Building Briefs – November 27th

• Charity begins work on £3.2m mental health facility in Aberdeen

The new purpose-built provision on Holburn Street will offer accommodation to 20 people and support an additional 40 others living in their own homes through a mental wellbeing outreach service.

It is hoped the building will open in late 2020 to coincide with the charity’s 150th anniversary year.

• Construction of Port of Dundee metal recycling venue to begin

The firm behind a multi-million-pound investment to form a metal recycling facility at the Port of Dundee is hoping to start construction in January.

John Lawrie Metals plans to use a two-acre site in Dundee to dismantle redundant offshore infrastructure brought ashore during oil and gas decommissioning projects and also for metal processing operations.

The investment will total more than £5 million.

• Latest A9 Dualling works announced

Transport Scotland has announced the latest works in the ongoing A9 Dualling scheme.

From Monday 02 December to Wednesday 04 December 2019 temporary traffic lights will be in place on the B867 near the Bankfoot South junction to allow for safe felling of several trees in the area.

The traffic lights will be in place at off-peak times between 09:30 and 15:00 when traffic will be held in both directions for periods of up to five minutes at a time.

The traffic lights will be manually controlled to safely manage traffic flows during the works and minimise disruption to road users.

Road users are advised to approach Bankfoot South Junction with care.

• £300,000 road network investment for North East Fife

Fife Council has announced an investment of £300,000 into the road network in North East Fife.

The council will be carrying out carriageway resurfacing on A919 from Toll Road, Guardbridge to the 30mph limit signs on Station Road in Leuchars.

The work will be carried out in phases from Monday 02 December 2019 until Friday 17 January 2020. Two-way temporary traffic lights will be used between 9.30am and 3.30pm each workday.

• Replacement confirmed for collapsed Dundee footbridge

A 170-year-old footbridge which collapsed during heavy rain earlier this year will be rebuilt in the spring, Dundee City Council has confirmed.

Finlathen Bridge, one of the main pedestrian routes between the communities of Fintry and Linlathen, has been out-of-action since the incident in July.

Built in 1846, the 500ft long bridge was originally constructed by the Dundee Water Company to carry the first water pipeline from Monikie over the Dighty valley to Dundee.

Now the local authority has confirmed it will be rebuilt to the same original design.