INTRODUCING CITY BUILDING GLASGOW
WELCOME TO CITY BUILDING City Building is a highly successful and evolving business, which has a proven track record of strategic delivery within the commercial marketplace. The company has recently been recognised as one of the top 90 businesses in Scotland for employment and diversity and with a turnover circa ÂŁ200 million, our business is in the top 100 construction companies in the UK. Our achievements over the years, particularly in the areas of sustainability and employment, culminated in the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development. We employ more than 2,200 people and support an estimated additional 2,000 people through our supply chain.
ABOUT CITY BUILDING
The company is currently training 400 apprentices across all construction trades making us the largest employer of apprentices in Scotland. Our award winning training academies are the most successful apprentice training centres in Scotland. The scale and exibility of our multi-disciplinary workforce and broad experience allows us to deliver complex projects of all scope and size across a wide variety of built forms. As a successful commercial business we have won in excess of £1 billion worth of contracts in open competition, with effective marketing playing a key role in the delivery of this success.
SERVICES City Building’s unique social ethos of building a sustainable future underpins our drive to deliver excellence across our diverse range of services. Our mission is to contribute excellence in construction, repairs, maintenance, manufacturing and training to customers, our employees, partners, suppliers and the local communities in which we work. We offer a diverse range of high quality construction and manufacturing operations including: • REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE • DESIGN AND BUILD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS • NEW HOUSE PROJECTS • MAJOR INVESTMENT AND REFURBISHMENT • MANUFACTURING • SPECIALIST SERVICES • MICRO-RENEWABLES, INCLUDING SOLAR THERMAL AND SOLAR PV INSTALLATIONS
CASE STUDY: NOTRE DAME PRIMARY SCHOOL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: £15 Million Refurbishment
This category C listed former Dowanhill Primary School (a local landmark since 1984) characterised by sandstone elevations and central atria was fully refurbished with design priorities based on sustainability accessibility a well as the construction of a new extension to house a nursery that was sympathetic to the original building. Our team, working with historic Scotland ensured as much of the original materials were used in the refurbishment of the classrooms, staff rooms, toilets and plant. The extension features a nursery, changing rooms, library, assembly/dining room and games hall over five storeys and was aligned to the original building’s facades and eaves.
We installed a super insulated envelope, geothermal heating, heat-recovery mechanical ventilation as well as combined heat and power as well as refurbishing the many architectural features using our specialist teams. Once refurbishment was completed, we completely re-decorated all the internals of the school and to complete the transformation we manufactured all the furniture at our manufacturing division Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries (RSBi) prior to installation. The furniture was supplied and installed by our manufacturing division Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries (RSBi).
“We have to thank City Building who bent over backwards to make sure the school was opened in time for us. It’s absolutely amazing what they have managed to achieve with the old building - it’s been flooded with light and looks fabulous.” MRS GORDON HEAD TEACHER AT NOTRE DAME
City Building 350 Darnick Street, Glasgow G21 4BA T: +44 (0) 141 287 2200 E: marketing@citybuildingglasgow.co.uk www.citybuildingglasgow.co.uk