Top 100 Construction Companies 2011

The Construction Index Top 100 2011 reflects the challenging conditions being experienced by most companies in the industry. The total turnover of the top 100 biggest builders in the UK dropped half a billion to just under £64bn – though the profit and average margin increased, suggesting many firms are concentrating on staying in the black rather than simply chasing turnover. At the top of the ladder, most of the big boys suffered falls in turnover, with only Babcock avoiding a dip in revenue among the top 10.

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Rank by turnover	Rank by profit	Company	Latest turnover (£m)	Previous turnover (£m)	Latest pre-tax profit (£m)	Previous pre-tax profit (£m)	Latest margin (%)	Previous margin (%)	2010 Rank by turnover	2010 Rank by profit
1	1	Balfour Beatty	10541.0	10339.0	187.0	267.0	1.8	2.6	1	1
2	2	Carillion	5139.0	5629.3	167.9	135.9	3.3	2.4	2	2
3	20	Laing O'Rourke	3320.0	3526.1	25.9	50.0	0.8	1.4	3	9
4	3	Babcock	2755.8	1895.5	115.4	129.2	4.2	6.8	7	3
5	11	Morgan Sindall	2101.9	2213.5	40.7	44.7	1.9	2.0	4	10
6	9	Kier	2098.7	2146.0	57.7	24.8	2.7	1.2	5	21
7	6	Mitie	1891.4	1720.0	86.8	91.7	4.6	5.3	8	5
8	8	Interserve	1872.0	1906.8	64.1	89.2	3.4	4.7	6	6
9	13	Skanska	1267.3	1541.8	38.7	38.9	3.1	2.5	10	13
10	19	Galliford Try	1221.5	1461.0	26.1	-26.9	2.1	-1.8	12	98
11	100	Enterprise	1086.9	1060.2	-135.2	-30.6	-12.4	-2.9	17	99
12	31	Keller	1068.9	1037.9	17.8	74.7	1.7	7.2	19	7
13	22	BAM Construct	1037.2	1133.6	24.6	29.9	2.4	2.6	15	25
14	12	Vinci	1025.1	1162.6	39.1	15.4	3.8	1.3	14	35
15	16	Costain	1022.5	1061.1	27.9	18.1	2.7	1.7	16	30
16	5	Amey UK	1012.8	1025.5	87.2	69.3	8.6	6.8	11	4
17	18	Willmott Dixon	989.5	999.9	26.6	18.2	2.7	1.8	20	29
18	10	Wates	984.9	945.3	43.0	38.9	4.4	4.1	21	14
19	47	ISG	972.2	1046.0	8.7	11.8	0.9	1.1	18	41
20	25	Bovis Lend Lease	964.5	1277.9	21.0	8.6	2.2	0.7	13	48
21	99	Miller	783.0	1047.0	-72.4	-170.0	-9.2	-16.2	23	100
22	17	Newarthill / Sir Robert McAlpine	779.1	1124.5	27.4	39.3	3.5	3.5	9	8
23	28	Mace	726.0	654.0	19.3	14.9	2.7	2.3	25	26
24	37	BAM Nuttall	694.8	643.7	15.7	24.1	2.3	3.7	30	22
25	15	Bowmer & Kirkland	669.1	873.6	32.6	28.8	4.9	3.3	22	18
26	7	Keepmoat	604.4	570.4	68.8	63.9	11.4	11.2	31	12
27	30	May Gurney	571.4	483.1	18.8	18.4	3.3	3.8	33	27
28	44	Volker Wessels UK	557.0	563.9	10.1	2.5	1.8	0.4	27	36
29	36	Shepherd	526.7	701.0	16.0	-1.5	3.0	-0.2	28	90
30	33	Mears	523.9	470.1	16.4	18.4	3.1	3.9	35	28
31	39	Morrison Utility Services	480.4	473.7	15.1	9.2	3.1	1.9	34	38
32	4	Homeserve	467.2	379.2	104.8	102.2	22.4	27.0	32	97
33	27	NG Bailey	464.2	600.3	19.9	-10.1	4.3	-1.7	36	24
34	14	Southern Electric Contracting	460.4	482.2	38.1	40.5	8.3	8.4	37	15
35	79	Ringway	450.0	465.0	2.0	-7.5	0.4	-1.6	38	73
36	21	J Murphy	408.0	445.0	24.9	34.7	6.1	7.8	39	20
37	52	Imtech	340.1	363.0	7.4	5.6	2.2	1.5	40	58
38	57	J B Leadbitter	338.8	337.2	6.2	11.9	1.8	3.5	42	40
39	98	Lagan	327.6	321.4	-4.3	15.3	-1.3	4.8	45	37
40	34	Apollo	319.1	261.6	16.3	17.4	5.1	6.7	47	34
41	32	Spice plc	310.7	279.6	16.7	25.4	5.4	9.1	50	32
42	35	Emcor	297.7	320.9	16.1	11.2	5.4	3.5	46	43
43	75	Renew Holdings	290.4	316.7	2.7	0.4	0.9	0.1	48	78
44	43	Byrne Group	287.8	326.2	10.2	11.0	3.5	3.4	44	44
