Contract Journal’s league table of the construction companies who have won the most contracts in the past year. The table was last updated with the figures for October 2008.
| Position | Previous month | Contractor | No of Contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Laing O'Rourke * | 39 | 4,194.00 |
| 2 | 2 | Balfour Beatty | 905 | 3,676.88 |
| 3 | 3 | BAM Construct | 85 | 2,011.32 |
| 4 | 4 | Kier | 372 | 1,999.95 |
| 5 | 5 | Carillion | 177 | 1,770.20 |
| 6 | 6 | Costain | 56 | 1,708.65 |
| 7 | 9 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 24 | 1,660.00 |
| 8 | 8 | Morgan Sindall | 406 | 1,534.10 |
| 9 | 7 | Skanska | 118 | 1,199.02 |
| 10 | 10 | Bovis Lend Lease | 17 | 973.80 |
| 11 | 12 | Rok | 256 | 884.76 |
| 12 | 14 | Willmott Dixon | 100 | 884.71 |
| 13 | 11 | ISG | 216 | 857.55 |
| 14 | 13 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 91 | 838.47 |
| 15 | 16 | Wates | 122 | 651.20 |
| 16 | 15 | Morrison Utilities | 12 | 640.07 |
| 17 | 17 | Apollo Group | 109 | 612.60 |
| 18 | 18 | Miller | 32 | 570.53 |
| 19 | 19 | Galliford Try | 117 | 543.40 |
| 20 | 21 | BAM Nuttall | 70 | 459.29 |
| 21 | 22 | Norwest Holst | 78 | 456.07 |
| 22 | 20 | Interserve Projects | 209 | 413.81 |
| 23 | 24 | Ardmore * | 4 | 363.50 |
| 24 | 23 | Fitzpatrick | 52 | 361.40 |
| 25 | 25 | May Gurney | 12 | 357.00 |
| 26 | 27 | Von Roll Inova* | 1 | 350.00 |
| 27 | 26 | Leadbitter | 64 | 319.98 |
| 28 | 28 | Lakehouse Contracts | 91 | 318.16 |
| 29 | 31 | Taylor Woodrow | 67 | 243.61 |
| 30 | 30 | Renew (was Montpellier) | 116 | 233.78 |
| 31 | 35 | Midas Group | 134 | 204.74 |
| 32 | 32 | Thomas Vale | 133 | 197.43 |
| 33 | 34 | McLaren Construction | 28 | 181.30 |
| 34 | 37 | Higgins Group | 16 | 178.84 |
| 35 | 36 | Sisk | 18 | 159.37 |
| 36 | 29 | Mulalley & Co Ltd | 29 | 150.62 |
| 37 | 33 | North Midland | 61 | 149.93 |
| 38 | 38 | Watkin Jones | 19 | 137.39 |
| 39 | 41 | Crispin & Borst | 53 | 130.62 |
| 40 | 39 | Osborne | 75 | 123.90 |
| 41 | 42 | SDC Construction | 28 | 92.88 |
| 42 | 43 | Styles & Wood | 27 | 91.81 |
| 43 | 47 | Buckingham Group | 35 | 90.74 |
| 44 | 48 | Durkan | 12 | 71.47 |
| 45 | 50 | Amy* | 6 | 67.00 |
| 46 | 46 | Multibuild | 23 | 64.47 |
| 47 | 49 | FM Conway | 18 | 59.23 |
| 48 | 40 | GB Building Solutions | 11 | 54.82 |
| 49 | - | Haymills | 33 | 54.66 |
| 50 | 44 | Rydon | 9 | 54.49 |
| Totals for November 07 - October 08 | 4786 | 33,403.49 | ||
| *Information taken from Barbour-ABI Database | ||||