UK construction contractors monthly league tables

Multiplex towers above rest in June league table

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A “one-of-a kind” City of London skyscraper has taken Multiplex to the top of the monthly contracts league for the second time in a year. The £480m Fifty Fenchurch Street contract makes the Australian multinational the highest-winning contractor in June, according to data provider Glenigan. Standing 36-storeys high, the tower…

Sisk scores top league spot after signing for £300m stadium job

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John Sisk scooped top spot in the May league table after winning a bumper job at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium. The £300m job, which will see Sisk build a new North Stand at the 53,000-seat stadium, sees Sisk take its first gold spot of 2024, according to construction data firm…

Huge battery scheme fires M Group to top of April league table

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M Group claimed top spot in April’s contractor league table with a sizeable one-off job for SSE Renewables. The Hertfordshire-headquartered infrastructure giant’s Morrison Energy Services business was named as main contractor on the £300m Monk Fryston battery storage scheme. The project will create a 320MW system in North Yorkshire capable…

Skanska tops league with bumper mixed-use scheme

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Skanska powered to the top of the contract league table for March with a single £250m job. The contractor signed on the dotted line last month to deliver Hill House, a 22-storey mixed-use block, which was enough to take it to the top of the leagues, according to construction data…

ISG tops league table with bumper prison project

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ISG took top spot in the monthly contractor league for February, after it snapped up a bumper job to develop a prison in Buckinghamshire. The contractor signed a deal to develop the £300m site for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), which will be 67,000 square metres in size, according to…

Resi specialist nets first league-table win

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United Living beat the January blues by topping the monthly league table for the first time, winning £184.3m of work. Two contract wins took the housing specialist to first place. The largest was a £160m contract to refurbish Huguenot House, a 1960s-built housing block near Leicester Square in central London.…

Morgan Sindall tops 2023 contractor league table

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Morgan Sindall has topped the Construction News annual contractor league table in 2023, after winning 330 jobs worth a combined £2.45bn. The UK’s second-largest contractor beat second-placed Balfour Beatty, which hoovered up 56 contracts worth £2.1bn. Wates and Galliford Try came third and fourth on the list, after landing deals…

Wates hits the heights with two jail jobs

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Two big prison jobs took Wates to the top of the contractor league table in November. The Surrey-headquartered firm secured the £300m deal for a 1,700-inmate jail in Leicestershire after communities secretary Michael Gove approved the scheme last month. Wates also picked up a £93m job to construct a houseblock…

Data centre job propels Skanksa to top of league

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Skanska has topped October’s contractor league table with a single contract win – a £158m data-centre fit-out job. The firm will install electrical plant, air conditioning, ventilation, lifts and a roof gantry at Telehouse South in London’s Docklands for data-centre provider Telehouse. Skanska previously carried out an early works package…

Major London deals help Multiplex top the league table

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Multiplex topped the contracts league table for the first time in more than two-and-a-half years in September, thanks to two London wins, according to data compiled by construction intelligence provider Glenigan. The Australian multinational landed the £450m main contract for the super-prime St John’s Wood Square project, which involves demolition…