National construction company Morgan Ashurst has started work on a £134 million, public private partnership (PPP) scheme to design and build six new secondary schools in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Morgan Ashurst will be working with joint-venture partner AMEC Building and Facilities Services. The contract award – worth £100 million to Morgan Ashurst – follows financial close of a 30-year PPP led by consortium InspirED for East Dunbartonshire Council.
As the consortium’s construction partner, Morgan Ashurst will design and build six state-of-the-art secondary schools in Bearsden, Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch and Milngavie. Morgan Sindall’s new urban regeneration business, Muse Developments, will develop the schools’ surplus sites for mixed-use commercial and residential accommodation.
The East Dunbartonshire schools PPP scheme is the fourth major education project Morgan Ashurst has recently secured. Work on all six sites which began in August 2007, is due for completion in 2009.