{"id":1885,"date":"2019-01-09T00:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2019-01-09T00:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:38:23","slug":"kier-crowned-2018-contracts-league-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/kier-crowned-2018-contracts-league-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier crowned 2018 contracts league champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kier secured the biggest annual haul of contract wins last year despite experiencing mounting debt problems.<\/p>\n

The firm romped away with pole<\/ins> position<\/ins>\u00a0in the annual contracts league after securing just over \u00a33bn worth of projects in 2018, well ahead of second–<\/ins>placed\u00a0Wates on around \u00a32bn and Morgan Sindall in third position with \u00a31.7bn.<\/p>\n

It is the third time in five years that Kier has topped the league of project\u00a0wins, according to data collected by information specialist Glenigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Top 10 firms saw their share of new orders\u00a0secured by the 100 most successful contractors slip from around 43% in 2017 to 40% this year.<\/p>\n

Overall the total haul of work shared by these 100 firms fell 20% to \u00a337bn compared with\u00a02017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Top 10 ranking by value of work won (\u00a3)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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1<\/td>\nKier<\/td>\n3.01bn<\/td>\nSir Robert McAlpine<\/td>\n3.04bn<\/td>\nMorgan Sindall<\/td>\n\u00a32.4bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nWates<\/td>\n2.02bn<\/td>\nKier<\/td>\n2.41bn<\/td>\nKier<\/td>\n\u00a32.1bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nMorgan Sindall<\/td>\n1.70bn<\/td>\nBalfour Beatty<\/td>\n2.41bn<\/td>\nLaing O\u2019Rourke<\/td>\n\u00a32.0bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSir Robert McAlpine<\/td>\n1.38bn<\/td>\nLaing O\u2019Rourke<\/td>\n2.22bn<\/td>\nRoyal BAM<\/td>\n\u00a31.8bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nTarmac<\/td>\n1.24bn<\/td>\nMorgan Sindall<\/td>\n2.22bn<\/td>\nGalliford Try<\/td>\n\u00a31.7bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nWillmott Dixon<\/td>\n1.24bn<\/td>\nGalliford Try<\/td>\n2.22bn<\/td>\nCarillion<\/td>\n\u00a31.4bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nMace<\/td>\n1.21bn<\/td>\nVINCI<\/td>\n1.98bn<\/td>\nBalfour Beatty<\/td>\n\u00a31.35bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nBouygues UK<\/td>\n1.14bn<\/td>\nWillmott Dixon<\/td>\n1.45bn<\/td>\nWates<\/td>\n\u00a31.3bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nGalliford Try<\/td>\n1.12bn<\/td>\nWates<\/td>\n1.34bn<\/td>\nWillmott Dixon<\/td>\n\u00a31.2bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nLendlease<\/td>\n1,09bn<\/td>\nCarillion<\/td>\n1.33bn<\/td>\nMace<\/td>\n\u00a31.0bn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Among the big fallers from previous years, Balfour\u00a0Beatty and Laing O’Rourke dropped out of the top 10, while Tarmac, Bouygues and Lendlease joined the top players for the first time.<\/p>\n

Based on civil engineering workloads alone Tarmac\u00a0ranked top followed by Costain and then Kier.<\/p>\n

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Among the big contract awards in December, Morgan Sindall and Volker rounded off the year with a share of \u00a3196m Barking Riverside project.<\/p>\n

Mace landed the \u00a3130m Stansted Airport Arrivals building. Henry secured the \u00a380m next phase of the Brighton Barracks development and Graham was confirmed main contractor on a \u00a370m student accommodation scheme at the University of Brighton.<\/p>\n

In Scotland, BAM has \u00a3165m Edinburgh Tram Route Extension project.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LXQrze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kier secured the biggest annual haul of contract wins last year despite experiencing mounting debt problems. The firm romped away with pole position\u00a0in the annual contracts league after securing just over \u00a33bn worth of projects in 2018, well ahead of second–placed\u00a0Wates on around \u00a32bn and Morgan Sindall in third position with \u00a31.7bn. It is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}