A director of one of Scotland’s oldest architects says reforming cumbersome and costly procurement processes must be a priority as the country emerges from the coronavirus crisis.

Firms that survive will be too fragile to bear the cost of long, drawn-out competitive tendering processes in the months ahead, said David Ross.

Ross’s practice, Keppie Design, was the architect on the team that converted Glasgow’s huge SEC events centre into the Louisa Jordan covid hospital, a story he tells in Building Design today.

The whole project took 23 days, leaving everyone involved thinking it must be possible to shorten the time it normally takes to build a hospital – which can be as long as a decade.

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