Morgan Sindall tops 2023 contractor league desk

Morgan Sindall has topped the Construction Files annual contractor league desk in 2023, after winning 330 jobs worth a combined £2.45bn.

The UK’s 2nd-greatest contractor beat 2nd-placed Balfour Beatty, which hoovered up 56 contracts worth £2.1bn. Wates and Galliford Strive got here third and fourth on the checklist, after touchdown affords with a combined worth of £1.75bn and £1.66bn respectively.

Meanwhile Bouygues landed essentially the most work in December, after winning a £1.34bn tunnelling contract for the Decrease Thames Crossing with Murphy.

The French-owned builder reeled in £679.9m of labor in December, with a £9.9m mixed-employ contract topping up the £670m it’s miles determined to accomplish from establishing a 2.6 mile tunnel (pictured) below the River Thames as phase of the deliberate crossing between Essex and Kent.

The mixed-employ contract will behold Bouygues lift 76 apartments and a medical centre in Didsbury, Better Manchester, for Southwark Housing Belief.

Murphy got here 2nd in the month-to-month desk for its non-public £670m part in the Thames Decrease Crossing job, which is in a position to behold the Bouygues Travaux Publics-Murphy joint project (JV) lift the longest tunnel in the UK and one in every of the widest in Europe.

The tall tunnelling job changed into once in the foundation tendered with a £2.3bn impress. Client Nationwide Highways told Construction Files the preliminary resolve changed into once a restrict that included contingency for peril and the procurement activity had enabled impress efficiencies to be chanced on.

The winning JV changed into once picked forward of two others: an organization formed of Bam Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction and Vinci Construction Gigantic Projets, and a JV between Dragados and Hochtief Infrastructure.

ISG got here third in the December league desk after wining three contracts worth a combined £217.6m – together with the £200m phase two of the Slough One Files Campus, a contract let by recordsdata-centre developer Yondr.

Yondr and ISG are sister companies owned by Texan billionaire William Harrison thru his non-public equity company Cathexis. Yondr chief executive Paul Cossell is additionally a past chief executive of ISG.

Morgan Sindall took the fourth build in the month-to-month desk, having been shriveled to 15 projects worth a combined £161.5m, whereas Winvic got here fifth, with two projects worth a combined £105.7m.

Except the Decrease Thames Crossing and Slough recordsdata centra projects, the finest deal of the month changed into once signed by Winvic, for the £81m first phrase of Leeds assemble-to-rent map Sweet Road.

VolkerWessels, in the intervening time, scored a £78m industrial map in Hemel Hempstead for world exact estate company Prologis, whereas Excalon signed up for a £78m carbon capture mission at Peterlee in County Durham.

Bouygues has topped Construction Files’ month-to-month contractor league desk, which is compiled by construction intelligence supplier Glenigan, thrice in 2023. It additionally led in August and February following vital contract wins in the healthcare and pupil-lodging sectors.

Wates additionally topped the month-to-month contractor league tables thrice last year, after winning two major penal complicated jobs in November and 14 contracts in every March and Could well simply, together with residential jobs worth up to £100m.

The alternative league winners last year had been Skanska, Multiplex, Bam, Galliford Strive, Bowmer & Kirkland and Balfour Beatty.