Appointments

Marshall Construction has appointed Brian McDermott as its new managing director. Brian has been promoted from operations director of the general building division, bringing significant leadership experience and a deep understanding of the company to the role.

Fife timber firm James Donaldson & Sons has appointed Pamela Scott to its Board of directors. Pamela is currently global operational excellence director at Diageo, having held a number of senior leadership positions across the global beverage alcohol organisation, including technical, innovation

Commercial real estate services firm Avison Young has added four new principals in Scotland. Alison Taylor in Glasgow, and Stuart Agnew in Edinburgh, along with Gordon Martin and Danny Lafferty are among 100-plus new principals following the firm’s recent acquisition of UK real estate advisory

Civil engineering company Story Scotland has promoted Craig Lafferty to operations director, while also announcing a recruitment drive for new quantity surveyors and estimators following a period of multi-million-pound business growth. Craig’s appointment to operations director acknowledges th

Kier Group has today announced the appointment of Andrew Davies as chief executive. Mr Davies will join Kier on April 15, more than a year after he was left stranded by the demise of Carillion.

Housebuilder and timber systems manufacturer Stewart Milne Group has unveiled two key non-executive additions to its Board. Clive Fenton and Martyn Everett have been appointed as non-executive directors, following the retirement of Tim Redburn and Hugh Mackay.

UK skills minister Anne Milton MP has appointed two leading women from the industry as trustees of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). Holly Price, training and development director at Keltbray, and the principal and CEO of Barking & Dagenham College, Yvonne Kelly, will be joining C

Asset management and construction consultancy Currie & Brown has appointed Robbie Smith as director responsible for project and programme management services in Scotland. Robbie joins the business from the University of Glasgow where he was project director responsible for the development of the

Property consultant CBRE has announced the appointment of Hannah Lowe as an assistant surveyor in the advisory and transactions services team in Glasgow. Hannah, who completed her BSc (Hons) Property Management and Valuation at Glasgow Caledonian University in 2018, has been a trainee valuer with th

Women in Property, the national property and construction industry lobbying and networking organisation, has appointed Samantha McCabe as Central Scotland chairman. An architect and associate at Oberlanders Architects, Samantha will take on the role of chair for Central Scotland Women in Proper

The Property Managers Association Scotland (PMAS) has named managing director of James Gibb residential factors Nic Mayall as its new vice president by unanimous decision. PMAS representative body for professional property factor firms in Scotland.

International consultancy and construction firm Mace has appointed Paul Kelly to lead on strategic advisory, considered a key growth area of its wider consultancy division.  Paul will lead a team of 50 consultants at Mace who work with clients across the built environment and infrastructure sec

Andrew Wyllie CBE is to leave Costain after 14 years as CEO of the company. Current managing director of the group’s natural resources division Alex Vaughan will be appointed as CEO with effect from the conclusion of the company’s AGM on May 7.

The managing director of Cala Homes (North) has been appointed to the board of Homes for Scotland. Mike Naysmith, who brings more than 20 years of property and construction experience to the role, will help the organisation support more than 200 companies involved in growing Scotland’s housebu

Global Surface Intelligence (GSI), the Scottish-based geospatial analytics company providing global resource business intelligence, has appointed Mark Howie as its new chief engineer to head up its team of technology specialists and drive development of the company’s product strategy. Mark has