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Glasgow is world renowned for our heritage buildings across the city. We play a key role in the future sustainability of these buildings.
Our specialist construction and investment teams work hard to ensure the skills are available to protect our heritage buildings for future generations.
This includes the delivery of skills required to deliver the ambitious goals towards achieving net zero in Glasgow by the retrofit of renewable technologies.
Our dedicated team of experts who can manage and maintain these beautiful buildings work closely with colleagues in Glasgow City Council to identify a range of support to ensure they are maintained to the highest standards.
Our recent work includes:
Provand’s Lordship, Glasgow’s oldest house built in 1471, is an A-listed landmark of great historical significance. City Building undertook extensive external restoration works to preserve its original character while incorporating essential modern upgrades. The project required a sensitive balance between historic authenticity and contemporary standards, ensuring key features were retained. The team used both traditional and modern techniques. resulting in a carefully restored medieval building that remains both authentic and fit for the future.
Linn Crematorium is housed within a distinctive mid-20th century building in the south of Glasgow.
City Building undertook a comprehensive two-phase refurbishment of the facility from July 2023 to May 2024, delivering full mechanical and electrical upgrades, restoring heritage features, and improving facilities for staff and visitors.
City Building’s team worked at pace to complete St. Mungo’s chapel and allow funeral services to return before adopting out-of-hours working patterns while renovating the St. Giles chapel next door, ensuring dignity for mourners.
Specialist contractors restored original pews and parquet floors, and controlled removal of asbestos materials was carried out.
City Building’s sensitivity and care has preserved a vital civic venue for generations to come while respecting the emotional significance it holds for so many.
As one of the country’s leading providers of craft apprenticeships and training, we understand how the right training can make all the difference to your ultimate business success. We recognise the strategic importance of training towards improved service delivery to our customers.
In today’s fast-paced commercial business environment organisations require well-trained and highly-skilled professionals with the right skills, qualifications and attitude to meet the competitive challenges of the modern commercial market. Our unique combination of high quality training and on-site experience on a wide range of projects means we are well placed to help you meet your business objectives.
We work in partnership with local colleges to ensure a wide ranging contemporary training programme is available to ensure the optimum balance of training and development workshops support business investment in people and resources.
Our fully-equipped SQA-approved College and Learning Centre combine practical workshops and classrooms, using the latest IT equipment for example Smartboards and Internet connectivity, to provide an excellent education experience for learners to gain on-the-job experience.
City Building enjoys a long track record of delivering high quality training and apprenticeship services to both public sector and commercial organisations; while benefiting from continuing experience in training and support for people with disabilities through RSBi, one of the largest supported employment facilities in the UK.