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03/07/2008

Mivan Win Edinburgh Apex Hotel Joinery Package

Mivan has secured a major joinery package at the Apex Hotel in Edinburgh.

Mivan started on-site in June and is due to complete by December of this year. Part of Mivan's package will be the manufacture and installation of joinery related items to the 177-beds of the newly developed Apex Hotel. This is a major boost to the Scottish Government's target of an additional 1,500 beds of a four-star standard by 2015.

Part of a major redevelopment, working directly for Bovis Lend Lease and from the designs of Ian Springford Architects, Mivan will be delivering the Front and Back of House joinery packages totalling around £3.3m.

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The new hotel will open in January 2009, situated on Waterloo Place at the east end of Princes Street, just one minute from the station and close to the main shopping district. The building originally opened in 1819 as the first purpose-built large scale hotel in Edinburgh and in 2009 it will be returning to once again trade as a hotel.

Mivan's Front of House Package includes bespoke joinery, doors & ironmongery supply and install and timber flooring. The Back of House package includes joinery works all bedrooms & corridors, consisting of wardrobes, headboards, shower screens, skirtings, vanity mirror units, timber flooring, doors & ironmongery, and wall panelling.

Mivan Business Development Director, Stephen Mills said: "Mivan is delighted at securing another major UK hotel interiors contract. This is Mivan's first contract at an Apex, however we have worked with Bovis Lend Lease over the past 10 years including projects at the Scottish Parliament, the new Civil Justice Centre in Manchester, The Trafford Centre and most recently the new Echo Arena and Convention Centre in Liverpool."

(GK/JM)

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