Technical Services

Welcome to Technical Services

Our Executive Members are Cllr Jim Fullarton and Cllr Len Wyse

Our Interim Director is Mr Ray Oxby

Technical Services is a large multi-disciplinary department, created, as its name suggests, to manage and run the authority's technical, public facing functions. The department is principally concerned with:

the design, building, management and maintenance of roads, bridges and public buildings and facilities, so that they may be used to best advantage and are always fit for purpose
transport planning and traffic management, ensuring that road travel can be used conveniently and safely and with due regard to the economics of and care for the environment
waste collection, disposal and recycling, attempting to reduce landfilling, thereby meeting stringent government targets for waste reduction/recycling
public parks and gardens, open spaces and floral displays, to provide a pleasant environment for recreation in towns and villages
providing an environmental health service to reduce risk and eliminate the danger to human health associated with the living and working environment
providing a trading standards service protecting the interests of consumers and businesses with free and confidential advice on a variety of issues
running the extensive fleet of vehicles and construction plant needed for the Council to deliver its services in a manner that is cost effective and minimises impact on the environment
providing a catering and cleaning service for public buildings in the Borders, including schools
providing a school, college and social work transport service
co-ordinating public transport services in the area

To see more detail of the services we provide, click on one of the links below:

"Front-line" services that directly serve the public:

"Internal" services that mainly serve other services and departments within the Council or other public bodies:

Our in-house building and civil engineering contractor, SBcContracts is registered to BS EN ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management. Click on the logo for details of the registration.

Last updated 12/11/2008 AD-S