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Scott Wilson Scotland: A History

Volume 7

The ScottLight Years 1995-2000

Transcribed and edited from ‘ScottLight 001-267’

JP McCafferty

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Significant or notable projects, people and events are highlighted as follows for ease of reference:-

Projects/Disciplines People Issue/Date Actions

Contents Background ...... 17 ScottLight ...... 17 J P McCafferty ...... 17 ScottLight 001-267 ...... 18 SWK News 1 6 July 1995...... 18 Welcome...to the first issue of SWK News PA Green [McKittrick] ...... 18 Promotions [Hindshaw; Leckie; Webster; Edmond; Proud; Scholes] ...... 19 New CEng: D Binns, D Hamilton, D Hamilton, D Riach and D Stephens ...... 19 New Eng Tech: Kath Healy ...... 19 The Glasgow office held a post-incorporation bash on 2 June [O’Hara] ...... 19 SWK News 2 13 July 1995...... 19 Keith Wallace has transferred from Basingstoke to Glasgow...... 19 SWK News 3 21 July 1995...... 19 A Tale of Teith Bridge (continued) ...... 19 Congratulations: Audrey Weir and Alison Blackwood ...... 19 New people in the Scottish Firm: [Picard; Flynn] ...... 19 Well done to David Muir ...... 19 SWK News 4 27 July 1995...... 19 RAF Lossiemouth Planning Supervisor ...... 20 Haymarket Edinburgh Signalling [Hindshaw; Binns] ...... 20 Congratulations: Alec and Jean Patterson ...... 20 Transfers: Bob Hill ...... 20 ScottLight 5 3 August 1995 ...... 20 SWK News changes to ScottLight ...... 20 ScottLight Special Issue 7a 21 August 1995 ...... 20 Acquisition of British Rail Design Offices [French; Swindon; Glasgow; Neilson] ...... 20 ScottLight 8 24 August 1995 ...... 21 PM for MOD DWS at Barry Buddon and Redford [Aikman; Kitson] ...... 21 ScottLight 12 21 September 1995 ...... 21 Falkirk: ground investigation of proposed tip site ...... 21 SWK(S) Golf [Hamilton; Burrell; Oliver; Frew; Kitson; Napier; McBride; Anderson; Campbell] ...... 21 ScottLight 13 28 September 1995 ...... 22 Long Forgan stage 1 road safety audit ...... 22

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Grant Scholes ...... 22 ScottLight 14 5 October 1995 ...... 22 Various locations: airport design reviews/advice ...... 22 Alison Blackwood ...... 22 ScottLight 15 12 October 1995 ...... 22 International Directors’ Conference Cape Town [Green] ...... 22 Mike Hackney ...... 22 ScottLight 18 2 November 1995 ...... 23 PM for Multi-Storey Carpark, CSB Faslane for DWS [Leckie] ...... 23 ScottLight 19 9 November 1995 ...... 23 International Directors’ Conference, Cape Town [French; Hunter et al] ...... 23 ScottLight 23 7 December 1995 ...... 23 Saltire Design Award for A74(M) Cleuchbrae-Ecclefechan. Alan Baker [Blackwood] ...... 23 This represents the third consecutive success for the Scottish Firm, having won a Design Award for St James Interchange in 1994 and a Design Commendation for Preston Road Canal Bridge in 1993...... 24 Well Done Lynn Clark [Baker] ...... 24 ScottLight 24 14 December 1995 ...... 24 An apology to ‘High’ Blackwood ...... 24 A Caption Competition [McGowan; Guthrie] ...... 24 ScottLight 25 4 January 1996 ...... 24 Caption Competition [McGowan; Guthrie] ...... 24 ScottLight 26 11 January 1996 ...... 25 New Received Stamp Basingstoke [French] ...... 25 Post-Tensioned Bridges Paper [Redpath; McKillop] ...... 25 Is there life outside Basingstoke?? ...... 25 ScottLight 27 18 January 1996 ...... 25 Basingstoke Received Stamp! [McCafferty] ...... 25 There is Life Outside Basingstoke! [McCafferty] ...... 25 Well done to Bruce Lunn (E), Gordon MacDonald (Gl) and Graham Taylor ...... 26 Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate [ICE Arbitration Advisory Panel] ...... 26 Wayne Hindshaw NEBOSH Certificate [Napier] ...... 26 Alan Frew ScottLight Correspondent ...... 26 Jim McCafferty Presents Transport Paper to Scottish MPs at ICE London ...... 26 Jim is a Vice Chairman of the Glasgow & West of Scotland Association of the ICE...... 27 ScottLight 37 28 March 1996 ...... 27 In-House Seminars [Blackwood; Redpath; Frew; Hunter; et al] ...... 27 Saltire Society Plaque Unveiled: A74(M) Lockerbie [McCafferty; Blackwood; Bryson; O’Hara] ...... 27

