Places for People has named the contractors for a £246m groundworks framework split into 13 regional lots across England and Scotland.
Coinford Central and RJ McLeod secured the widest spread of places, each landing spots on six of the 13 lots. M&J Evans Construction and Houlihan & Co each picked up four lots, and MV Kelly, Erith, Tamdown, O'Halloran & O'Brien and Chasetown Civil Engineering also feature among the winners.
Six contractors are named against each regional lot, drawing in a long list of regional and specialist firms. They include A D Bly Construction, ATD Civils & Groundworks, JLC Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), LMH (Civil Engineering), Stave-Con, Kingsheath Construction, J L Knight Roadworks, SEH Ipswich, DR Groundworks, Renelec Groundworks, Tithegrove, Aeropark Developments, Ford Civil Engineering, Hi-Acre Construction, Fred Champion Groundworks, Dockerill Groundworks, O'Connell Contracting, Manvers Main Construction and Westshield.
The Scottish lots are served by a separate group of firms, among them Advance Construction (Scotland), Akela Construction, Andrew Strain Construction, I&H Brown, Keystone Construction Scotland, Stewart Landscapes (Contracts), Chap Group, JKR Contractors, Nicol of Skene, TSL Contractors and WM Donald.
The lots follow regional boundaries. In the North West the package covers Lancashire, Manchester and Merseyside. Further lots take in South and West Yorkshire; the West Midlands together with Staffordshire and Warwickshire; and the East Midlands counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire. Southern England is divided into a South East lot for Surrey, Kent and East and West Sussex, and one for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. Three South West lots cover Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire; Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset; and Bristol, Devon and Somerset. Greater London has a lot of its own, while Scotland is split between the Central Belt, an Aberdeen-area lot and a further northern lot whose detailed boundary is not specified.
Work ranges from site clearance, bulk earthworks and foundations through to drainage, utilities, roads, sewers and external works, so the packages cover both the preparation of new sites and the infrastructure that serves finished plots. On the Scottish lots the scope extends from house foundations to completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining wall foundations and ducting for electric vehicle infrastructure.
Greater London is the largest regional package at around £38m, ahead of the combined Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset lot at £30m, with East Anglia and the northern Home Counties accounting for a further £29m.