Balfour Beatty powers ahead in September contract league

A cabling job helped Balfour Beatty top the September table for contract wins.

The firm finished in front with 13 wins totalling £453.3m, according to data compiled by construction intelligence firm Glenigan.

Among its September announcements was that it had been picked by National Grid for a £363m cabling job in East Anglia. The UK’s largest contractor will undertake the Bramford to Twinstead reinforcement job, building new lines and cables to upgrade the electricity network.

Close behind in second place came Bam, which was beaten on volume rather than value per job. It won new work worth £434.9m from eight jobs.

Neither Balfour Beatty nor Bam finished in August’s top 10.

Third place in September was secured by Amey, with two civils jobs valued at a combined £402m.

Amey and Bam were both confirmed for the £800m Transpennine rail job last month – the largest single contract by value that Network Rail has awarded.

The only firm to stay in the top 10 from August was Galliford Try, with £396.1m of business, compared with £136.9m in August. That moved the firm up two places from seventh.

Galliford Try had a diverse month of activity, ranging from winning the contract to complete a link road in Buckinghamshire worth £88.9m and being selected to be part of the Wessex water framework valued at £3.7bn from 2025-30.

Laing O’Rourke landed sixth place on the table with a single deal worth £250m. In late September, the firm went through to the next phase of negotiations with the government about (SMRs). It is part of the Rolls-Royce SMR consortium which also includes .

The theme of partnerships as a winning combination continued with Laing O’Rourke, which landed sixth place on the table. The firm is through to the next phase of negotiations with the government about delivering small modular reactors (SMRs). It’s part of the Rolls-Royce SMR consortium which also includes Bam.

Winvic made it into eighth place with £124.2m of work confirmed, with the final two slots taken by TSL Projects (£110m) and Bowmer & Kirkland (£99m).

Once again, there was no change at the top of the rolling annual league table for contractors.

Still out in front was Morgan Sindall with £3.02bn of business, closely followed in second place by Galliford Try with £1.79bn. The third spot was just a short way behind, taken by Bam with £1.73bn.