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 | 9 | Skanska | 27 | 317.87 |
| 2 | 1 | Balfour Beatty | 78 | 282.00 |
| 3 | 19 | Willmott Dixon | 16 | 256.66 |
| 4 | 2 | HBG Construction | 7 | 158.00 |
| 5 | 4 | Morgan Sindall | 43 | 126.87 |
| 6 | 11 | Kier | 20 | 109.00 |
| 7 | 23 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 15 | 106.20 |
| 8 | 5 | Laing O'Rourke * | 2 | 90.00 |
| 9 | 30 | Interserve Projects | 17 | 82.00 |
| 10 | 8 | Wates | 11 | 74.19 |
| 11 | - | Higgins Group | 2 | 73.50 |
| 12 | - | Bovis Lend Lease | 3 | 66.40 |
| 13 | - | Taylor Woodrow | 8 | 64.49 |
| 14 | 14 | Galliford Try | 19 | 63.80 |
| 15 | 28 | Fitzpatrick | 2 | 48.90 |
| 16 | 17 | Costain | 5 | 41.54 |
| 17 | 36 | Osborne | 6 | 37.72 |
| 18 | 3 | Carillion | 17 | 36.90 |
| 19 | 6 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 3 | 35.30 |
| 20 | 12 | ISG | 8 | 35.00 |
| 21 | - | May Gurney | 2 | 31.70 |
| 22 | 26 | Miller | 1 | 27.75 |
| 23 | 33 | North Midland | 7 | 26.23 |
| 24 | 29 | Midas Group | 11 | 23.36 |
| 25 | 27 | Thomas Vale | 16 | 22.47 |
| 26 | 24 | McLaren Construction | 4 | 21.00 |
| 27 | 22 | Crispin & Borst | 6 | 18.47 |
| 28 | 16 | Norwest Holst | 8 | 18.25 |
| 29 | - | Clugston | 5 | 18.00 |
| 30 | 31 | Apollo Group | 8 | 15.40 |
| 31 | 39 | Renew (was Montpellier) | 6 | 14.36 |
| 32 | - | GB Building Solutions | 3 | 14.32 |
| 33 | 34 | Birse | 5 | 12.80 |
| 34 | 42 | Buckingham Group | 5 | 10.04 |
| 35 | 41 | Multibuild | 2 | 10.00 |
| 36 | - | DB Russell | 9 | 9.52 |
| 37 | - | Lakehouse Contracts | 12 | 9.23 |
| 38 | 13 | Edmund Nuttall | 6 | 8.95 |
| 39 | 45 | TRAK | 2 | 6.67 |
| 40 | - | Ashford | 1 | 6.22 |
| 41 | 50 | Weaver | 3 | 6.00 |
| 42 | 15 | Mulalley & Co Ltd | 4 | 4.99 |
| 43 | 25 | Watkin Jones | 2 | 3.95 |
| 44 | - | Jackson Civil Engineering * | 2 | 3.70 |
| 45 | 43 | Haymills | 5 | 2.75 |
| 46 | - | Jarvis * | 3 | 2.70 |
| 47 | 38 | Wrekin Construction | 2 | 2.51 |
| 48 | - | Dawnus * | 2 | 2.10 |
| 49 | - | Dyer & Butler | 3 | 1.70 |
| 50 | - | Construction Partnership | 1 | 1.20 |
| Totals for April 2008 | 455 | 2,462.68 | ||
| *Information taken from Barbour-ABI Database | ||||