The BCLive league table once again broke the £5.0 billion monthly total to send the UK construction sector into the festive period with its head held high and with much to look forward to in 2022.   Builders’ Conference CEO Neil Edwards looks over yet another positive set of figures. *** (see full reports at base of post) With a week of the month left to run, the BCLive league table looked set to fall short of the £4.0 billion benchmark to which the industry has become accustomed.   But with just a few days remaining, the industry apparently reached down the back of the sofa and found sufficient new contract awards to push the total for November past first £4.0 billion and ultimately just past £5.0 billion to finish on £5.1 billion. Bearing in mind that November traditionally marks the beginning of a slow and inexorable slide towards the Christmas period, a £5.1 billion total should send the sector into the festivities with renewed confidence. Leading the charge this month is Wates with an 11 contract haul valued at more than half a billion pounds (£557 million).   The largest of these is a £157 million mixed use development on Plot A1 on London’s Surrey Quays Road and Canada Water Dock.   That development will comprise a 35-storey building made up of 168 apartments and extensive office space. Claiming second place on the BCLive league table for the month of November 2021 is Winvic, courtesy of a six contract haul valued at a combined £400.8 million.   The largest of these and the largest single contract award of the month is for a £220 million distribution centre at Sutton Coldfield. Securing a pair of projects and simultaneously claiming the number three position is a joint venture between Galliard Homes, Apsley House Capital and Wavensmere Homes.   The largest of the two project wins is a £150 million contract to build 400 new homes at Shotley Peninsula near Ipswich on the site of the former HMS Ganges naval facility. In a month in which 13 companies picked up in excess of £100 million in new contract awards, McAleer & Rushe took the number four position with a three project haul valued at a combined £197.5 million.   The most significant of these is the £140 million redevelopment of the former Royal Mail Mount Pleasant sorting office in Farringdon as part of a mixed use development including the construction of new homes. Rounding off the BCLive league table top five while simultaneously retaining its crown for the highest number of contract awards is Kier Group which collected 17 new contract awards worth a combined £185 million.  The largest of these is a £36 million contract from the Ministry of Justice for the hard facilities management at various prisons across the UK.   Kier Group also bagged a £35 million contract for the construction of four residential blocks at Princess Road in Bournemouth that will comprise 121 flats. That Bournemouth contract was one of 156 pure housing projects recorded during a month in which house building once again accounted for almost 40 percent of new contract awards during the month.   Factor in the housing element of the miscellaneous category that covers mixed use developments, and it is likely that house-building contributed around half of the monthly total.  Industrial units & factories (677 million), offices (527 million), education (£479 million) also saw an uptick during the month of November. Regionally, London led the way yet again, reporting 116 new contract awards valued at a combined £1.19 billion.   The West and East Midlands (£705 and £194 million respectively) continues to enjoy a period of positivity.   Scotland reported £237 million, up on the previous month, but still lagging behind Yorkshire which reported 12 new contract awards valued at £270 million. There was a hope that the BCLive league table’s rolling year total might surpass the £90 billion mark.   That now appears unlikely.   But £85 billion remains an all-time high and it should provide the confidence the industry needs as it prepares for 2022. Quick review of BCLive table for November 2021 299 no companies were detailed as winning new contracts during November 2021 447 no new construction orders were researched by Builders’ Conference all detailed on the UK’s only Live league table of construction contract awards BCLive Wates Ltd secured overall top spot with a single contract worth £557 million Kier Group was the company with the most number of new construction orders in the month with 17no totaling £185 million The importance of independent, live construction information, sales leads and bespoke construction sector analysis has never been more important and the Builders’ Conference delivers this real-time service, via one of the most digitally advanced platforms on the UK market. To keep the UK’s only independent and transparent construction project information service available WE NEED YOUR HELP! 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July traditionally marks the start of the holiday season for the UK construction sector.   But while some of those working within the industry have managed to get away, contract awards activity shows no signs of taking a break.   Builders’ Conference CEO Neil Edwards reports on yet another upbeat month. The industry is short of materials and short of skilled labour.   New equipment is increasingly hard to come by, and the spectre of inflation lurks just out of sight as wages for bricklayers and HGV drivers continue to rise.   