Morgan Sindall picked for flagship Sunesis school

A Willmott Dixon joint venture has handed a £5m construction contract to Morgan Sindall.Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure has been appointed to build a new primary school and nursery in Derby.Hackwood Primary will be a Sunesis Mosaic model, delivered through the Scape Venture framework. Sunesis Build was originally a joint venture between Scape and Willmott Dixon to deliver standardised modular school buildings at reduced cost. In February 2018 Lungfish Architects replaced Scape Ventures as Willmott Dixon’s co-owner of Sunesis Build, although the Sunesis website still describes it as a joint venture between Scape Group and Willmott Dixon .Derby City Council commissioned the new 14,000 sq ft primary school in collaboration with residential developers Redrow Homes East Midlands and Miller Homes, which are funding the project as part of their plans to build more than 700 new homes on the neighbouring Hackwood Farm estate.The modular single-storey school, designed by Lungfish, will house six classrooms and a 26-place nursery. It is being fabricated off-site in Hull. The layout will allow additional teaching space to be added in the future, taking the capacity up from 200 to 315.Pick Everard is providing project management and quantity surveying services for the project.The modular and offsite construction process will enable the school to be built in less than nine months, Morgan Sindall said. Work started in January and the project is expected to complete in time for the new academic year in September 2019.