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    Gordons central Scotland depot: equipment mix and sustainability notes for project teams

    April 20, 2026|

    Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

    Gordons central Scotland depot: equipment mix and sustainability notes for project teams

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    Gordons Construction Equipment is opening its seventh depot and first construction-only site in central Scotland this summer at Blairgowrie, after acquiring the premises from retiring owner Fergus Mitchell. The company has become a licensed dealer for Dieci tele and rotation handlers and Bomag compaction equipment, including road rollers, planers and recyclers, to complement its existing Develon excavation range for projects from housebuilding to peatland restoration. The Blairgowrie site is being upgraded with new hard standing, workshop and showroom, plus roof-mounted solar panels and electric vehicle chargers to power and support operations.

    Technical Brief

    • New hard standing is being constructed to support display and storage of heavy plant and compaction equipment.
    • A purpose-built workshop is being added on-site to handle servicing, repairs and parts fitting.
    • A dedicated showroom is being created to allow contractors to assess telehandlers, rollers and excavators under cover.
    • Electric vehicle chargers are planned to support both staff transport and potential future electric plant.
    • Roof-mounted solar PV will supply a proportion of depot electrical demand, reducing grid dependency for operations.
    • Local contractors have been engaged for civil works, improving responsiveness for future site maintenance or modifications.

    Our Take

    Central Scotland has featured in relatively few of the 802 Infrastructure stories in our database, so Gordons’ Blairgowrie depot signals a strengthening of plant support capacity in a region where several road and utilities schemes are moving from planning into delivery.

    With brands like Bomag and Develon in the mix, this expansion gives contractors in Perthshire and the wider East/North of Scotland easier access to compaction and earthmoving fleets that are typically specified on low‑carbon pavement and groundworks packages flagged under our Sustainability‑tagged coverage.

    Locating a depot at Blairgowrie positions Gordons close to both A9 corridor upgrades and onshore renewables construction zones, which in our database have been constrained more by plant availability and service response times than by headline capital funding.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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