Laing O’Rourke scores league win with new Everton stadium
Laing O’Rourke sat top of the new contracts league table in April thanks to a win at Everton.
The company was first named as preferred bidder to build Everton’s new stadium in February last year. Glenigan has now formally added the £505m contract to Laing O’Rourke’s wins after the project cleared the final planning hurdle in Marchand work started on site last month. The firm totalled £515.2m worth of work in April, giving Laing O’Rourke its first top spot since March 2017.
| Top 10 contractors, April 2021 | ||
| Contractor | No | Total (£m) |
1 | Laing O’Rourke | 2 | 515.2 |
2 | Royal Bam | 8 | 495.6 |
3 | Wates | 5 | 335.8 |
4 | Vinci | 2 | 335.3 |
5 | Winvic | 4 | 297.6 |
6 | Morgan Sindall | 32 | 235.4 |
7 | Galliford Try | 22 | 171.8 |
8 | Kier | 23 | 168.4 |
9 | Skanska UK | 2 | 141.6 |
10 | Ardmore | 2 | 130.0 |
| League tables are subject to revision |
Overall wins remained high in April, with the top 50 contractors clocking £4.39bn of work, down slightly from the £4.66bn recorded last month.
Following in second spot was Royal Bam with £495.6m of work across eight jobs. Its largest was Bam Nuttall’s £250m contract to widen the A38 in Derby, which Glenigan has formally added to the company’s tally following the commencement of mobilisation. Bam Construct also landed an £88m contract to build the St. Pancras Commercial Centre in Camden. Its April result matches the second place it landed in March.
Wates took third spot with five jobs worth £335.3m. A £117m contract to deliver the first phase of the Grahame Park residential scheme for Notting Hill Genesis in Barnet was its largest in the month. It also scooped an £88m deal to deliver phase one of the Canada Water Dock.
Taylor Woodrow was confirmed as the contractor on the £328m A358 Taunton to Southfields scheme in the South West last month. The big project for Highways England helped its parent company, Vinci, land fourth place in April.
Industrial buildings specialist Winvic followed up its fourth place and £242.9m of work in March with a fifth place in April. It won £297.6m of contracts across four jobs. Its largest was the Basingstoke Gateway warehouse scheme which will include an Amazon distribution hub, a project that Glenigan has valued at £248m.
Ninth place Skanska was the other firm that managed to land a big win in April as it secured the £135m contract to refurbish the South Colonnade building in Canary Wharf.
On the rolling 12-month league table, Royal Bam landed top spot. Its has won £1.93bn worth of work over the past year according to Glenigan.
| Top 10 contractors, year to April 2021 | ||
| Contractor | No | Total (£m) |
1 | Royal Bam | 55 | 1,927.7 |
2 | Morgan Sindall | 279 | 1,867.7 |
3 | Kier | 196 | 1,636.8 |
4 | Winvic | 37 | 1,268.3 |
5 | Willmott Dixon | 132 | 1,210.7 |
6 | Wates | 43 | 1,189.5 |
7 | ISG | 69 | 1,137.7 |
8 | Balfour Beatty | 55 | 1,133.3 |
9 | Skanska UK | 15 | 1,048.9 |
10 | Graham | 41 | 941.4 |
| League tables are subject to revision |
Morgan Sindall, which held top spot last month, dropped to second, even as its rolling total rose from £1.67bn to £1.87bn. Kier fell one place to third as its total rose as well from £1.54bn to £1.64bn.
Winvic recent big wins saw it enter the top five for the first time, with the firm securing £1.27bn of new work over the past year according to Glenigan.
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