Building Briefs: Eric Wright wins church contract; ISG to build college

THE ERIC Wright Group will start work next week on a £1.1m new church in east Manchester.

The 6,000 sq ft Resurrection and St Barnabas Church in Beswick was designed by APEC Architects.

The 200-capacity building replaces the Church of the Resurrection in Beswick and St Jerome’s Church in Ardwick.

Peter Guy, managing director at Preston-based Eric Wright Construction, said: “We are extremely pleased to be working with the Parish of Eastlands to deliver the new St Barnabas and Eastlands Church in Beswick which promises to create outstanding community facilities.”

Rev Canon Roy Chow said: “This is the first Church of England church to be built in the city of Manchester for many decades, and we’re very proud to have it here in east Manchester.”

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CONSTRUCTION group ISG has won a £4.4m contract to build a new sixth form centre at Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College in Altrincham.

The design, by architectural practice Pozonni, features a three-storey kidney shaped structure with full height coloured glazing.

The building will provide the college with 300 sixth form places and incorporates a café, study and break out areas as well as science and art labs and ICT and creative media suites.
Several classrooms are also linked together by moveable partition walls to create flexible teaching accommodation. The project is due to start soon and scheduled for completion in autumn 2011.