Scotland

Capita Symonds in Scotland is an amalgam of various companies acquired over the years by Capita and our offices are located in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Livingston.

The first of these was Beard Dove in the early 1990s followed by Burnett & Co in 1995, Tozer Gallagher in 1998 and MPM Adams in 1999. 

In 2010 Capita Symonds also acquired UK commercial property experts NB Real Estate, with offices in Edinburgh, enabling the company to provide a unique full service proposition across the real estate lifecycle, bringing front end advisory and acquisition, and ongoing property and estates management expertise, to its existing multidisciplinary project design, development and management capabilities. The property team currently collect a rent roll of circa £58.5 million from a managed portfolio of over 80 properties.

Capita Symonds has delivered a number of award winning projects in Scotland including:

• Glasgow Museum of Transport (pictured): Capita Symonds is providing project management, CDMC and QS services on the £74m Zaha Hadid-designed Riverside Museum scheme (pictured). Situated on the banks of the River Clyde in the heart of the city’s Harbour development, the new museum will comprise more than 3,000 objects.
• Robert Burns Birthplace Museum: Capita Symonds project managed the new £21m Robert Burns Birthplace Museum at Alloway in Ayrshire.
• Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh: Capita Symonds is providing project, cost management and CDMD services on the refurbishment of this prestigious Rocco Forte Hotel.
• Heriot Watt University: Capita Symonds is providing project management and full design team services for two 250 bedroom residences at the Edinburgh and Scottish Borders Campuses.
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum: Capita Symonds provided project, cost and construction management on a £35m programme to restore and expand the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow. The A-listed building is the most popular ‘free to enter visitor’ attraction in Scotland and is the most visited museum in the UK outside of London.
• esure: Capita Symonds advised esure on the lease re-gear and subsequent £28.24m investment sale of the Equinox building in Glasgow city centre. The seven storey building comprises 68,000sqft of Grade A office space.
• ASDA Stores: Capita Symonds continues to deliver project management and employers agent services on new stores and major extensions across Scotland.
• Health Facilities Scotland: Capita Symonds has been appointed by NHS Scotland’s Health Facilities Scotland (HFS) as survey partners for Phase 2 of the implementation of an Estates Asset Management System for the NHS Estate in Scotland.

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