News Archive
BUILDING RESTORATION AND CONVERSION IN SCOTLAND
28TH OCTOBER 2011
PM&CL Shortlisted for ROCCO Award
Project Management & Construction Ltd have been shortlisted for Outstanding Performance by a Business with Less than 25 Employees at this year’s ROCCO Awards held by Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce. This is our second successive year to be shortlisted and we hope that we can succeed in winning as we did last year as Most Promising New Business.
1ST FEBRUARY 2011
Our first contract award for 2011 takes us further afield
Our first contract award for 2011 takes us further afield - to Middlesbrough where we have started work on the £400,000 alterations to a former Woolworths Store in Middlesbrough town centre.
Once converted, the new unit will be occupied by Primark. We are pleased to be working with P3 Consulting on this project.
4TH OCTOBER 2010
Erskine Military Ball
A sparkling evening was enjoyed by our guests at the 2010 Erskine Ball, with highlights including the Band of HM royal Marines Scotland Corps of Drums, a delicious dinner followed by dancing and the evening was rounded off with spectacular fireworks display. The evening was a great success with £90,000 being raised for Erskine to assist in their continuing care of our ex-servicemen.
4TH OCTOBER 2010
Valve Components Ltd
Work is progressing well at Valve Components Ltd’s site at East Kilbride and the sod cutting ceremony was recently carried out by CEO Barbara Mincher, accompanied by Allan McMahon.
4TH OCTOBER 2010
Golf outing to Caldwell Golf Club
(Hugh Jamieson, Business Manager, with prize-winner Tom Aird of VCL)
We were blessed with near perfect conditions for our informal outing but that did not help the scoring but everyone did enjoy the sunshine.
18TH AUGUST 2010
Safecontractor Accreditation
We recently gained accreditation to Safecontractor, a further Health & Safety certification to add to our CHAS and Constructionline registrations.
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18TH AUGUST 2010
Kings Theatre opens in time for Calendar Girls
Phase 2 of the five phase Kings Theatre restoration was completed in a very tight six week timescale and handover was achieved just before the start of the hit summer show Calendar Girls for which the Kings was fully booked.
As a refurbishment of an historic building, it would have been surprising if things had gone exactly to plan - and so it proved, with one or two last minute glitches which had to be resolved by quick thinking and increased resources being deployed. An excellent team effort from our site management and supply chain resulted in handover on schedule.
That’s it over now until next summer when we look forward to the opportunity of working on phase 3.
18TH AUGUST 2010
3rd Anniversary
We celebrated our recent 3rd anniversary in business by picking up a trio of contracts in varying sectors:
| • | New Function Suite at the Watermill Hotel
in Paisley taking us into the leisure / hotels sector. |
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| • | Factory extension at Kelvin Park East Kilbride for industrial / commercial developer Ashtenne. |
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| • | Retail Unit and Post Office at Newarthill A fire damage insurance reinstatement project. |
18TH AUGUST 2010
1920’s Newspaper found intact at the Kings
Builders working on the latest phase of a revamp at a Glasgow theatre have unearthed a newspaper almost as old as the building. Workers uncovered the 90-year-old paper behind a panel at the King’s Theatre as they worked on its £7.2million facelift. A flyer from 1920 advertising a show called ‘Our Miss Gibbs’ was also found as they removed seats in the upper circle and carried out structural work.
The newspaper, the Glasgow Evening News which is no longer published, is from Saturday May 8, 1920. A spokesman for the King’s, which opened in 1904, said: “It’s a rather exciting find. They brought it to us with some other bits they found including a flyer - and a box of fruit pastilles which we think was from the 1970s!
“The most exciting thing is it’s in good nick for being 90 years old, and it has adverts in it for the King’s and Theatre Royal.”
“The person probably had it in their pocket and it somehow found its way to where it was found.”
Headlines of the day include 12 more cases of smallpox being reported in the city as part of an epidemic, taking the total to 84.
Patients were taken to the now-closed Belvidere Infectious Diseases Hospital off London Road.
Brad and Angelina of the time, Hollywood couple Mary Pritchard and Douglas Fairbanks also made the front page because their honeymoon was postponed after her divorce was contested.
More than 5000 joiners went out on strike, demanding a pay rise to 2s 6d per hour and in football, Celtic beat Rangers 2-1.
Entertainment of the day included smash-hit farcical play Charley’s Aunt at the King’s, while most cinemas were showing films starring Charlie Chaplin.
Site manager Chris Bell, 41, from Project Management and Construction Limited, said: “It was one of our operatives who found it. The show must have been pretty dull for somebody to bring a paper in!”
The Evening News was published from October 4 1915 to January 17 1957.
Further work at the theatre includes the installation of a new stage plus returning the old grand saloon bar to its former splendour which will be completed in time for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Sarah Swain
EVENING TIMES
29 Jul 2010
18TH AUGUST 2010
As three new contracts start,
we are successfully rounding off another three:
Kings Theatre Phase 2 Restoration Works
Completed in a very tight 6 weeks, just in time for the opening night of Calendar Girls.
New factory and warehouse for Scottish Fishermen’s Organisation at Uddingston
See our latest Recent Projects >
20 Buchanan Street Glasgow
A prestige office refurbishment on 3 floors.
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