Scottish Enterprise Awards 2025/ 14 Civil Engineering Contractor of the Year 2025 - Lanarkshire With a commitment to offering efficient and environmentally viable infrastructure solutions, JH Civil Engineering Ltd is a leader in its field. We find out more from Conor Higgins as the firm celebrates a win in the Scottish Enterprise Awards 2025. Founded in 1983 by John Higgins JH Civil Engineering Ltd (JH Civil Engineering) has been a trusted provider of high-quality civil engineering services throughout the whole of Scotland for nearly four decades. Specialising in delivering essential services to infrastructure, public utilities, and local authorities across Scotland, JH Civil Engineering is known for its commitment to excellence and is dedicated to providing innovative and efficient infrastructure solutions. The firm’s main goal and mission is to improve local infrastructure whilst maintaining both a strong customer focused approach and high standards, in-line with its industry recognised ISO140001, ISO9001, LANTRA and Constructionline certifications. Likewise, JH Civil Engineering is committed to improving the efficiency and safety of its own sites having introduced an inhouse traffic management team within the last two years. “This addition has allowed us to fully internalise the traffic management used on our projects from the design phase through to implementation, a feature not available to the majority of our competitors,” Director Conor Higgins tells us, speaking about how the firm differentiates itself from others in the industry. “As a result, we can now implement traffic management on-site without delay and any necessary adjustments to plans can be done so promptly by our team.” Recent industry developments and emerging trends have had an impact on the firm, such as the increasing carbon reduction brought on from commitments to NetZero targets, however JH Civil Engineering has safeguarded its operations by subjecting its principal business activities to rigorous testing. Those aspects of the business having a significant impact on the environment are now incorporated within an environmental aspect register, and an Environmental Management System provides a guide for managing and controlling all operational activities to minimise their environmental impact. “We continue to measure the level of our environmental impact against the criterion of severity and likelihood of occurrence, with regard to pertinent local, national and international legislation,” Conor elaborates. “Having reviewed our internal operations, objectives and targets have been established for activities deemed to have significant environmental impact, with quarterly KPIs being established to measure and monitor performance against. These include: reduced energy use, CO2 emissions, and waste to landfill; increased recycling; and secondary use of materials” “Having reviewed our internal operations, objectives and targets have been established for activities deemed to have significant environmental impact, with quarterly KPI’s being established to measure and monitor performance against.” At JH Civil Engineering, large emphasis is placed on internal training which has allowed for strong staff retention numbers over the last four decades. At point of hire, all employee training, certifications and qualifications are logged on the internal quality management software which details the provider, date of renewal and employee development paths. This ensures that all of the staff who are employed are suitably trained for their allotted tasks and that their qualifications are up to date, and can be easily programmed in for necessary renewals and upskilling as required. Maintained by an internal auditor, staff training is reviewed regularly training courses organised well in advance of expiry. “We have increased the skills of our workforce through major investments in staff career development, which has directly increased our capabilities in resourcing multiple contracts efficiently and effectively,” states Conor. “Since the implementation of our investment plan in 2020, we have increased the number of staff qualified to operate large plant by roughly 25%, which has directly allowed us to resource cold milling and paving schemes in conjunction with other civil engineering works.” It is thanks to its steadfast commitment to environmental policies, and dedication to the development of its team members, that JH Civil Engineering recently gained notable recognition in the Scottish Enterprise Awards 2025, for which it received the title of Civil Engineering Contractor of the Year 2025 – Lanarkshire. Now, as the future beckons, the organisation is further committed to continuing in its pursuit of engineering excellence. Contact: Conor Higgins Company: JH Civil Engineering Ltd Web Address: www.jhcivilengineering.co.uk
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