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Top contractors
monthly work won, 1-31 August 2005  Number of contracts Total value (£m)
1(1)Balfour Beatty90374.78
2(–)Bovis Lend Lease4340.00
310Laing O’Rourke9193.02
4(16)Wates36113.29
5(2)Kier52112.13
6(3)Costain484.52
7(6)Morgan Sindall3675.34
8(13)Rok3465.06
9(14)Bowmer & Kirkland760.23
10(–)Shepherd456.80
11(–)Mowlem046.60
12(8)HBG Construction845.73
13(9)Edmund Nuttall643.31
14(–)Durkan2842.26
15(18)Galliford Try942.00
16(–)Eric Wright839.63
17(25)Skanska1034.72
18(26)ISG Interior Exterior734.33
19(11)Barr632.80
20(15)Norwest Holst328.90
21(12)Interserve Projects1426.90
22(–)David McLean1023.66
23(–)Leadbitter615.76
24(–)EW Beard1515.40
25(17)Thomas Vale814.10
26(36)Watkin Jones114.00
27(4)Sir Robert McAlpine113.30
28(46)Morrison1213.10
29(–)Ashe1213.09
30(33)North Midland712.66
  Total 2,027.41
*Information taken from ABI database
Top contractors
yearly work won, 1 September 2004-31 August 2005  Number of contractsTotal value (£m)
1(1)Balfour Beatty8963868.06
2(2)Laing O’Rourke*842031.46
3(4)Bovis Lend Lease291892.50
4(3)Costain861676.06
5(5)Kier5951558.94
6(6)Morgan Sindall3761345.37
7(7)Mowlem2081267.30
8(10)HBG Construction70937.57
9(9)Carillion66895.50
10(8)Gleeson57849.54
11(11)Skanska65670.14
12(19)Wates170553.19
13(12)Norwest Holst55542.74
14(13)Bowmer & Kirkland88494.41
15(16)Rok299459.62
16(15)Birse49459.02
17(18)Sir Robert McAlpine72458.65
18(17)May Gurney37442.00
19(31)ISG Interior Exterior13427.41
20(21)Amey13421.68
21(24)Shepherd24420.20
22(20)Willmott Dixon101405.41
23(22)Interserve Projects247397.31
24(25)Morrison102356.44
25(14)Edmund Nuttall93321.43
26(23)Taylor Woodrow63319.89
27(27)David McLean91314.03
28(26)Barr70295.65
29(28)Montpellier Group Plc94256.73
30(29)Sisk79234.94
  Total 24573.17
* Information taken from ABI database
Top architects
1 September 2004-31 August 2005 Number of projectsTotal value (£m)
1Building Design Partnership14663.05
2Wilkinson Eyre Architects6602.20
3Dixon Jones 2520.00
4Page & Park Architects4504.65
5Brock Carmichael Associates2501.00
6Haworth Tompkins2500.15
7Levitt Bernstein Associates 2451.50
8Aedas Architects 42374.41
9Simpson Architects 1283.00
10Carey Jones Architects9245.00
11Aukett Architects6226.50
12Ashen Dyer Architects2221.00
13Broadway Malyan 13204.75
14Holder Mathias Architects11204.70
15Foster and Partners6202.50
16RHWL Partnership4195.50
17Burks Green & Partners10180.50
18HOK International 7164.00
19Leach Rhodes & Walker6161.30
20Panter Hudspith Architects2147.00
 Total1516,552.71
Top clients/promoters
1 September 2004-31 August 2005   
  Number of projectsTotal value (£m)
1National Grid Transco 81,585.00
2Highways Agency501,124.47
3Scottish Executive101,096.60
4Severn Trent Water51,012.20
5Grosvenor Investment 4993.50
6London Borough of Barnet8457.15
7Graham Park1450.00
8ING Real Estate Development 3447.75
9South Hook LNG 1400.00
10Welsh Water Authority6354.30
11Liverpool council4318.75
12Southern Water Services 11298.71
13Cambridgeshire council12291.20
14Ministry of Defence30289.95
15London Borough of Hackney13285.37
16Cross London Rail Links1225.00
17Notting Hill Housing Trust9220.10
18Land Securities 8219.05
19South West Water Services 1200.00
20Central Manchester NHS1199.00
 Total18610,468.10
Top quantity surveyors
1 September 2004-31 August 2005 Number of projectsTotal value (£m)
1Davis Langdon1081,596.11
2EC Harris40303.78
3Gleeds53289.15
4Turner & Townsend Group40263.5
5Deacon & Jones3234.75
6Gardiner & Theobald 51233.95
7Cyril Sweett & Partners21206.75
8Franklin + Andrews18198.75
9Baily Garner 13181.85
10AYH Partnership31150.15
11Jacobs Babtie1135
12Capita Property Services12125
13Easington council1117
14Leonard Stace Partnership694
15White Young Green190
16Cambridgeshire council689.9
17Randall & Simmonds984.65
18MDA Group 1282.4
19Milton Keynes council677.85
20Tweeds1877.45
 Total4504,631.99