Architects praise council's development firm

THE city council's development firm has been named one of the UK's top 20 architecture clients in a major survey.

EDI was the only Scottish company to have been listed in this year's Royal Institute of British Architects "Top 50 Clients" poll.

Now in its sixth year, the prestigious survey recognises clients who commission award-winning architects and those who work with newly-established practices.

EDI chief executive Ian Wall said: "We have built a reputation as a commercially minded company that sets the highest standards of design. We understand the pressures that architects work under and as a result, we hope we are a company that architects want to work with."

EDI's entry in the survey states that the architectural practices used by the firm "are a Who's Who of Scottish architecture: Richard Murphy, Allan Murray, Page and Park, Malcolm Fraser, Reiach and Hall."

EDI is involved in major projects in Craigmillar, the Granton Waterfront and Fountainbridge.