Photo : At the inaugural event, hosted this week by The Herald and GenAnalytics at the Radisson Blu in Glasgow, City Building operations manager Siobhan Logue spoke of her successful career at the firm in the traditionally male-dominated industry.
City Building’s Siobhan Logue addresses attendees at the conference
The changing face of the construction industry was under the spotlight at Scotland’s first national diversity conference.
Photo : City Building employee Taylor Holliday with Pollok House Lion.
Pollok House’s heraldic lions are roaming in Pollok Country Park again, after being returned to the site by construction firm City Building.
In a first for a construction firm, a rescue mission was launched by Glasgow-based City Building and Scottish Natural Heritage [SNH] to save endangered water voles living beneath a working site in Easterhouse, Glasgow.
Photo (L-R): City Building apprentices Arran Brown, Conor Quail and Victor Zarallo, solo dancer at Scottish Ballet
Apprentices from construction firm City Building have enjoyed a different kind of lesson, ditching their tools to take part in a workshop organised by Scottish Ballet.
City Building is giving scores of Glasgow businesses the opportunity to achieve growth after appointing them as suppliers.
The construction firm awarded 136 Glasgow-based companies framework sub-contractor status to supply more than 70 construction and trades services.
City Building is the latest company to join forces with MCR Pathways to give young people of Glasgow the career opportunities they deserve.
The MCR Pathways programme, Young Glasgow Talent, gives young people a bridge to a future of opportunity and employment, whatever their background.
City Building’s instructors are seeing double with this year’s intake of modern apprentices, thanks to twins being amongst the talented group.
Apprentice joiners Vittorio and Santino Pelosi, 19, are just two of the 58 modern apprentices who recently completed their induction period at City Building’s Queenslie Training Centre, with a number now starting to get their first taste of work on the job.
The group is possibly the most diverse intake in City Building’s 10-year history, with over 10 of the team being either female, a care leaver or self-identified as a minority ethnicity.
Glasgow-based City Building has been recognised for its people management practices with a trio of award wins in the last month.
The building contractor’s award cabinet has seen three new additions in the form of Diverse Social Enterprise of the Year, Public Sector Employer of the Year and a People Development Award. The company has been widely praised for its apprenticeship and training programs as well as its diverse and equal workforce.
City Building have recently been awarded the Skills Development Scotland Apprentice of the Year Award.
City Building staff raise £7000 for Glasgow hospice
After hosting a range of charity events from bake sales to back waxes, City Building staff have raised £7000 for the Marie Curie Hospice, Glasgow.
The funds which will pay for a day at the hospice were raised by the organisation’s employees as part of City Building’s 10th anniversary celebrations. Staff took part in tombolas, a sponsored football match, dress down days and a sponsored slimming. Some male employees also experienced the joys of their first ever back wax – all for a good cause.
City Building is a highly successful and evolving business which has a proven track record of strategic delivery within the commercial marketplace.