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Clients handed out around £6.1bn of construction work in July – up by around £500m from the month before, Glenigan data has revealed.

The figures (see ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Boardroom) reveal that the most work was awarded in the infrastructure sector, with firms here inking deals worth just under £1.2bn – or around 20% of all work awarded in the month.

The bulk of this, £445³¾, was from three Department for Transport deals, and six Network Rail contracts worth a combined £277³¾.

After infrastructure, the next most prolific sector was social housing, with clients here awarding firms £848m of business.

This was followed by those in the utilities and industrial sectors, at around £738m apiece.

Meanwhile, the data also revealed that £8.69bn worth of projects were approved in July, up 26% on the £6.95bn approved in June.

The private housing sector was the market with the highest value of projects given the green light, with permission secured for 366 schemes worth almost £2.55bn.

After private residential, commercial achieved the second highest value of approvals at just under £1.6bn, followed by industrial at £1.35bn. 

Overall the client to receive planning permissions with the highest value was the Department of Health and Social Care. It had six schemes worth a combined £450m given the green light.

* private housing awards data refers to external contracts only and does not include frameworks

** projects awarded by a joint venture are listed independently to both single party clients