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 | 2 | Carillion | 39 | 716.50 |
| 2 | 1 | Laing O'Rourke* | 3 | 618.00 |
| 3 | - | Von Roll Inova* | 1 | 350.00 |
| 4 | 5 | HBG Construction | 7 | 232.00 |
| 5 | 12 | Kier | 21 | 185.00 |
| 6 | 10 | Balfour Beatty | 80 | 155.98 |
| 7 | 25 | Costain | 4 | 134.74 |
| 8 | 30 | Edmund Nuttall | 5 | 115.60 |
| 9 | 6 | Rok | 19 | 107.85 |
| 10 | 19 | ISG | 24 | 77.26 |
| 11 | 14 | Norwest Holst | 6 | 74.13 |
| 12 | 9 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 4 | 63.14 |
| 13 | 4 | Lakehouse Contracts | 5 | 60.10 |
| 14 | - | Connaught* | 2 | 54.00 |
| 15 | 23 | Galliford Try | 7 | 52.20 |
| 16 | 3 | Morgan Sindall | 29 | 51.79 |
| 17 | - | Apollo Group | 13 | 46.60 |
| 18 | - | Amy* | 1 | 33.00 |
| 19 | 15 | Interserve Projects | 23 | 32.29 |
| 20 | - | Lancsville* | 1 | 30.00 |
| 21 | - | Renew (was Montpellier) | 15 | 28.95 |
| 22 | - | Leadbitter | 5 | 28.61 |
| 23 | 18 | Miller | 1 | 24.96 |
| 24 | 22 | Birse | 1 | 22.00 |
| 25 | 33 | SDC Construction | 1 | 22.00 |
| 26 | - | McLaren Construction | 5 | 21.50 |
| 27 | 38 | Crispin & Borst | 5 | 21.07 |
| 28 | 36 | Taylor Woodrow | 6 | 19.42 |
| 29 | 20 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 1 | 16.00 |
| 30 | - | Peppiatt* | 1 | 15.00 |
| 31 | 11 | Fitzpatrick | 3 | 14.80 |
| 32 | 31 | Thomas Vale | 14 | 14.68 |
| 33 | 26 | Midas Group | 5 | 12.93 |
| 34 | 21 | Mulalley & Co Ltd | 6 | 11.58 |
| 35 | 16 | Wates | 7 | 10.15 |
| 36 | - | Alan Hadley* | 1 | 10.00 |
| 37 | - | WA Hills* | 1 | 10.00 |
| 38 | 49 | Haymills | 3 | 9.50 |
| 39 | - | RJ McLeod | 2 | 6.77 |
| 40 | - | Marriot* | 1 | 6.00 |
| 41 | 32 | Watkin Jones | 1 | 5.00 |
| 42 | - | Wrekin Construction | 4 | 4.90 |
| 43 | - | Southwest Highways * | 1 | 4.50 |
| 44 | - | Multibuild | 3 | 4.00 |
| 45 | 45 | Dyer & Butler | 5 | 3.75 |
| 46 | 46 | Buckingham Group | 2 | 3.00 |
| 47 | 48 | Weaver | 2 | 2.80 |
| 48 | 34 | Osborne | 6 | 1.72 |
| 49 | - | Clugston | 2 | 0.90 |
| 50 | 50 | David McLean | 3 | 0.60 |
| Totals for August 2008 | 407 | 3,547.26 | ||
| *Information taken from Barbour-ABI Database | ||||