Local context
Glasgow’s height safety estate is shaped by the city’s industrial heritage along the Clyde, the substantial Victorian and Edwardian tenement building stock, and the modern commercial and institutional estate that has grown up alongside. The post-industrial regeneration along the Clydeside, including the Pacific Quay BBC Scotland and Scottish Television buildings, the SEC and Hydro venues, and the wider Finnieston redevelopment, has produced a substantial portfolio of current-standard commercial and event buildings. The Victorian and Edwardian tenement estate across the West End, Southside, and East End represents one of the largest concentrations of stone-built residential and commercial buildings in the UK, where retrofit height safety must work with the stone facade construction and often with listed building requirements.
The University of Glasgow, the University of Strathclyde, and Glasgow Caledonian University operate substantial city centre and west end campuses. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde operates one of the largest health board estates in the UK, including the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. Glasgow City Council and the surrounding North and South Lanarkshire, East and West Dunbartonshire, and Renfrewshire authorities together represent a large local government estate. Engineers cover Glasgow from the London office.
Building types we serve in Glasgow
- Clydeside regeneration including Pacific Quay and the SEC
- Victorian and Edwardian tenement estate
- University of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian campuses
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde estate
- Glasgow City Council and West of Scotland local authority estate
- Industrial and commercial estate across Lanarkshire and the Clyde Valley