Friday, October 11

Surgo Construction gets in administration

Surgo’s head office in Newcastle. Image: Google Maps

Newcastle-based Surgo Construction has actually gotten in administration.

The local professional designated administrators on 14 March, leaving previous personnel to look for brand-new tasks somewhere else. The business had actually been trading for over 100 years, according to its site.

Surgo turned over ₤ 14.4 m in its last released monetary accounts, for the year ending 31 October 2022, when it likewise utilized approximately 66 employee throughout the year.

On its site, the business stated it had “varied, with much success, into numerous sectors, particularly education, energy from waste, business, health and care, leisure and retail, in addition to property”.

Its building jobs normally varied in worth from ₤ 3m to more than ₤ 20m, according to the site, with jobs mainly based in Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle and somewhere else in Northumberland.

The business had actually remained in a legal fight with Bellway Homes because September 2022, with each declaring the other owed cash and looking for enforcement of adjudication choices. Last month, Bellway Homes served Surgo a winding-up petition associating with declared non-payment.

On Friday early morning (15 March), a lawyer for Bellway, Nicholas Kaplan, validated throughout a short hearing in the Construction and Technology Court that Surgo had actually selected administrators a day previously.

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