The Futures Institute development, which part-funded by Edinburgh & South East Scotland City Region Deal, will provide teaching and learning facilities, function areas and work spaces for staff, students and the general public.
It involves refurbishing the university鈥檚 Grade- A listed Old Royal Infirmary hospital building, including the restoration and connection of six wards and using the building鈥檚 wide corridors to create free-flowing areas. Building information modelling (BIM) and augmented and virtual reality technologies will be used during the project.
Hector Macaulay, Balfour Beatty鈥檚 managing director of Scotland and Ireland, said: 鈥淐ombining the latest construction techniques and technologies, we look forward to sympathetically restoring Edinburgh鈥檚 Old Royal Infirmary hospital for the wider benefit of the community.鈥�
Work is due to start this spring with overall completion expected ahead of the start of the academic year in 2021. At construction peak, the project will employ a workforce of 170 and employ a range of local supply chain partners.
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