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Top contractors
monthly work won, 1-31 December 2002
   Number of projectsTotal value(£m)
1=(1)Bovis Lend Lease1 100.00
1=(–)Mace 1 100.00
3(10)Bowmer & Kirkland 4 39.50
4(–)Skanska UK1 35.00
5(–)John Laing 1 28.00
6(–)Morrison Construction Group 3 22.70
7(3)Kier Group 5 39.20
8(9)Balfour Beatty 4 21.79
9(11)Morgan Sindall4 18.90
10(–)Lemmeleg Building & Contracting 1 17.00
11(2)HBG Construction 2 16.90
12(14)Mansell 3 16.60
13(6)YJL5 12.76
14(28)Galliford Try 1 12.50
15(–)Warings Contractors1 10.40
16(7)Wates Group 1 10.00
17(–)O’Rourke Group1 10.00
18(15)Amec2 9.00
19(–)ISG (Interior/Exterior)2 8.98
20(4)Norwest Holst 4 8.80
21(12)Birse Group 1 8.66
22(22)Simons Group 2 8.30
23(–)Carillion Building1 8.00
24(–)Deeks & Steere 1 8.00
25(19)Dean & Dyball Construction 1 8.00
26(8)Costain Group 1 8.00
27(16)Alfred McAlpine 1 8.00
28(–)Willmott Dixon 2 8.00
29(–)Peterhouse Group 3 7.20
30(–)Tolent Construction 1 7.00
  Total62 717.19
All types of building contracts, including design-and-build, management, construction management and traditional contracts, are taken into account. Facilities management, schedule of rates and measured-term contracts are not included.
Top contractors
yearly work won, 1 January 2002-31 December 2002
   Number of projectsTotal value(£m)
1(1)Bovis Lend Lease18 1,009.00
2(3)Skanska UK13 716.00
3(2)Sir Robert McAlpine22 706.00
4(4)HBG Construction 71 627.60
5(6)Jarvis14 536.40
6(5)Multiplex4 534.30
7(9)Bowmer & Kirkland 70 489.70
8(11)Balfour Beatty 41 468.84
9(10)Kier Group 104 456.00
10(8)John Laing 17 454.74
11(7)Shepherd Construction 21 392.90
12(13)Norwest Holst Construction 46 303.12
13(12)Morgan Sindall107 302.94
14(14)YJL 76 267.39
15(16)Birse Group 43 243.97
16(17)Mace 4 202.90
17(20)Mansell 61 200.85
18(18)ISG (Interior/Exterior)31 196.06
19(15)Galliford Try 33 188.86
20(25)Carillion 11 178.15
21(23)RG Group 17 173.40
22(24)Amec20 171.00
23(22)Ballast 34 170.08
24(21)Wates Group 9 164.50
25(28)Interserve 29 163.80
26(26)Taylor Woodrow 20 162.66
27(30)Costain Group 18 117.18
28(–)Alfred McAlpine 14 108.70
29(29)Simons Group 16 105.00
30(–)Tolent Construction 22 103.47
  Total1006 9,915.51
All types of building contracts, including design-and-build, management, construction management and traditional contracts, are taken into account. Facilities management, schedule of rates and measured-term contracts are not included.
Top architects
work won, 1 January 2002-31 December 2002
   Number of projectsTotal value (£m)
1(1)HOK International9 921.50
2(2)Foster and Partners 8 703.00
3(–)Allies & Morrison9 465.50
4(3)MacCormac Jamieson & Prichard2 403.00
5(5)Terry Farrell & Partners3 301.50
6(4)Burks Green12 284.63
7(8)Building Design Partnership 15 243.80
8(6)Aedas AHR24 206.16
9(7)Chapman Taylor 6 198.84
10(9)EPR Architects 2 178.60
11(11)Halliday Meecham Architects 10 162.14
12(12)Michael Hopkins & Partners3 157.16
13(13)Watkins Gray 6 146.50
14(14)Michael Hyde & Associates2 142.50
15(10)Percy Thomas Partnership7 141.70
16(15)Hurley Robertson & Associates3 136.68
17(16)Broadway Malyan7 136.00
18(17)Alsop Architects4 134.50
19(18)Keppie Design 5 133.60
20(19)Anshen Dyer Architects7 125.10
  Total145 5,422.40
Only companies that have been confirmed as architects are included, which excludes planners and project managers.
Top clients/promoters
work placed, 1 January 2002-31 December 2002
   Number of projectsTotal value (£m)
1(–)Department of Health159 929.87
2(2)Prudential 7 667.54
3(6)Ministry of Defence34 591.12
4(4)Home Office54 558.78
5(1)J Sainsbury 56 484.32
6(3)Wembley Stadium 2 412.00
7(5)Land Securities 4 220.20
8(7)Crown Estates Commission 3 203.18
9(9)Lancaster University3 157.90
10(10)Tesco 44 156.89
11(15)Asda Group 17 149.80
12(8)DTLR5 138.00
13(11)LB Southwark 3 124.30
14(–)GlaxoSmithKline 5 112.70
15(13)Landmark Development Projects3 101.80
16(14)Allied London Properties 2 101.50
17(12)Castlemore Securities 6 95.75
18(16)Ikea8 91.70
19(17)DEFRA3 90.00
20(–)P&O4 78.70
  Total422 5,466.05
Top quantity surveyors
work won, 1 January 2002-31 December 2002
   Number Total
1(1)Davis Langdon & Everest85 1,132.53
2(2)Gardiner & Theobald56 962.06
3(3)Gleeds51 449.55
4(7)Turner & Townsend33 444.63
5(4)Franklin + Andrews10 433.00
6(6)AYH 17 281.70
7(5)EC Harris34 240.04
8(8)Cyril Sweett & Partners17 216.86
9(18)Currie & Brown 22 197.34
10(9)Atkins 27 145.00
11(10)Nisbet 16 127.95
12(13)Hanscomb Partnership 6 111.50
13(14)Capita14 105.58
14(11)Rex Proctor & Partners22 104.11
15(3)Gleeds10 98.99
16(16)Northcroft20 91.05
17(17)WT Partnership15 90.10
18(15)Citex Group15 88.95
19(19)Edmond Shipway & Partners12 87.90
20(18)Tweeds Group1673.64
  Total482 5,808.84