Costain joins top table after bumper month

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Costain has climbed into the contractors' top five for the past year after finishing top of the tree in April with three big wins.rnThe latest Glenigan construction league tables show Costain has won 23 jobs in the year to April 2009, worth £1.71 billion.rnThe total puts the firm in fifth place behind Balfour Beatty,rnCarillion, Bam Construct andrnLaing O'Rourke.rnApril's bumper performance was boosted by the £397 million deal to design and build municipal waste treatment infrastructure for the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority.rnThe Manchester contract also helped Costain climb from ninth position in March to the top of the North-west league, leapfrogging Thales in the process.rnCostain has now won six jobs in the north-west in the past 12 months, earning the contractor £840m.