Xburo Festive Message

A roundup of another brilliant year for our company – thank you to everyone who has played a part in continued success. 

In 2025, we entered our 7th successful year, building on our company’s impactful growth. Reflecting on the year past and achievements, it wasn’t just engineering. Growth has been steady, thoughtful and strategic as we continued to build our team from within.

Starting with a trio of promotions for Jack Hannigan, Liam McAdie and John Duncan-Anderson as they each stepped up to take on the role as Senior Mechanical Engineers. Joe Viola was also promoted to Senior Electrical Engineer in recognition of the role he plays within the company.

Under the stewardship of our senior team – Thomas Brady, Michael Gribben, Ian Menzies and Andrew Lyons – we saw continued growth in our business. 

During 2025, we are delighted to be well embedded and collaborating on a number of frameworks across the UK. We have been appointed to framework agreements with Babcock, HIAL and SSE, and we are enjoying working with these organisations. 

The world of rugby and the world of business aligned this year with one of the most significant developments for Xburo being the appointment of Al Kellock, as a non-executive director. Al was approached to strengthen the performance of the team in an advisory role. He lent his expertise at our recent Away Day demonstrating what drives successful teams.

Under the mantra that individuals drive success but teams drive significance, Al like the whole team has been instrumental in bolstering the team’s performance and challenging the directors to drive a winning team. From our mechanical and electrical engineers to our financial controller, Caroline McAdam, and our office administration, Lauren Nelson, each member of our team is critical to the expert project delivery synonymous with our name; Xburo.

We were incredibly proud to see Josh McIvor take his next steps in his career through our apprenticeship programme which we launched. Recruited straight from school, Josh is now at Glasgow Caledonian University having graduated from North Kelvin College as he continues to learn and earn beside his colleagues.

Partnership was central to our strategy this year as we supported Glasgow Caledonian University’s School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment through student sponsorships. Our scholarship programme provides financial support to help future engineers reach their potential while strengthening ties with the UK’s No. 1 Modern University, ranked in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026.

And, of course sport, arts and charities continued to be supported by our engineers. Our commitment to amateur golfers Jayla Kepler and Megan Docherty continued within our sports sponsorship programme and GHK Rugby player Leo Finlay.

There were too many projects to mention, too many late nights and early starts, and teams throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK that helped us to delivery our expert project services.

Lastly, thanks to everyone who has been on the journey with us and to those who have worked with us, past and present, and to our clients who rely on our expertise to deliver their projects. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.