Laing takes off in first place - CJ40 LEAGUE MARCH RESULTS


John Laing owes its position at the top of the latest CJ40 League table, with a œ240 million monthly total, mostly to one mega contract.

The œ150 million private industrial total in Laing's winning line represents the World Cargocentre for British Airways at London Heathrow airport.

March was also the month when œ60.5 million of bomb damage repairs for the NatWest tower in the city of London were taken into Laing's order book.

Trafalgar House won the biggest of last month's flurry of road contracts as the Highways Agency strived to meet its award target.

That was contract 2 of the A12-M11 link through the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The tender weighed in at œ78,913,603. It helped boost the group's total to œ128 million and earned it second place in the League table.
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Other major gains for Trafalgar included the œ23 million Abbey Mills pumping station for Thames Water in Newham and an œ18.8 million office development for Axa Equity & Law in Maidenhead.

John Mowlem, more often placed among the top five than any other contractor, proved its consistency again by winning third place in March.

The group's œ63 million monthly total represents 16 projects covering all sectors except housebuilding contracts.

Last month's biggest road contract, after the A12-M11 link, was the œ36.7 million A406 Fore Street underpass in north London shared by the Fitzpatrick/Sir Robert McAlpine joint venture.

Scotland's first design and build road - the œ28 million Tranent-Haddington stretch of the A1 - was clinched by an Amey/Miller joint venture. Amey also scooped the final A50 Blythe Bridge-Queensway improvement contract with a bid of œ21.3 million.

At the time of going to press no data was available for Taylor Woodrow and a number of smaller contractors. This may have been due to onerous deadlines ahead of the Easter weekend. The tables for March will be corrected retrospectively and the updated information will be used in future cumulative tables.


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