The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) is the principal convention and conference centre in

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, Scotland.

Location

The centre is part of the masterplanned Exchange District in the west end of the city, and was designed by the architect

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, who ran the project from his Edinburgh office, opened to manage this project and other work in the Exchange. Construction on the EICC began in March 1993 and the centre opened in 1995. It caters to around 200,000 delegates every year and generates in excess of £60m in revenue for the

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. An extension opened in 2013 at a cost of £85 million.

Notable events

In 1999 the annual

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was held in the EICC. The Church's

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was being used by the

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at the time. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1997 (CHOGM) was held in the EICC. To commemorate this occasion, the

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issued a special commemorative £20 note. The reverse side featured an illustration of the EICC building alongside the new Clydesdale Bank building on Lothian Road, with

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in the background.

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