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ScottLight 40 18 April 1996 ...... 28 Grant Findlay ICE Glasgow Secretary for Year of Engineering Success 1997...... 28 ScottLight 43 9 May 1996 ...... 29 Love is in the air in Edinburgh...[Aikman; Lunn; Flynn] ...... 29 5-a-side Football [Frew; Adams; Hamilton; Oliver] ...... 29 ScottLight 44 6 May 1996 ...... 29 Marriage: D Hamilton...... 29 Glasgow Staff Bonding [Frew; Farmer; Curley; Logan] ...... 29 More Injuries: D Riach [Murray] ...... 30 ScottLight 46 30 May 1996 ...... 30 DB Win: A8 Euro-Central Interchange [Riach; Frew; Hunter; McCafferty; Hackney] ...... 30 New start Andrew McCracken ...... 30 ScottLight 47 6 June 1996 ...... 30 DB Tenders: M8/M9 Newbridge; A96 Blackburn-Kintore [Frew; Briggs; Hunter] ...... 30 Value Assessment: M6 DBFO [Bissland; Hunter; Ritchie] ...... 31 Value Workshop A96 Fochabers-Mosstodloch [Webster] ...... 31 ScottLight 48 13 June 1996 ...... 31 International Directors’ Meetings: Phil Green ...... 31 With the incorporation of the firms on 1st May 1995 ...... 31 Water Pollution Control on Highways David Ashton ...... 31 Births: Ernie Crawford ...... 32 ScottLight 49 20 June 1996 ...... 32 The Glasgow office has successfully installed a PC network. B Robertson ...... 32 Value Management Workshop: A96 Fochabers David Webster ...... 32 New Starts: G Blair...... 32 RAF Saxa Vord; NRTE Vulcan ...... 32 ScottLight 50 27 June 1996 ...... 32 S Hindshaw Vice Chairman CIT Scotland ...... 32 KWOGS Quaich [Hamilton; Napier; Lunn; SWIDG et al] ...... 32 ScottLight 51 4 July 1996 ...... 33 The restoration of the Glasgow offices marches on. Kenny O’Hara [McCafferty] ...... 33 SWK Scotland-IDG Barbecue. Tom Bryson [SW IDG] ...... 33 ScottLight 52 11 July 1996 ...... 34 SWK (S) Promotions. From Jim McCafferty [Aikman; Briggs; Clegg; Frew; O’Hara; McKillop; Bradley; Kitson; Johnston] ...... 34 Congratulations to Lyn Clark HNC, From Bruce Johnston ...... 34 Well done to Peter (Paddy) Adams, Grant Findlay and Denise Ritchie [MICE] ...... 34 Why not commission an SWK calendar? From John Campbell ...... 34 4

