Introduction


Corporate Priorities


Five Business Areas


Organisation


Budget


Recovery from the pandemic has brought a new imperative on that long-term journey; to use green investment stimulus and jobs creation as a leading contributor to inclusive economic recovery and growth on our path to a net zero and more fully digitalised economy.


It has also created new uncertainties and priorities in the way people see and use places. It is not yet clear how people will use office workplaces in the future, or how permanently the pandemic has changed the ways in which city and town centres will be used, though the focus on human-scale geographies and the importance of local neighbourhoods is sure to remain a part of that.


We are in the middle of a rapid change to a new long-term journey towards decarbonisation, with superimposed uncertainty and short-term needs from the pandemic. This requires innovation, changed investment priorities, new ways of funding, financing and delivering infrastructure and new collaborations not only across Scotland, but also looking outwards to learn and collaborate with partners across the UK and Europe.


The SFT team will bring its unique combination of skills and experience to bear, building on our organisational and individual relationships to play a leading part in this change. Our objectivity, independence, and position as a dedicated infrastructure resource, which can operate across sectors and geographies, allows us to challenge and support our partners and broker the new collaborations which will be needed.


As many have, everyone at SFT has spent the last year working from home. Our strong corporate backbone together with our cloud-based business systems and pre-existing flexible culture have allowed us to work uninterrupted. I am proud of the support the team has given to Scotland’s infrastructure and to the country’s construction and related industries through the pandemic, and the leading role we have been able to play in charting a path to recovery.


However, much uncertainty on that path remains. But our purpose remains for the long-term: maximising the economic, social, and environmental benefits from Scotland’s infrastructure and working towards the ten outcomes we established in our 2019-24 Corporate Plan.


In this Business Plan we have set out our priorities for 2021-22 which closely mirror those Scottish Government set out in its Infrastructure Investment Plan which are aligned with our longer- term outcomes. Under these sit an ambitious set of objectives which increasingly involve working dynamically across all our workstreams.


I, and all of SFT’s resilient and motivated teams are looking forward to pursuing these objectives alongside our many partners in the coming year.


Peter Reekie Chief Executive


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