THE POLAR ACADEMY : INSPIRATION THROUGH EXPLORATION
TURNING YOUNG ADULTS INTO ROLE MODELS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION On Saturday Team GLM responded to a call from The Polar Academy to join 10 teenagers from Bell Baxter School in Cupar, Fife on their penultimate endurance training trek ahead of their departure at the end of March on expedition to Greenland. The instructions were […]
GLM promotes two of its rising stars
GLM are delighted to announce the promotion of two of its rising stars. David Ralph has been promoted to the position of Senior Architect and Neil Dickson has been promoted to the position of Senior Chartered Building Surveyor. Both David and Neil trained and qualified with the firm and are the very definition of The […]
We are hiring : Senior Architect
We are GLM. We know our world faces great challenges. We believe we have a vital role to play in its conservation and in adapting the built environment to change. Are you an architect who was attracted into the profession in the first place for much the same reasons? Do you want to help clients […]
We are hiring : Chartered Building Surveyor
We are GLM. We know our world faces great challenges. We believe we have a vital role to play in its conservation and in adapting the built environment to change. Are you a building surveyor who was attracted into the profession in the first place for much the same reasons? Do you want to help […]
We are Hiring : Senior Chartered Building Surveyor
We are GLM. We know our world faces great challenges. We believe we have a vital role to play in its conservation and in adapting the built environment to change. Are you a building surveyor who was attracted into the profession in the first place for much the same reasons? Do you want to help […]
Six Months : Inverness – Our Highland Home
Six months ago GLM announced ‘Inverness here we come’ and what a six months we have had in the Highlands. For those who haven’t yet had the full story, here’s a summary : it began about 18 months ago, in May 2018, on a road trip round Speyside when I first pitched the idea of […]
RICS welcomes new members to the Profession
Its always a special time celebrating success and recent celebrations for the building surveying profession here in Edinburgh included the RICS Scotland annual New Members Reception for recently qualified building surveyors in Scotland. Neil Dickson is the latest GLM team member to be welcomed as a member to RICS. Here’s what he had to say : […]
GLM delighted to Sponsor 2019’s Helping it Happen Tourism Award
The Helping it Happen Awards, organised by Scottish Land and Estates seeks to celebrate rural Scotland and those who are helping it thrive through the sharing, and recognition, of good news stories from up and down the country, both big and small. GLM are delighted to sponsor the tourism category and to be part of […]
Architecture – The Rationalisation of Whimsy
I set myself quite a challenge with such a ridiculously pretentious title, but it got stuck in my head. Even if you think I’m crazy, hopefully something in this will resonate. Architects often have to give explanations for why we do things. We write design statements, giving reasoned justification for our proposals. But does it […]
What you see and what you get: the shape of our buildings and how we use them
One of the things that fascinates me about church buildings is not just the raw architecture but also what it communicates about how the church in it works, how it thinks about itself and how this may completely contrast with how the church actually uses the space. Too often as architects we visit buildings when […]