McLaren landed the industry’s top job in the July league table with a bumper data centre build in London.
The firm won the £400m contract from Ada Infrastructure for work on the eight-hectare site, which will include 160,000 square metres of floor space and 6,000square metres of office space in Silvertown, east London.
Ada, the data centre platform of GLP Capital Partners, has designed three buildings to offer 210MW of power to support AI developments.
The project (pictured) has already received planning approval from the Newham Strategic Development Committee.
It was a month of position changes for the top 10 contract winners.
The big new entrant for July was Zhejiang Construction, which took second spot with a £210m deal for three housing blocks in Manchester. It will build 895 homes in the Red Bank neighbourhood for Hong Kong-listed developer Far East Consortium. The firm is working in a joint venture with Manchester City Council.
Balfour Beatty stayed in third spot thanks to five contracts, all civils, worth £187.8m.
Its big announcement of the month was the upgrading of the A9 dualling contract in Scotland. This includes construction of four bridges.
Morgan Sindall took fourth place, up one spot with £182m of deals. John Sisk came next – and entered the top 10 – with £125m of work. Sisk won the battle for the £125m Merck building fit-out in London’s King’s Cross. The firm beat ISG and Mace for the life sciences centre and office complex.
| Top 10 contractors – July 2024 | ||
| Contractor | No | Total (£m) |
| McLaren | 2 | 409.0 |
| Zhejiang Construction | 1 | 210.0 |
| Balfour Beatty | 5 | 187.8 |
| Morgan Sindall | 26 | 182.1 |
| John Sisk | 1 | 125.0 |
| HG Construction | 1 | 106.0 |
| Amey | 11 | 93.0 |
| Wates | 2 | 86.4 |
| Galliford Try | 12 | 79.2 |
| SDC | 1 | 78.0 |
Back in Manchester, HG Construction landed a deal for the £106m student accommodation development of One Medlock Street for Greystar. The 38-storey building will be constructed on the site of a former hotel and will include more than 1,000 bedrooms when finished.
The tower will be delivered as a reinforced concrete frame, according to the firm.
The final entrant in the 10 big dealmakers table was Winvic, also a new entrant for the month, with £76.9m of work.
| Top 10 contractors – August 2023 to July 2024 | ||
| Contractor | No | Total (£m) |
| Morgan Sindall | 279 | 2,448.5 |
| Winvic | 33 | 1,623.2 |
| Bouygues UK | 41 | 1,582.4 |
| Multiplex Construction Europe | 5 | 1,530.0 |
| ISG | 39 | 1,445.5 |
| Royal BAM | 40 | 1,436.7 |
| Galliford Try | 135 | 1,297.4 |
| Skanska UK | 4 | 1,208.0 |
| Willmott Dixon | 92 | 1,097.1 |
| Wates | 50 | 960.3 |
Winvic also featured in the rolling annual league table for August 2023 to July 2024. With £1.62bn from 33 jobs, Winvic overtook both Bouygues UK and Multiplex Construction Europe to come second. Bouygues UK landed 41 jobs but their value came in at £1.582bn, and Multiplex’s work was valued at £1.53bn.
Morgan Sindall topped the annual chart again with £2.45bn of deals, staying comfortably ahead of the field.
