{"id":8290,"date":"2025-10-07T06:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8290"},"modified":"2025-10-07T06:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:46:45","slug":"mcalpine-cleans-up-contracts-league-with-mega-spa-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/mcalpine-cleans-up-contracts-league-with-mega-spa-job\/","title":{"rendered":"McAlpine cleans up contracts league with mega spa job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Robert McAlpine batheds in success last month with top ranking in the contracts league after finally signing off a \u00a3450m contract to build the Therme Manchester Spa project in TraffordCity.<\/p>\n<p>Billed as the UK\u2019s first urban wellbeing resort and the largest thermal pool complex in Europe, the scheme will boast more than 25 waterslides, the country\u2019s biggest sauna area, multiple steam rooms, botanical gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The project adds to a swelling orderbook of largely major project wins for the business this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"break-out-box\">\n<h4>Top 10\u00a0 ranking for work won in September<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-07-at-06.37.37.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-502134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-07-at-06.37.37.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"996\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/contract-leagues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for further rankings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In what proved to be another strong month of order take for big contractors McLaren Construction ranked second with a clutch of wins, including a large student scheme at Upper Brooke Street in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>A brace of big warehouse jobs in the Midlands helped Winvic secure third place in the month&#8217;s rankings. These included phase 3 and 4 work for Tritax at its Symmetry Park near Kettering and a planned industrial park for Panatonni at Pickards way,near the M6 in Coventry.<\/p>\n<p>According to data compiled by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/barbour-abi.com\/?utm_source=construction-enquirer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barbour ABI,<\/a> the top 50 contractors notched up \u00a33.9bn in new orders last month. While this was down on last month&#8217;s high of \u00a38.3bn, following Strabag&#8217;s award of a \u00a33bn longterm deal for the Haweswater aqueduct upgrade in the North West, it represented a strong pipeline of work secured.<\/p>\n<div class=\"break-out-box\">\n<h4>Top 5\u00a0 \u2013 Total wins in 12 months to September<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-07-at-06.36.14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-502135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-07-at-06.36.14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/contract-leagues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for further rankings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"93789\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.constructionline.co.uk%2Fevents%2Fattending-marketplace-live%2F%3Futm_source%3Dreferral%26utm_medium%3Dconstruction_enquirer%26utm_campaign%3Dall_mpl_supplier%26utm_year%3D2025%26utm_content%3Dad_gif\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/constructionline ezgif.com-speed.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"488804\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.creaghconcrete.com%2Fproducts%2Fspantherm%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CE-spantherm.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/jX7MeR5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Robert McAlpine batheds in success last month with top ranking in the contracts league after finally signing off a \u00a3450m contract to build the Therme Manchester Spa project in TraffordCity. Billed as the UK\u2019s first urban wellbeing resort and the largest thermal pool complex in Europe, the scheme will boast more than 25 waterslides, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151,"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-8290","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\/8290","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=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8291,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions\/8291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}