May 12, 2013
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We are delighted to officially announce that we have been successful in making the shortlist in the Growth Strategy Of The Year category for the 2013 Scottish Business Awards.
The event this year will be the biggest business event in Scottish history, with 1400 leading business figures, representing over £1 Billion of turnover.
We are thrilled to be shortlisted and
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May 7, 2012
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Due to continued growth ACS has recently started 70 site based operatives and 21 office staff ranging from Admin staff, Quantity Surveyors, Estimators, Contract Managers, Engineers, Ground Modeller and Business Development Manager.
We are pleased to announce the recruitment of the following staff over the last few months;
Estimating – Bill Johnstone, Douglas Hartley, Jim Welsh
Quantity Surveying
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May 7, 2012
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ACS has invested significantly in new plant and machinery bringing the total amount of machines in our fleet to 75.
The new machinery includes the following;
5 Nr Volvo EC55 –C8 5 tonne excavators
6 Nr Volvo EC 88 –C 9 tonne excavators
1 Nr DX 300 Doosan 30 tonne excavator
1 Nr Hitachi ZAXIS 210 21 tonne excavator
1 Nr
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May 7, 2012
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ACS has recently secured contacts for :
New Scottish Water national call centre at Stepps in Glasgow
Healthy Living Centres at Wester Hailles and Musselburgh as part of the South East Hub works.
ASDA supermarket in Armadale
Tesco supermarket in Falkirk
Social Housing projects at Hillhead, Kirkintilloch and Cowdenbeath
Private housing developments in Motherwell and Burntisland
David Marshall Lodge in Aberfoyle
Plean Primary
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May 7, 2012
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In November 2011 ACS became the main club sponsors for Airdrie United who play in the Scottish Football League 2. Diamonds chairman Jim Ballantyne commented;
“This is great news for the club. Bringing sponsorship money into the club in these tough economic times is difficult, so we are delighted with this arrangement. Companies like to do their bit
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September 29, 2011
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We are pleased to announce that we have recently received a Partnering Award from Action for Children Youth Build for our commitment to employing and training young people through this scheme.
James Foley was also given an award in recognition of his individual achievement – congratulations James!
See some of the photographs from the award night.
Below: David
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September 29, 2011
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AC Scotland have recently invested in a number of assets to help us improve our service to our customers. They include:
Office Investments
• 7no. Trimble S6 Fully Robotic setting out instruments
• Causeway Estimating and Surveying Software system
• 2no. Autocad Software Licences
Additions to plant fleet in 2011
• 14x new 14t Tracked Excavators
• 3 x new 20t Tracked
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September 29, 2011
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We are pleased to announce that over the last few months we have developed 12 new client relationships and are now actively working and servicing areas outwith Central Scotland covering the Borders & Grampian regions.
We are currently undertaking various projects at the moment but some of our recent completions include:
• Tesco Carluke
• Cruden Allander Bearsden
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September 28, 2011
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We’d like to welcome our latest employees to AC Scotland and hope they enjoy working here:
David Bradley- Ground Modelling Engineer
Steven Peacock- Commercial Manager
Steven McVey- Engineering Technician
Kevin Christie- Site Engineer
Alan Ross- Site Engineer
Alan Kerr- Site Engineer
Gillian Shields- Administration
Scott Muldoon- Estimating
Willie McNish- Estimating
Alan Cole- Surveyor
Ronan Sweeney- Surveyor
Alan Mulvanny- Buyer
We’d also like to congratulate those existing staff members
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