Key team in place at Knockroon

Faithful+ Gould, the leading integrated project and programme management consultancy, has been appointed to the biggest capital project ever undertaken by East Ayrshire Council.

They will provide employers agent and quantity surveying services to the £ 63.5m state- of- the- art Knockroon Learning and Enterprise Campus.

Knockroon will provide over 2000 secondary, primary, early years, supported learning and special education needs pupils with a 21st century learning and teaching environment.

Alistair Kidd, senior project and capital accounting manager with East Ayrshire Council, said: “Faithful+ Gould is one of world’s largest consultancies, with a proven record of delivering project and cost management services on a range of large and complex construction projects.”

Barry Young, associate director at Faithful+ Gould and project lead, added: “East Ayrshire Council’s aspiration is to deliver a state of the art inclusive learning environment for generations to come.

“Our role will be integral to ensure East Ayrshire Council realise this ambition.

“We will deliver a facility that recognises the scale of the investment and our contribution will be to optimise capital expenditure, maintenance and lifetime running costs, increase functionality and efficiency, maximise environmental performance and end user satisfaction overall.

“We’re motivated and excited to get started”.

Construction is planned to begin in 2017, ahead of a 2019 opening.