Infrastructure Investment Plan 2015: progress report 2017
This annual progress report on our Infrastructure Investment Plan outlines key achievements over the course of the last year and looks forward to developments during this year and beyond.
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Further And Higher Education
In 2017 the following projects were taken forward:
Forth Valley College (Falkirk Campus)
In 2017 the Scottish Government approved the final design stage of the project and building work is now underway. The total cost of the project is £78 million with Scottish Government investment in the project being £65 million capital funding. The operational date for this project is expected in September 2019.
College Energy Efficiency Programme
In 2017 the College Energy Efficiency Programme provided
£4 million towards low carbon projects in Borders College,
Edinburgh College, Newbattle Abbey College and West Lothian
College.
College Estate Condition Survey
The Scottish Funding Council (
SFC) published
their College Estate Condition Survey in December 2017 which will
ensure that future funding decisions for college estate
requirements will be considered using the evidence provided in the
survey along with the business cases made by the sector. The survey
provides a 5-year plan of the required capital maintenance across
the sector.
Looking to the future, in 2018 we will combine the best practices of development policies for schools with the future development of Colleges through the Learning Estates Infrastructure Plan to be published later in 2018.
Higher Education
The total capital funding for universities in 2018-19
including Financial Transactions, will be £81.3 million.
Financial Transactions for the university sector have grown
substantially to £40 million for 2018-19. Taken together with
capital maintenance funding, this represents a significant and
welcome source of capital investment for institutions
The SFC now have a robust evidence base of the higher education sector’s year-on-year life-cycle maintenance needs. This reflects the diversity across the Scottish Higher education estate of the costs associated with maintaining the sector’s teaching and research facilities. The SFC will further enhance that evidence base during the course of 2018-19.
HE Carbon Reduction Programme – the SFC announced a £20 million HE Carbon reduction fund in 2017-18 to be funded through Financial Transactions.
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