The Builders’ Conference logs all construction contract awards in the UK and produces the BCLive contracts league table. Top of the pile in July 2019 was house-builder Countryside Properties, which won five projects, together valued at a £455.7m. The largest is a £400m development for One Housing Group in London’s Camden Lock.
Builders’ Conference chief executive Neil Edwards said that although July’s aggregate total of £4.62bn was down on the £5.25bn of new work recorded in the previous month, July is traditionally a little slower as it marks the beginning of the holiday season. “This month’s softening has returned the BCLive league table to the £4.5bn level that was the monthly norm throughout 2018,” he said.
Compared to last year, July 2019’s contracts total of £4.62bn was up nearly 2% on the July 2018 total of £4.54bn.
In second place in the July 2019 league table was ISG, which signed 11 new contracts worth a combined £271.9m. ISG’s new jobs include an £89m new-build logistics centre in Durham for Tritax Group and a £60m fit-out contract at 100 Bishopsgate in London for law firm Freshfields Bruck Hause Derninger.
Balfour Beatty was in third place, with eight new contracts totalling £188.5m, including a £100m Highways England contract on the A19 in the northeast.
Close behind was Willmott Dixon, also with eight new contracts, with total value of £181.3m, including a £54m building job for Warwick University.
Other contract awards of note logged by the Builders’ Conference during the month included a £153m power plant new build at Ferrybridge Multifuel for Hitachi Zosen Inova UK and John Sisk winning a £78m roadworks contract to upgrade Junction 10 of the M6 motorway.
Housing was once again the busiest sector, with 186 new contract awards totalling more than £1.8bn. But there were also increases for education (£625m) and infrastructure (£533m).
Regionally, London was the busiest place for new activity, with 115 new contracts signed and a £1.14bn total value. But the Midlands (£686m), the Northwest (£397m) and East/West Sussex (£349m) also had a good month.
| Position | Number of contracts | Contractor | Total value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Countryside Properties | £455.7m |
| 2 | 11 | ISG | £271.9m |
| 3 | 8 | Balfour Beatty | £188.5m |
| 4 | 8 | Willmott Dixon | £181.3m |
| 5 | 8 | Galliford Try | £167.2m |
| 6 | 1 | Hitachi Zosen Inova UK | £153m |
| 7 | 3 | Sisk Group | £137m |
| 8 | 1 | Costain | £120m |
| 9 | 19 | Morgan Sindall | £115.2m |
| 10 | 16 | Kier Group £93.6m | |
| 11 | 4 | Wates | £79.5m |
| 12 | 1 | Ardmore Construction | £70m |
| 13 | 2 | VolkerWessels | £64.4m |
| 14 | 1 | Osborne | £61.4m |
| 15 | 1 | Holystone | £50m |
| 16 | 3 | Barratt Homes | £48.7m |
| 17 | 7 | Bowmer & Kirkland | £47.8m |
| 18 | 2 | Integrated Health Projects | £47m |
| 19 | 2 | Construction Partnership UK | £47m |
| 20 | 2 | PMC Construction & Development Services | £47m |
| 21 | 1 | Bouygues Group | £45m |
| 22 | 9 | Robertson Group | £43.7m |
| 23 | 4 | Bellway Homes | £39.5m |
| 24 | 2 | Ogilvie Construction | £39.5m |
| 25 | 1 | Ressance | £36.8m |
| 26 | 2 | Tolent Construction | £36.5m |
| 27 | 3 | Buckingham Group Contracting | £33.5m |
| 28 | 3 | Hill Partnerships | £32.8m |
| 29 | 4 | BAM | £32.4m |
| 30 | 1 | Trench Holdings | £30m |
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