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Construction industry company league tables

The latest contractor, client, engineering consultant and housing league tables, powered by Glenigan and HousingNet

Top 50 construction contractors – wins in Sep 2018

Rank Contractor Deals Total (£m)
1 Mace 2 220.0
2 Morgan Sindall 22 217.0
3 Interserve 11 203.4
4 Bowmer & Kirkland 6 148.5
5 Wates 9 142.1
6 Winvic 5 124.8
7 Costain 1 120.0
8 McLaren 3 119.0
9 Balfour Beatty 6 115.5
10 Kier 22 115.4
11 Willmott Dixon 11 111.6
12 McLaughlin & Harvey 3 102.0
13 Royal Bam 2 100.5
14 BCEGI 1 82.0
15 Buckingham 4 79.5
16 Murphy 2 61.3
17 ISG 6 61.3
18 Gilbert Ash 2 60.0
19 Sir Robert McAlpine 1 60.0
20 John Sisk 2 53.7
21 Engie 5 51.0
22 Ardmore 1 50.0
23 Erith 4 41.8
24 O'Keefe 1 41.0
25 Midas 3 38.4
26 Create 1 36.0
27 Galliford Try 11 35.4
28 AE Yates 2 35.0
29 Benniman 3 30.5
30 Henry Construction 1 30.0
31 Soil Engineering Geoservices 1 30.0
32 Graham 5 29.7
33 Dawnus 6 28.7
34 Marbank 2 28.6
35 WRW 2 26.0
36 Mac 2 22.5
37 Robertson 6 22.2
38 Marshall 1 22.0
39 Seddon 4 21.6
40 Countryside 2 20.5
41 PIN CM 1 20.0
42 Tolent 3 18.2
43 Beaumont Morgan 1 17.1
44 Careys 1 16.6
45 Mildren 3 16.3
46 Ashe 3 15.5
47 Auldyn 1 15.0
48 Bardsley 1 15.0
49 Broadfield 1 15.0
50 Mears 1 15.0

Top 50 construction contractors – wins in year to Sep 2018

Rank Contractor No Total (£m)
1 Kier 259 2,482.3
2 Wates 90 2,027.4
3 Galliford Try 123 1,839.6
4 Balfour Beatty 70 1,802.7
5 Morgan Sindall 192 1,445.2
6 Willmott Dixon 129 1,405.3
7 Royal Bam 69 1,324.7
8 Bowmer & Kirkland 71 1,274.1
9 Tarmac 53 1,136.0
10 Bouygues UK 24 1,110.2
11 Sir Robert McAlpine 32 1,045.0
12 Winvic 40 1,005.7
13 Laing O'Rourke 18 994.9
14 Mace 24 930.8
15 Buckingham 50 884.9
16 ISG 86 882.5
17 McLaren 22 780.7
18 Interserve 91 700.1
19 Graham 39 623.0
20 Costain 9 550.7
21 John Sisk 12 548.3
22 Robertson 58 547.1
23 Henry Construction 24 528.1
24 Vinci 33 501.7
25 VolkerWessels 48 500.2
26 Multiplex 6 499.0
27 McLaughlin & Harvey 24 465.2
28 Engie 89 464.8
29 Murphy 20 434.5
30 McAleer & Rushe 11 310.4
31 Ardmore 6 302.7
32 Midas 43 298.2
33 Lendlease 3 293.0
34 RG Group 22 291.0
35 Hill Partnerships 15 276.7
36 RG Carter 35 247.3
37 A&H 22 246.4
38 Gilbert Ash 14 223.5
39 Stepnell 30 219.1
40 United Living 32 218.9
41 Tolent 32 196.9
42 Forrest 8 187.5
43 Vermont 3 185.1
44 8Build 25 175.9
45 Speller Metcalfe 29 173.8
46 DSP 27 162.9
47 JRL 3 162.7
48 Watkin Jones 8 161.8
49 Readie 16 160.8
50 Byrne 5 156.9

