Wates has topped the contract rankings again, 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 £266m in May, after also topping the March contract league table with 14 jobs worth £419m. It came sixth with six jobs worth £88.7m in April.
New jobs in May included a £72m pension scheme in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, for Legal & General’s Guild Living (pictured). The plan for 222 homes was approved by a planning inspector on appeal, after the council said it would harm the “vitality” of the town centre.
Other major wins included a £61.5m, 17,000 sq ft office scheme at 9 Wellington Place in Leeds city centre, according to construction intelligence provider Glenigan. The 12-storey block is being developed by property investor MEPC.
| Top 10 Contractors, May 2023 | |||
| classification | contractor | Offers | £m |
| 1 | limit | 14 | 265.8 |
| 2 | Royal Bam | 5 | 248.2 |
| 3 | Multiplex Europe | 1 | 200 |
| 4 | Kier | 15 | 181.9 |
| 5 | Hill collaborations | 1 | 112.9 |
| 6 | McAleer and Rushe | 1 | 83.5 |
| 7 | Morgan Sindall | 22 | 79.2 |
| 8 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 4 | 76.6 |
| 9 | Tilbury Douglas | 7 | 72.7 |
| 10 | Willmott Dixon | 9 | 69.3 |
| League tables are subject to revision | |||
The latest round of deals saw Wates rise three places in the annual contractors league table, beating Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall and usurping Mace into second place.
Bam came second in the monthly table, signing five contracts worth £248 million. The Dutch procurement group will receive £200m from a single project – Typhoo Wharf, a mixed-use development in Birmingham which will become the BBC’s new regional home.
Multiplex came third in May’s league table despite only securing one new job – a £200m deal to build a new 10- and 12-storey office development at Holborn Viaduct for at Royal London Asset Management.
Other major contracts signed last month included Hill Partnership’s £112.9m bid to deliver the latest phase of the redevelopment of the Aylesbury estate in south London for Notting Hill Genesis, which came in fifth , and McAleer & Rushe’s deal to build 770-bed student housing. lock at Wembley for Greystar, who got it in sixth place.
Kier came fourth in the monthly table, landing 15 contracts worth £182m. Morgan Sindall, seventh in the table, won a mammoth 22 contracts, more than any other firm in the top 50 ranking.
Holcim, a French and Swiss multinational with a turnover of £24bn, won the most civil works last month, with three contracts worth £67.7m, eclipsing Tarmac (55.3m) and Balfour Beatty (45.8 million).
| Top 10 contractors, year to May 2023 | |||
| classification | contractor | Offers | £m |
| 1 | Kier | 166 | 2,840.30 |
| 2 | limit | 132 | 2,084.30 |
| 3 | Morgan Sindall | 343 | 1,994.30 |
| 4 | Balfour Beatty | 48 | 1,971.10 |
| 5 | mace | 24 | 1,552.00 |
| 6 | Willmott Dixon | 119 | 1,390.10 |
| 7 | Royal Bam | 47 | 1,341.20 |
| 8 | ISG | 53 | 1,298.80 |
| 9 | Try Galliford | 128 | 1,270.80 |
| 10 | JRL | 9 | 1,157.00 |
| League tables are subject to revision | |||
Kier remained at the top of the annual league table, signing 166 deals worth £2.84m. Morgan Sindall moved up one place to bronze medal position, with 343 contracts worth £1.99 billion, just below Wates, who moved from sixth to second place with 132 jobs worth £2.08 billion of pounds
