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Graham has secured a £69.7m job to deliver a new forensic science facility for the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland.
The scheme, known as Project Atlas, will provide 10,400 square metres of new office and laboratory space for Forensic Science Northern Ireland (FSNI) within the Seapark complex in Carrickfergus.
The site forms part of a shared operational Police Service of Northern Ireland complex.
Work will include construction of a three-storey building with a full roof-level plant area and ancillary buildings, alongside associated site works on a split-level plot, according to a Department of Justice notice released this morning (17 February).
Hamilton Architects is the project architect.
The initial estimated value of the Project Atlas job was £51m but it has since increased by £18.7m or 37 per cent.
Graham beat four other bidders to the contract.
The £1.06bn-turnover firm was appointed in September 2025 to take forward the detailed design and construction phase of the project.
Work is planned to start at the end of the 2025/26 financial year following an initial six-month detailed design period.
Graham’s contract also includes three years of aftercare services following completion of the facility.
Northern Ireland justice minister Naomi Long welcomed progress on the scheme during a visit to FSNI in September last year.
She said the project would ensure staff could work in “modern, fit for purpose office and laboratory accommodation” to support delivery of forensic services to the criminal justice system.
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