Winner: ISG

For ISG this has been its third consecutive year of record profit and a £2.5bn turnover. Highlights from the past 12 months include working on the firm’s largest-ever fit-out project and redeveloping the stands at Lord’s cricket ground. The contractor has also built £170m of distribution centres. ISG also claimed 11 education projects through a government framework, which were worth £100m in total. As part of the firm’s response to the covid-19 pandemic, ISG created a site app that has been shared with Build UK for the benefit of the wider industry. The contractor has subsequently adapted the app to help support the reopening of schools.

The ISG-backed Professional Construction Practice Diploma, which is the industry’s first-ever level 3 or A-level equivalent qualification, launched in 2018 and now has over 120 students across a cohort of four schools and one college. ISG is also engaging students earlier in their education, with 61 students taking the level 1/2 Constructing the Built Environment course in the same schools – equivalent to a GCSE. ISG’s Smartspace team also delivered 8,000 training days for its staff across 200 subjects, up 13% on the previous year. This was in addition to its growing online educational resources.

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