City Building (Glasgow)

City Building is a highly successful and evolving business which has a proven track record of strategic delivery within the commercial marketplace. City Building is comprised of two organisations – City Building (Glasgow) LLP (CBG) operates within a joint 50/50 ownership arrangement between Glasgow City Council (GCC) and Wheatley Housing Group (WHG). City Building (Contracts) LLP (CBC) is a wholly owned Arms Length External Organisation (ALEO) of Glasgow City Council (GCC). City Building is one of Scotland’s largest construction companies, providing a wide range of construction, maintenance, and manufacturing services. Along with design and build construction, repairs and maintenance, and major investment and refurbishment we also offer manufacturing, training, and specialist services, new house building, and retrofitting carbon reduction technologies. City Building has more than 2,000 staff and is one of Scotland’s largest employers of apprentices with around 200 apprentices on its books. City Building’s Manufacturing Division, Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries (RSBi), is Europe’s largest supported business and one of the UK’s most successful social enterprises. Based in a specially adapted factory in the Springburn area of Glasgow, more than half of RSBi’s 250 staff have a disability. Our award winning training college is the most successful apprentice training college in Scotland. We are the industry’s largest employer of female craft trade apprentices and have one of the highest pass-out rates for apprentices at 94% compared to an industry average of 75%. City Building recently celebrated being the first construction firm in Scotland, to achieve the Investor in Young People (IYP) Platinum accreditation.