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ScottLight 53 18 July 1996 ...... 34 Assessment of Scotland’s New Trunk Roads. From Russell Bissland [Hunter] ...... 34 Widening of M8 Townhead. [McCafferty; Innes; Hackney] From R Hunter ...... 35 Congratulations to Alan Baker ...... 35 ScottLight 54 25 July 1996 ...... 35 Procurement of Trunk Roads for Scottish Office. From Ronnie hunter ...... 35 Gordon Bathgate: Adjudication and Arbitration...... 35 From Ronnie Hunter [GL] ...... 35 ScottLight 55 1 August 1996 ...... 36 Grant Findlay transfers to Vietnam...... 36 ScottLight 57 15 August 1996 ...... 36 PM at Redford Barracks for Defence Estates [Napier; Kitson] ...... 36 Saltire Society Design Award for A74(M) Cleuchbrae to Ecclefechan [Baker] ...... 36 ScottLight 59 29 August 1996 ...... 36 Route 3, Hong Kong Paper to IHT: Alan Frew ...... 36 ‘Glasgow Makes It’ St James Interchange: From Alan Frew ...... 36 ScottLight 60 5 September 1996 ...... 37 PM & Design: MoD Scotland & NE England: AG Napier [Aikman; Kitson; McCafferty] ...... 37 Transfers and Leavers [Green; Wallace; Logan] ...... 37 ScottLight 62 19 September 1996 ...... 37 John Ogilvie is leaving ...... 37 ScottLight 65 10 October 1996 ...... 37 Congratulations to Andrew McCracken...... 37 ScottLight 68 31 October 1996 ...... 38 Congratulations to Kenny O’Hara ...... 38 Farewell to Alan Oliver ...... 38 ScottLight 70 14 November 1996 ...... 38 Derek Appleby: Discrepancies in ScottLight...... 38 ScottLight 71 21 November 1996 ...... 38 Ecologists, Geologists and Engineers work together. T Harding [SWRC, E]...... 38 ScottLight 72 28 November 1996 ...... 38 A189 N Seaton Bridge Northumberland Check. Alan Baker...... 38 ScottLight 73 5 December 1996 ...... 38 Welcome to Lesley Thomson ...... 38 Farewell to David Hamilton ...... 39 ScottLight 76 8 January 1997 ...... 39 A701 Dualling. Alan Frew [Hunter; Bissland] ...... 39 Agent for M6 DBFO: Alan Frew ... Stop Press ...... 39 5

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A96 Blackburn-Kintore Bypass. Alan Frew [Hunter; Briggs; Baker; Doubal] ...... 39 ScottLight 77 17 January 1997 ...... 39 Erskine Bridge: Collision 04/08/96. Gordon Bathgate [McCafferty] ...... 39 Kingston, Forth, Tay Bridges; Clyde Tunnel. J McCafferty [Robertson; Redpath; Hackney; McKillop] ...... 40 Welcome to Lee Langdale ...... 40 ScottLight 78 22 January 1997 ...... 40 New River Clyde Rail Crossing. [Blackwood; Hindshaw]...... 40 ScottLight 79 30 January 1997 ...... 40 M6 DBFO: Secretary of State’s Agent. [Blackwood; Hunter; Hindshaw] ...... 40 Vacancies: RAF Lossiemouth...... 41 ScottLight 80 6 February 1997 ...... 41 Swaziland Environmental Consultancy. Ron Bisset [SWRC, E] ...... 41 Barry Buddon Training Camp 2 Starts. Andrew Aikman [McCafferty] ...... 41 ScottLight 82 20 February 1997 ...... 41 Falkirk Bridge Checks. Colin McKenna [SWKCL, B][Robertson; McCafferty]...... 41 SWKIHL Organisation Chart February 1997 ...... 42 ScottLight 84 5-11 March 1997 ...... 42 Welcome to [Bennett; Murphy; Blair; Shanks; Sturgeon; King]...... 42 Farewell to: Duncan MacKillop(APE); Derek Nicholson(Tech) ...... 42 ScottLight 86 28 March 1997 ...... 42 The M8 Baillieston-Shotts DBFO Tender Kenny O’Hara [McCafferty; Hunter et al] ...... 42 ScottLight 87 4 April 1997 ...... 43 Welcome to Graham McCallum ...... 43 ScottLight 88 11 April 1997 ...... 43 Tories Target SWK at Campbeltown RoRo Kenny O’Hara [Clegg; McCafferty] ...... 43 ScottLight 89 18 April 1997 ...... 43 ICE Council Elections: Alan Frew [John Campbell] ...... 43 ScottLight 92 9 May 1997 ...... 44 Proposed Quarterly Newsletter: Alan Frew ...... 44 Craigmillar Castle Park Study: Nigel Hackett [SWKCL(SWRC), E] ...... 44 Curling - Construction League [Holmes; Brown] ...... 44 ScottLight 94 30 May 1997 ...... 44 Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate ...... 44 ScottLight 95 6 June 1997 ...... 44 Pension Fund Trustees: Phil Green [Briggs et al] ...... 44 ScottLight 97 20 June 1997 ...... 45 Sports & Social: Kwogs Quaich: W Burrell [SWR(S)L][Scholes; Napier; Forshaw et al]...... 45 6

