Clients awarded £6.1bn worth of work compared to around £5.5bn the month before

Clients handed out around £6.1bn of construction work in July – up by around £500m from the month before, Glenigan data has revealed.

The figures (see Building Boardroom) reveal that the most work was awarded in the infrastructure sector, with firms here inking deals worth just under £1.2bn – or around 20% of all work awarded in the month.

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Commercial clients achieved the second highest value of approvals in July

The bulk of this, £445m, was from three Department for Transport deals, and six Network Rail contracts worth a combined £277m.

After infrastructure, the next most prolific sector was social housing, with clients here awarding firms £848m of business.

This was followed by those in the utilities and industrial sectors, at around £738m apiece.

Meanwhile, the data also revealed that £8.69bn worth of projects were approved in July, up 26% on the £6.95bn approved in June.

The private housing sector was the market with the highest value of projects given the green light, with permission secured for 366 schemes worth almost £2.55bn.

After private residential, commercial achieved the second highest value of approvals at just under £1.6bn, followed by industrial at £1.35bn. 

Overall the client to receive planning permissions with the highest value was the Department of Health and Social Care. It had six schemes worth a combined £450m given the green light.

Top spending clients - July 2021

The data above and below is a sample of the information on contract awards by sector for June put together by Glenigan. It represents just a small part of the client intelligence that is accessible through the Building Boardroom Network. 

Infrastructure

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
Department for Transport 3 £445m
Network Rail 6 £277m
Shropshire Council 1 £87m
Central Bedfordshire Council 1 £62m
Welsh Government 2 £41m

Education

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
Monmouthshire County Council 2 £50m
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council/Pen-Y-Dre High School 1 £18m
Department for Education/Seva Free School Trust 1 £12m
Surrey County Council 5 £11m
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority 1 £10m

Hotel and leisure

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
FC Palmer and Sons/Greencoat Capital 1 £120m
Hyatt Group/R&F Properties QS 1 £63m
CC Land/Meyer Bergman 1 £55m
Nicolas James Group 1 £20m
CLP/Marick/Marrick (Beam Reach) 1 £18m

Industrial

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
IM Properties 1 £195m
Db Symmetry 3 £83m
Magnavale Properties 1 £67m
Pets At Home/Stoford Developments 1 £48m
Colworth Science Park/Trinity Investments 1 £40m

Medical & scientific

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
Department of Health 25 £120m
Cambridge Medipark/Countryside Properties/Liberty Property Trust 1 £65m
Department of Health/East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust 1 £12m
Frontier Estates 1 £8m
Barchester Healthcare 1 £6m

Commercial

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
Northwood Investors 1 £77m
Bruntwood Estates 1 £54m
The Mercers Company 2 £39m
Ark Data Centres 1 £38m
Home Office 1 £34m

Private housing

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
British Land 1 £72m
Aitch Group/The Laundry Building 1 £65m
Boyer Planning/Pocket Living 1 £36m
Thorstone Land & Property 1 £26m
Healey Development Solutions/Meadow Residential 1 £20m

Retail

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
British Land 1 £56m
Wm Morrison Supermarkets 4 £20m
Fraser Group 1 £16m
HEVF 2 New Bond Street 1 £15m
Distell International/Kingsmead Developments/Lidl  1 £15m

Social housing

Ultimate Company NameTotal Number of ProjectsTotal Value of Projects
Notting Hill Genesis 1 £98m
Gloucester City Council/Reef Estates 1 £60m
London Borough of Hounslow 3 £51m
Hollybrook/University of London 1 £47m
Ministry of Defence 1 £42m

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* private housing awards data refers to external contracts only and does not include frameworks

** projects awarded by a joint venture are listed independently to both single party clients