BUILDING firm Surgo has secured millions of pounds worth of housing work across the North-East.

The Newcastle-based company, better known for its work on education projects, including the £20m development of Yarm School, has secured more than £5m of refurbishment and new-build housing projects in the past few weeks.

Company director Jeff Alexander said: “A large proportion of our work has always come from the housing sector. Whilst the residential market is still suffering from economic uncertainty, the social and affordable housing market is relatively buoyant.

“It is essential that building contractors such as Surgo are sufficiently adaptable to follow market developments if they are to continue to prosper.”

Working on behalf of a longstanding client – social housing provider Isos Housing Group – Surgo has been appointed to three projects – the construction of nine bungalows valued at £778, 000 in Burradon, Northumberland, where work will begin this month, nine homes at Annfield Plain for the Durham Aged Mineworkers’ Homes Association worth £670,000, and eight bungalows in North Tyneside worth £830,000.

Two additional refurbishment contracts have been secured with North Tyneside Council to refurbish 236 properties, with a combined value of just over £2m.