As previously reported, Multiplex was signed up for the Broadway development in Westminster 鈥� a mixed-use development of 268 apartments, commercial and retail space and a new thoroughfare between Victoria Street and St James鈥檚 Park tube station.
The total value of new construction orders placed in June 2018, as recorded by the Builders鈥� Conference, was 拢4,991.2m 鈥� topping 拢4bn for the sixth month in succession.
Kier Group took second place in the monthly round-up, collecting 11 new contract awards worth a combined total of 拢212.6m.聽聽 This includes a 拢40m contract to build flats at 1 Station Square in Tottenham for a private client
Interserve claimed third place on the BCLive league table with a haul of five contracts collectively valued at 拢200m.聽聽 The largest of these is a 拢170m new build for a prison at Glen Parva in Leicestershire for the Ministry of Justice.
Balfour Beatty claimed fourth place, picking up six new contract awards worth a combined total of 拢155m.聽 The largest of these is an 拢87m contract to improve the A6120 between Redhall and Thorpe Park in West Yorkshire for Leeds City Council.
In total 13 contractors booked more than 拢100m of new work in June. The others were Galliford Try, Costain, Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine, ISG, Winvic, Morgan Sindall, Graham Construction and McLaren Construction.
Builders' Conference chief executive Neil Edwards struck a note of caution, however. He said: "While the number of projects recorded in the second quarter of 2018 was up by around 17% on the previous quarter, the value of those contracts was almost identical. Against a background of a yearly high monthly total on the BCLive league table, it seems churlish to focus on such negativity. But those quarterly totals mean the industry is effectively doing more work for less. That is a trend worth monitoring if UK construction is to maintain its six months of positivity.
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