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Ogilvie Construction recently ran a competition for schoolchildren at Clepington Primary School in Dundee.

Children were encouraged to draw their dream house or the on-going housing project that Ogilvie are constructing on Eliza Street in Dundee. All the homes will be built to the Greener Homes Innovation Scheme standard using modern sustainable construction methods and creating fuel efficient homes that reduce energy bills.

The children’s photos will be displayed on large boards within the school and on-site at Eliza Street. To view all of the childrens photos please visit - Clepington Primary School Photos

At the start of the project Donald MacDonald, Managing Director, Ogilvie Construction, said: “We are delighted to have been chosen to build the new homes and will be working closely with Hillcrest Housing Association to deliver high quality homes for their future tenants. Throughout the project our team will engage with the local community to consider their needs and ensure the minimum disruption in the immediate area”

Ogilvie Construction has broken ground on the new Premier Inn development in Howard Street, Glasgow. 

Ogilvie has been appointed by developer, North Limited, to construct the building in what is a major regeneration for the area between St Enoch Square and the River Clyde.

The project also incorporates ground floor retail and restaurant units beneath the 7 storey 250 room hotel and will adhere to strict Whitbread specifications with a high BREEAM rating.

Donald MacDonald, Managing Director, Ogilvie Construction, said:

“We are proud to have been chosen to deliver another high quality hotel facility and look forward to delivering the project on time and budget.  Our team has extensive experience and expertise in the hotel and leisure sector in Scotland. They worked closely with North Limited from the early stages of the project, developing a range of design and cost options prior to the start of construction work on site.”

Ogilvie Construction is part of the Ogilvie Group is one of Scotland’s most consistently successful family owned businesses.  The company is over 60 years old and employs more than 500 people across its various business operations in the UK. 

True Student Living have released a fascinating video of their Kelvinhaugh Street student accommodation, currently under development by Ogilvie Construction. The unique project will be home to over 600 Glasgow students with luxury en-suite rooms and facilities including a cinema, library, gym and cafe.

Watch the video here:

Scottish dealer group Peter Vardy are set to take possession of their new, £8 million Jaguar Land Rover dealership building on Wellington Road in Aberdeen on Friday 29th of July.

The new dealership, built by Ogilvie Construction, who also built Vardy’s Porsche Centre Aberdeen, opens it’s doors to the public on Saturday 8th and follows the latest JLR dealership template and is on two floors, ground and mezzanine, linked by escalators, with over 100 New and Approved Used vehicles on site and 26 ramps for servicing vehicles.

The £33 million project to build a student residence in Yorkhill, Glasgow, for developers Bricks Developments is well underway. 

Built on the site of former warehousing at Kelvinhaugh Street, the project will create a 607 bedroom building consisting of three separate blocks of between 5 and 9 storeys constructed above a semi basement parking space. The images provide an overview on site development to date and we'll continue to bring news on our progress in the coming months. 

Motel One construction progress - Time-lapse footage for May 2016 

Foundation development at the new £22 million hotel in Glasgow, located next to Central Station is well underway and our time-lapse video shows a portrait view of May's building progress.

Send us your pictures of the site via our twitter account @ogiconstruct

Link: Motel One Group

Streetview link: Oswald Street (Google Streetview)

We are pleased to welcome the following new colleagues who have joined the Ogilvie Group today.

Ogilvie Construction has broken ground on a £33 million project to build a student residence in Yorkhill, Glasgow, for developers Bricks Developments.

Built on the site of former warehousing at Kelvinhaugh Street, the project will create a 607 bedroom building consisting of three separate blocks of between 5 and 9 storeys constructed above a semi basement parking space.

A new state-of-the-art £8million Jaguar Land Rover retailer site in Aberdeen, operated by Peter Vardy Ltd, is nearing completion, with the stylish, modern exterior now fully constructed. The retailer is on course to open later this year, with a renewed focus on customer service, complete with a luxurious atmosphere befitting the Jaguar and Land Rover brands it will house.

Ogilvie Construction, which last year completed the Porsche Centre Aberdeen nearby, is building the facility. The building has now officially been ‘topped out’, marking the completion of the highest point of the structure; construction will now focus on making the facility wind and watertight, before installing the stylishly appointed interior.

The new retailer in Wellington Road is one of the first custom built Jaguar Land Rover sites to adopt a brand new look and feel that places an even greater emphasis on customer service and luxury.

Crosslane Student Developments is working in partnership with Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund (USAF) to deliver a 237 bed purpose-built student accommodation development, which is under construction at Lutton Place, Edinburgh.

The freehold of the site was acquired from the City of Edinburgh Council by Crosslane Student Developments, part of the Crosslane Group, in December for £6.2 million.

Ogilvie Construction Limited is the main contractor having been engaged by Crosslane Student Developments in December 2015 to develop the site into a new, purpose-built, high specification, city centre scheme, comprising 44 studios and 193 cluster flat bedrooms ranging from three to nine beds. In addition, there will be high quality communal facilities including a common room, meeting space, gym and bike storage.