Bouygues surges to league summit with green energy job

A major green energy contract helped propel Bouygues to the top of the monthly contractor league table for January.

The contractor bagged a £170m job to develop Immingham Green Energy Terminal (IGET) in the Humber Estuary.

This and two other projects took Bouygues to the summit in January, with a total contract value of £476.6m, according to construction industry data specialist Glenigan.

The contractor did not feature at all in last month’s top 50.

IGET will support the import of green ammonia from Neom in Saudi Arabia and the import of carbon dioxide. It will cover an area of approximately 102.52 hectares at the Port of Immingham on the banks of the Humber in Lincolnshire.

Enka – Turkey’s largest contractor – took second spot thanks to a single £350m project to build the HyNet Hydrogen Plant in Ellesmere Port. When built, the plant will have a production capacity of 350 megawatts, and should capture around 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, according to Enka.

The project still requires full planning permission. Enka estimated it would take up to 39 months to complete the construction project, once it has obtained the green light.

Mace took third spot largely thanks to a £300m office job at 1 Victoria Street in London. The job includes retaining more than half of the existing site, which was the headquarters of the government’s old Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

The project achieved planning permission from Westminster City Council in September. In total, Mace scored two jobs in January, worth a combined £301.4m.

In seventh place behind Sir Robert McAlpine, Robertson and Morgan Sindall, Wates won £140.1m worth of contracts. The firm’s most valuable job was a £75m project to develop phase one of the Horton Heath residential scheme.

Wates has already begun construction work at the site, and expects to complete its work on the first phase in 2027. In total, there will be nine phases of development at Horton Heath, which will deliver a total of 2,500 homes.

Paisley-based Clark Contracts came in at tenth spot, with five jobs over the course of January worth a combined £61m. The biggest of those was a £46.3m contract to develop a student accommodation and retail space in the centre of Glasgow for Scottish property development company Strathcarron Homes.

The project has been designed to BREEAM Excellent rating, and received planning permission from Glasgow City Council last July.

Morgan Sindall continued to sit atop the rolling annual league table, with £3.21bn worth of contracts. In total, it won 280 jobs in the year from February 2024 to January 2025.

Royal Bam returned to the silver medal position with 48 contracts worth £2.68bn, after it dropped to fifth in December.

Kier – in sixth spot in December – took third place with 115 contracts worth £1.93bn.

Ferrovial was the only new member of the top 10, taking sixth spot with three contracts worth £1.51bn. John Sisk jumped to seventh spot, after it took ninth in December, as it tabled 16 contracts worth £1.47bn.