SSE Renewables and Total have appointed Scottish company Pert-Bruce Construction to develop the operations and maintenance base for their 1075MW Seagreen wind farm off Scotland.
Pert-Bruce will begin work in the Scottish port of Montrose this week.
The base will be located at the port’s south quay and will feature an operations building, a repurposed warehouse, communications tower and CTV pontoon for vessels travelling out to the project, which lies 27km of the Angus coast.
Work on the base will take around one year and will be carried out by Pert-Bruce alongside several other local subcontractors.
The operations building was previously used by an oil industry supply chain company in Aberdeen and will be regenerated as part of efforts to contribute to the circular economy.
“We are delighted to be involved in such an exciting development which will have huge benefits safeguarding 25 -30 jobs over the year within our business and our wider supply chain,” said Pert Bruce associates managing director Craig Bruce.
SSE Renewable’s Andy Kay will oversee the delivery of the work at Montrose and said he was pleased to be using a Montrose-based company to realise the new base.
“We aim to utilise Scottish, UK and of course locally based suppliers where possible during development, so we are very pleased to welcome Pert-Bruce on board,” he said.
Montrose Port Authority chief executive Captain Tom Hutchinson also welcomed the involvement of a local company on the project.
“It demonstrates the huge impact the Seagreen project will have for Angus and its wider economy,” he added.