Creagh Concrete secures £27m of work at Dounreay clean-up

The company tasked with decommissioning the Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness has handed a £27million contract to a Northern Irish concrete firm.

Creagh Concrete, based in Co. Antrim, will provide Dounreay Site Restoration Limited with concrete containers for storing lowgrade waste until 2023.

Scotland has become a successful stomping ground for Creagh.

In Aberdeen, it recently completed a £ 2million contract to build 77 apartments for Barratt Homes, and £12million contract to build 250 apartments for Dandara.

It employs 130 people in Scotland and has plans to create another 30 positions at its plant in Edinburgh.

Creagh Scotland director James McKeague said: “We are growing rapidly, based on the success of our business model which combines a family business focusoncustomer relationships and our corporate approach to quality and innovation.

“The Dounreay project is particularly important to ourcompanydevelopment, and we are proud and delighted to have won so many significant construction projects across Scotland.”

Dounreay

is being de- commissioned at a cost of £ 1.6billion in a job expected to last until at least 2030. It wastheUK’scentre of fast reactor research and developmentfrom1955until 1994, and is now Scotland’s largest nuclear clean-up and demolition project.

In November, Amec Foster Wheeler won a £22million contract to design a new facility for storing “higher activity” waste at the site.