The total workload for the construction industry showed an
improvement in July with total orders rising above the £1
billion mark after dipping below that figure in June.
July's total was £133 million short of the same month last
year. However, July 1998 was boosted by the award of four major PFI
schemes which somewhat distorted the norm.
The private commercial sector continues to dominate the
construction industry and shows little sign of any slow down at the
moment. The non-private housing sector remains somewhat in the
doldrums and Other public non-housing work was also down on June.
The private industrial sector provided a welcome boost, up £38
million, while infrastructure posted the largest gains, rising
£187 million on June, some £54 million ahead of July
1998.
Infrastructure certainly served Balfour Beatty well - the company's
wins in the rail sector sent it to the top of the CJ50 - £41
million ahead of second placed Carillion. Balfour Beatty's
Railtrack awards included a two-year extension to its Southern Zone
Plain Line track renewals contract, worth £60 million and a
£48 million contract to remodel the track and ancillary
services at Willesden in North London.
After a highly uncharacteristic absence from the table in June,
Carillion bounced straight back at two with a healthy £70
million worth of private commercial orders.
The firm's largest order was for the £42.5 million PFI
contract to construct a new prison at Onley, near Rugby. It also
secured a smaller healthcare PFI scheme in Glasgow, the £9.1
million Southern General Hospital project for client Town
Hospitals. An £8.1 million office project in Cambridge for
Suon rounded off a good month.
Taylor Woodrow was snapping at Carillion's heals, just £1
million behind. It too profited from a financial close on a PFI
deal, in this case the £51.5 million Dalmuir sewage project
for West of Scotland Water Authority.
Taywood also secured a £17 million contract to construct the
Millennium Plaza leisure project in Cardiff for Brunswick
Developments.
Kvaerner Construction moved up 11 places to four thanks to a
massive contract, estimated to be worth around £60 million, to
construct a new seven-storey office block and refurbish two floors
of the adjacent Euston Tower in London for British Land Company. It
will also fit out the offices with carpeting, partitions and IT
facilities.
Tilbury Douglas picked up a major private industrial order in the
form of a £50 million contract to construct a production base
for the new Mini at Rover/BMW's Longbridge plant, in Birmingham.
Kier dropped off the top spot down to six hauling in a multitude of
smaller contracts to see it through July, while Mansell/Hall and
Tawse pulled in a massive total of 60 individual contracts to keep
it in the top 10.
Ballast Wiltshier moved up 16 places to eight on the back of two
main contracts: a £13.8 million contract for base station work
at various Vodafone sites and a £6.9 million contract to
construct basement extensions at HMS Warrior, Northwood, in West
London.
Shepherd shot up 28 places thanks to two private commercial
contracts, while Willmott Dixon also showed a good rise, up 23
places to 10, with work split between private commercial, social
housing and Other public non-housing.
Private commercial work kept Mowlem fairly steady at 11, while
Birse dropped five places to 12, but still pulled in a £14.7
million contract to up-grade accommodation at Pirbright Barracks
for the MoD and a £6.5 million contract to undertake
improvements to a wastewater treatment works in Bridport for Wessex
Water.
HBG Construction also slipped out of the top 10 to 13. Most of its
work came from the private commercial market with a £9.4
million contract to build a call centre in Cumbernauld for HF
Developments among its most notable wins.
Galliford moved up 20 places to 14, securing all of its work in the
private commercial and industrial sectors. Its largest win was a
£6.5 million contract to build shops in Waterlooville,
Hampshire, for Taylor Woodrow Developments.
Miller's wins in the infrastructure sector came in the water
industry, while Bowmer and Kirkland relied on the private
commercial market, where its contracts included a £7.2 million
office job in Slough for Akeler. Morrison Construction moved into
the top 20 after securing all its work in infrastructure and
private commercial.
Norwest Holst followed hard on its heels, shooting back into the
top 50 at 18, mostly thanks to its £10 million half share in
the Hungerford Bridge Millennium Project in London.
Its partner for the bridge is Costain, which dropped back from last
month's high of six down to 19. Wates also dropped from second
place down to 20, but still scooped £20 million worth of
private commercial orders.
Morgan Sindall just dropped out the top 20, but gathered a
selection of contracts across all but one sector. Holmes Building
made an entry into the table thanks to a £9.8 million contract
to construct new flats in West London for Capitalbond. Further down
at 32, David McLean secured an £8.4 million job to undertake
road works in Flint for Kimberley Clark.
Carillion posted the only significant management contracts in July,
winning two schemes worth a total of £26 million. The newly
diverged company's wins in July were more than enough to keep it at
the top of the rolling 12 monthly table, where its total of
£1.1 billion kept it ahead of nearest rival Bovis with
£898 million.
Kvaerner remains in third position, but Balfour Beatty swopped with
Laing. Taylor Woodrow, Kier, Mowlem and HBG remained rock steady.
Mansell/Hall and Tawse moved up one place to 10 while Sir Robert
McAlpine dropped out of the top 10 altogether.
