UBC - Building a Sustainable Future

Projects

Culbokie

Description: Construction of 10 'Super E' state-of-the-art 'clean air' quality Canadian homes on a green field site

Location: Culbokie, Inverness

Client: Banff Homes

Architect: Interhabs

Duration: June 2002 - June 2004

Value: £2,000,000

Procurement route: Negotiated Contract

Glenmore Lodge

Description: Accommodation comprising16 bedrooms including 2 with disabled facilities and all rooms are en-suite. 2 meeting rooms with balconies at the south end of the building overlooking the Cairngorm Mountains.

Location: Glenmore, Aviemore, Inverness-shire

Client: Sport Scotland

Architect: SMC Davis Duncan Architects

Duration: 25/06/07 – 01/02/08

Value: £957,000

Procurement Route: Competitive Tender

Kirkhill Infrastructure

Description: Construction of new infrastructure for self-build & affordable housing development including remodeling ground profiles, roads, footways and services. The preparation works required a 35,000m3 earthwork exercise which was condensed into a 2 week period

Location: Groam Farm, Kirkhill, Inverness

Client: Aviemore & Highland Developments Ltd

Engineer: HGA, Inverness

Duration: 2006 - 2007

Value: £500,000

Procurement route: Negotiated / Scottish Building Contract

Lewis Castle College

Description: Extension and refurbishment of existing college campus to include new mechanical, engineering and construction workshop, catering and general teaching facilities, restaurant, library, conference call facilities, creche.

Location: Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

Client: Lews Castle College Board of Governors

Architect: Miller Partnership

Duration: 1998 - 2001

Value: £9,500,000

Procurement route: Competitive Tender

Loch Na Ciste

Description: Construction of new road on an elevated and exposed site on the west side of the island. A Cut & Fill method was used to carve the road out of varying ground conditions of Lewisean Gneiss, Peat, Morraine and Clay.

Location: A859 North of Tarbert, Isle of Harris

Client: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar / Aggregate Industries

Engineer: CnES, Technical Services

Duration: 2004 - 2005

Value: £700,000 (£1.5m o/a)

Procurement route: Competitive Tender / ICE Blue Form

Nine Oaks Housing Development Phases I & II

Description: Construction of 158 quality homes for private sale and 39 quality homes for the affordable market

Location: Dell of Inshes, Inverness

Client: Capital Homes (Scotland) Ltd

Architect: Davis Duncan Architects

Duration: Feb 2003 - Jul 2007

Value: £16,700,000

Procurement route: Negotiated Design & Build on Joint Venture basis

RC Structures - Waste Management Facility

Description: Construction of new waste handling / processing plant at Stornoway & Benbecula serving the whole of the Western Isles. Key elements included earthworks, large RC Structures, office / accommodation blocks, roads & services. A 25m x 8m high RC Digestor (see photos) was constructed at the Stornoway site and included internal rotating paddles. Methane gas from the Digestor is used to power a generator making the facility self-sufficient

Location: Creed Business Park, Stornoway and Market Stance Quarry, Isle of Benecula

Client: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar ETEL / BBCEL

Engineer: ETEL

Duration: 2005 - 2006

Value: £3,000,000 (£9m o/a)

Procurement route: Competitive Tender #47; ICE Blue Form

RC Structures - Waste Water Treatment Work

Description: Extension of Stornoway WwTW to Secondary Treatment including the construction of RC Aeration Lanes, R.C. Final Settlement Tanks, Sludge Tanks and MCC Building along with associated buildings, roads, pipework, chambers and alterations within the existing works. This complex work was carried safely, successfully, to exacting standards and a tight timescale.

Location: Holm, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

Client: Scottish Water / GMJV

Engineer: Halcrow Group Ltd, Inverness

Duration: 2005 - 2006

Value: £2,000,000 (£9m o/a)

Procurement route: Negotiated - IchemE - Brown Book

Sabhal Mor Ostaig

Description: The construction of a new business office development, creche and sound record studio with associated external works at Sleat, Isle of Skye.

Location: UBC Group Office, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Teangue, Sleat, Isle of Skye

Client: Sabhal Mor Ostaig

Architect: Gillespies (Graeme Pert)

Duration: 28th August 2006 - 21st December 2007

Value: £5 million

Procurement Route: Single Stage Competitive Tender SBC with contractor's design sectional completion with quantities May 1999.

Sir E. Scott School

Description: This contract presented not only complex structural work but also the challenge of working on a live school site. The main building work consisted of a tanked reinforced concrete retaining wall to both support the existing Old Pier Road and act as an external wall for the Ground Floor. The finished building houses a ground floor public swimming pool/ fitness suite while the first floor includes a public library and general teaching facilities.

Location: Tarbert, Isle of Harris

Client: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

Architect: Robert Fraser Technical Services

Duration: Jan 2003 - March 2004

Value: £3,100,000

Procurement route: Competitive Tender