Big night out for construction’s favourite firms

Grant Prior 7 years ago
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The Top Ten winners of the Construction Enquirer Awards gathered in Birmingham on Tuesday night to celebrate their success.

Construction knows how to take up a room and have a good time,,,
Construction knows how to take up a room and have a good time,,,

More than 10,000 votes were cast by Enquirer readers for their favourite companies to work with and do business with.

Companies polling the highest number of votes among the Top Ten winners in each category were also presented with a special prize.

Photos from the awards are now online here with a video also available here

The big winners on the night were:

Best Client to Work With (Public and Private) – SCAPE

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Over £250m) – WILLMOTT DIXON

Best Main Contractor to Work For (£50m – £250m) – SHAYLOR

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Under £50m) – JARVIS

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Over 25m) – BRIGGS & FORRESTER

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Under £25m) – SCITECH

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Over £250m) – SISK

Best Main Contractor to Work With (£50m – £250m) – CADDICK

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Under £50m) – COLMORE TANG

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Over £25m) – VITAL ENERGI

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Under £25m) – SMD

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Over £25m) – VP GROUNDFORCE

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Under £25m) – BRYSON PRODUCTS

The crowd was entertained by TV architect George Clarke and raised more than £4,000 for his charity to encourage more young people into condtruction

Aaron Morby, Editor of the Enquirer said: “It was fantastic to see the industry come together to  celebrate construction’s favourite firms.

“More than 10,000 of our readers voted in these awards making them a true reflection of which firms are doing business in the right way and keeping their staff and suppliers happy.”

The full list of winners is:

Best Client to Work With (Public and Private)

  • Argent
  • Berkeley Group
  • Dyson
  • Jaguar Land Rover
  • Kemira Chemicals UK
  • Highways England
  • Land Securities
  • North West Construction Hub
  • Rotherham Metropolitan Council
  • Scape

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Over £250m)

  • Ferrovial Agroman UK
  • Graham Construction
  • ISG
  • J Murphy
  • Laing O’Rourke
  • McLaren Construction
  • Morgan Sindall
  • Sisk
  • Taylor Woodrow
  • Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work For (£50m – £250m)

  • 8Build
  • Barhale
  • Beard Construction
  • Farrans
  • FM Conway
  • McNicholas Construction
  • Raymond Brown Construction
  • Novus Property Solutions
  • Shaylor Group
  • Speller Metcalfe

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Under £50m)

  • Carillion Highways Maintenance M40
  • Colmore Tang
  • Colorado Group
  • GPC74
  • Hightown Group
  • Jarvis Contracting
  • Jenner Contractors
  • PiLON
  • Torsion Group
  • VolkerWessels UK

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Over 25m)   

  • Astins
  • BAM Ritchies
  • Briggs Amasco
  • Briggs & Forrester
  • Carey Group
  • McGee
  • NG Bailey
  • Severfield
  • Vital Energi
  • Watkins                                                                                    

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Under £25m)

  • Aarsleff Ground Engineering
  • Ardmac
  • Builders Beams
  • Clarke Facades
  • Hazelwood Carpentry Contractors
  • PHD Modular Access
  • Scitech Engineering
  • SMD
  • Taylor’s Hoists
  • VolkerLaser

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Over £250m)

  • Balfour Beatty
  • BAM Construction
  • BAM Nuttall
  • Graham Construction
  • Kier
  • Laing O’Rourke
  • Lendlease
  • Sisk
  • Skanska
  • Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work With (£50m – £250m)

  • Bardsley
  • Barhale
  • Clugston Construction
  • Caddick Construction
  • Farrans
  • McNicholas Construction
  • North Midland
  • Shaylor Group
  • Speller Metcalfe
  • Watkin Jones

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Under £50m)

  • AE Yates
  • Cheetham Hill
  • Colmore Tang
  • Jarvis Contracting
  • Manton Building Contractors
  • PiLON
  • Torsion Group
  • VolkerWessels UK
  • Warden Construction
  • Wildgoose Construction                                          

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Over £25m)

  • Briggs Amasco
  • Carey Group
  • J Reddington
  • Keltbray
  • Lakesmere
  • McGee
  • NG Bailey
  • Prater
  • TClarke
  • Vital Energi

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Under £25m)          

  • A1 Flue Systems
  • Bauer Technologies
  • Bracknell Roofing
  • G&H Group
  • GKR Scaffolding
  • M&J Group
  • MVS Group
  • SMD
  • Style Partitions
  • Tiger Scaffolding

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Over £25m)

  • FP McCann
  • Hudson Contract Services
  • JCB
  • Mabey
  • Marley Eternit
  • Metsec
  • PERI
  • SIG
  • Tarmac
  • VP Groundforce

Construction Supplier to Work With (Under £25m)

  • Basestone
  • Biosite Systems
  • Bryson Products
  • Constructionarium
  • One Way resourcing
  • Purpol Marketing
  • PSP Aluminium
  • Safewise
  • TD Construction Testing
  • Visual 5D

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