Value of contract awards up in July, Glenigan data says

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.

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.

* 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