Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has begun construction of The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, a state-of-the-art hospice for the people of Glasgow.
The two year project gets underway this month, following years of community fundraising to raise the £21 million needed to complete the project.
Hector Macaulay, Balfour Beatty Regional Managing Director, Scotland, said: “The way the community has pulled together over the last four years has been really impressive, raising vast sums of money to bring this state-of-the-art facility to fruition. We’re pleased to have got construction underway, and to be working closely with The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice to deliver a facility which will provide high quality care for patients and their families.”
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Notes to editors:
• Balfour Beatty (www.balfourbeatty.com) is a leading international infrastructure group. With 34,000 employees, we provide innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins our daily lives, supports communities and enables economic growth. We finance, develop, build and maintain complex infrastructure such as transportation, power and utility systems, social and commercial buildings.
• Our main geographies are the UK, US, Middle East and South East Asia. Over the last 100 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including the London Olympics’ Aquatic Centre, Hong Kong’s first Zero Carbon building, the world’s biggest shopping mall in Dubai, the National Museum of the Marine Corps in the US and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
Image: Glasgow Lord Provost Sadie Docherty appears onsite with Chief Executive of The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, Rhona Baillie