Top 50 clients – awards in Sep 2018

Rank Client Deals Total (£m)
1 Leeds City Council 3 129.2
2 Network Rail 5 115.2
3 Department for Education 14 105.0
4 Aldgate Developments 1 100.0
5 Delancey Estates 1 100.0
6 Qatari Diar 1 100.0
7 Scottish Government 4 98.0
8 Department of Health 16 89.8
9 Lidl 5 76.9
10 First Panattoni 3 62.2
11 Crawley Borough Council 2 61.0
12 King's Cross Central 2 61.0
13 Legal & General 1 60.0
14 Cherwell District Council 1 58.0
15 Yorkshire Water 1 57.0
16 University of Portsmouth 1 53.0
17 University of Manchester 2 50.3
18 Cancer Research UK 1 50.0
19 Knight Dragon 1 50.0
20 Moda Living 2 48.6
21 English Cities Fund 2 47.0
22 Grainger 2 46.9
23 Department for Transport 4 45.5
24 West Berkshire Council 1 45.0
25 Bowmer & Kirkland 2 42.0
26 Quintain 1 41.0
27 Alumno 2 39.6
28 La Doria 1 38.0
29 Land Recovery 1 38.0
30 Winchester City Council 1 38.0
31 Liverpool City Council 3 37.1
32 Morgan Stanley 2 36.0
33 Buile Developments 1 36.0
34 Swansea City Council 2 35.3
35 Endurance Land 1 35.0
36 Greycoat 1 35.0
37 Village Urban 1 35.0
38 Imperial College London 2 35.0
39 J Sainsbury 2 33.4
40 LB of Hackney 3 33.0
41 University of Cambridge 4 30.3
42 Ktesius 1 30.0
43 LB of Hammersmith & Fulham 1 30.0
44 Royal Horticultural Society 1 30.0
45 Extra Motorway Services 1 29.9
46 Prologis 1 28.0
47 Canmoor 2 27.5
48 Apache Capital 1 27.3
49 Peel Holdings 1 27.3
50 ABP 1 25.0

Top 50 clients – awards in year to Sep 2018

Rank Client Deals Total (£m)
1 Department of Health 254 2,193.0
2 Department for Transport 41 2,062.4
3 Network Rail 81 1,473.7
4 Department for Education 96 758.8
5 Homes England 15 550.2
6 Ministry of Defence 25 460.7
7 EDF Energy 9 447.4
8 NNB 8 446.5
9 United Utilities 19 381.6
10 University of Cambridge 21 372.2
11 Centro 3 372.0
12 National Grid 22 334.9
13 Derwent London 4 303.0
14 Roxhill 13 302.1
15 Peel Holdings 17 283.1
16 Lidl 68 279.0
17 Bruntwood 8 264.0
18 Leeds City Council 19 261.6
19 First Panattoni 11 248.5
20 Aldi 71 236.5
21 Dept. Regional Development 4 233.0
22 Whitbread 61 226.1
23 Vastint 5 220.4
24 Environment Agency 27 217.0
25 Ministry of Justice 18 211.6
26 LB of Havering 11 207.7
27 West Midlands CA 3 206.8
28 GlaxoSmithKline 4 204.0
29 Manchester Airports 6 199.2
30 Bristol City Council 12 195.5
31 Greater London Authority 14 193.3
32 Prologis 9 192.1
33 E&SFA 26 192.0
34 LB of Barking & Dagenham 18 185.9
35 Global Infrastructure Partners 13 180.3
36 LB of Hackney 15 177.4
37 Dundee City Council 8 176.6
38 Legal & General 18 174.1
39 Argent 3 173.2
40 Clarion 17 173.1
41 LB of Tower Hamlets 7 167.9
42 Severn Trent 12 167.2
43 LB of Ealing 11 162.8
44 Warner Bros 5 160.9
45 LB of Brent 5 160.7
46 McArthurGlen 3 154.0
47 London City Airport 5 153.4
48 Genr8 5 151.7
49 Grainger 9 151.0
50 Liverpool City Council 16 150.4

Top 20 engineers – wins in Sep 2018

Rank Engineer Deals Total (£m)
1 WSP 9 475.1
2 Aecom 7 289.3
3 Arup 8 262.5
4 Hurley Palmer Flatt 2 221.0
5 Walsh 1 200.0
6 Buro Happold 6 192.5
7 BWB 7 152.3
8 Mott MacDonald 3 129.0
9 Hoare Lea 6 125.4
10 Couch Perry & Wilkes 7 108.2
11 Tate 2 103.3
12 Jacobs 3 101.1
13 Jubb 2 66.0
14 Max Fordham 2 58.1
15 MJMC 1 58.0
16 Sweco 4 57.0
17 Fluid SE&TD 2 56.7
18 ESP 1 54.7
19 Technical Design Consultants 1 54.7
20 Skelly & Couch 1 50.0
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Top 20 housing contractors – Sep 2018