Year TO JUly 1999 (£m)
Top 50: Traditional Contracts: JUly 1999
Awards value (£m)
BOXTEXT: TOTAL
BOXTEXT: PUBLIC
PRIVATE PRIVATE
Position
(Previous) Contractor
Contractor
Awards
Value
Housing
Infra-structure
Free reuse PNH
Commercial
Industrial
1 (16) Balfour Beatty 15 122.3 - 120.2 - 2.1 -
2 (-) Tarmac 28 81.2 4.1 2.4 2.5 70.7 1.5
3 (5) Taylor Woodrow 10 80.1 - 54.5 0.7 19.4 5.5
4 (15) Kvaerner 13 77.2 - 12.2 - 65.0 -
5 (19) Tilbury Douglas 14 71.4 - 2.2 1.3 13.1 54.9
6 (1) Kier 42 43.4 0.5 1.0 11.4 26.3 4.3
7 (8) Mansell/Hall & Tawse 60 40.4 2.8 - 10.0 27.6 -
8 (24) Ballast Wiltshier 20 34.8 2.0 - 12.4 20.3 0.2
9 (37) Shepherd 2 34.2 - - - 34.2 -
10 (33) Willmott Dixon 13 32.5 10.8 - 8.5 13.1 -
11 (9) Mowlem 16 32.3 2.5 2.6 2.6 16.6 8.0
12 (7) Birse 8 31.8 - 12.2 14.7 2.5 2.4
13 (4) HBG Construction 9 27.8 - - 4.7 21.6 1.5
14 (34) Galliford 4 25.9 - - - 9.8 16.1
15 (32) Miller 10 25.7 3.1 15.9 3.7 3.0 -
16 (30) Bowmer & Kirkland 14 23.0 - 4.3 0.8 16.1 1.8
17 (23) Morrison 12 22.5 - 12.9 - 9.6 -
18 (-) Norwest Holst 8 22.3 - 10.8 - 6.0 5.5
19 (6) Costain 7 21.6 3.7 - 11.0 0.5 6.3
20 (2) Wates 7 20.8 - - - 20.8 -
21 (3) Morgan Sindall 36 20.7 2.6 - 6.2 7.2 4.9
22 (29) Jarvis 11 19.7 - 2.8 10.6 6.4 -
23 (28) Midas Construction 20 17.0 0.2 0.4 4.5 10.4 1.5
24 (18) Allen 13 15.1 1.1 2.6 7.6 3.6 0.2
25 (44) Try 8 14.7 - - 1.2 12.5 1.1
26 (-) Holmes Building 3 13.3 - - - 13.3 -
27 (10) Laing 5 12.7 0.5 - 11.8 0.3 0.1
28 (40) Jackson 6 11.0 - 4.9 - 1.8 4.3
29 (-) Alfred McAlpine 3 10.7 - 10.7 - - -
30 (-) North Midland 15 9.4 - 3.0 2.1 3.0 1.3
31 (-) Geoffrey Osborne 10 9.0 2.6 1.0 4.4 1.0 -
32 (22) David McLean 1 8.5 - - - 8.5 -
33 (47) Totty 3 8.1 - - 2.3 5.8 -
34 (-) C Spencer 2 8.1 - 8.1 - - -
35 (26) Gleeson 7 7.9 2.9 1.5 - 3.5 -
36 (39) Dean & Bowes 10 6.4 - - - 6.4 -
37 (35) Higgins Group 6 5.4 3.1 - 1.8 0.5 -
38 (-) Ashe 11 5.3 1.9 - 0.9 2.0 0.5
39 (38) ICS Vale 17 5.2 - 2.8 - 1.4 1.0
40 (-) Wiggins Gee 4 4.8 2.0 - 2.8 - -
41 (45) Sisk 4 4.5 0.5 0.3 - 2.3 1.4
42 (-) Dean & Dyball 9 4.2 - 0.4 0.6 1.6 1.7
43 (46) Rydon 3 4.2 2.8 - - 1.4 -
44 (20) Lovell 5 4.2 - - - 4.2 -
45 (43) Cowlin 6 3.9 - - 0.1 0.7 3.1
46 (13) Styles & Wood 7 3.9 - - - 3.9 -
47 (50) Tolent 8 3.8 - - - 2.7 1.1
48 (-) Haymills 4 3.6 0.4 - - 3.3 -
49 (-) Weaver 4 3.1 - - - 3.1 -
50 (-) DJ Construction 9 3.1 - 1.0 1.8 - 0.3
Subtotal for July 1999 1,122.6 50.1 290.5 143.1 508.5 130.4
1 (-) Tarmac 2 26.0 - - - 26.0 -
2 (-) Mowlem 1 4.0 - - - 4.0 -
3 (-) Tilbury Douglas 1 3.3 - - - 3.3 -
Subtotal for July 1999 33.3 - - - 33.3 -
Totals for July 1999 1,155.9 50.1 290.5 143.1 541.8 130.4
