City Building – Glasgow City Council’s arm’s-length construction company – has been awarded two contracts worth £1.8 million in total to refurbish properties owned by Thenue Housing. More than 230 properties in Calton and Bridgeton will be fully refurbished. Work is already underway.

The contracts are the first to be announced as part of City Building’s three-year £20 million framework agreement with Thenue, to which City Building was appointed in spring 2011.

Between five and 10 apprentices will help complete the important work, which will see new kitchens, bathrooms, windows and doors installed over a 30-week period.

Thenue Housing owns and/or manages over 3,000 homes across Scotland, with the majority of its housing stock located in six communities in Glasgow.

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City Building will be applying its extensive experience in providing housing refurbishment on the contracts, including core fabric refurbishment, internal upgrades and upgrading of common areas.

John Foley takes up the post of City Building managing director on 1 December.

He said: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Thenue Housing to deliver these vital refurbishments in the Calton and Bridgeton areas of Glasgow.

“As part of our commitment to providing on-site experience and core skills opportunities for our highly-trained apprentices, many of them will be helping us to provide these important upgrades and we are confident that the tenants will enjoy their fully refurbished homes.”

Charlie Turner, chief executive of Thenue Housing, said: “The needs of our tenants are key to us and City Building’s strong track record in delivering refurbishments for housing projects made them the ideal contractors for this work.

“We are committed to maintaining our houses efficiently and effectively and to providing a wide variety of high quality affordable housing. These new contracts are evidence of this dedication which will see the full refurbishment of over 230 properties.”

(GK)