Building Services lie at the heart of any successful engineering project. Semple’s Building Services business operates throughout the United Kingdom, offering expertise in a range of different disciplines. The company has a long history of leading prestige projects and a blue chip client base.

Semple's Building Services business operates throughout the UK, from the south coast of England across to Wales and up to the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. It has been involved in a whole range of complex and important projects.

Decades of experience in the sector mean that Semple is well qualified to work on all manner of demanding projects. In the past, the division has worked on projects such as:

• High specification offices
• Luxury hotel developments
• Sport and leisure
• Historic listed buildings
• Retail and banking
• Industrial and process
• Specialist manufacturing facilities

Semple's engineering staff includes graduates as well as others who have followed traditional career paths from craft apprenticeships to HNCs and beyond. All operatives are JIB/SJIB or HVCA graded ISO 9000 and hold CSCS cards.

The business has offices in Glasgow, London, Cardiff and Bristol and provides traditional contracting, design and construct turnkey services to principal contractors and end users.

Semple is involved in a wide range of different activities including local authority planning and building warrant applications, multi discipline engineering, architectural and interior design, health and safety planning supervision, principal contracting, project management and specialised M&E engineering.

Current clients include major names in the sector such as Mowlem, Sir Robert McAlpine, NCP, Barr, CH Pearce, Tulloch Group, Balfour Beatty, Bluestone, Allenbuild, Admiral Insurance, Midas, Glasgow City Council, Falkirk Council, North Lanarkshire Council, Kier and the Inland Revenue.

The services offered are diverse and cover a full range of disciplines including project management and support services, where safety related and system critical projects are a speciality.

Other areas of expertise include mechanical and electrical installations involving high and low voltage power, emergency lighting, air conditioning, heating, ventilation and structured cabling services.

Semple's competence in building services is both broad and well established. From distribution switchgear to lighting and from data and voice systems to fire detection systems, the company has a recognised expertise in the marketplace.

It has capabilities in areas such as HV and LV switchgear and transformers, services containment systems, lighting and small power systems, earthing and lightning protection systems, building management systems and fibre optic installations.

In the mechanical engineering arena, its expertise is similarly diverse. Ventilation and air conditioning, plant erection, pipework systems, fire protection systems, plumbing and drainage services, extract systems, fire sprinkler systems, refrigeration and thermal storage, controls and building management systems – the company has a successful track record in all these areas and more.

The range of industries in which Semple’s Building Services business works is also extremely broad. It has completed successful projects in sectors ranging from commercial and industrial through to defence estate, hospitals and healthcare, utilities infrastructure, sport and leisure, retail and banking, education, hotels and tourism.

The company has an in-house design capacity which uses the very latest technologies to produce drawings and design calculations tailored to client needs.