{"id":8676,"date":"2025-10-24T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:47:00","slug":"balfour-beatty-seals-start-for-162m-edinburgh-concert-hall-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/balfour-beatty-seals-start-for-162m-edinburgh-concert-hall-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Balfour Beatty seals start for \u00a3162m Edinburgh concert hall job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Balfour Beatty has landed a \u00a3162m contract to build the long-awaited Dunard Centre, Edinburgh\u2019s first purpose-built concert hall in more than a century.<\/p>\n

The deal was sealed after the Scottish Government stepped in with a \u00a320m rescue package for the project, which finally moves forward more than six years after first winning planning.<\/p>\n

Sir Robert McAlpine had originally been lined up for the job under a preconstruction deal signed four years ago. But the contractor exited last spring when costs ballooned from the \u00a345m first envisaged by architects Chipperfield and Reiach & Hall.<\/p>\n

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Balfour Beatty was then brought in under an early contractor involvement agreement to thrash out the build strategy for the tricky city-centre site behind St Andrew Square.<\/p>\n

Commissioned by IMPACT Scotland, the landmark venue will give the Scottish Chamber Orchestra a permanent home and form a major base for the Edinburgh International Festival.<\/p>\n

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Render of the auditorium in Dunard Centre<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The 1,000-seat hall will feature a complex double basement, five-storey steel frame and intricate oak-panelled interior designed for world-class acoustics.<\/p>\n

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Work will ramp up in the coming weeks, with completion slated for 2029.<\/p>\n

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As part of the works, Balfour Beatty will construct a five-storey steel frame with an envelope fa\u00e7ade of pre-cast concrete panels. The high-quality internal finishes will include bespoke solid oak panelling to the hall to enhance the acoustic experience.<\/p>\n

At its peak, the project will employ around 200 people and support five new apprenticeships alongside a major SME supply chain programme.<\/p>\n

Nick Rowan, managing director for Balfour Beatty in Scotland, said: \u201cWe are proud to be entrusted with delivering what will become a nationally significant cultural venue in the heart of Edinburgh and have worked meticulously to plan every stage of this complex build, from construction logistics in a tightly constrained site, to the precision needed to achieve world-class acoustic performance.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/mECUPoj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Balfour Beatty has landed a \u00a3162m contract to build the long-awaited Dunard Centre, Edinburgh\u2019s first purpose-built concert hall in more than a century. The deal was sealed after the Scottish Government stepped in with a \u00a320m rescue package for the project, which finally moves forward more than six years after first winning planning. Sir Robert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}