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Commercial Sector : Forestry Commission, Smithton
LOCATION: Inverness
CLIENT: Forestry Commission Scotland
STATUS: Completed 2007
COST: £1.4m
AWARDS: RICS Scotland Sustainability Award 2008
The Forestry Commission Scotland’s Inverness District Office at Smithton on the southern edge of the city has won the RICS Scotland Sustainability award for 2008. The assessors were ‘very impressed by the quality and the careful consideration to all aspects in creating a sustainable building’.
The client’s brief demanded a sustainable design and a requirement to demonstrate exemplary use of locally grown timber, ideally sourced from within a 50 mile radius of the regenerated brown field site.
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Key Project Personnel
Alister Milne
Partner
Alister is a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years experience of working within the Construction Industry, predominately in the Highlands of Scotland and has a wide range of experience in both the design and construction of Civil, Structural and Building Projects.
Alister established Fairhurst's Inverness office in 2001 and is responsible for market development and overall supervision of technical staff.
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