United Infrastructure

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United Infrastructure Ltd
United Infrastructure
Company type Private
Industry Telecoms, Water, Energy, Social Housing, Streetlighting, Civils
FoundedSeptember 2014
Headquarters Lingley Mere Business Park,
Warrington
,
United Kingdom
Number of locations
13
Area served
 United Kingdom
Key people
Neil Armstrong, CEO and Chairman
Revenue £718M (2025)
Parent
Subsidiaries United Living Water, United Living Energy, united Living Connected, Afeco, Jones Lighting, Peter Duffy Ltd, Glenelly IS Ltd, PiLON Ltd, Heatly, GTEC Training Ltd
Website unitedinfrastructure.com

United Infrastructure (formerly United Living Group) is a construction company. [1] In 2023, Apollo Global Management completed the purchase of the company. [2]

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History

The company was formed from the merger of Bullock Construction Ltd and United House Ltd (the contracting division of United House Group) [3] in September 2014 [4] Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) had an ownership stake in both companies: in April 2008 LDC invested in the management buy-out of Bullock Construction Limited [5] and in March 2010, United House secured financial backing from LDC to continue its expansion. [4]

United House

The origin of United House lies with Geoffrey Granter who founded it as Harp Heating in 1964. Initially, the core business was installing central heating in council housing while the tenants remained in occupation. Harp Heating broadened this service into an internal refurbishment product for the GLC. Michael Rayfield was joint MD with Geoffrey Granter of Harp heating before the group changed its name. After Jeffrey Adams joined the company in 1981, becoming its joint owner with Granter, the company changed its name to United House and expanded into housebuilding and housing refurbishment. In the 1990s, the company won business under the Private Finance Initiative linked to the Decent Homes Programme. [6] A development division named Modern City Living was established in 1990. [7] In 2008, Modern City Living was rebranded United House Developments.

Granter retired from the business in 2008 and Steven Halbert joined the board as chairman. Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) invested a minority stake and RBS provided bank loans to fund further expansion in inner city private housebuilding. [8]

Merged company

On 16 September 2014, a restructuring of United House Group was announced. United House's construction business (United House Ltd) merged with Bullock Construction, which was also owned by LDC. The new construction company was called United Living Group, [1] and Bullock's CEO Ian Burnett become the Group Chief Executive. Later in 2014, United House Developments, headed by Adams as chairman and Rick de Blaby as CEO, became a separate development company, based in London. [9] [10]

The new brand United Living Group was launched on 1 April 2015.

Acquisition by Fastflow Group

In 2019, United Living was acquired by Fastflow Group bringing together their construction, utilities and property maintenance businesses. Fastflow Group CEO, Neil Armstrong becoming CEO and chairman of the new group. In January 2023, the business reported pre-tax losses of around £21m for the second year running, on revenue of £437m. [11]

Acquisition of Wood’s UK Transmission & Distribution business

In December 2025, it was announced United Infrastructure had agreed to acquire John Wood Group’s UK Transmission & Distribution business for £57.5 million. The purchase would add engineering and installation capabilities in overhead line and underground cable projects to the company’s existing infrastructure portfolio. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Home - United Living" . Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Elysian Capital completes sale of United Living Group, a leading provider of Essential Infrastructure, Social Housing and Construction Services across the UK". Elysian Capital. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  3. ↑ "Projects - United Living" . Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 LDC (18 February 2016). "Our Portfolio". ldc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  5. ↑ LDC (18 February 2016). "Our Portfolio". ldc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Harrington, Ben (1 June 2008). "Builders set for fortune in United House disposal". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  7. ↑ "Our History" . Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Stothart, Chloë (21 April 2010). "Lloyds buys stake in United House". Inside Housing. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  9. ↑ Wilson, Robyn (16 September 2014). "United House and Bullock Construction to merge". Construction News. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  10. ↑ Prior, Grant (16 September 2014). "Loss-making United House to merge with Bullock". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  11. ↑ Morby, Aaron (9 January 2023). "United Living Holdings records £21m pre-tax loss". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  12. ↑ Media, Insider (2025-12-11). "United Infrastructure agrees £57.5m acquisition of Wood's UK T&D business - Insider Media". Insider Media Ltd. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
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