COLERAINE-BASED ATG Services has won a major contract to clear a contaminated site in central Glasgow that will be home to a £15 million (€17.2 million) Sikh temple.
ATG Services is the second Northern Ireland firm to win a sizeable contract from Gurdwara Singh Sabha, which is developing the new temple. The Mallusk headquartered building group TA Kernoghan has been appointed as the main contractor on the temple which will accommodate 1,500.
Although the first phase of the construction project is underway the capital needed to build the £15 million temple has to be raised from within the Sikh community and there is a £1 million shortfall.
The new building will be Scotland’s only purpose built Sikh Temple and when completed the largest religious building in Glasgow.
ATG will be responsible for the clearing and grading of contamination at the site for the construction project that includes extensive underground parking at Glasgow’s Berkeley Street.
Dr Mark McKinney, ATG’s managing director, said he believed the company won the contract, estimated to be worth more than £300,000, because of its “expertise in land remediation services”.
He said the company had enjoyed a number of “businesses successes” in Britain and Ireland because it found that companies and developers were turning to it for help in developing solutions “that avoid the high cost of disposing of waste at landfill sites”.
