Balfour and Willmott Dixon are top of the contractors’ tables

A £20m contract to carry out work on the A50 in the east Midlands helped Balfour Beatty claim the top spot on the civils table for September.

However, the contractor drops to ninth spot on the table excluding civils, which is topped by Willmott Dixon. The firm, which is just behind Balfour Beatty in second spot on the table including civils, picked up 38 contracts worth over £150m last month. The contracts include a new transport hub in Lincoln, valued at £29m.

Kier occupies third spot on the table including civils with 38 contract wins totalling £134m and second spot on the table excluding civils.

A brace of housing contracts has put United Living – formed by the merger of Bullock Construction and United House three years ago – just behind Kier on both tables. The first is a £50m contract for 201 flats in Wandsworth, south London, for London & Quadrant Housing Trust, while it has also won a £35m contract for a regeneration project at Pollards Hill for Moat Housing in Merton, south-west London.

Next on both tables is Morrison Construction with a lone win – the £70m contract for NHS Lothian’s East Lothian Community hospital.

Carillion slots in next with some newly inked contracts, including the first part of the second phase at Helical Bar’s Barts Square mixed-use scheme in London’s historical West Smithfield.

Further down is Galliford Try, along with ISG, which had a good month picking up 30 contracts, and Graham Construction.

Meanwhile, Interserve rounds out the top 10 on both tables with contracts wins, which include the new Piazza building for the University of York. This will house 36 learning spaces, two laboratories, a 350-seat auditorium, a 100-seat lecture theatre and a 300-seat restaurant.