COMPASS BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LTD
Company number SC355872 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Compass Building and Construction Services occupies a strong competitive position within the Scottish Highlands regional construction market, delivering pre-tax margins of approximately 8.1% that significantly exceed the industry benchmark of 2-5% for UK contractors. The company's financial resilience — evidenced by £13.7m cash reserves against £38.4m turnover and net assets of £11.2m — provides substantial competitive advantage in an industry characterised by tight margins and elevated insolvency rates. While the company faces structural challenges around workforce availability, geographic concentration, and cyclical exposure to the whisky sector, its diversified client base across public, private, and third sectors, combined with a differentiated multi-trade delivery model and exceptional pipeline visibility, positions it as a leading regional contractor well-placed to benefit from anticipated Highland infrastructure investment including the Green Freeport designation.
Shareholders' funds
£11,219,464
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activities of the company continues to be that of the provision of general building and contracting services in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, which includes a special projects division providing insurance and building maintenance works.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2009-03-03
- Employees
- 128 (2025 accounts · was 136 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Corrie Lodge Business Centre Corrie Lodge, Millburn Road, Inverness, Inverness-Shire, IV2 3TP
- Postcode
- IV2 3TP
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-03
- Next due by
- 2027-03-17
Nature of business (SIC)
- 41201 Construction of commercial buildings
- 41202 Construction of domestic buildings
Officers 4 current · 1 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by COMPASS NEWCO LIMITED — since 2016-06-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA227845 (Tier 2), registered since 2017.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| STADIUM BUSINESS PARK LONGMAN DRIVE, INVERNESS, HIGHLAND, IV1 1SU | 2011-04-05 |
| CEOL NA H-ABHAINN EAST LEWISTON, DRUMNADROCHIT, HIGHLAND, IV63 6UJ | 2009-05-19 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 50 similar companies in IV
The largest employer among its local peers (128 staff).
Trading since 2009.
No.1 of the largest construction of commercial buildings companies in Inverness →
Competitors Inverness
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4. UBCIVILS LTD
This company ranks 1 among construction of commercial buildings in Inverness.
The class of 2009
14%
of the 2,299 companies in this sector incorporated in 2009 are still active today; 84% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
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