The three-way European MORE joint venture between Spanish contractor FCC, Italy’s WeBuild and Austria’s BeMo Tunnelling ranked top, each with a £417m share of the job.

Kier continued to head the rolling 12-month league table for work won, with Morgan Sindall in second place just ahead of Wates, according to data compiled by construction information specialist Barbour ABI.

In a month of some big individual contract awards Laing O’Rourke signed off the £300m Shepperton Studios South phase and volumetric modular specialist Tide Construction secured a £165m apartment project for Capital & Region at the Mall scheme in Walthamstow, north London.

Holloway Head PRS scheme in Birmingham

Winvic also secured a £120m project to deliver 487 build to rent flats over two blocks at Hollow Head in Birmingham for Invesco Real estate.

Data centre hub

Among the clutch of £100m-plus projects, ISG picked up another data centre job in Hillingdon, West London for Colt Data Centre Services.

Also in London, Vistry bagged a £100m residential project at Merdian Waters in the Lee Valley.