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Top contractors – monthly work won,
1-31 January 1999
      Number of
projects		 Total
value (£m)
1 (13) Morrison 2 155.00
2 (6) Costain 4 68.85
3 (12) Mowlem 12 56.27
4 (–) Wates 6 53.20
5 (9) HBG Construction 3 33.90
6 (4) Laing 2 33.00
7 (3) Willmott Dixon 6 32.42
8 (–) Kvaerner UK 2 27.00
9 (–) Barr 2 25.30
10 (5) Ballast Wiltshier 7 24.31
11 (1) Tarmac 2 18.00
12 (–) Galliford 3 15.50
13 (17) Kier 7 15.30
14 (18) Lovell 2 15.28
15 (–) Edmund Nuttall 2 15.19
16 (–) Morgan Sindall 9 14.86
17 (11) Bowmer & Kirkland 3 14.30
18 (–) Henry Boot 2 14.00
19 (–) Try 2 13.00
20 (–) James Longley 2 12.81
21 (–) Mansell 5 11.60
22 (–) Balfour Beatty 3 11.50
23 (15) Dean & Dyball 3 11.40
24 (–) Allen 4 11.17
25 (–) Bryant 3 10.20
26 (–) Walter G Birch 3 9.60
27 (8) Amec 2 9.20
28 (–) Totty 4 9.10
29 (–) EBC Developments 4 9.05
30 (16) John Sisk & Son 2 8.50
    TOTAL 113 758.61
Top contractors – yearly work won,
1 February 1998-31 January 1999
      Number of
projects		 Total
value (£m)
1 (1) Laing 44 1 106.19
2 (2) Bovis 67 1 097.22
3 (3) HBG Construction 87 913.46
4 (4) Sir Robert McAlpine 17 904.79
5 (5) Tarmac 51 650.57
6 (6) Amec 33 486.33
7 (7) Mowlem 85 483.69
8 (9) Kvaerner UK 16 354.5
9 (8) Kier 97 343.23
10 (10) GMI 10 321.12
11 (15) Wates 51 268.19
12 (11) Ballast Wiltshier 54 257.57
13 (13) Miller 18 233.85
14 (23) Morrison 22 230.92
15 (14) Mace 6 230.9
16 (16) Taylor Woodrow 13 219.92
17 (12) Balfour Beatty 30 204.84
18 (17) Shepherd 32 198.11
19 (25) Costain 21 175.5
20 (18) Morgan Sindall 78 175.46
21 (21) Willmott Dixon 47 171.63
22 (22) Bowmer & Kirkland 41 166.76
23 (20) Norwest Holst 27 152.69
24 (24) Allen 42 120.41
25 (27) Jarvis 34 117.19
26 (19) Tilbury Douglas 28 113.62
27 (26) John Sisk & Son 24 112.83
28 (28) Simons 16 100.95
29 (–) Try Group 24 100.47
30 (–) Mansell 41 93.24
    TOTAL 1156 10 106.15
Top architects – yearly work,
1 February 1998-31 January 1999
    Number of
projects		 Total
value (£m)
1 (1) Lyons Sleeman & Hoare 10 368.50
2 (2) Sheppard Robson 8 315.46
3 (4) Chetwood Associates 34 277.82
4 (10) Leslie Jones & Partners 6 275.50
5 (11) Foster and Partners 8 262.86
6 (5) Burgess Partnership 5 260.60
7 (3) HLM Architects (Design) 5 230.39
8 (7) The Parr Partnership 17 215.35
9 (9) Keppie Architects 6 200.20
10 (8) RHWL Partnership 5 188.43
11 (13) Benoy 7 174.80
12 (14) Sidell Gibson Partnership 7 152.25
13 (15) Building Design Partnership 17 148.26
14 (–) Hamilton Associates 18 142.71
15 (16) George Trew Dunn Partnership 2 141.30
16 (12) Broadway Malyan 20 133.20
17 (20) Fitzroy Robinson 10 132.60
18 (17) Rolfe Judd 5 128.85
19 (6) GMW Partnership 7 116.42
20 (18) Amec 3 115.60
  TOTAL 200 3 981.09
Top clients/promoters – work placed,
1 February 1998-31 January 1999
      Number of
projects		 Total
value (£m)
1 (1) J Sainsbury 40 333.43
2 (2) Ministry of Defence 28 264.89
3 (8) MEPC Developments 9 161.27
4 (5) Asda Group 23 157.00
5 (6) SmithKline Beecham 2 152.00
6 (3) Marks & Spencer 19 151.46
7 (4) Home Office 26 135.92
8 (7) Legal & General Group 4 117.56
9 (9) BP Oil (UK) 3 104.40
10 (12) Tesco Stores 25 98.84
11 (11) Royal Mail 8 95.82
12 (10) Stakis 3 93.90
13 (13) Land Securities 8 83.55
14 (16) HBG Construction 6 73.85
15 (15) Liberty International Holdings 2 73.81
16 (14) Safeway 17 73.53
17 (–) Falkirk District Council 2 68.10
18 (–) The John Lewis Partnership 9 60.45
19 (17) Prudential Corporation 3 58.86
20 (–) Pillar Caisse Partnership 3 54.26
    TOTAL 240 2 412.89