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ScottLight 98 27 June 1997 ...... 45 KWOGS Quaich Jim McCafferty [Burrell; Walker; McGowan; NIDGER; REGDIN] ...... 45 ScottLight 99 4 July 1997 ...... 46 SJ Hindshaw & AJ Napier Appointed Directors of SWKC(S)L From Phil Green (SWKHL)...... 46 Promotions: [Doubal; Baker; Bissland; Hackney From Jim McCafferty (SWKC(S)L)...... 46 M73 & M8 Bridge Assessments Alan Baker ...... 46 ScottLight 100 11 July 1997 ...... 46 Director Profiles: SJ Hindshaw & AG Napier From Phil Green [SWKHL] ...... 46 Simon J Hindshaw ...... 46 Alistair G Napier ...... 46 SWKC(S)L E-mail Brian Robertson ...... 47 Campbeltown Ferry Terminal Opens Robert Clegg [McCafferty; Toal; MacPhie] ...... 47 ScottLight 101 18 July 1997 ...... 47 Scott World: from Angela Lowle, ScottLight Editor ...... 47 A8 Eurocentral Opens Alan Frew [Hunter; Bickett; Campbell; McCafferty; Hackney] ...... 48 Campbeltown Ferry Terminal Peter Stebbings [SWKCL, B][Clegg et al] ...... 48 ScottLight 103 1 August 1997 ...... 48 Standards Adviser for Scottish Office David J Webster ...... 48 Beware of Dangerous Pursuits: Hamish Bennett ...... 49 ScottLight 104 8 August 1997 ...... 49 Changes to the Boards of SWKHL and SWKCL from Phil Green [SWKHL] ...... 49 There are four new Directors on the board of SWK Holdings Ltd - Jim McCafferty, Bob McKittrick, Martin Nielsen and Chris Sketchley...... 49 There are two new Directors on the board of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co Ltd - Peter Guthrie and Jerome Munro-Lafon...... 49 I would also like to take this opportunity to announce my intention to retire on 30 April 1998...... 49 Changes in Structure of SWKCL Bob McGowan [SWKCL] ...... 49 Retirement: John Warburton ...... 50 Pension Scheme: from Robert Howie ...... 51 ScottLight 106 22 August 1997 ...... 52 ScottLight 107 29 August 1997 ...... 52 ICE Professional Services Contract John Campbell ...... 52 ScottLight 108 5 September 1997 ...... 52 Congratulations to Simon Hindshaw, ...... 52 ScottLight 112 3 October 1997 ...... 52 Reel to Reel Tape Recorder? Alan Baker ...... 52 ScottLight 115 24 October 1997 ...... 53 ‘SWK Today’: Missing Copies for SW History! Phil Green [SWKHL] ...... 53

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ScottLight 118 14 November 1997 ...... 53 A701 Dualling S of Edinburgh - Preferred Alignment: Alan Frew ...... 53 Millennium Link-Contract C3 Client’s Agent Alan Frew ...... 53 Thought for the week Mike Hackney ...... 53 ScottLight 119 21 November 1997 ...... 54 Welcome to Donna Lawrie ...... 54 ScottLight 121 5 December 1997 ...... 54 ‘Double Whammy at Vulcan’ Dounreay: Brian Murphy [SWK(M&E)] ...... 54 Retirement: Len Briggs ...... 54 Thought for the week Jim McCafferty ...... 54 ScottLight 122 12 December 1997 ...... 54 Scott World Angela Lowle [SWKHL] ...... 55 ScottLight 123 19 December 1997 ...... 55 Long service awards: [McCafferty; McKittrick; McGowan; Nielsen; Sketchley; Munro-Lafon] ...... 55 ICE Christmas Presents! John Campbell ...... 55 ScottLight 124 9 January 1998 ...... 55 Milngavie to Larkhall Rail Scheme David Webster [Blackwood; Leitch] ...... 55 Congratulations to Alan Green MICE ...... 55 ScottLight 125 16 January 1998 ...... 56 Refurbishment at Glencorse Barracks Edinburgh Norrie Kitson [Napier] ...... 56 ScottLight 127 30 January 1998 ...... 56 Dundrennan Training Camp Kirkcudbright Phase II Andrew Aikman ...... 56 Welcome to Mike Monaghan ...... 56 ScottLight 129 13 February 1998 ...... 56 There are TWO Edinburgh Offices Janet Calder [SWRC, E]...... 56 ScottLight 130 20 February 1998 ...... 56 MoD Advisory Services Scotland & N England Alistair Napier ...... 56 Cycling by Design David Stephens [Webster] ...... 57 ScottLight 131 27 February 1998 ...... 57 Pensions: Susan Briggs ...... 57 Public Holidays 1998 - Scotland: Jim McCafferty ...... 57 Congratulations to Russell Bissland ...... 57 ScottLight 132 6 March 1998 ...... 57 Scott Wilson International Board Changes: 1 May 1998: Phil Green [SWHL][McGowan et al] ...... 57 Company Name Changes [SWHL; SWIHL] Chris Bennett [SWHL] ...... 58 ScottLight 133 13 March 1998 ...... 58 International Board Changes [McGowan et al] ...... 58 Spoof Staff Performance Appraisal ...... 58 8

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Ideas of the Month February 1998 [French; McCafferty; Nielsen] ...... 58 ScottLight 136 3 April 1998 ...... 59 M8 White Cart Viaduct Assessment Mike Hackney ...... 59 ScottLight 137 10 April 1998 ...... 59 Scottish Office Standards Adviser and Auditor David Webster ...... 59 Welcome to: [Lightbody; Sichel] ...... 60 Williams Wood Duncan Hamilton ...... 60 ScottLight 140 1 May 1998 ...... 60 Retirement Special [Osborne; Green; Voysey; Webster]...... 60 What’s on your Mind?: Derek Appleby ...... 60 ScottLight 141 8 May 1998 ...... 61 ScottLight 142 15 May 1998 ...... 62 RC DBU Edinburgh: from Peter Guthrie[SWKCL][Mathews] ...... 62 CIC Adjudicators: Gordon Bathgate ...... 62 MoD Firing Ranges Kirkcudbright Sue Bell [SWRC, E] ...... 62 The Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (TEEM) ...... 62 PFI Alan Frew [M6 DBFO; Dalkeith PFI; Balfron High PFI; A92 DBFO; Hunter; Ritchie] ...... 62 ScottLight 143 22 May 1998 ...... 63 Scott Wilson Foundation Awards 1998/99 Geoff French [SWIHL][Stephens]...... 63 Golf Outing Alan Frew ...... 63 Idea of the Week – Leave Robert Shanks ...... 63 Ideas of the Month Awards April 1998 [McCafferty et al] ...... 63 ScottLight 144 29 May 1998 ...... 64 Scott Wilson’s New International Board [McGowan et al] ...... 64 Scott Wilson on Top of the World Charles Walker [SWSL, M6 Site] ...... 64 ScottLight 145 5 June 1998 ...... 64 Re-opening Ceremony: Barry Buddon Training Camp Alistair Napier [Aikman; McCafferty] ...... 64 Dundrennan Camp, Kirkcudbright ...... 65 Sports & Social: Kwogs Quaich Willie Burrell [SWR(S)L][Monaghan; Napier; Kitson; Bryson] ...... 65 Sports & Social: Scottish Golf Outing Peter Ansell ...... 65 Update ‘Scott Wilson: Top of the World’ Charles Walker [SWKCL - M6JV]...... 66 ScottLight 149 3 July 1998 ...... 66 Promotions Jim McCafferty [Frew; Adams; Hamilton; Irvine; MacDonald; Murphy; Ritchie; Stephens; Brown; Healy; Milne]...... 66 Congratulations to Simon Hindshaw ...... 66 ScottLight 151 17 July 1998 ...... 67 A701 Dualling PFI Alan Frew [Hunter; Ritchie] ...... 67 ScottLight 152 24 July 1998 ...... 67 9

