Carillion plc is an integrated support services company, with a portfolio of public private partnership projects and construction capabilities. It has operations in the United Kingdom, the Middle East and North Africa and in Canada. It operates in four segments: support services, which includes its facilities management, facilities services, energy services, rail services, utility services, road maintenance and consultancy businesses; public private partnership projects, which includes its equity returns on its investments in public private partnership projects in its sectors of defense, health, education, transport and secure accommodation sectors; middle east construction services includes its building and civil engineering activities in the middle east, and construction services, which includes its United Kingdom building, civil engineering and developments businesses and its construction activities in Canada. In December 2012, it acquired a 49% of interest in the Bouchier Group.