The Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh

Veitchi Frame is proud to be involved in the redevelopment of one of Edinburgh’s most iconic hotels, supporting the proposed 96-room extension to The Caledonian Hotel.

Working with Klarent Hospitality and Edgewater Contracts, Veitchi Frame will deliver the structural framing package for the city centre development, forming part of the wider refurbishment and transformation of the landmark hotel as it rebrands to the Curio Collection by Hilton.

The project will see a new bedroom extension block created to the rear of the existing hotel, within the current car park area. Once complete, the extension will add 96 guest rooms, taking the hotel’s total number of rooms to 337.

Located beside an A-listed building and within a constrained city centre site, the project requires careful coordination, precision and programme certainty. Veitchi Frame’s light gauge steel framing solution is well suited to this type of complex urban development, helping to support buildability, reduce on-site disruption and deliver an efficient structural frame for the new extension.

The package includes 3,500m² of floor area, using approximately 100 tonnes of cold rolled steel and 28 tonnes of hot rolled steel, delivered across a 12-week programme with a project value of £1 million.

This project adds to Veitchi Frame’s growing portfolio of complex hotel, residential and urban developments across Scotland, including Tynecastle High School Redevelopment, Hebburn, East Newington Place and 37 Corstorphine Road.