Mace tops contractors’ league with £238m contract haul

Mace has surged to the top of the contractors’ league table for April after racking up six large contracts worth a combined £238m.

Mace’s project wins were all major contracts, including a £115m development in London’s Camden Town and a £58m data centre in east London for telecommunications giant Telehouse International. Other contracts included a £30m package of schools in Bracknell and a £16m retail and office building in Westminster.

Kier moved up to second in the table with a haul of 48 projects totalling £194m.

Morgan Sindall re-entered the top 10 in third place after also securing a raft of small projects worth a combined £168m.

Graham Construction also re-entered the top 10 in fifth after securing 11 contracts worth a combined £145m. The group won six large contracts with Dumfries and Galloway council in Scotland to redevelop several schools and academic buildings, and also build a learning centre and a campus to accommodate three different schools.

Bowmer & Kirkland rose to sixth with three large project wins worth £130m for contracts to refurbish offices in Uxbridge and Reading, and to build new offices in Coventry. Bouygues climbed to eighth from 10th after securing five projects worth a combined £87m, including a £25m contract to build a retirement home.

April saw a drop in value of contracts awarded to the top 10 firms, with the companies winning £1.4bn of work, down 58% from £2.4bn in March.

You’ll find interactive, sortable league tables of contract wins here: building.co.uk/barometer