Tolent bags £15m Sunderland skills academy

Tolent has scored top marks in the contest to build a design and construct skills academy to support Sunderland’s ambitious housing plans.
The north east builder will now design and build the Housing Innovation and Construction Skills Academy, which will upskill local people to deliver factory-built new homes, the first of which will be assembled at Riverside Sunderland.
Planning consent for the academy was granted in March and it is hoped that work will now be able to commence on the &pou