Square Mile job puts Mace on top in November

Jobs in the Square Mile were key to the fortunes of two firms in November’s league tables.

Mace jumped to the top of November’s league table with two jobs – a £200m contract for 65 Gresham Street in the City of London and a £400,000 job at Heathrow airport.

The Gresham Street job is just the latest high-profile project for the firm in London; another is the £230m London Bridge project for student accommodation which is now underway.

There were seven new entrants to the top 10 this month, including Mace and VolkerWessels, which came a close second with £193.7m.

Graham came third with £133m from two jobs, including the £100m first slice of Cardiff’s long-awaited Crossrail scheme. Graham’s other contract was for an assisted living complex in Kent.

Wates, TanRo and McAleer & Rushe were the only other contractors hitting £100m or more in November.

In fourth spot was Wates with deals worth £126.8m, TanRo achieved £108.8m to take fifth place, and McAleer & Rushe came sixth after landing the other major job in the City of London – a 670-room student accommodation project worth £100m.

Seventh was Royal Bam at £95.6m and Morgan Sindall scooped eighth with £94.5m.

In ninth came John Paul with £88.2m and tenth position was claimed by Pellikaan thanks to deals worth £79.5m.

October’s winner Multiplex was outside the top 50 in November, while last month’s runner up Morgan Sindall dropped to eighth.

Galliford Try won the most jobs of any contractor listed – 16 contracts worth a combined £76.3m, leaving it just outside the top 10 on value.

No other firm making the top 50 secured more than eight deals in November.

Morgan Sindall continued its run at the top of the rolling annual league table, with a new total of 281 deals worth £2.73bn.

Winvic remained in second place with 39 jobs worth £2.23bn, Multiplex climbed to third place with five contracts worth a total of £1.68bn, and Galliford Try came fourth with 146 deals worth £1.64bn.