46	65	Spie Matthew Hall	287.0	312.0	4.0	-3.0	1.4	-1.0	51	64
45	70	Geoffrey Osborne	287.0	311.0	3.5	2.8	1.2	0.9	49	67
47	71	Sisk	278.0	161.3	3.4	1.6	1.2	1.0	88	76
48	26	Morrison Facilities Services	274.6	267.0	20.0	12.0	7.3	4.5	52	46
49	45	Northstone NI	271.8	244.7	9.8	16.6	3.6	6.8	55	33
50	46	Seddon	268.5	255.6	8.8	8.1	3.3	3.2	54	50
51	41	Severfield Rowen	266.7	349.4	11.1	44.1	4.2	12.6	41	11
52	74	Barr Holdings	253.8	170.6	2.8	1.3	1.1	0.8	57	59
53	66	Thomas Vale	251.6	196.5	3.9	3.6	1.6	1.8	68	65
54	55	GSH Group	249.5	238.6	6.8	-14.6	2.7	-6.1	56	96
55	51	Colas	231.6	182.8	7.5	6.7	3.2	3.7	43	49
56	49	RG Carter	226.8	198.7	8.4	5.5	3.7	2.8	66	60
57	72	RG Group	219.3	157.0	2.9	2.5	1.3	1.6	90	68
58	62	Ardmore	214.1	173.0	4.1	2.5	1.9	1.4	83	74
59	42	Durkan	213.4	173.0	11.1	-0.8	5.2	-0.5	79	88
60	23	Bouygues	205.1	210.3	23.8	20.0	11.6	9.5	61	23
61	40	United House	201.0	182.0	11.6	15.1	5.8	8.3	75	39
62	88	Midas	185.2	168.0	0.6	0.2	0.3	0.1	85	87
63	81	Patton Group	185.0	184.0	1.7	0.6	0.9	0.3	72	75
64	87	Clancy	183.2	201.6	0.7	-0.3	0.4	-0.1	64	93
65	82	Higgins	182.7	225.0	1.5	1.0	0.8	0.4	58	80
66	78	Teighmore	180.0	40.3	2.4	0.6	1.3	1.5	77	71
67	56	Rotary	179.5	200.4	6.7	7.5	3.7	3.7	65	52
68	80	John Graham (Dromore)	179.2	266.0	2.0	2.4	1.1	0.9	53	69
69	59	T Clarke	179.0	177.0	5.7	6.8	3.2	3.8	81	54
70	38	Integral UK	175.5	182.4	15.7	9.4	8.9	5.2	73	53
71	86	Carey Group	174.9	198.2	0.8	-9.5	0.5	-4.8	67	94
72	92	Simons Group	174.5	135.7	-1.3	0.3	-0.7	0.2	99	84
73	90	SGN Contracting	174.0	178.0	0.2	2.8	0.1	1.6	82	86
74	58	Lorne Stewart	173.2	183.0	6.1	6.3	3.5	3.4	74	56
75	61	Malcolm Group	172.0	179.2	4.4	2.4	2.6	1.3	62	61
76	63	McLaughlin & Harvey	165.3	149.2	4.1	5.1	2.5	3.4	91	62
77	69	North Midland Construction	164.5	144.0	3.7	1.6	2.2	1.1	95	77
79	24	City Building Glasgow	158.9	161.9	22.5	-2.7	14.2	-1.7	78	72
78	76	Ogilvie Group	158.9	201.4	2.6	2.4	1.6	1.2	63	70
80	68	Bullock Construction	158.8	191.4	3.8	6.7	2.4	3.5	70	55
81	93	Robertson Group	158.0	165.0	-2.0	5.7	-1.3	3.5	89	92
82	67	William Hare	154.1	213.6	3.9	8.9	2.5	4.2	59	45
83	73	GF Tomlinson	153.8	125.8	2.9	1.7	1.9	1.4
84	64	McLaren	152.7	130.8	4.1	3.2	2.7	2.4
85	53	Brookfield Multiplex	149.7	178.1	7.3	8.1	4.9	4.5	80	51
86	60	Eric Wright Group	148.6	145.9	5.0	4.4	3.4	3.0	94	63
87	94	Brett Group	146.2	145.1	-2.4	-5.5	-1.6	-3.8	71	95
88	48	Rydon Group	145.7	148.1	8.7	8.7	6.0	5.9	92	47
89	95	McNicholas Construction	144.6	181.6	-2.5	1.1	-1.7	0.6	76	79
90	84	Bechtel	141.0	161.3	1.4	5.7	1.0	3.5	87	57
91	85	Headcrown	140.5	146.7	1.1	-1.3	0.8	-0.9	93	89
92	91	Daniel Contractors	136.8	141.7	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.7	96	81
93	29	Staveley Engineering Services	134.0	137.7	19.3	0.3	14.4	0.2	98	83
94	89	ESH Holdings	134.0	157.0	0.3	-6.4	0.2	-4.1	100	85
95	54	Forth Holdings	125.4	131.6	7.0	7.7	5.6	5.9
96	83	GB Building Solutions	125.0	193.0	1.5	0.5	1.2	0.3	69	82
97	97	Doyle plc	123.0	183.0	-3.5	-5.9	-2.8	-3.2
98	96	Mabey	116.1	161.9	-3.0	33.3	-2.6	20.6	86	17
99	50	Thomas Armstrong	110.4	107.1	8.2	5.7	7.4	5.3
100	77	Lakehouse Contracts	104.0	69.0	2.6	1.9	2.5	2.8
		Totals	63968.1	65468.5	1679.3	1610.3	2.9	2.7

All companies ranked according to their most recently filed accounts.