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NBM Construction Cost Consultants is one of Scotland’s leading independent firms of Chartered Quantity Surveyors. With offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh and more than 40 years’ experience, NBM delivers projects across Scotland and throughout the UK.
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Our practice provides Quantity Surveying, Cost Consultancy, Project Management, Employer’s Agent, Building Surveying and Principal Designer services across a wide range of sectors, including housing, commercial developments, hotels, education, public buildings and the conservation and refurbishment of historic properties.
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We combine technical expertise with personalised client care, tailoring our services to the individual requirements of each project. Our proactive approach focuses on anticipating and managing costs, controlling risk and supporting informed decision-making from initial feasibility through to completion and ongoing operation.
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Building Value. Controlling Costs. Managing Risks.

Narro Associates is an employee-owned Consulting Structural & Civil Engineering practice with offices in Scotland, North East England, and London. With over 40 years’ experience, motivation and a desire to extend the experience of the practice has led to expertise in all sectors including conservation, residential, commercial, industrial, hotel & leisure, community projects, education, health facilities and the public sector.

Projects include new builds, alterations and refurbishments, conservation of historic buildings and monuments, as well as landscape and townscape improvement works. We provide a professional and friendly service supported by experience, expertise, and the latest technology.

As a Practice, our engineers and technicians always take sustainability and energy efficiency into consideration. We aim to specify materials in our designs which can be locally sourced, are durable, and/or have minimal environmental impact in either their production or disposal.

John Gilbert Architects is a Glasgow-based conservation and retrofit practice with over 30 years of experience in breathing new life into old buildings.

With a deep commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, John Gilbert Architects specialises in transforming historic structures to be fit for modern life. Our expert team combines conservation accreditation with innovative approaches to delivering low energy buildings. Our projects have a focus on dealing with challenges of maintenance, climate change and fuel poverty.
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We collaborate closely with clients, occupants, and community stakeholders to preserve architectural character while enhancing comfort, efficiency, and aesthetics. Our recent work includes high‑profile and award-winning conservation projects across Glasgow and beyond that demonstrate both technical rigour and craft-led attention to detail.

Page\Park is an award-winning architecture practice with offices in Glasgow and Leeds, operating across the UK.

As architects united by a commitment to the reuse of buildings and the regeneration of existing places they recognise that our built environment is not disposable. They seek to find the best qualities of existing places and celebrate them; to bring joy and clarity through carefully considered design intervention.

They are an employee-owned business with an unwavering ethos: of being a creative community, united by a common purpose to design creatively, with integrity, and to make a difference. Since their foundation in 1981, they have earned a reputation for excellence in the conservation and creative adaptation of existing buildings. Now in our second generation, we maintain our commitment to the re-use of places, buildings, spaces and materials.

We have a diverse portfolio of projects in new and established settings, and we thrive from working in existing historic settings to deliver creative adaptation.

Collective Architecture is a 100% employee-owned practice with a deep commitment to conservation. For over 25 years, our specialist teams have worked across Scotland, championing the principle that conservation, re-use, and retrofit should always come first. This approach is central to how we tackle the climate crisis while respecting our shared built heritage.

With a team of over 40 based in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee, we believe in shaping places for and with people. Our participatory design process ensures that the buildings we create - whether new, conserved, or retrofitted - are truly valued and cared for by the communities they serve.

Our dedicated Conservation, Energy and Strategy divisions work alongside each other to deliver holistic, socially responsible architecture. By putting people first, we create spaces that bring meaning and joy to everyday life, ensuring our buildings are fit for the future while celebrating their past.

Tigerbond is an award-winning PR, social, digital, web and branding agency, with an office network spanning the UK, from Glasgow to London, and coast to coast in Canada. Working across multiple sectors, its creative team of storytellers, social experts and digital gurus build brands and protect reputations, working closely with clients to give them a genuine commercial edge.  

With an enviable client list featuring household names like Vue, Specsavers, Cala Homes and Tesco, the team work at the heart of communities to deliver authentic audience cut through and drive impactful behavioural change.

Established more than four decades ago, the vibrant agency team lead on the issues facing most businesses today, including the delivery of sustainability and ED&I initiatives and the safe and impactful adoption and integration of AI.

Gardiner & Theobald is a professionally independent construction and property consultancy committed to providing world class service to our clients. Our dedicated team of over 1500 people delivers Cost, Project and Infrastructure Management as well as Specialist Consultancy services from a network of UK and US offices bound by a common purpose - to build a better tomorrow.

We have been established in Scotland since 1966, with offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh serving the whole of the country.

We have delivered some of the most prestigious cultural projects, including significant Listed buildings and World Heritage Sites, preserving and safeguarding them for future generations.

With deep sector knowledge and a diverse project portfolio, we provide a tailored and flexible service, guiding clients through every stage while supporting key stakeholders in achieving their objectives.

Our dedicated arts and culture experts track market conditions, procurement trends and supply chain pressures, forecasting tender price inflation and analysing real-time data from live projects across our business. By combining these insights with our expertise in net zero carbon developments, we help clients unlock market opportunities while maximising the full potential of their projects.