Contracts worth £55m help Kier to the number one spot, but Bovis Lend Lease dominates the yearly results
Kier won eight contracts valued at a total of £55m to knock Interserve off the top spot for April. These included a £10m office development for Countryside Properties in Chelmsford, Essex.

Interserve picked up one contract in April; in March, as you may remember, it took four projects valued at more than £87m to leap from nowhere to first place in a single bound.

However, the number of contracts is not really important: Morgan Sindall has scooped 113 in the past year to Bovis Lend Lease's 19. Yet Bovis tops the league à la Manchester United, whereas Morgan Sindall resides, Charlton-style, in mid-table.

And no matter how many contracts Foster and Partners win and the Ministry of Defence let, they can't shake off that runners-up feeling. HOK and the Department of Health retain their hegemony.

Postscript

This information is compiled for Building by Emap Glenigan, which analyses an average of 8500 construction projects each week. For details, email Marcus Oughton at marcus.oughton@glenigan.emap.com or call 01202-432121.

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