Aberdeen-based electrical engineering and contracting firm, C&M Engineering Services (UK) Ltd has been awarded a £275,000 contract within the region's expanding life sciences sector.

The University of Aberdeen, supported by Scottish Enterprise, is creating the £2.5m Life Sciences Innovation facility. Aberdeen City Council is also backing the initiative which is expected to attract foreign investment into the region as well as encouraging the commercialisation of research by homegrown talent.

C&M will carry out all electrical work, data cabling and associated services at the single-storey facility which is being built on the site of the former Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital at Foresterhill.


The division is part of the C&M Group, which is a global engineering business operating in the industrial, oil and gas and marine sectors and who also deliver accommodation solutions onshore and offshore.

Group operations director, Colin Smith, said: "I am delighted we have been awarded this contract and hugely excited by this project which I have no doubt will be an enormous success.

"In all of our work, our objective is to deliver first class projects for our clients and we are continuing to win attractive engineering contracts across our core market sectors. This new agreement is a reflection of the expertise, capacity, quality, value and delivery of service that our clients have come to expect from the C&M name."

The purpose-built complex will provide Aberdeen's first business incubator units for start-up companies operating in the life sciences sector as well as space for more established businesses, further fostering the close links between professional and academic medical science in the city.

C&M Engineering Services (UK) Ltd personnel will be on site from this week with work expected to take up to four months to complete.

(GK/JM)