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Morrison Construction, the Swedish arm of the UK-based Galliford Try plc, secured a contract to deliver phase I of the £41.8m hospital project in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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The contract has been awarded by South East Scotland, on behalf of NHS Lothian, and involves redevelopment of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland.

Pursuant to the contract, Morrison will deliver a new, state-of-the-art 15,500 m2 specialist mental health facility, which will be located on the west edge of the existing campus in Morningside.

The facility will provide adult acute mental health inpatient service, intensive psychiatric care, national brain injury unit, mental health rehabilitation and older people's mental health assessment and treatment services.

In addition, the Facilities Management business of Galliford Try has been selected as the preferred bidder to provide ongoing hard facilities maintenance and lifecycle management.

This contract will be worth approximately £18m over the 25 year concession period.

The hospital is part of NHS Lothian’s Primary and Community Division, which caters to 620,000 people in Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian.