SPIE Matthew Hall, the building services and facilities management company, is looking to expand its Scottish operations after opening a larger office in Glasgow.
The company's new premises in Maryhill will house Spie's UK-wide facilities management call centre, which the company says will expand its workforce in the longer term.
Spie's Glasgow and Edinburgh offices already employ 400 trade staff and about
72 technical and administrative staff, along with contractors in specific areas such as duct work and insulation.
Tom Atherton, Spie Matthew Hall's Scottish operations director, told The Scotsman: "We're always looking for expansion opportunities. At the moment, we're looking at places like Aberdeen to see if there is an opportunity where there is the potential to look at work and contracts that fit in with our approach to design and build contracts.
"It's a long term process but we're always on the look-out."
Atherton said the Maryhill office gave the company room to significantly grow its operations in Glasgow, which has the capacity to take up to 70 staff.
Projects being undertaken by Spie include the building of new secondary schools in South Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire and prison work at the new Addiewell jail, in West Lothian.
Spie's projects – which also includes defence, commercial and industrial work – range in value from £5,000 to £50 million.
Atherton added: "Being in public sector work is where we want to be."
Spie's European parent company, Spie Group, has 27,000 staff working in 400 offices in 28 countries and reported turnover of 3.5 billion (£2.8bn) in 2007.
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