M Squared

M Squared: commercial landscaping and groundworks from East Kilbride

M Squared is a commercial groundworks and civils landscaping contractor that describes itself as award-winning and works across the UK. The company positions its activity around the external works that surround developments, supporting main contractors, end clients and public sector organisations to create, construct and maintain outdoor spaces.

Its registered base is at 8A Carron Place, Kelvin Industrial Estate, East Kilbride, Glasgow. The business was founded in Glasgow in 2014 by Kerr McEwan during his final year at university, initially to fill what the company describes as a gap in the market for customer service-led delivery of external works.

Services across hard and soft landscaping

The service range covers the full external works package rather than a single trade. According to the company, it delivers all aspects of commercial landscaping, organised into the following areas:

• Commercial hard landscaping
• Commercial soft landscaping
• Commercial landscape maintenance
• Groundworks and civils
• Highways
• Playparks
• Commercial fencing
• Flood and drainage solutions

These services are presented as a combined offer for developments that need both the civil engineering base and the finished landscape around it.

Sectors served

M Squared lists the client groups it works with, which indicate the type of projects it targets: public sector bodies, the commercial sector, housebuilders, social housing providers, care settings, education and hospitality. The company frames its role as supporting main contractors and end clients in these areas.

Growth from Glasgow to nationwide work

After starting in Glasgow in 2014, the company states that it built a reputation and a growing team in Scotland before expanding capacity to deliver projects across the UK. Two milestones are cited for 2019: inclusion in the Financial Times FT1000 ranking of Europe's fastest-growing companies, and completion of a project worth more than £1 million at Wembley Park in London.

The company presents its growth since 2014 as evidence of its reliability as a contractor. Its team is described as ranging from graduates and chartered construction professionals to time-served tradespeople with decades of experience.

Working approach and technology

M Squared emphasises delivery on difficult jobs, including tight timeframes and challenging locations, and says it adapts to changing situations on site. On governance, it states that it works safely and adheres to all relevant regulations, and it frames its landscaping output around creating green spaces with environmental benefit.

The company also reports investment in customised technology intended to produce realistic estimates and forecasts of costs and timings, helping clients plan projects. It states that once this technology is refined it plans to roll it out industry-wide.