they will generate turnover  of  over
£350m   for  Gleeson.   Approximately  80  per  cent   of
Gleeson's  construction  turnover  is  currently   on   a
partnership basis, thus reducing risk.

The  West  of Scotland contract is to improve  the  water
supply  to Glasgow, principally from Loch Katrine  (which
is  situated some 30 miles North of Glasgow, just to  the
East  of  Loch  Lomond), to comply with the Water  Supply
(Water  Quality)  Scotland  Regulations  1990.   It  will
entail the provision of new treatment facilities due  for
completion by June 2005.

For  the  first  of  the  two  North  of  Scotland  Water
Authority  contracts, Gleeson is one of  three  framework
contractors for the Water Quality Undertakings Programme,
and  will deliver a programme of projects worth more than
£31-million by the end of 2006.  Covering a central  area
which  includes Tayside, Grampian and an  area  south  of
Inverness, the programme includes improvements  to  seven
major treatment works and 17 rural treatment works.

In the second contract, Gleeson will work on two sections
of  the  Small  Town  and  Rural  Waste  Water  Treatment
Programme,  known  as  Grampian Island  and  Coastal,  to
develop  solutions  with the client for  improvements  to
eight   inland   works   and  four   coastal   works   in
Aberdeenshire.  Worth over £6-million, the contract  will
be completed by March 2004.

Enquiries:
M J Gleeson Group plc                      020-8644 4321
Dermot Gleeson (Executive Chairman)

Bankside Consultants Limited               020-7220 7477
Charles Ponsonby