Gilbert-Ash
Contractor and civil engineer
1946 Bovis Public Works Ltd was renamed Gilbert-Ash Ltd[1]
1959 The company had gained a substantial amount of work in reconstruction of industrial, local authority and governmental buildings; offices in Stevenage, Coventry and Liverpool; opened a new regional office in Glasgow.[2]
1960 Gilbert-Ash (Scotland) Ltd was incorporated
1965 Established a new factory in Hamilton for production of industrialised building components[3]
1971 Gilbert-Ash (Scotland) was renamed Gilbert Ash Scotland Ltd
1971 Decline in interest in use of system building, something which most of the large contractors used for public sector projects such as housing[4]
1973 Gilbert Ash Scotland Ltd became Bovis Construction Scotland Ltd
1974 Bovis Construction Scotland renamed Gilbert Ash Scotland Ltd
1983 Gilbert Ash Scotland was renamed Gilbert Ash Construction Ltd
1984 Renamed GA Construction Ltd, then GA Group Construction Ltd
1985 Gilbert-Ash, the "Scottish construction arm of Bovis", was negotiating a large contract with Novotel[5]
c.1985 Management buy-out[6]
1989 Renamed GA Construction Ltd
1997 Renamed HBG GA Construction Ltd
1999 Renamed HBG Construction Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hollandsche Beton Groep n.v. of The Netherlands.
Later subsidiary of Royal BAM Group n.v. of The Netherlands.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Companies house filings