Rank Contractor Deals Total (£m)
1 Penny Lane Builders 2 65.4
2 Mears 1 40.6
3 Jistcourt 1 10.9
4 Ian Williams 1 10.5
5 CLC Contractors 1 6.6
6 Central Heating Services 1 5.9
7 Everwarm 1 5.4
8 Axis Europe 1 1.2
8 Woodland Property Services 1 1.2
9 MSI Scotland 1 1.0
10 Kier Group 1 1.0
11 J Tomlinson 2 0.9
12 TSG Building Services 1 0.9
13 Gilmartins 1 0.6
14 Jefferies Contractors 1 0.5
15 Re-Gen UK Construction 1 0.5
16 Neo Property Solution 1 0.3
17 Richard Irvin and Sons 1 0.3
18 Novus Property Solutions 1 0.2
19 Bishop Auckland Glazing 1 0.1
20 Purdy Contracts 1 0.1

Top 20 housing contractors – Oct 17 to Sep 18

Rank Contractor Deals Total (£m)
1 Engie Regeneration 11 411.1
2 Sovini Property Services, The Carroll Group 1 317.0
3 Wates Living Space 18 176.7
4 Axis Europe 7 136.1
5 Mears 12 130.2
6 H&A Mechanical Services 3 121.2
7 United Living (South) 2 106.4
8 Fix 360 1 93.3
9 Saliis 2 82.0
10 Kier Group 9 75.5
11 Unitas Stoke-on-Trent 1 71.0
12 FES 1 70.0
13 Penny Lane Builders 2 65.4
14 Everwarm 6 57.6
15 Robert Heath Heating 8 42.1
16 Mitie Property Services 4 41.3
17 Bancon Construction 3 40.6
18 Liberty Group 8 38.6
19 LCB Construction 2 36.7
20 Ian Williams 4 32.5

Top 20 housing clients – Sep 2018

Rank Client Deals Total (£m)
1 SLH Group 1 53.5
2 Govanhill Housing Association Ltd. 1 40.6
3 Plus Dane Group 1 11.9
4 Bristol City Council 1 10.9
5 Stonewater Ltd 1 10.5
6 Exeter City Council 1 6.6
7 Thames Valley Housing Association (TVHA) 1 5.9
8 Perth and Kinross Council 1 5.4
9 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council 2 2.4
10 Craigdale Housing Association Ltd. 1 1.0
11 Leeds City Council 1 1.0
12 Victory Housing Trust 1 0.9
13 Northamptonshire Rural Housing Association 1 0.9
14 Crown Simmons Housing (CSH) 1 0.6
15 Newport City Homes 1 0.5
16 Castle Point Borough Council 1 0.5
17 Together Housing Association Ltd 1 0.3
18 Aberdeen City Council 1 0.3
19 High Peak Borough Council 1 0.2
20 Enfield London Borough 24 0.2

Top 20 housing clients – Oct 17 to Sep 18

Rank Client Deals Total (£m)
1 Northern Ireland Housing Executive 5 407.5
2 One Vision Housing Ltd. 1 317.0
3 Aberdeenshire Council 6 231.9
4 Westminster London Borough 2 200.0
5 Your Housing Group 3 146.7
6 County Durham Housing Group Limited 1 138.0
7 Longhurst Group Ltd 1 99.5
8 Stoke-On-Trent City Council 6 80.8
9 Stevenage Borough Council 3 61.4
10 Bristol City Council 5 55.9
11 SLH Group 1 53.5
12 Govanhill Housing Association Ltd. 4 43.2
13 North Lanarkshire Council 7 41.5
14 Cardiff Council 3 38.0
15 Lewes District Council 1 31.3
16 Bernicia Group Ltd. 2 30.0
17 Optivo Homes Ltd 6 27.1
18 Sheffield City Council 3 27.0
19 Charnwood Borough Council 1 27.0
20 Linc-Cymru Housing Association Ltd. 1 24.0
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