East of Scotland Water Edinburgh Headquarters, Fairmilehead

East of Scotland Water Offices Fairmilehead, Scottish HQ Building, Architecture Project Photos

East of Scotland Water Edinburgh HQ

Water Company Office Building: Headquarters design by Michael Laird Architects

post updated 5 November 2023

Location: Fairmilehead, South Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Design: Michael Laird Architects

Offices

The project reorganised and refurbished East of Scotland Water’s headquarters complex of buildings at Fairmilehead, in south Edinburgh.

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East of Scotland Water Edinburgh Headquarters, Fairmilehead East of Scotland Water Edinburgh Headquarters, Fairmilehead by Michael Laird Architects East of Scotland Water Edinburgh Headquarters, Fairmilehead
Scottish Water image from Michael Laird Architects

East of Scotland Water

The original complex of buildings on the site dated from 1971 with a 1994 extension. The 1971 building, constructed of a reinforced concrete frame with precast concrete floors and aggregate faced precast concrete cladding panels, provided a mix of cellular accommodation with small parcels of open plan space.

As part of the East of Scotland Water redevelopment, the two disparate building styles were unified externally by overcladding the 1971 building with silver anodised aluminium rainscreen panels. Internal subdividing walls together with one of the original stairwells were removed to create the maximum amount of open plan space.

An extension providing Visitors’ Entrance and Meeting Rooms has been constructed together with areas of infill building to further improve the amount and quality of open plan space.

The East of Scotland Water building also incorporates a new staff deli bar with associated kitchen facilities, covered cycle bays, staff showers and a gymnasium.

East of Scotland Water Office Building image / information received 30.08.02 from Michael Laird Architects (MLA)

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