Building renovation contracts
UK public sector · 421 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 421
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £346k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £670m
- 396 of 415 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 232
- Suppliers
- 299
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most building renovation contracts took 6% of them (23 of 421).
- Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
- The median contract, £346k, is 2.5 times the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
- North West had the most contracts: 61, or 14% of the total.
Who buys building renovation
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1NHS Property Services Limited14 contracts£5.2m
- 2Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office10 contracts£31.9m
- 3Newry, Mourne and Down District Council10 contracts£730k
- 4Kent County Council8 contracts£2.6m
- 5Burnley Borough Council7 contracts£1.0m
- 6Oxfordshire County Council6 contracts£1.1m
- 7Rochdale Borough Council5 contracts£8.6m
- 8Metropolitan Police Service5 contracts£2.7m
- 9Hampshire County Council5 contracts£2.4m
- 10Progress Housing Group5 contracts£2.2m
Top building renovation contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Lindum Group6 contracts£9.3m
- 2Speller Metcalfe5 contracts£16.3m
- 3Wates4 contracts£111m
- 4Brims Construction Limited4 contracts£11.4m
- 5Woodland Corporate Interiors Limited4 contracts£3.6m
- 6BORRAS CONSTRUCTION LTD4 contracts£934k
- 7CURTIS BUILDING SERVICES LIMITED4 contracts£602k
- 8Willmott Dixon3 contracts£20.6m
- 9G F Tomlinson3 contracts£11.0m
- 10Quinn London Limited3 contracts£10.7m
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to John Turner Construction Group · Awarded 1 October 2026
Cumberland Council to Michael Thompson (Public Works Contractors and Engineers) Limited · Awarded 29 September 2026
SCC - KC - Guildford Library Refurbishment Main Contractor (official notice, opens in a new tab)
Value not published
Surrey County Council to Management & Construction Services Limited · Awarded 25 September 2026
NDC0108-26 - Ilfracombe Healthy Homes Refit (Post Office) (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£1.7m
North Devon District Council to Grills Renovations and Refurbishments Ltd · Awarded 25 September 2026
Derbyshire County Council to G F Tomlinson · Awarded 24 September 2026
Derbyshire County Council to G F Tomlinson · Awarded 24 September 2026
Value not published
Chigwell Parish Council to Hartley Services Group Ltd · Awarded 24 September 2026
East Durham College to Ashbrook Construction Services Limited · Awarded 24 September 2026
Moray Council to Galliford Try · Awarded 23 September 2026
Pre-Construction Services Agreement (PCSA) for 36 Whitehall (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£804k
Government Property Agency to Wates · Awarded 22 September 2026
Largest
Ministry of Justice to Wates · Awarded 24 March 2026
Royal Observatory Greenwich, Redevelopment and Refurbishment (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£35.0m
National Maritime Museum to Sir Robert McAlpine · Awarded 2 February 2026
Kirklees Council to GMI Construction Group Plc · Awarded 14 January 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to SHIMIZU CORPORATION · Awarded 27 January 2026
King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council to Messenger Construction · Awarded 29 October 2025
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 375 · Wales 17 · Scotland 16 · Northern Ireland 13
What is included
Refurbishment or remodelling of whole existing buildings or substantial parts of them, including conversion and change of use, with strip-out, structural alterations, fabric, finishes and services.
- Whole-building refurbishment schemes
- Reconfiguration and remodelling of existing buildings
- Change of use (library to health centre, retail floors to innovation centre, day centre to flats, house to apartments)
- Refurbishment and re-use of listed buildings
- Student halls and residential building refurbishment
- Custody suite upgrades
- Pre-construction services agreements for a refurbishment
What is not included
- Interior fit-out of offices or rooms within a building (con.build.interior-fit-out)
- Extensions and localised alterations (con.build.extensions-minor-works)
- Toilet and washroom refurbishment (con.build.washroom-refurbishment)
- Laboratory and clinical room refurbishment (con.build.specialist-room-refurbishment)
- Void property refurbishment (con.repair.void-works)
- Planned improvement programmes to tenanted homes (con.repair.planned-maintenance-programmes)