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Welcome to Andrew Gillespie ...... 67 Scottish Offices’ World Cup Sweep Michael Maclean [Buksowicz] ...... 67 ScottLight 156 21 August 1998 ...... 68 SW Intranet Jim McCafferty [McKenna]...... 68 ScottLight 158 4 September 1998 ...... 68 Congratulations to Stewart Proud and Peter Adams ...... 68 Congratulations to John Forshaw ...... 68 ScottLight 161 25 September 1998 ...... 68 Congratulations to David Riach ...... 68 ScottLight 162 2 October 1998 ...... 68 On 8 Oct 1998, Jim McCafferty becomes Chairman, Glasgow & W of Scotland Association...... 69 ScottLight 163 9 October 1998 ...... 69 Pensions Susan Briggs ...... 69 Apologies from Bob McGowan ...... 69 Jim McCafferty’s inaugural speech was given on 1st October ...... 69 ScottLight 164 16 October 1998 ...... 69 A96 Corridor Study - Inverness to Fochabers Russell Bissland ...... 69 ScottLight 165 23 October 1998 ...... 69 Fife and South Tayside Rail Study Russell Bissland [Hindshaw] ...... 70 Scott Wilson Europe Operating Structure 1 October 1998 [Jim McCafferty remains Director on SWHL Board and MD of SWSL] ...... 70 ScottLight 166 30 October 1998 ...... 72 A720 Edinburgh City Bypass Alan Frew [Hunter; Briggs] ...... 72 Jerusalem Highway Design Review David Webster ...... 72 ScottLight 168 13 November 1998 ...... 73 South East Edinburgh Wedge Masterplan Model Nigel Hackett [SWKCL, E]...... 73 Hamilton Southern Edge Study Nigel Hackett [SWKCL, E] ...... 73 ScottLight 169 20 November 1998 ...... 73 Pension Meetings: From Chris White ...... 73 SWSL Profit Related Pay Marek Buksowicz [McGowan; Green] ...... 73 ScottLight 170 27 November 1998 ...... 74 Charles G Sang (1914 - 1998) ...... 74 ScottLight 171 4 December 1998 ...... 74 Annual Results - PRP Implications Bob McGowan [SWHL] ...... 74 ScottLight 175 15 January 1999 ...... 75 Retirement Special [McKenna et al] ...... 75 Congratulations to Sue Bell ...... 75 ScottLight 176 22 January 1999 ...... 75 10

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International Paper on Cycling D Stephens [Webster] ...... 75 Congratulations to Lyn Clark [Inc Eng] ...... 76 Welcome to Lynne Dowling, David Johnson and Karen Templeton ...... 76 ScottLight 178 5 February 1999 ...... 76 SWKCL’s Edinburgh Office Moves to SWSL! ...... 76 A68 Drygrange Bridge Diaphragm Analysis & Assessment Grant Scholes ...... 76 Congratulations to Bruce Lunn ...... 76 ScottLight 182 5 March 1999 ...... 76 Cable Stayed Bridges and Cable Trusses Derek Ogilvie [Baker] ...... 76 ScottLight 183 12 March 1999 ...... 77 Holdings Management Board: Bob McGowan [SWHL][McCafferty; McKittrick; Nielsen] ...... 77 Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd Public Holidays 1999 ...... 77 Rail Study Success Keith Wallace [Hindshaw; Fife; Tayside; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Highland] ...... 77 ScottLight 185 26 March 1999 ...... 78 P M Seminar-Glasgow Steven Murdoch [Blackwood] ...... 78 ScottLight 186 2 April 1999 ...... 78 M74 Raith Bridge Case Study on the Web: Grant Scholes ...... 78 Goodbye and Good Luck to Marek Buksowicz ...... 78 ScottLight 190 30 April 1999 ...... 78 Float Viaduct DB: Mike Hackney [McCafferty] ...... 78 Williams Wood: Duncan Hamilton ...... 79 ScottLight 191 7 May 1999 ...... 79 Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate ...... 79 ScottLight 192 4 May 1999 ...... 79 SWHL New Arrangements: Bob McGowan [French; McKittrick; McCafferty et al] ...... 79 Scott Wilson Europe Organisational Structure 1 May 1999: New Holdings Management Board .... 81 ScottLight 194 28 May 1999 ...... 82 New Organisational Arrangements: Geoff French, Holdings Management Board ...... 82 Europe reps on International groups [McGowan; French; Nielsen; McKittrick] ...... 82 Jim McCafferty will be the European champion for the Bridges discipline...... 82 Administrative responsibility for UK offices: ...... 82 Congratulations to Susan Beattie, Stephen Bradley and George Irvine ...... 82 Kwogs Quaich and William’s Wood Golf ...... 83 ScottLight 196 11 June 1999 ...... 83 Software Application for Kingston Bridge, Glasgow: John Redpath [Appleby; McCafferty] ...... 83 Congratulations to Ernie Crawford ...... 84 A warm welcome to Nikki Wood ...... 84 ScottLight 197 18 June 1999 ...... 84 11

