The field centre will be made available to conservation workers and universities
A contractor has been appointed to build a new research centre in the Flow Country, a vast area of peatland in Scotland's Far North.
Thurso-based O'Brien Construction will construct the £1.9m building at Forsinard in Sutherland for the Peatlands Partnership.
The partnership involves several organisations including RSPB Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage.
Conservation workers and university groups will use the field centre.
Designed by Colin Armstrong Associates in Inverness, the building was given planning consent by Highland Council's north planning applications committee.
It is being built on land owned by RSPB Scotland between the existing railway line and the A897.
- Published4 June 2014
- Published3 June 2014
