Contract Journal’s league table of the construction companies who have won the most contracts in the past month.
| Position | Previous month | Contractor | No of contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 3 | 446.00 |
| 2 | 4 | HBG Construction | 8 | 373.40 |
| 3 | 6 | Kier | 24 | 200.60 |
| 4 | 2 | Balfour Beatty | 71 | 197.80 |
| 5 | 12 | Bovis Lend Lease | 3 | 155.70 |
| 6 | 5 | Morgan Sindall | 26 | 141.69 |
| 7 | 7 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 12 | 91.26 |
| 8 | - | Leadbitter | 22 | 83.40 |
| 9 | 1 | Skanska | 9 | 78.17 |
| 10 | - | Durkan | 12 | 71.47 |
| 11 | 20 | ISG | 17 | 70.30 |
| 12 | 8 | Laing O'Rourke * | 3 | 64.50 |
| 13 | - | Rok | 23 | 58.29 |
| 14 | 14 | Galliford Try | 19 | 44.10 |
| 15 | 10 | Wates | 16 | 39.51 |
| 16 | 3 | Willmott Dixon | 3 | 32.23 |
| 17 | - | McNicholas Construction * | 1 | 27.00 |
| 18 | 22 | Miller | 2 | 22.79 |
| 19 | 23 | North Midland | 5 | 20.32 |
| 20 | - | JB Riney * | 6 | 19.50 |
| 21 | 9 | Interserve Projects | 13 | 18.28 |
| 22 | 15 | Fitzpatrick | 4 | 17.40 |
| 23 | 43 | Watkin Jones | 1 | 17.00 |
| 24 | - | Holloway White Allom | 1 | 15.00 |
| 25 | Ground Control * | 5 | 15.00 | |
| 26 | 25 | Thomas Vale | 15 | 13.04 |
| 27 | 24 | Midas Group | 5 | 12.58 |
| 28 | - | Volker Stevin * | 1 | 12.00 |
| 29 | 40 | Ashford | 2 | 11.57 |
| 30 | - | Sisk | 2 | 10.21 |
| 31 | - | McCabe * | 1 | 9.00 |
| 32 | 28 | Norwest Holst | 11 | 8.95 |
| 33 | 27 | Crispin & Borst | 4 | 7.73 |
| 34 | - | Eric Wright | 4 | 6.60 |
| 35 | 47 | Wrekin Construction | 2 | 5.80 |
| 36 | 11 | Higgins Group | 2 | 5.60 |
| 37 | 35 | Multibuild | 2 | 4.60 |
| 38 | 37 | Lakehouse Contracts | 12 | 3.99 |
| 39 | 17 | Osborne | 6 | 3.37 |
| 40 | 39 | TRAK | 2 | 3.00 |
| 41 | 31 | Renew (was Montpellier) | 5 | 2.97 |
| 42 | 44 | Jackson Civil Engineering * | 1 | 2.00 |
| 43 | - | Ogilvie * | 1 | 1.50 |
| 44 | 46 | Jarvis * | 1 | 1.00 |
| 45 | 45 | Haymills | 1 | 0.84 |
| 46 | - | David McLean | 3 | 0.65 |
| 47 | 33 | Birse | 1 | 0.50 |
| 48 | 49 | Dyer & Butler | 2 | 0.44 |
| 49 | - | Alun Griffiths * | 1 | 0.25 |
| Totals for May 2008 | 396 | 2,448.88 | ||
| *Information taken from Barbour-ABI Database | ||||