Effect of Muirfield Contracts administration being felt across Dundee

Muirfield Contracts’s administration not only affects the company’s direct workforce but also has serious implications for the wider building trade in the city many of whom work as sub-contractors or provide materials to the business.

In January TOR Homes signed a major contract with Muirfield to redevelop Eastern Primary School in Broughty Ferry and the firm moved on site for preliminary works last month.

TOR director Paul Millan said: “To lose our main contractor at the outset of this construction project is a major setback.

“However, we have been working on our vision for two years and remain 100% committed to completing the project.

“On this week’s news it would be premature for us to predict future timescales but we will be working hard to replace our main contractor and will make further announcements on the revised building programme in due course.”

Muirfield was also involved in a number of other major developments at the time of its collapse, including the repurposing of DC Thomson and Co’s headquarters building in Meadowside and the transformation of the former Parkview School site on Blackness Road.