The work includes a £40m contract with EDF Energy Networks Under the four-year contract providing major sub-station design and build services, supporting the electricity network in East of England.

McAlpine has also won a one-year extension to its existing highways maintenance contract with Suffolk County Council, providing planned highways maintenance, improvement schemes and street lighting. The extension is worth £25m and will run until March 2009.

Alfred McAlpine has been appointed as the preferred bidder for water industry mains replacement contract and a new framework contract in the electricity sector covering the upgrade of underground cables. These contracts will be worth more than £90m.

The Welsh Assembly has confirmed that the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) scheme covering the widening of junctions 29 to 32 of the M4 in South Wales can move into construction phase following two years of scheme evaluation and design. The contract is worth more than £65m.
 
Ian Grice, Alfred McAlpine group chief executive said: “It is pleasing to start the new-year with such strong momentum and a record order book. The Infrastructure Services wins demonstrate that the expected increase in investment in the UK’s utilities is beginning to flow through, whilst the M4 Widening contract highlights the benefits of ECI schemes in getting major construction projects underway in a timely manner. With market conditions good for all our businesses, we expect this momentum to continue through 2007.”