North East construction company wins hat-trick of contracts

Surgo Construction has scored hat-trick of contracts as they begin work on a new £7.7m state of the art bus depot in Gateshead..

The 2.38 hectare depot in Dunston will replace Go North East’s existing site at Winlaton and Sunderland Road.

Working with developer, UK Land Estate, contractors, Surgo Construction have erected the steel framework for the new facility, which includes sustainable design elements such as, rainwater harvesting and recycling of water onsite.

Once complete it will create 4,150m2 of workshops as well as storage, office, mess room and training facilities with external testing and bus fleet parking areas.

Newcastle-based Surgo Construction, has also recently won a £1.3m window replacement and refurbishment contract at the Christopher building on the Durham University estate.

This new work sees the team working alongside GSS Architecture, services design engineers, Desco, cost managers Turner & Townsend and the university’s own project manager, Sean Kelly.

In North Tyneside, Surgo has also been appointed by the Duke of Northumberland’s commercial property and development arm, Hotspur Land Limited, to build a restaurant shell and associated external works including drainage and mains services connections at Backworth Business Park.

Andy Laurie Construction Consultancy, acting as quantity surveyor on behalf of Hotspur Land, was responsible for Surgo’s appointment.

He said: “We selected Surgo for this project since they submitted a competitive tender which was based on a shorter construction period, which reduced the costs.

“They are open, well organised and will be a good addition to the project team.”

Other members of the professional team include architect, Faulkner Brown, structural engineer, Fairhurst and M&E engineering design consultancy, Kyoob.

The single storey building, with a contract value of almost £900k, will provide 456m2 of space and the construction programme, due to begin within the coming month, will last 21 weeks.

The end user, Mitchells & Butler, is already signed up to operate the building as a restaurant under one of its established brand names.

Surgo director, Jeff Alexander, said: “Our last work for this client was also in the retail/leisure sector, some years ago now so we were pleased to hear we had been appointed to this latest development and hope it may lead to further work in the future.

“The third project is to provide flood defence works for longstanding client, social housing company, ISOS at its Gosforth head office.