Tech2Grow 2022
Contacts and special offers
Looking to connect with Tech2Grow 2022 contributors, download copies of presentations and follow up on special offers? This is the page you need!
If you’d like an email introduction to any of the organisations below, get in touch with chris@digitalconstructionskills.com.
Contributors are in alphabetical order by organisation in the listing below.
AM Bid
Contact: David Gray, Managing Director
Website: AM Bid: UK Bid Writing Specialists Creating Winning Bids and Proposals
- Bid and win more built environment contracts
- Boost your business growth through successful bids, tenders and proposals
- Enhance your bid quality scores by learning from experts
AM Bid has the expertise to turn your bid opportunities into lucrative business wins by providing specialised expertise to support your business. We work across 25 sectors, have 60+ years of bid experience and an 80% bid success rate delivering over £3.5 bn in contract wins. We offer a wide range of services including Bid Management/Writing, Gap Analysis, Contract Scanning and Bid Training. We are also the creators of Ultimate Tender Coach.
Ultimate Tender Coach is a unique online bid training programme designed to help SMEs win public contracts. It is ideal for those who want to improve their bidding, are looking to upskill their team or simply want to know how to win more public contracts.
“Ultimate Tender Coach has been extremely helpful in developing my understanding of bid writing. It provides a full overview of the bid process and I particularly like the interactive documents provided.” Anna Cox, The Clancy Group
Find out more:
Bid and Tender Writing Training Course | UK | Ultimate Tender Coach
Tech2Grow offer: 20% off a purchase of Ultimate Tender Coach – the online bid training programme designed to help SMEs win public contracts. Use code Tech2G (valid until 30th June).
AutomateNow HubSpot Consultancy
Contact: Bart Kowalczyk, bart@automatenow.uk, LinkedIn
Website: Sales Automation using HubSpot ⭐ Bart Kowalczyk UK HubSpot Consultant
AutomateNow is a HubSpot Partner in the UK. We are digital sales & marketing experts. You can work with us to set up your CRM, improve part of your Sales & Marketing Process or outsource your Inbound Strategy.
Our clients choose us because we are focused on:
- Delivering revenue-driven automation solutions, ensuring our clients are getting significant results on their CRM investment
- Generating more new business opportunities while reducing time spent on generating new leads
- Ensuring there are no wasted CRM leads in your sales pipeline
- Scaling profitable campaigns quickly
- Helping our clients to outperform their competitors via sales and marketing automation
If you are ready to stop losing leads and have sales and marketing automation tools that can help you drive business 24/7, I would be happy to have a conversation. Feel free to email me at: bart@automatenow.uk or connect with me on LinkedIn.
CITB
Contact: Barry Dawson, Customer Engagement Manager
Website: CITB: Construction Industry Training Board
City of Glasgow College/Career Colleges
Contact: Andy Pollock, Associate Dean, City of Glasgow College
Website: Career Colleges Trust helping young people to fulfil their potential
Digital Construction Skills
Contacts: Saffron Grant, Managing Director; Chris Grant, Partnership Manager
- Discover funded services (but be quick – they're only available until 31st July)
- Find out about free online learning
- Book a call with a DCS mentor
Edinburgh Connections
Contacts: Bart Kowalczyk, Edinburgh Connections; Colin McKeand, Scotland’s Mister Networking
Website: Networking events in Edinburgh (Scotland) - Edinburgh Connections The Best Way To Network
See also: BetterConstruction.org supports the sustainable transformation of construction companies run by diverse business owners in the UK. If you are in construction, we’d like to hear from you.
Federation of Master Builders
Contact: Gordon Nelson, LinkedIn
Website: FMB, Federation of Master Builders
The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) is the UK’s largest trade association for the construction industry. We have a proud history of supporting and promoting small and medium-sized building companies – including sole traders – across Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales, since we were established in 1941. FMB membership must be earned though: members are required to pass a strict vetting and independent inspection process to ensure they meet high standards.
Matheson Damp Services
Contact: Norma Matheson, Finance Director
Website: Damp Specialists Glasgow | Damp Treatment | Matheson Damp Services
Matterport
Contact: Kris Atkinson, AEC Specialist
Website: Capture, share, and collaborate the built world in immersive 3D
Check out Kris's Pro2 camera scan of the Tech2Grow event venue!
Optimus Decorating Services
Contact: Pat Shields, Director
Website: Glasgow Painting & Decorating Specialist. Domestic & commercial painting and decorating contractor
PVoTAL Consultancy Ltd
Contact: Scott McGibbon, Founder & MD: LinkedIn (profile); LinkedIn (business page)
Website: Construction SME growth and resilience | PVOTAL Consultancy Ltd.
We are an innovative management consultancy service, dedicated to improving the growth and resilience of SME construction industry businesses. Using our management and research science led approach, we enable smarter decisions through a deeper 360 insight into your work and environment. We work across the various construction sectors, have 35+ years of experience and offer a wide range of services including Business Intelligence/Insights, Innovation/R&D, Digital Transformation, Project Management, and Skills Development, as well as Specialist Sectors/Services Businesses Technical and Practical support.
Tech2Grow offer: An extended “live” online complimentary consulting session, providing you with a 60-minute cost-free consulting session, so prospective new customers can learn more about our service and ask any questions they have. Find out what we can do for you.
