City Building

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Glasgow City Council has today agreed to share ownership of its construction business City Building Glasgow with Wheatley Group in a 50/50 joint venture worth £3.7 billion. The partnership between Scotland's largest council and the country's biggest social landlord will secure thousands of local jo

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A major new study by influential think tank the Fraser of Allander Institute has outlined the scale of City Building’s contribution to the Glasgow economy. The report, which is published this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the arm’s length contractor being established by Glasgow City

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Celebrations at the Glasgow Business Awards Glasgow-based City Building has been recognised for its people management practices with a trio of award wins in the last month.

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City Building has rewarded the tradespeople of tomorrow at its 10th annual Apprentice Awards which took place on last week. 81 apprentices from across all sectors of the business including, construction, administration, heating and painting and decorating were shortlisted for the awards at the City

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GHA chair Gordon Sloan joins tenant Nicola Blair and daughter Laila, and tenant John Traynor, chair of GHA’s local committee, and wife Rachel at Cathay Street in Milton A Glasgow community is in line for a £30 million boost that will see more than 170 new affordable homes built and hundreds of ex

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Gavin Hay Gavin Hay, training manager at City Building and chair of the Scottish Building Apprenticeship Council, says Scottish Apprenticeship Week (29 February – 4 March) is a timely reminder for us to look more closely at the important role young people play in securing the future of our industr

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Wheatley Group has today confirmed it will progress plans to deliver its repairs and maintenance service through a new joint venture (JV) with Glasgow City Council. Heads of terms have been agreed that will lead to Wheatley - parent company of Scotland’s largest social landlord Glasgow Housing Ass

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The City Building team and apprentices with Roseanna Cunningham in the centre, City Building chair, Councillor James Adams on the left and City Building executive director, Graham Paterson on the right City Building has been presented with a prestigious employment accreditation for its efforts to pr

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All the painter and decorator apprentices that took part in the event were: Kyle Moran, Lisa Murphy, Andrew Weir, Michael McManus, Joseph Barr, John Kavanagh, Gillian Grant, Adams Gibbs, Craig Morrison and Christian Gibson A team of young apprentices from City Building has helped bring British desig

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Sue McLintock, from Carer’s Scotland (3rd from left) Cllr. James Adams, chair of City Building (centre) Graham Paterson, executive director, City Building (3rd from right) City Building has become the first Scottish company in its sector to be named as a “Carer Positive Employer”.

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City Building has presented two charities with £10,000 each following successful fundraising activities. The cheques were presented to Cash for Kids and Kidney Research UK at Glasgow City Chambers following a charity golf day jointly organised by the construction company and the Lord Provost’s an

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Jason Anker City Building welcomed the UK’s leading speaker on behavioural safety training to its Glasgow headquarters this week to share insights on how individual’s approach safety as part of the Proud 2B Safe programme.

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A contract issue concerning a former employee of Glasgow City Council’s arms-length construction firm City Building is to be investigated after the local authority passed information to the police. The issue relates to a complaint that was made by a contractor which was subsequently investigated b

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Scottish construction company City Building has rewarded the tradespeople of tomorrow at its annual Apprentice Awards, which took place on Tuesday 16 June. Around 180 apprentices across all sectors of the business including, construction, administration, heating and lift engineering were shortlisted

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