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framework. The projects across the UK include an Alternative Provision school in the Midlands, the design and build of a new sports hall in Yorkshire and the construction of a new primary school in the North East. The largest of the latest contract


Triple win for ISG on ESFA school framework I


SG has been awarded three contracts worth £12.8 million through the Education and Skills Funding Agency


awards will see ISG deliver a £5.5 million new school building in Billingham, County Durham. Currently operating from a temporary site, once completed Wynyard C of E School will provide 420 primary school places. In the Midlands, ISG has been appointed


through the ESFA to deliver the latest phase of development at the Solihull Alternative Provision Academy, to adapt current office space into state-of-the- art teaching facilities. The scheme, worth £3.6 million, will provide 22,000 sqft of school accommodation through the conversion of the former office block. ISG expects to start on site in early 2018, with a phased handover in Easter and summer. The third win for ISG sees the


expansion of The Stephen Longfellow Academy, sponsored by Gorse Academies Trust, which opened earlier this year to provide 300 primary and secondary places in Leeds. Valued at £3.7 million, the project involves the construction of a new sports


modern education facilities through an efficient and best value approach requires collaboration and this is why frameworks are ideally suited to bring projects to site quickly and cost effectively.”


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Clugston begins work on £13m Leeds College of Building campus


work on a new £13m campus development for Leeds College of Building in Leeds’s South Bank, with the development due for completion by the end of 2018. Representatives from Leeds College of


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Building, Clugston Construction, Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and architecture practice Fuse Studios were all on site to see work commence late in September. The state-of-the-art campus, designed


by Fuse Studios, is located alongside the college’s existing South Bank campus and will include a 5,200 sqm, four storey building with a range of classrooms, workshops and an impressive central atrium. Phase two of the Hunslet campus is


being supported by an £11.9m grant through the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Growth Deal. As part of this funding, £1m will also be spent refurbishing the North Street campus. Leeds College of Building has been


providing specialist further education on construction since 1960, and offers more than 200 courses across a huge range of disciplines. The college has built a reputation for first-class education and training. Once constructed, a large proportion


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AIN contractor Clugston Construction, part of the privately owned Clugston Group, has started


of Leeds College of Building’s 7,000 students will attend the two South Bank sites, with the remainder using the college’s North Street campus. Ian Billyard, principal at Leeds College


of Building, said: “We are very pleased to start work on our new campus, within weeks of securing planning permission for it. Clugston Construction has a strong presence in Leeds and a successful track


record of working on a wide range of high-profile education projects, throughout the North of England and beyond, which made the company the ideal partner for this contract.”


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hall and internal alterations to the existing academy, which will allow it to provide specialist alternative provision for children who may have struggled in mainstream education. Work starts in February 2018 and is expected to complete in September the same year. ISG’s Dr Sarah James said: “Delivering


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