UK construction contractors monthly league tables

Bouygues tops league table with big student-accommodation wins

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Bouygues’ UK arm has topped the monthly contractors’ league for the second time this year, propelled to the top spot by two big accommodation projects. The French multinational’s UK construction division won £268.1m in total over the month. An £80m student-accommodation scheme for the University of Chichester (pictured) was among…

‘Electricity superhighway’ puts Bam top of monthly contracts table

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Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of work on Eastern Green Link…

Contractor tops league table for first time since 2019

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Galliford Try topped the June contractor’s league table for the first time in more than four years, thanks to a road improvement scheme in Gloucestershire. The firm landed the M5 Junction 10 scheme, which involves building two new slip roads, as well as a new link road connecting the A4019…

Contract-signing bonanza sees Wates top league table

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Wates has once again topped the contract leader board, after a flurry of deals saw the contractor win more work than any of its rivals last month. The Surrey-based company signed 14 contracts worth a combined £266m in May, after also topping the March contract league table with 14 jobs…

Leeds build-to-rent scheme pushes contractor to top league spot

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Bowmer & Kirkland won a higher total value of work than any other contractor in April, largely due to a to a £100m build-to-rent (BTR) job in Leeds. The contractor tops Construction News' monthly league table of contractor project wins, ahead of runners-up Lendlease and Balfour Beatty. Bowmer & Kirkland…

Housing projects propel Wates to top of the league

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Wates rose 13 places to the top of the contractors' league table in March by securing £418m worth of contracts from a total of 14 projects, including two major housing deals. According to data gathered by construction intelligence provider Glenigan, one big factor behind Wates topping the table is a…

Bumper hospital job propels contractor to top league spot

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Bouygues earned more than any other contractor in February after it landed the highly sought-after contract to build a new integrated eye hospital, according to data provided by construction intelligence provider Glenigan The French firm was locked in as contractor on the £300m scheme last month after it was named…

Balfour ties up top league spot with bumper Lower Thames job

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Balfour Beatty moved to the top of the contractors' league table for the first time in two years thanks to a £1.2bn job to build the northern road linked to the Lower Thames Crossing. The job, to build nearly 10 miles of new road, almost single-handedly drove Balfour to first…

London towers scheme boosts contractor into top league spot

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McLaren secured its first top spot in 18 months in the contractors’ league table for December 2022 thanks to work including a £90m south London tower job. The project to build three towers in the new Leon Quarter in Croydon was one of four secured by the contractor in December,…

Bumper warehouse project pushes contractor to top league spot

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Winvic soared to top spot in the November leagues thanks to a £266m warehousing job in Swindon. The job, to demolish a car manufacturing plant formerly belonging to Honda and build a 672,000 square metre warehouse in its place, pushed it well beyond its nearest competitor, according to data gathered…