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07/10/2016

Ground Developments Relocates To New Premises Near Whitburn

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Ground Developments Ltd (GDL) has relocated its commercial and plant operation to a new site near Whitburn.

The West Lothian company's has moved to a new high tech office and maintenance facility close to junction 4A of the M8 motorway.

In addition, the company has restructured its management to promote Kevin Mackenzie as GDL's new Managing Director (MD), while founder Peter Nicholas has became Chairman.

New MD Kevin Mackenzie said the 30,000 sq ft site will allow GDL to store its increasing fleet of plant machinery as well as providing larger offices.

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"Our new facility gives our team easy access to our clients' ground improvement projects across Scotland as well as those south of the border, and it signals our further investment and growth for the business which this year has included the expansion of our piling division and significant investment in key plant machinery to give us one of the best capabilities in our sector," he said.

"As our business continues to grow, we're constantly looking at ways in which we can deliver more for our clients and their projects. Our latest investment in new offices and our maintenance facility will help us to provide the support that our teams need to undertake larger enabling works contracts and use our full range of services in order to create innovative and cost-efficient solutions for our clients."

GDL's Chairman, Peter Nicholas, added: "This is an extremely exciting period for GDL as the company continues the evolution of our vision to be market leaders within Stabilisation, Earthworks and Ground Improvement sectors."

(LM)

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