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Top contractors – monthly work won, 1-30 April 1999
    Number of
projects		 Total
value (£m)
1 (1) HBG Construction 7 93.90
2 (8) Bovis 3 79.05
3 (–) Tarmac 3 55.50
4 (3) Bowmer & Kirkland 3 25.50
5 (–) Taylor Woodrow 3 23.50
6 (–) Shepherd Building 2 20.00
7 (4) Ballast Wiltshier 2 13.15
8 (18) Birse 2 11.20
9 (2) Kier 4 10.30
10 (–) Crest Nicholson Properties 2 8.64
11 (–) Tilbury Douglas 3 8.00
12 (–) Sol Construction 2 7.20
13 (–) Mansell 3 6.50
14 (16) Totty Construction 3 5.63
15 (–) John Sisk & Son 4 5.09
16 (17) Melville Dundas 2 5.00
17 (14) Willmott Dixon 2 3.37
  TOTAL 50 381.53
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 May 1998-30 April 1999
    Number of
projects		 Total
value (£m)
1 (1) John Laing 40 1 000.38
2 (2) Bovis 47 973.17
3 (3) Sir Robert McAlpine 9 750.19
4 (5) HBG Construction 74 708.45
5 (4) Tarmac 43 643.23
6 (7) Kier 107 444.72
7 (8) Ballast Wiltshier 61 358.97
8 (9) GMI Construction 10 327.83
9 (10) Kvaerner UK 13 322.30
10 (7) John Mowlem 73 294.56
11 (11) Wates 47 250.03
12 (14) Mace Construction 7 235.45
13 (13) Amec 26 233.73
14 (12) Costain 18 229.21
15 (15) Morrison 18 215.55
16 (18) Taylor Woodrow 13 203.17
17 (16) Bowmer & Kirkland 36 200.31
18 (17) Willmott Dixon 49 184.81
19 (20) Shepherd Building 23 165.83
20 (21) Balfour Beatty 28 159.38
21 (19) Morgan Sindall 66 156.82
22 (22) Miller 16 149.15
23 (24) Jarvis 37 139.68
24 (23) Norwest Holst 22 109.51
25 (25) John Sisk & Son 24 97.33
26 (26) Allen 35 95.73
27 (27) Henry Boot 21 92.84
28 (30) Tilbury Douglas 28 91.47
29 (–) Wilson Bowden Engineering 11 90.30
30 (28) Try Group 22 89.61
  TOTAL 1024 9 013.69
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 – yearly work,
1 May 1998-30 April 1999
    Number of
projects		 Total
value (£m)
1 (1) Lyons Sleeman & Hoare 7 336.95
2 (4) The Parr Partnership 14 256.10
3 (5) Foster and Partners 5 256.00
4 (7) HLM Architects (Design) 7 247.79
5 (3) Chetwood Associates 33 241.16
6 (10) Benoy 9 239.80
7 (11) RHWL Partnership 6 233.43
8 (2) Leslie Jones & Partners 4 221.00
9 (9) Keppie Architects 6 209.20
10 (12) Rolfe Judd 8 184.54
11 (13) GMW Partnership 8 176.42
12 (14) Building Design Partnership 16 159.30
13 (16) Broadway Malyan 20 156.12
14 (–) Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners 2 156.00
15 (15) George Trew Dunn Partnership 3 143.10
16 (17) Fitzroy Robinson 10 137.60
17 (19) Fairhurst Design Group 9 115.21
18 (–) Percy Thomas Partnership 3 112.00
19 (20) Burks Green & Partners 16 111.89
20 (18) Hamilton Associates 13 93.65
  TOTAL 199 3 787.25
Only companies that have been confirmed as architects are
included, which excludes planners and project managers.
Top clients/promoters – work placed,
1 May 1998-30 April 1999
    Number of
projects		 Total
value (£m)
1 (1) Ministry of Defence 28 471.75
2 (2) J Sainsbury 35 233.99
3 (4) Home Office 34 168.18
4 (3) SmithKline Beecham 4 160.00
5 (8) BP Oil (UK) 4 117.90
6 (5) Asda 15 110.34
7 (6) Tesco 19 102.96
8 (7) MEPC Developments 7 102.23
9 (12) Wilson Bowden Engineering 11 90.30
10 (11) Royal Mail 6 84.82
11 (13) Liberty International Holdings 2 73.81
12 (14) HBG 7 72.35
13 (15) John Lewis Partnership 9 69.25
14 (10) Marks & Spencer 7 68.62
15 (16) Falkirk District Council 2 68.10
16 (–) BAA 12 64.20
17 (17) British Telecom 16 63.23
18 (18) Scottish Office 2 61.80
19 (19) Prudential Corporation 3 58.86
20 (–) Railtrack 16 54.62
  TOTAL 239 2 297.30
Figures in brackets indicate last year’s position.