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Top contractors – monthly work won,
1-30 November 1998
  Number
of projects
Total
value (£m)
1 (1) Bovis 3 442.00
2 (–) Laing 5 354.00
3 (6) Tarmac 6 178.13
4 (3) HBG Construction 8 122.55
5 (–) Balfour Beatty 8 67.50
6 (2) Kier Group 9 40.50
7 (–) Birse Construction 5 27.50
8 (13) Wates Group 7 21.60
9 (14) John Mowlem 4 18.76
10 (–) Crest Nicholson Properties 4 16.47
11 (15) Ballast Wiltshier Construction 5 15.94
12 (10) Allen 3 15.30
13 (–) Barr Construction 2 15.00
14 (–) Fitzpatrick Contractors 2 14.20
15 (11) Jarvis Construction (UK) 3 11.90
16 (5) Bowmer & Kirkland 2 11.50
17 (25) Tilbury Douglas Construction 5 11.25
18 (–) Sol Construction 2 10.30
19 (–) Geoffrey Osborne 2 9.07
20 (–) DJ Higgins & Sons 2 8.30
21 (8) Morgan Sindall 3 8.20
22 (–) Totty Construction Group 2 6.40
23 (20) Willmott Dixon 3 5.44
24 (–) Mansell 3 5.35
25 (7) Miller Group 2 4.00
26 (–) Try Group 3 3.90
27 (–) Alfred McAlpine Construction 2 3.38
28 (–) Walter G Birch 2 2.82
29 (–) Pochin (Contractors) 2 2.70
30 (–) Herbert Baggaley Construction 2 2.60
  TOTAL 109  1 453.95
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 December 1997-30 November 1998
    Number
of projects
Total
value (£m)
1 (1) Laing 50 1 340.27
2 (3) Bovis 76 1 255.70
3 (2) HBG Construction 95 996.48
4 (4) Sir Robert McAlpine 15 846.29
5 (8) Tarmac 47 602.07
6 (5) Amec 34 490.13
7 (6) John Mowlem 77 431.27
8 (9) Kier Group 103 395.21
9 (7) Kvaerner UK 16 389.50
10 (–) GMI Construction 10 321.12
11 (13) Miller Group 22 253.35
12 (11) Ballast Wiltshier Construction 52 250.53
13 (17) Balfour Beatty 35 244.37
14 (14) Wates Group 49 238.99
15 (12) Taylor Woodrow 18 232.22
16 (16) Shepherd Building Group 36 231.61
17 (10) Mace Construction 5 222.40
18 (15) Morgan Sindall 88 201.08
19 (18) Tilbury Douglas Construction 29 186.77
20 (20) Norwest Holst Group 30 169.03
21 (19) Bowmer & Kirkland 38 149.29
22 (21) Willmott Dixon 41 140.06
23 (22) Morrison Construct Group 19 132.28
24 (23) Allen 44 130.07
25 (–) Birse Construction 19 100.65
26 (25) Simons Construction 15 99.35
27 (27) Mansell 40 92.69
28 (26) Costain Group 16 92.34
29 (24) Henry Boot 20 91.99
30 (28) RG Construction Management 8 91.40
  TOTAL 1 147 10 418.48
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 won,
1 December 1997-30 November 1998
    Number
of projects
Total
value (£m)
1 (–) Lyons Sleeman & Hoare 9 364.34
2 (5) Sheppard Robson 7 301.46
3 (2) HLM Architects (Design) 6 295.39
4 (4) Chetwood Associates 34 264.82
5 (3) Burgess Partnership 5 259.71
6 (10) GMW Partnership 9 221.76
7 (7) The Parr Partnership 15 213.75
8 (6) RHWL Partnership 5 208.51
9 (8) Keppie Architects 5 191.25
10 (9) Leslie Jones & Partners 7 186.30
11 (1) Foster and Partners 8 179.86
12 (20) Benoy 7 170.80
13 (11) Sidell Gibson Partnership 7 159.20
14 (19) Building Design Partnership 14 142.38
15 (12) George Trew Dunn Partnership 2 141.30
16 (14) Rolfe Judd 5 128.85
17 (16) Broadway Malyan 16 119.28
18 (17) Amec 3 115.60
19 (18) Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners 2 113.50
20 (–) Percy Thomas Partnership 3 100.00
  TOTAL 169 3 878.06
Only companies that have been confirmed as architects are included, which excludes planners and project managers.
 
Top clients – yearly spend,
1 December 1997-30 November 1998
    Number
of projects
Total
value (£m)
1 (1) J Sainsbury 38 309.89
2 (2) Ministry of Defence 32 283.69
3 (3) Asda Group 25 164.10
4 (7) Marks & Spencer 18 162.54
5 (4) SmithKline Beecham 2 152.00
6 (6) Home Office 24 144.82
7 (5) Legal & General Group 5 134.53
8 (8) BP Oil (UK) 3 104.40
9 (16) Royal Mail 9 101.82
10 (–) Stakis 4 97.70
11 (10) MEPC Developments 6 94.27
12 (9) Safeway Food Stores 18 94.25
13 (11) Tesco Stores 23 84.44
14 (12) Land Securities 8 83.55
15 (13) Liberty International Holdings 2 73.08
16 (15) Railtrack 21 71.34
17 (14) HBG Construction 6 70.35
18 (17) Prudential Corporation 4 60.86
19 (20) Taylor Woodrow 8 54.76
20 (–) Berkeley Group 3 54.40
  TOTAL 259 2 396.79
Figures in brackets indicate last year’s position.