- About Us
First UK contractor to achieve Investors in People status in 1995.
Morrison Construction is one of the nation’s leading construction and housebuilding businesses, delivering more than £1 billion of public and private sector projects throughout Scotland in the last five years.
- Building
Morrison Construction delivers in both the public and private sectors. Our experience covers design and delivery of multi-million pound projects for a range of clients to small works and repairs and maintenance.
- Infrastructure
Morrison Construction is a leading contractor on infrastructure projects for the public, regulated and private sectors in Scotland. From roads and bridges to renewable energy and water, our vast experience and knowledge allows us to provide clients with infrastructure solutions across a range of sectors.
- Affordable Housing
Morrison Construction is committed to providing partnership housing solutions that seek to address the current issues preventing the consistent delivery of social and affordable housing.
- PPP Investments
At Morrison Construction, we harness our Group's strengths in PPP Investments to play a leading role in the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) procurement route, using a broad range of project management and financial skills.
- Housebuilding
Unparalled style and the pinnacle of luxury in the best locations, discover perfection with our homes.
- Facilities Management
Our FM division, Galliford Try Facilities Management (GTFM), delivers and manages a comprehensive range of facilities management, maintenance and support services for organisations within the public and private sectors.
Whitelee Wind Farm
Client: Scottish Power Renewables (UK) Ltd
Value: £79.2 million
Location: Near Eaglesham, Glasgow
The project comprised the design and construction of the civil and electrical infrastructure works at Whitelee Wind Farm at an altitude of approximately 300m. Whitelee Wind Farm is the largest single onshore wind farm in Europe, generating 322MW of energy, sufficient to meet the needs of 180,000 homes. Morrison Construction was initially appointed under a consultancy agreement to carry out early contractor involvement services to assist in discharging all planning conditions prior to commencement and an enabling works contract was carried out in preparation for the main works.
The works included a large area of forest clearance, 90km of unsurfaced access roads (66 per cent floating) and 140 turbine bases and hardstandings, together with 986km of power, fibre optic and earthing cables. Furthermore, a substation was built at the Ardoch Rig section of the contract and a control building was built at Loch Goin.
During construction, six working borrow pits were used to generate the road and hardstanding materials (2,500,000 cubic metres), and an on-site concrete batching plant was employed, supplying 50,000 cubic metres of concrete for WTG bases.
The site covered an area of approximately 5,700 hectares and spans three local authority areas, namely East Renfrewshire, East Ayrshire and North Lanarkshire.
In addition, approximately a third of the site is built within a Scottish Water reservoir catchment area and a number of turbines were built as close as 150m from the reservoir which necessitated strict environmental controls. A significant depth of peat existed at a number of the turbine foundations (in some locations greater than 9m) which necessitated special measures to construct bases and crane hardstandings in liquid peat conditions, at 28 separate locations.
The contract was completed on schedule (28 July 2009), following a 144-week construction period and has gone on to received a Project and an Environmental Commendation from the Saltire Society.
