Mace tops July contracts league with Mayfair job

Aaron Morby 11 months ago
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Mace was the most successful work winner in July, topping the contracts league with a £150m London Mayfair office job and a £60m listed Brutalist building overhaul for the University of East Anglia.

Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square will be replaced by a new 10-storey office building
Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square will be replaced by a new 10-storey office building

The office job in London, known as Lansdowne House, and UEA’s 1960s grade II listed Lasdun Wall science building refurbishment topped a month of strong work winning for the top 50 contractors.

Balfour Beatty just pipped Lendlease to second place following confirmation of the award of the £185m A9 dualling job between Tomatin and Moy in Scotland.

Lendlease, despite uncertainty about its future ownership, secured a £150m project to build the new main stand at Premier League club Crystal Palace.

Top 10 contractors by work confirmed in July

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According to data compiled by Barbour ABI, the value of contract awards to the 50 most successful firms recovered to £3.12bn (121 projects) after plunging to £2.5bn (126 projects) in the June general election month.

In the rolling 12-month league of wins, Morgan Sindall continued to rank top well ahead of the chasing pack, which saw BAM take second place ahead of Kier, followed by Willmott Dixon in fourth.

Shed and multi-home builder Winvic ranked fifth, its highest point ever in the annualised league.

Top 100 contractors – wins in 12 months to July

 

Canada Water Dockside office scheme

Among the other big project wins Wates secured further work on the Canada Water regeneration scheme in South London securing office unit A1 and A2 for developer Art-Invest Real Estate.

Millbank job involves reconstruction of the original historic façade and three extra floors

Skanska signed a £105m contract to deliver a major office rebuild at 7 Millbank close to the Houses of Parliament in London.

Sisk to build two eight-floor brick blocks along the Rochdale Canal off Jersey Street.

Sisk bagged the project to deliver 190 flats at Jersey Wharf in Manchester’s Ancoats and New Islington area.

Grade II listed History Faculty Building, which is also the home of the Seeley Library

The University of Cambridge has picked Bedfordshire contractor SDC to deliver a complex refit of the historic James Stirling-designed History Faculty and Seeley Libray.

Described as a modernist jewel by architects, the faculty built in the late 1960s will undergo a comprehensive £60m overhaul.

 

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