{"id":46878,"date":"2018-09-07T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T09:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=46878"},"modified":"2018-09-10T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T09:17:08","slug":"kier-projects-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-projects-scotland\/46878\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier Construction Scotland to take on multi-million healthcare projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"section-theme-background-indicator publication-font\">The construction giant has been selected to take on three projects in Scotland to revamp the healthcare sector<\/h1>\n<p>The healthcare projects include: refurbishment programmes at\u00a0Royal Cornhill hospital in Aberdeen and Dr Gray\u2019s Hospital in Elgin as well as a \u00a34.8 million extension and refurbishment for the Rowanbank Clinic at Stobhill hosptial in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/\">Kier<\/a> will lend their hands to construct and design a \u00a33.7 million National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service in Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>The lucrative win will add to the companies already bustling portfolio of projects in Scotland.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-reveals-success-of-training-and-career-initiative\/45759\/\">Kier reveals success of training and career initiative<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-distribution-hub\/44315\/\">Kier awarded major \u00a339m distribution hub in Bedford<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brian McQuade, managing director for Kier Construction Scotland, said: \u201cKier has a leading reputation of delivering first-class facilities in the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese latest wins demonstrate a significant investment in the area of mental health by Scottish Government and we look forward to working closely with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/\">NHS<\/a> Grampian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Ayrshire &amp; Arran to deliver these enhanced facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only will these excellent new amenities benefit the patients, they will also lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-jobs-london\/46870\/\">job creation<\/a> and training opportunities, helping to support both the local and Scottish economies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new healthcare projects are to be funded by the Scottish Government and add to the growing number of projects that the company has taken on.<\/p>\n<p>Other Kier projects include: the construction of a new elective care facility at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank, maintenance work and refurbishments at Aberdeen&#8217;s Royal Infirmary, Raigmore Hospital in Inverness and Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction giant has been selected to take on three projects in Scotland to revamp the healthcare sector. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,472,923,996,639],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":["post-46878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-planning-construction-news","tag-construction","tag-kier","tag-mental-health","tag-nhs","tag-procurement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kier Construction Scotland to take on multi-million healthcare projects<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The construction giant has been selected to take on three healthcare projects in Scotland to revamp the healthcare sector.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-projects-scotland\/46878\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kier Construction Scotland to take on multi-million healthcare projects\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The construction giant has been selected to take on three healthcare projects in Scotland to revamp the healthcare sector.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-projects-scotland\/46878\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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