Construction specialist akp has won two contracts worth more than £600,000 to upgrade facilities at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.

The company is altering and refurbishing the food stores to create a new medical records department for the busy hospital.

In a separate contract it is also installing a brand new lift in the dining room to meet the demands of new disability legislation. The contracts run for 12 weeks.

Peter Morrison, Managing Surveyor at akp, said: "These are challenging contracts for us as they involve fitting in the construction work around the workings of a busy hospital staff dining room and the adjacent clinic.

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"With the lift we are not only installing it we are also putting in all the mechanical infrastructure and lift shaft which is a considerable amount of work."

akp Scotland was founded 13 years ago and has three specialist divisions Contracts, Interiors and Healthcare.

Other completed high profile contracts include the £6.8 million contract to create the new cardio-thoracic unit at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank, Transport Scotland HQ and A&S Ireland's offices in Glasgow for which the company was awarded a Silver medal from the Association of Interiors Specialists Contractors Awards.

The company relocated its headquarters to East Kilbride in summer, 2007 as part of a major restructure and rebranding move to fulfil its ambitious growth strategy to increase turnover from £18 million to £40 million within five years.

(GK/JM)