Places for People has named the groundworks contractors appointed to a £246m framework covering 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 lots. M&J Evans Construction and Houlihan & Co each picked up four lots. Other winners include MV Kelly, Erith, Tamdown, O’Halloran & O’Brien and Chasetown Civil Engineering.
The framework is divided into regional packages. The North West lot covers Lancashire, Manchester and Merseyside. Yorkshire has a South and West Yorkshire lot. The Central West lot covers the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, while the Central East lot covers Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire.
In the South East, one lot covers Surrey, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex. A second covers Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. The South West is split into three lots: North Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire; South Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset; and West Bristol, Devon and Somerset.
London has its own Greater London package. Scotland is divided into a Central Belt lot, a North 1 lot for the Aberdeen area only and a North 2 lot for which the detailed area is not specified.
Among the lot appointments, the North West list includes JLC Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, MV Kelly, RJ McLeod and Westshield. The East Anglia and northern Home Counties lot includes A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction, O’Halloran & O’Brien and Tamdown Group.
The London lot includes Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Fred Champion Groundworks, M&J Evans Construction, Renelec Groundworks and Tithegrove. In Scotland North 1, the named firms are Advance Construction (Scotland), Akela Construction, Andrew Strain Construction, I&H Brown, Keystone Construction Scotland and Stewart Landscapes (Contracts).
The Central West lot covering the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Warwickshire includes ATD Civils & Groundworks, Chasetown Civil Engineering, Erith Group, LMH (Civil Engineering), RJ McLeod and Stave-Con.
The work ranges from site clearance, bulk earthworks and foundations to drainage, utilities, roads, sewers and external works. Scottish packages also cover house foundations through to completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining wall foundations and ducting for electric vehicle infrastructure.
Greater London is the biggest regional package at around £38m. It is followed by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset package at £30m, while East Anglia and the northern Home Counties account for a further £29m.