And yet the UK construction has greeted all these challenges in the same way that it greeted Brexit and a global pandemic – with a shrug of its collective shoulders and its foot pressed hard on the accelerator pedal. As the month drew to a close, the BCLive league table of new construction contract awards stood at £5.78 billion with 344 individual companies winning work during the period.   This compares favourably with July 2020 when 268 individual companies pushed the monthly total to £5.52 billion. In a month in which 14 companies reported contract wins of £100 million or more, TSL Projects part of the Tonroe Group scaled to the top of the BCLive league table for the first time, buoyed by a £350 million contract awarded.   That contract – one of two won by Tonroe Group, which reported a monthly total of £402 million – is for a new manufacturing facility on the former Celanese site in Derby.   The new facility will comprise manufacturing facilities, start-up units, and a Food Manufacturing Technology Centre of Excellence. Making a welcome return to the upper echelons of the BCLive league table after a brief absence is Laing O’Rourke, which also bagged a brace of new contract awards during July 2021.   The largest of these is a new build mixed-use development at Timber Square on London’s Bankside.   Valued at £195 million, the new development comprises almost 35,000 m2 of space with the lion’s share of it to be occupied by offices.   Client Landsec requires around 90 percent of the existing building to be retained while using a hybrid steel frame and timber structure to minimise demolition waste and embodied carbon. Also making a welcome return to the top of the table is Multiplex.   The company was awarded the £300 million contract to build a new office block at 1 Leadenhall Street in London for client Brookfield Properties. In a month with a distinct Far Eastern favour, Hitachi Zosen Inova UK got the green light for a £250 million energy from waste incinerator at the site of the former Skelton Grange power station just off junction 45 of the M1 motorway. Sticking with the Far Eastern theme, the £202 million contract to build a new embassy for the People’s Republic of China was awarded to Chinese-based contractor BCEGI Construction (UK) Ltd.   Located at Royal Mint Court in London, that project will involve the refurbishment and repair of the Grade II-listed Johnson Smirke building, partial demolition and remodelling of the Grade II-listed Seaman’s Registry, and alterations to both Murray House and Dexter House. Although it fell short of its now customary one project per day haul, Kier Group yet again topped the list of largest number of contract awards, picking up 10 new projects valued at a combined £187 million to take the number seven spot on the BCLive league table. Regionally, London retained its crown, delivering 111 new contract awards valued at a combined £1.69 billion.   The Midlands once again enjoyed an upbeat month with the East and West Midlands picking up £592 and £401 million respectively.   Elsewhere, the North West region reported 34 new contract awards worth a combined £498 million while Yorkshire (£482 million) and East Anglia (£405 million) also experienced a welcome uptick.   However, both Scotland (£269 million) and Wales (£57 million) continue to lag behind. Predictably, house building continues to carry the sector, delivering 171 new contract awards valued at a combined £1.59 billion.   Offices enjoyed a good month (56 new contract awards worth a combined £973 million) while the education sector contributed a further £519 million. Although ongoing concerns over international travel mean that fewer people will be heading for sunnier climes in August, construction industry workers can take a well-deserved summer break, safe in the knowledge that the industry remains in rude health. Quick review of BCLive table for July 2021 344 no companies were detailed as winning new contracts during July 2021 524 no new construction orders were researched by Builders’ Conference all detailed on the UK’s only Live league table of construction contract awards BCLive TSL Projects part of the Tonroe Group secured overall top spot with a two contracts worth £402 billion Kier Group was the company with the most number of new construction orders in the month with 10no totaling £187 million The importance of real-time verified independent, construction information, sales leads and bespoke construction sector analysis has never been more important and the Builders’ Conference delivers this LIVE service, via one of the most digitally advanced platforms on the UK market. Ensure your business has access to evidenced based premier construction project information from across the UK by becoming a member of the Builders’ Conference. 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Amidst growing concerns over materials supplies, the UK construction industry has once again confounded common sense to deliver yet another upbeat set of month contract award figures. Builders’ Conference CEO Neil Edwards reports. When Brexit threatened to destabilise the British economy, the construction industry soldiered on as if nothing had happened.   When the COVID-19 pandemic made landfall in the UK, the construction industry carried on regardless.   So now, when a shortage of construction materials is considered bad enough to make the TV news, it should probably come as no surprise to see the sector shrug its collective shoulders and – in the manner of a petulant teenager – sneer “yeah, whatever”. In a month shortened by national holidays, the BCLive league table celebrated a further easing of lockdown restrictions, delivering more than £6.2 billion in new contract awards.   