Totals for June 1999 994.8 68.9 103.9 164.2 552.3 92.2
Totals for July 1998 1,288.8 74.3 237.0 464.1 396.7 116.7
Management Contracts
1 (16) Balfour Beatty 15 122.3 - 120.2 - 2.1 -
2 (-) Tarmac 28 81.2 4.1 2.4 2.5 70.7 1.5
3 (5) Taylor Woodrow 10 80.1 - 54.5 0.7 19.4 5.5
4 (15) Kvaerner 13 77.2 - 12.2 - 65.0 -
5 (19) Tilbury Douglas 14 71.4 - 2.2 1.3 13.1 54.9
6 (1) Kier 42 43.4 0.5 1.0 11.4 26.3 4.3
7 (8) Mansell/Hall & Tawse 60 40.4 2.8 - 10.0 27.6 -
8 (24) Ballast Wiltshier 20 34.8 2.0 - 12.4 20.3 0.2
9 (37) Shepherd 2 34.2 - - - 34.2 -
10 (33) Willmott Dixon 13 32.5 10.8 - 8.5 13.1 -
11 (9) Mowlem 16 32.3 2.5 2.6 2.6 16.6 8.0
12 (7) Birse 8 31.8 - 12.2 14.7 2.5 2.4
13 (4) HBG Construction 9 27.8 - - 4.7 21.6 1.5
14 (34) Galliford 4 25.9 - - - 9.8 16.1
15 (32) Miller 10 25.7 3.1 15.9 3.7 3.0 -
16 (30) Bowmer & Kirkland 14 23.0 - 4.3 0.8 16.1 1.8
17 (23) Morrison 12 22.5 - 12.9 - 9.6 -
18 (-) Norwest Holst 8 22.3 - 10.8 - 6.0 5.5
19 (6) Costain 7 21.6 3.7 - 11.0 0.5 6.3
20 (2) Wates 7 20.8 - - - 20.8 -
21 (3) Morgan Sindall 36 20.7 2.6 - 6.2 7.2 4.9
22 (29) Jarvis 11 19.7 - 2.8 10.6 6.4 -
23 (28) Midas Construction 20 17.0 0.2 0.4 4.5 10.4 1.5
24 (18) Allen 13 15.1 1.1 2.6 7.6 3.6 0.2
25 (44) Try 8 14.7 - - 1.2 12.5 1.1
26 (-) Holmes Building 3 13.3 - - - 13.3 -
27 (10) Laing 5 12.7 0.5 - 11.8 0.3 0.1
28 (40) Jackson 6 11.0 - 4.9 - 1.8 4.3
29 (-) Alfred McAlpine 3 10.7 - 10.7 - - -
30 (-) North Midland 15 9.4 - 3.0 2.1 3.0 1.3
31 (-) Geoffrey Osborne 10 9.0 2.6 1.0 4.4 1.0 -
32 (22) David McLean 1 8.5 - - - 8.5 -
33 (47) Totty 3 8.1 - - 2.3 5.8 -
34 (-) C Spencer 2 8.1 - 8.1 - - -
35 (26) Gleeson 7 7.9 2.9 1.5 - 3.5 -
36 (39) Dean & Bowes 10 6.4 - - - 6.4 -
37 (35) Higgins Group 6 5.4 3.1 - 1.8 0.5 -
38 (-) Ashe 11 5.3 1.9 - 0.9 2.0 0.5
39 (38) ICS Vale 17 5.2 - 2.8 - 1.4 1.0
40 (-) Wiggins Gee 4 4.8 2.0 - 2.8 - -
41 (45) Sisk 4 4.5 0.5 0.3 - 2.3 1.4
42 (-) Dean & Dyball 9 4.2 - 0.4 0.6 1.6 1.7
43 (46) Rydon 3 4.2 2.8 - - 1.4 -
44 (20) Lovell 5 4.2 - - - 4.2 -
45 (43) Cowlin 6 3.9 - - 0.1 0.7 3.1
46 (13) Styles & Wood 7 3.9 - - - 3.9 -
47 (50) Tolent 8 3.8 - - - 2.7 1.1
48 (-) Haymills 4 3.6 0.4 - - 3.3 -
49 (-) Weaver 4 3.1 - - - 3.1 -
50 (-) DJ Construction 9 3.1 - 1.0 1.8 - 0.3
Subtotal for July 1999 1,122.6 50.1 290.5 143.1 508.5 130.4
1 (-) Tarmac 2 26.0 - - - 26.0 -
2 (-) Mowlem 1 4.0 - - - 4.0 -
3 (-) Tilbury Douglas 1 3.3 - - - 3.3 -
Subtotal for July 1999 33.3 - - - 33.3 -
Totals for July 1999 1,155.9 50.1 290.5 143.1 541.8 130.4
Totals for June 1999 994.8 68.9 103.9 164.2 552.3 92.2
Totals for July 1998 1,288.8 74.3 237.0 464.1 396.7 116.7