We have a vision of ‘sustainable infrastructure for a thriving Scotland’ where together with our partners, we are:
- Delivering and managing net zero infrastructure and finance programmes that support Scottish Government’s National Infrastructure Mission to drive inclusive economic growth and build resilient places
- Working to improve outcomes for the construction industry as a key part of Scotland’s economy, and
- Attracting investment into Scotland’s towns, cities and communities to deliver housing, improve public service delivery, secure economic benefits and contribute towards Scotland’s net zero carbon target
In working towards our vision, the progress we make lies with the professionals we employ. Drawn from public and private sector backgrounds, we have a range of technical, legal and financial specialists all under one roof, who bring extensive commercial expertise in infrastructure financing, procurement and delivery into the public sector.
Those specialists are spread across our many interlinked infrastructure workstreams giving us a holistic view of the priorities and needs of all our public sector partners, which in turn helps us pull together the right teams and resources to enable our partners to secure greater value and deliver improved services for their communities.
Our workstream priorities
The focus of our workstream activities can be captured within four areas: Infrastructure Strategy, Infrastructure Investment, Infrastructure Delivery and Infrastructure Management.
We are working with our public and private sector partners towards:
- Delivering a 25-30 year infrastructure ‘needs assessment’ to give a long-term vision of the country’s infrastructure needs, helping to guide Government’s investment decision making, and supporting public bodies in developing their own sustainable asset strategies
- Attracting private investment into the energy transition and sustainable places, using our commercial skills to help set the market conditions to accelerate investment into heat networks, EV charging and the hydrogen industry
- Improving delivery across £ billions of infrastructure projects with a focus on building programmes for efficiency, accelerating adoption of digitalisation and modern methods, along with supporting public and private sector partners to deliver improved outcomes for and from the construction industries
- Enhancing public sector property asset management by maximising sharing and use of existing buildings, integrating maintenance and decarbonisation, securing best value from surplus assets, and providing centralised expertise to the public sector as 19 PFI projects reach the end of their contracts
Fair Work First
Fair Work First is the Scottish Government's flagship policy for driving high quality and fair work, and workforce diversity across the labour market in Scotland by applying fair work criteria to grants, other funding and public contracts being awarded by and across the public sector, where it is relevant to do so.
We are proud to adopt a Fair Work First approach and commit to advancing the Fair Work First criteria.
