| AdminHistory | Kirkton Campus was Scotland's first high technology park, designed for research and development orientated businesses. Prior to being developed as a technology park, Corporation plans for the site included trying to tempt Heriot Watt University and the World Health Organisation to locate in the area, both attempts failed. Development of plans for site began in 1969 and the Scottish Office gave approval in 1972. The first occupants of Kirkton Campus, Arbrook Division of Ethicon Ltd, part of Johnson and Johnson, loacted to the site in 1975. The Corporation was stringent in its assigment of leases on Campus to only high technology firms. By the 1980s Kirkton Campus had firms representing microelectronics, pharmaceuticals, medical instrumentation and the computer software industries and was key in forming what was called Silicon Glen. |
| ScopeandContent | 169 files comprising architects, planning, engineering and administration files relating to the initial design of Kirkton Campus, and of the design and construction of factories and other industrial premises on the Campus.
Engineering files generally relate to the installation of services, such as sewers, manholes, gas, electricity and structural information on buldings. They can also include correspondence with statutory authorities (such as Lothian regional council, which was responsible for sewers); papers on costs and materials (quantity surveying); copies of architects instructions, certificates of completions; maps/plans; invoices and other financial documentation and any other papers as necessary.
For the building of projects overseen by the Corporation, Architects files include architects instructions, which comprise specifications and briefs for work to be done and materials to be used; correspondence and minutes of meetings with contractors relating to the work they have been employed for; copies of invoices, contracts, certificates of completion and other financial papers; extracts of board minutes (relating to policy and approvals); internal memoranda on the project; maps and plans relating to area of work and any other papers as necessary.
Administration files include: correspondence with contractors regarding the tendering process for specific jobs, and other administrative papers such as the provision of insurance documents. Administration files can also include general policy, such as papers presented to Corporation Board Meetings for approval of policy, and the recording of decisions in extracts of board minutes.
In this particular series the technical administrative files also include correspondence with the prospective tenants regarding their requirements, such as the expansion of premises and new facilities, and issues they were having with the building - e.g. faulty heating units, leaking pipes and so on.
In some cases copies of the drawings for building warrants are included in the administration file.
Organised by department reference numbers which equals:
1-6. Kirkton Campus planning; general.
7-164: Files organised by factory project number, and by subject.
165-169. Files on Brucefiled, Williamston and Linhouse Industrial Estates. |