New Dementia Care Unit in Kelso
3b are delighted to be commencing on site next week on a new £5m Dementia Care Unit in Kelso, the first specialist unit in the Scottish Borders.
Murray House is to be situated next to the existing Queens House Care Home. This is a residential nursing care home designed for the needs of Dementia residents and built using the latest knowledge for the needs of this growing illness.
The new care home will provide employment for additional staff. The supporting infrastructure will be separate to Queen’s House due to the nature of the Dementia residents having different needs. The central hub and service building will be positioned to the south east of the existing boundary wall and will share a public domain with Queens House. This allows the more utilitarian functions to be kept separate from the dementia care residents and will provide activity areas, a salon, and quiet room which service at a destination for residents of Queens House and the new Murray House.
Lindores Abbey Distillery and Visitor Centre
Latest photographs from the now opened Lindores Abbey Distillery and Visitor Centre in Fife completed by 3b Construction.
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Exciting New Housing Development Coming Soon at Wigtown!
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3b are working on an exciting new housing development comprising of 43 houses coming soon at Southfield Park in Wigtown.
More details to follow.
**The particulars in this post are for illustration purposes only. Every effort will be made to adhere to the illustrations, however, 3b construction Ltd. reserve the right to make any variations, which they deem necessary, without prior notice.**
New wedding venue at Laggan Outdoor looking good!
This £2m development is being delivered on a 28 week programme. We have used our offsite manufacturing facilities to achieve this by concurrently building on site whilst making components and sub assemblies off site in our workshops, enabling these components to be delivered as and when they are required. These components include all the structural steelwork to the main frame, timber frames, roof structures, external cladding, internal timber cladding to steelwork, various furniture fit out items, finishing joiner work and a bar. This strategy has enabled us to meet the demanding programme.
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3b crane hire provides free lifting services to the Social-bite housing project
3b crane hire are delighted to be involved by providing our 60t crane to assist Carbon Dynamic in placing the prototype display home at Edinburgh Airport for a further awareness campaign and to allow visitors to inspect it up close.
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Photos and video courtesy of Scene-it
Primary 6 and 7 work experience visit
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Our Port William office has recently welcomed primary 6 and 7 pupils from the local school to come and experience different roles within our company. They were shown administration in the office, joinery in our workshop and carrying out checks on vehicles in our service garage.
3b Built Properties Win 4 Saltire Awards
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The Saltire Society Housing Design Awards 2017 were announced at a ceremony at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation with Kevin Stewart, Minister for Local Government and Housing and Dame Seona Reid, Guest Chair of the Awards.
The 4 awards won were:
Saltire Medal for Lane's End
Saltire Society Housing Design Award for Lane’s End
Saltire Society Housing Design Award for Newhouse of Auchengree
CIOB Good Building Award Newhouse of Auchengree (Chartered Institute of Building)
Newhouse of Auchengree have also won:
RIBA Award for Scotland 2017 and RIBA National Award 2017 and RIAS Awards 2017, and been longlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2017 (TBA November/December) and shortlisted for Andrew Doolan Award for Best Building in Scotland 2017 (TBA November).
Lindores Distillery Project Update
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The Lindores Distillery project is nearing completion and is well ahead of schedule. The latest photos show the significant progress to date with the original render models now becoming reality. The 3b construction team have progressed this complex project with timely efficiency and within budget.
3b starts work on a new project in Dailly for Ayrshire Housing
Four two-bedroom flats in two blocks will be created on the site of the former King’s Arms Hotel.
The development has been carefully designed by Ayr based ARPL, who also designed Ayr’s Beleisle golf pavilion recently completed by 3b construction.
The flats are designed to be exceptionally energy efficient with super insulated and airtight walls. Electricity costs (there is no gas in the village) for heating should be kept low. Solar water heaters will further reduce running costs to the tenants. Mechanical heat recovery ventilation will ensure excellent air quality as it recycles heat into each flat.
Designed to suit varying needs and with a central location, the flats will complement the existing housing supply in the village. Completion is due in January 2018.
3b Achieves Exceptional Scores in Achilles Accreditation!
We are pleased to announce our recent success in achieving impressive scores following our Achilles UVDB Category B2 Verify Year 1 Audit.
This UVDB Verify audit and assessment was undertaken independently by an Accredited Achilles Auditor and provides a rigorous assessment and demonstration of compliance of 3b’s Health and Safety, Environmental and Quality risk procedures.
This audit process took place over a comprehensive two day audit, first day being office based and second day auditing a site.