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 | 1 | Balfour Beatty | 67 | 888.90 |
| 2 | 26 | Laing O'Rourke * | 4 | 228.60 |
| 3 | 12 | Costain | 6 | 149.09 |
| 4 | 14 | Carillion | 6 | 148.90 |
| 5 | 2 | Rok | 23 | 139.53 |
| 6 | 18 | Morgan Sindall | 44 | 117.82 |
| 7 | 4 | BAM Construct | 6 | 117.70 |
| 8 | 13 | Willmott Dixon | 10 | 80.84 |
| 9 | 6 | Miller | 4 | 69.31 |
| 10 | 7 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 2 | 55.00 |
| 11 | 17 | ISG | 17 | 50.22 |
| 12 | 37 | Fitzpatrick | 2 | 46.00 |
| 13 | - | GB Building Solutions | 1 | 46.00 |
| 14 | 5 | Kier | 26 | 45.80 |
| 15 | - | Volker Stevin * | 1 | 29.50 |
| 16 | 49 | Watkin Jones | 1 | 25.00 |
| 17 | - | McLaren Construction | 7 | 24.10 |
| 18 | 22 | Vinci Construction Ltd | 13 | 23.64 |
| 19 | 32 | BAM Nuttall | 8 | 23.34 |
| 20 | 31 | Galliford Try | 5 | 22.10 |
| 21 | - | Ashford | 1 | 18.90 |
| 22 | 45 | Apollo Group | 10 | 18.20 |
| 23 | 25 | Thomas Vale | 14 | 17.61 |
| 24 | 10 | Interserve Projects | 10 | 17.50 |
| 25 | 44 | Breyer Group | 12 | 15.75 |
| 26 | 3 | Wates | 5 | 15.64 |
| 27 | 27 | Wrekin Construction | 2 | 14.06 |
| 28 | 11 | Midas Group | 0 | 11.56 |
| 29 | - | C Spencer | 6 | 10.90 |
| 30 | - | Westminster Dredging* | 1 | 10.20 |
| 31 | - | Higgins Group | 2 | 9.64 |
| 32 | - | Skanska | 2 | 9.45 |
| 33 | - | North Midland | 11 | 8.49 |
| 34 | - | Beard | 5 | 8.44 |
| 35 | - | Jarvis * | 4 | 6.50 |
| 36 | - | SDC Construction | 2 | 5.38 |
| 37 | - | Dawnus * | 2 | 5.25 |
| 38 | 20 | Frank Haslam * | 1 | 5.00 |
| 39 | - | Weaver | 1 | 4.70 |
| 40 | 46 | Osborne | 1 | 3.80 |
| 41 | - | TRAK | 4 | 3.80 |
| 42 | 24 | Ogilvie * | 1 | 3.50 |
| 43 | 8 | Amey | 1 | 3.00 |
| 44 | - | Buckingham Group | 4 | 2.50 |
| 45 | 30 | Dyer & Butler | 6 | 2.36 |
| 46 | - | Multibuild | 1 | 2.10 |
| 47 | 9 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 4 | 2.01 |
| 48 | - | Greswolde | 2 | 1.51 |
| 49 | 23 | William Birch | 2 | 1.45 |
| 50 | - | 8build | 2 | 1.35 |
| Totals for January 2009 | 372 | 2,571.93 | ||
| *Information taken from Barbour-ABI database | ||||