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Morgan Sindall contracts league champion for second year

Morgan Sindall has proved the industry’s most successful work winner for a second year running.

The contractor ended the year with a tally of £2.298bn of secured orders, just £22m more than main rival Kier in one the closest finishes for many years.

Multiplex finished the year ranked third after being boosted by a £500m order in December to rebuild the former London Television Centre on the south bank of the Thames in London.

Balfour also put in a late order for high voltage underground cables on the Eastern Green Link power connector scheme lifting it to fourth place.

Top 10 ranking by total work secured
20242023
1Morgan Sindall£2,298mMorgan Sindall£2,160m
2Kier£2,276mSir Robert McAlpine£1,414m
3Multiplex Europe£1,636mRoyal BAM£1,373m
4Balfour Beatty£1,473mWillmott Dixon£1,334m
5Royal BAM£1,411mGalliford Try£1,299m
6Willmott Dixon£1,244mKier£1,276m
7Galliford Try£1,192mMace£1,184m
8Bouygues£1,173mWates£1,085m
9Bowmer & Kirkland£1,163mBowmer & Kirkland£1,028m
10Winvic£1,122mBalfour Beatty£944m

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The top 100 firms together bagged over £38.6bn of work – up 13% on last year.

The top 10 firms saw their share of total new orders secured by the 100 leading contractors edged up to 39% from 38% in the prior year, according to data collected by information specialist Barbour ABI.