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:
- Bereavement Services
- Bridge Maintenance
- Cleansing
- Coast Protection
- Environmental Health
- Flood Protection
- Lighting & Communications
- Parks and Open Spaces
- Passenger Transport
- Road User Group (Development Control)
- Road User Group (Traffic Management and Road Safety)
- Road Network Management
- SBLocal
- Trading Standards
- Waste Disposal and Recycling
- Winter Service
"Internal" services that mainly serve other services and departments within the Council or other public bodies:
- Architectural Services
- Building Cleaning
- Business Support
- Catering
- Civil Engineering Design & Construction
- Estate Management
- Fleet Management
- Information Services
- Programming and Commissioning
- Policy and Customer Communication
- Property Management
- SBcContracts
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









