Princes Street Gardens
Contract Value: £243,000
Contract Period: January - May 2008
Contract Form: SBCC Minor Works (May 2006)
Client: The City of Edinburgh Council
Architect: Peter McGowan Associates
Land Engineering was appointed to reconstruct and refurbish the King's Stable Entrance to Princes Street Gardens.
This prestigious project significantly upgraded the Old Town entrance to the Gardens, improving pedestrian access and providing a quality of entrance in keeping with the importance of the Gardens within the Edinburgh World Heritage Site.
The works included widening the entrance with the construction of new gates and supporting piers incorporating a new feature cope-stone reflecting the area's history; a pavement built-out in natural stone with new dropped kerbs; new planting beds; landscaping and tree management.
Activities
Site clearance
Cast iron railings and gates
Drainage
Earthworks
Pavement construction
Kerbing and paved areas
Signing and road markings
Street lighting
Utility diversions
Soft landscaping
Stone walling and gate piers
Specialist carving and installation of stone finial to gate pier
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