PLUS, check out the News | Pvotal for insights and updates from the ever-changing landscape of SMEs, Growth, Digital Transformation and Innovation. Get useful information, tips and tricks to help your business capitalise on its journey to growth and resiliency.
Quest Tax Services
Contact: Grant Laing, Senior Consultant - Innovation Funding
Website: Quest Tax Services - Efficient and reliable tax advice
Scotia Survey and Safety
Contact: Filippos Ntagadakis
Web: Scotia Survey and Safety Ltd: About | LinkedIn
Scottish Civils Training Group
Contacts: Jenny MacIver & Terri Urqhuart
Website: Scottish Civils Training Group - SCTG
Setting Out For Construction
Contacts: Gail McEwen and Saffron Grant
Website: Setting Out For Construction, UK-wide site engineer courses
Tech2Grow offers:
Offer #1:
10% off our CITB-Assured open courses and in-house training in 2022 if booked and paid for by 31 July. Includes drones, laser scanners, levelling, total station, Leica, Topcon and Trimble Machine Control, AutoCAD, n4CE, LSS, Civil 3D, Trimble Business Centre and GNSS. Please enquire for dates beyond those shown on the website. Email
saffron@settingoutforconstruction.com and quote
Tech2Grow.
Offer #2: 20% off our eLearning bundle covering levelling, total station, Leica, Topcon and Trimble Machine Control, AutoCAD, n4CE, LSS, Civil 3D, Trimble Business Centre and GNSS. Enter the coupon code Tech2Grow at the checkout.
Download the course brochure for detailed descriptions of the SOFC courses:
simPRO Software Ltd
Contact: Alan White, alan.white@simpro.co.uk, LinkedIn
Website: End-to-end field service management software | simPRO
simPRO is a leading field service management software solution for service, project and maintenance contractors. simPRO helps your business connect the office to the field, deliver exceptional customer service and gain invaluable insights with automated processes, streamlined workflows and in-depth business reporting. Achieve full business visibility with this comprehensive end-to-end solution.
Skills Development Scotland
Contacts: Andrew Dearie and Gary Gray
Website: Scotland's national skills agency | Skills Development Scotland
Solo Cloud Solutions
Contact: Joe Griffin, Director
Website: SOLO Cloud Solutions - Your Microsoft cloud journey starts here
Download a copy of Joe’s presentation, ‘Optimising the Power Platform for Construction Companies’:
SustainIQ
Contact: Liam McEvoy, LinkedIn
Website: SustainIQ
SustainIQ is the all-in-one ESG & sustainability software solution that monitors, measures and reports on social, economic, and environmental impacts.
SustainIQ is the only platform that empowers organisations to look forensically, not just at their impact on the environment, but the people that they rely on, their teams, partners, supply chains and communities.
With accurate data and the right technology, SustainIQ allows organisations like yours to reveal the answers to complex questions on one, integrated dashboard. Bring all the elements together, establish baselines, set goals, monitor, report, measure – all the areas critical to compliance, course correction and growth. We’ll change your world, for good.
Tech2Grow offer:
SustainIQ is offering an exclusive
10% discount on year 1 subscription packages to their ESG reporting solution. Contact
hello@sustainiq.com quoting ‘Tech 2 Grow discount’ to get started.
The Construction Network
Contact: Grant Hamilton, LinkedIn (business page), Facebook (business page)
Website: Networking, Funding & Development | The Construction Network
Download a copy of Grant’s presentation, ‘Creating the 21st Century Construction Company’:
TimeKeeper
Contact: Sean Quinn
Website: The Best Timesheet App for Construction Companies (timekeeper.co.uk)
Get rid of paper timesheets in your business, by switching to TimeKeeper. Employees can clock in via their mobile or a shared kiosk, and we’ll handle the rest. The best timesheet app for construction companies!
Tech2Grow offer: 10% discount for all customers referred via Digital Construction Skills. Contact info@timekeeper.co.uk with the Subject 'Digital Construction Skills Referral'
University of Stirling
Contact: Martin Quirke, LinkedIn
Website: DesHCA
Designing Homes for Healthy Cognitive Ageing (DesHCA) is an innovative and ambitious UKRI-funded research project based at the University of Stirling.
DesHCA aims to examine each part of the housing cycle, from exploring how they could be designed and built to provide more support their occupants, to finding out how retrofitted adaptations could be used to support older people to have a better quality of life within their own homes.
The DesHCA team invites older people as well as professionals in the housing industry to help this research through voluntary participation in the project.
The project team can be contacted by email at Deshcaresearch@stir.ac.uk.
Download Martin’s presentation slides for more information about DesHCA...
University of Strathclyde Business School
Contact: David Rush, d.rush@strath.ac.uk
Website: Help to Grow Management | University of Strathclyde
Strathclyde Business School is delighted to be part of the UK-wide Help to Grow Management which offers a 12-week programme to build your capabilities in areas such as leadership, innovation, digital adoption, employee engagement, marketing and financial management.
This is a course for business owners and directors only and is offered at a substantially reduced rate of £750. Please contact us to hear more about this and our construction sector-specific group starting in October. Places are limited for this specialised course.
Download
John Anderson’s Tech2Grow presentation, ‘Strathclyde: helping to grow your business’:
