Appointments

Kier Group named its next chief financial officer today as the contractor said its turnover for the 2019 financial year is anticipated to be approximately £100 million lower than the year before.

Following a period of continued growth and success, regeneration specialist ENGIE has announced two new appointments to its senior management team. Paul Genoe will be taking up the role of commercial director, with Gareth Edwards becoming operations director. Both bring a wealth of experience to the

Wates Group has signalled its intention to dramatically improve the gender balance of the workforce at all levels, with women accounting for 40% by 2025.

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has appointed chartered quantity surveyor David Alexander as an associate in its Edinburgh office. With extensive experience in a wide variety of projects across a number of sectors including private, social and student housing, retail banking and comm

Construction Scotland has expanded its Industry Leadership Group (ILG) with the addition of highly-experienced Balfour Beatty Scotland and Ireland managing director, Hector MacAulay. Over the course of his three-decade career in construction, Hector has gained a wealth of experience across the civil

Interserve has announced the appointment of Mark Morris as its new chief financial officer. Effective from September 1, this appointment follows the previously announced decision by Mark Whiteling to step down to pursue his non-executive career.

Trade body SELECT has named a new head of membership and communications and announced several other key appointments as part of its continuing drive to serve the electrical industry across Scotland. Former journalist Iain Mason will be based out of SELECT’s head office at The Wa

Vertical transportation and façade access consultancy TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman has appointed Paul Hastings as managing director. Dunbar Boardman, which has offices in Glasgow, as well as eight others across the UK, has created to the role to support the continuing growth of TÜV

Knight Frank has appointed experienced surveyor John MacArthur as an associate in the firm’s growing building consultancy division in Scotland. MacArthur joins the independent commercial property consultancy from Stornoway-based housing developer Tighean Innse Gall, where he was tasked with pr

Taylor Wimpey has announced today that retiring Land Securities Group chief executive Robert Noel will be appointed as an independent non-executive director with effect from October 1. Last week, Mr Noel revealed his decision to leave the commercial property developer next year, after spending 10 ye

Sue Kershaw has today been named as president of the Association for Project Management (APM). Currently UK managing director of major projects advisory at KPMG, Kershaw becomes the first female president of the chartered body for the project profession.

Contracting and fit-out specialist Linear Group has announced a number of new appointments as the business continues to build on its success and drive its growth ambitions forward. Andrew Deacon joins the Linear Design & Construct (LDC) team as site manager with primary responsibility for the ef

Construction and property consultancy Thomas & Adamson has appointed Vincent James to the newly created role of business development director. To be based in the company’s Haymarket office in London, James is responsible for raising the profile of the South East team with both public bodie

Fairhurst has expanded its traffic and transport planning service in Scotland with the appointment of John Craft to the position of principal transport planner. To be based in the firm’s Glasgow office, John has worked in traffic and transport planning consultancy in the city for the last 31 y

John Edwards FRICS has been announced as the new chair of the RICS Scotland board. Having served on the Scotland board since 2013, PMP director John Edwards has now taken over from Ian Fergusson FRICS who served as chair from July 2018 – June 2019.