Set against an established norm of £4 billion per month, it is just the latest example of positivity and the industry’s unwavering resilience. Storming to the top of the BCLive league table in May 2021 is a Mace/Dragados joint venture, which picked up a single contract valued at £570 million.   That contract is for the construction of a new railway station at Curzon Street in Birmingham and forms part of the mammoth HS2 project. Like the gift that keeps on giving, HS2 was also responsible for propelling another joint venture into second place.   EKFB – a joint venture between Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and BAM – will build a new railway line from Twyford to Greatworth, following the corridor of the former Great Central Line.   The line will pass through existing cuttings to be largely hidden from view; but the project also includes the construction of several embankments and viaducts. The eternal battle for the highest number of contracts per month flared up again this month, with usual suspects Kier and Morgan Sindall going head-to-head.   Kier came out on top with a haul of 18 new contract awards valued at a combined £313 million.   But Kier was pipped into fourth place by Morgan Sindall, which picked up 16 new contract awards valued at a combined £407 million.    The largest of the Morgan Sindall contracts was won by its house-building division, Lovell Partnerships.   Valued at £85 million, that contract is for the construction of 528 dwellings at a development called Royal Victoria Court at Newport in Wales. In fifth position on the BCLive league table is Winvic Construction, which reported five new contract awards during the month worth in total £293 million.   The most significant of these is a £248 million contract for the construction of a new industrial estate at Dummer in Basingstoke. In a month in which each of top 16 on the BCLive league table picked up more than £100 million in new work, Mulalley Planned Maintenance took the number six position, collecting a 10-year framework deal for the refurbishment and repair of dwellings operated by Lewisham Homes. Despite a strong showing from the railway sector that contributed £1.11 billion to the monthly total, the house-building sector remains unassailable, delivering 171 individual projects valued at £2.16 billion. Individually, London also retained its top position with 119 new contract awards valued at almost £1.32 billion.   However, with £1.13 billion and £638 million respectively, the West and East Midlands together have a good claim for the top spot. Of course, all these new contract awards have not made the worsening materials shortages vanish miraculously.   In truth, they may just exacerbate the situation.   But the majority of the contracts awarded in May 2021 will be unlikely to require materials on site until after the summer.   By that time, materials suppliers will have hopefully ramped up production to satisfy the continuing high levels of demand. While that remains a concern for the future, the sector’s present – seemingly against all odds and expectations – continues to look positive. Quick review of BCLive table for May 2021 332 no companies were detailed as winning new contracts during May 2021 551 no new construction orders were researched by Builders’ Conference all detailed on the UK’s only Live league table of construction contract awards BCLive A JV of Mace & Dragados secured overall top spot with a single contract worth £570 billion Kier Group regained its position as the company with the most number of new construction orders in the month with 18no totaling £313.8 million The importance of real-time verified independent, construction information, sales leads and bespoke construction sector analysis has never been more important and the Builders’ Conference delivers this LIVE service, via one of the most digitally advanced platforms on the UK market. Ensure your business has access to evidenced based premier construction project information from across the UK by becoming a member of the Builders’ Conference. Discover what is really happening in UK construction as well as critically analysing ALL our data via our built in report writing service. Go to BuildersConference.co.uk/how-it-works for more information. We are a not for profit organisation who are dedicated to maintain our high level of services for as long as possible with the financial support of our membership. We firmly believe because it is the UK construction industries own information which we analyse no one should be paying vast sums to read it! Proud to have been bringing validated UK construction information since 1935. GO FURTHER and SEE the Contracts…. Builders’ Conference are the recognised partner to provide real time construction data & analysis to Build UK assisting them to provide clear evidenced based UK construction information to Government Bodies & the wider construction industry including training & apprenticeship schemes and our independent, verified, construction information and research often features in a Build UK updates demonstrating the importance of Builders’ Conference . Data & analysis for May 2021 carried out by the industry recognised team here at Builders’ Conference together with the UK’s only Live table of construction contracts BCLive table with its unique feature of detailing all companies researched as winning new projects in the month, clearly