{"id":523507,"date":"2025-06-27T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/?p=523507"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:43:17","slug":"morgan-sindall-awarded-isg-leisure-centre-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/contracts\/morgan-sindall-awarded-isg-leisure-centre-job-27-06-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Sindall awarded ISG leisure centre job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Sindall has replaced ISG on a job to build a new leisure centre in Bishop Auckland.<\/p>\n

It is the second time this month the firm has picked up an ex-ISG contract.<\/p>\n

The leisure centre build had faced delays after\u00a0ISG went into administration<\/a> last September leaving 2,200 workers redundant.<\/p>\n

Plans for the \u00a326.6m project were originally approved in 2023.<\/p>\n

At the time of its collapse, ISG had not started work on the development, which will see the current Woodhouse Close Library being demolished and the new facility replacing it.<\/p>\n

Durham Council said Morgan Sindall<\/a> will start work this summer.<\/p>\n

The new building will create a community hub bringing both leisure services and the library together in one place, along with a new soft play centre and cafe.<\/p>\n

It will include two accessible swimming pools, a sauna and a steam room. There will also be a gym, alongside two new purpose-built group exercise spaces.<\/p>\n

Councillor Joe Quinn, cabinet member for resources, investment and assets, said: \u201cWe are delighted to soon begin work on the new leisure centre for Bishop Auckland following the appointment of the contractor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project is part of our leisure transformation programme to modernise leisure facilities across the county as well as our ongoing regeneration of the town.\u201d<\/p>\n

The leisure centre is being funded by Durham Council, with a contribution of \u00a32.75m from Sport England.<\/p>\n

It is the latest project to find a replacement contractor for ISG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Department for Education appointed Morgan Sindall to finish an ISG job to rebuild Hempland<\/a> Primary School in Heworth, worth \u00a310m. Concrete foundations and the steel structure of a new two-storey building had already been put in place at the site on Whitby Avenue at the time of the contractor\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n

The Bishop Auckland leisure centre job represents another windfall for Morgan Sindall, which also picked up a \u00a365m life sciences contract<\/a>\u00a0in London\u2019s Docklands that had been lined up for ISG, although the contract had not been signed by the time administrators were brought in.<\/p>\n

Morgan Sindall expects its full-year results to be \u201csignificantly ahead\u201d of previous projections, on the back of the robust performance of its fit-out and construction divisions.<\/p>\n

In a trading update earlier this month, Morgan Sindall, which ranked second in last year\u2019s CN100 index<\/a>, said it expected its full-year results for 2025 to be \u201csignificantly ahead\u201d of previous projections, on the back of the robust performance of its fit-out and construction divisions.<\/p>\n

The firm\u00a0topped May\u2019s monthly contracts league table<\/a>, having taken 18 jobs during May worth a combined \u00a3619.6m, outstripping its nearest rival by more than \u00a3200m.<\/p>\n

The firm\u2019s biggest contract last month was for a \u00a3130m revamp of the National Sports Centre in Crystal Palace<\/a>\u00a0for the Greater London Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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