hub Programme
Delivering community infrastructure projects across Scotland
The Scotland-wide hub Programme is based on a partnership between the public and private sectors to deliver new community facilities.
The hub Programme operates across Scotland in five territories, where public bodies (local authorities, NHS Boards, blue light services etc) in each of those areas have come together and appointed a private sector development partner to form a joint venture company, known as a hub Company or hubCo to deliver those new community facilities.
The hubCos are jointly owned by the public and private sectors and are responsible for working with and establishing the requirements of their public sector customers, and then engage designers, engineers, cost managers and contractors to deliver the required infrastructure.
The hub Programme encourages Scottish SMEs to be an integral part of the supply chain with each hubCo committed to a high level of SME involvement in projects.
Our hub team acts as the manager of the Programme, providing a combination of programme oversight, guidance, assurance and direction while promoting best practices.
This work also ensures project delivery teams to help ensure the right projects are delivered in the right locations, in the right way and at the right price, with additional benefits to local communities.
We have used the hub Programme as a platform to launch and test new initiatives, including those relating to construction quality improvement as well as tackling the climate challenge and the net zero agenda.
The five hubs are developing and delivering a diverse pipeline of best-value, award-winning community infrastructure, which is regularly updated (hub project pipeline) and publish a dashboard that reflects key performance indicators.
Since the inception of the hub Programme, the hubCos and their supply chains have committed to deliver community benefits as an integral part of the construction projects.
Our hub Programme Management Office has worked with the Social Value Portal to develop a set of Themes, Outcomes and Measures which provide Participants with a framework of relevant measures which can be adopted to set social and local economic targets for the projects which they are procuring through the programme.
Details of the approach which is being adopted can be found here and the detail of the proxy values used can be found here.
Across the hub Programme, 41 projects were delivered using the revenue-funded Design, Build, Finance and Maintain (DBFM) model.
An alphabetical list of all hub DBFM Project Agreements and Financial Models is available here.
hub Investor Information
hubCo and hub Design, Build, Finance, Maintain (DBFM) project investors are updated and published annually in February.
hub Financial Indicators
Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and Project Internal Rate of Return (IRR) information for the hub DBFM programme and for individual projects which are beyond their confidentiality period is provided in the following file - WACC/Project IRR.
Our team
Ross Ramsay
Senior Associate Director
Ross is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a career focus on decarbonisation of the built environment. Ross leads our hub Programme management team as well as the Future Delivery programme, aimed at supporting successful outcomes.
Ross has significant experience in the public, commercial and industrial sectors, and in leading projects and programmes of activity. He has moved from SFT’s Net Zero Buildings team, where he led the work on decarbonisation of the public sector estate, alongside an extended spell where he was embedded as part of the divisional management for the Scottish Government’s Heat in Buildings team.
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Rachel Todd
Associate Director
Rachel is a strategic, outcome-driven leader with over 15 years’ experience shaping and delivering complex capital development programmes across housing, health, education, and life sciences.
She has held senior roles within the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Prison Service, leading high-value infrastructure projects and advising on governance, procurement, and long-term estate strategies.
With professional memberships in RICS and the Association for Project Management, Rachel is recognised for mentoring future talent and embedding innovative approaches into public sector delivery.
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Craig Fraser
Associate Director
Craig has been a Chartered Quantity Surveyor since 2005, with extensive technical expertise across construction processes, a range of contract forms, and procurement methods. He brings over 25 years of industry experience, having worked in client, developer, and contractor roles as a Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Manager, and Project Manager across the UK, USA, and the Caribbean.
He has successfully delivered a diverse portfolio of projects spanning healthcare PFI, education, office, leisure, residential, retail, and industrial sectors, with project values of up to £500 million.
Craig combines deep construction knowledge with a collaborative, trust-based approach, applying strong commercial and project management skills to consistently deliver value for clients and successful project outcomes.
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Steve Whitton
Associate Director
A Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Member of the Association for Project Management, Steve has many years of experience in delivering construction projects across the private and public sectors.
Within the hub Programme Management Office, his primary responsibility is Programme performance.
He also has specialist interests in the delivery of social impact associated with the investment in community infrastructure and in the capture and benchmarking of construction embodied carbon data.
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Dan Hook
Data and Insights Manager
Dan is a Civil Engineer with an early career focused on the Structural Health Monitoring of the Major Bridges across the Firth of Forth. This included the Queensferry Crossing which is the third most monitored bridge in the world with over 2,000 sensors.
Dan is in the Data and Insights team in SFT with primary focus in the hub Programme to help monitor and ensure the success of the programme through its data.
He has a wealth of experience in data analytics and management through his previous work on the bridges where he set up alerts for maintenance regimes and dashboards for monitoring live asset performance.
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