Education work helps Balfour Beatty top August's CJ50

Balfour Beatty came top of the class in the August CJ50 contracts league, after closing the £250m Stoke Building Schools for the Future deal.

The contracting giant was chosen, along with Wates and Thomas Vale, for the programme which involves the building and refurbishment of secondary and special schools throughout the city, and includes five brand new academies.

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Balfour also made a splash in the water sector, taking a £100m alliance contract from South West Water.

In total, the contractor won 82 deals during August, worth over £718m.

Bovis Lend Lease finished 2nd on the back of two other BSF deals, secured through its PFI business Catalyst: the £180m first phase of Birmingham; and the £55m third phase of East Lancashire.

Bovis picked up another education contract from East Lancashire LEP: the £16m Accrington Academy.

Another BSF contract helped Amey secure third spot. The firm has been appointed to Bradford City Council’s second phase, and will provid the ICT and FM aspects, worth £148m.

Galliford Try checked in to fourth spot, after booking a £16m contract to extend Heythorp Park Hotel in Oxfordshire. The firm also won a £60m asset enhancement framework with Network Rail.

Kier finished fifth, winning 21 contracts worth just shy of £100m.

Sixth-placed Apollo had an excellent month, taking 11 deals totalling £95m, the pick a £63m social housing contract with Rykneld Homes in Derbyshire.

Willmott Dixon came in seventh, winning the £30m Hope Academy from St Helens Council, plus a new civil hall for Guildford Borough Council in Surrey, valued at £20m.

Laing O’Rourke finished eighth, winning £85m-worth of new work. Its biggest contracts included a £55m faculty building for Bristol University’s bioscience and mathematics departments, and a new student union for Coventry University, worth £24m.

Volker Wessels took ninth spot, winning a £28m clean-up contract at Chesterfield’s Avenue Coking Works, from the East Midlands Development Agency.

Tenth-place Morgan Sindall’s biggest contract of the month was a £20m estate regeneration deal from First Wessex Housing Association in Eastleigh.

Other big contracts signed in August included: Sisk’s £25m deal to rebuild Weston-Super-Mare’s Grand Pier; FM Conway’s £54m infrastucture term maintenance contract with Hammersmith & Fulham Council; and a £16m social housing job for Durkan in Harrow, with Network Housing Group.