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Booming Ireland: Don Wootton [PPA] [Munro-Lafon] ...... 84 Footnote: Jim McCafferty was Chairman of the Europe Group from 1990 ...... 85 Congratulations to Derek Appleby ...... 85 Congratulations to Norrie Kitson ...... 85 ScottLight 200 9 July 1999 ...... 85 Promotions: Geoff French [HMB] [Proud; Riach; Crawford; Gillespie; MacLean; Lemon] ...... 85 Congratulations to: Earnest Crawford; Jason Gillespie; Michael MacLean ...... 85 ScottLight 202 23 July 1999 ...... 85 ....And then there were three [Ecologists]: Sue Bell [RC][Wood; Oakley] ...... 85 ScottLight 203 30 July 1999 ...... 86 Wick Airport Rehabilitation for HIAL: David Stephens [Hindshaw; Grant]...... 86 ScottLight 206 20 August 1999 ...... 86 Great Scottish Run Grant Scholes [Ogilvie; Lemon; Symon]...... 86 ScottLight 207 27 August 1999 ...... 86 Update on successes in the rail market: David Webster ...... 86 Scottish Borders Railway Feasibility Study [Hindshaw; Webster; Wallace; Hackett] ...... 86 Ashington, Blyth and Tyne Railway Study [Hindshaw; Webster] ...... 87 Congratulations to: R Howie [20 Years]; G Thompson, R Greenock [10 Years] ...... 87 Welcome to Joanna Glass and Allan Kerr ...... 87 ScottLight 208 3 September 1999 ...... 87 D Webster JVC IHT Central & Southern Scotland [Blackwood] ...... 87 Congratulations to James Douglas ...... 87 ScottLight 209 10 September 1999 ...... 88 Level 5 Executives Meeting Amsterdam: Geoff French [HMB] ...... 88 ScottLight 210 17 September 1999 ...... 88 Welcome to Kirsty McHugh G, Ian Dick CAD Tech, Tracey Bender Accounts ...... 88 ScottLight 212 1 October 1999 ...... 88 Lifting Experiences [Kingston and Float Bridges]: Mike Hackney [Robertson; McCafferty] ...... 88 ScottLight 213 8 October 1999 ...... 88 Congratulations to Bruce Lunn ...... 88 Congratulations to Derek Appleby ...... 89 Welcome to Nicholas Rey ...... 89 ScottLight Special Issue 8 October 1999 ...... 89 Amsterdam Conference: One Scott Wilson 16-20 Sept 1999: Bob McGowan [Chairman SWIHL] . 89 ScottLight 214 15 October 1999 ...... 90 Success at Float Viaduct: Mike Hackney [McCafferty] ...... 90 The Millennium Link: Alan Frew [Hunter; Adams] ...... 91 ScottLight 216 29 October 1999 ...... 91 12

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Scott Wilson Intranet: Update from Kevin Lloyd (CS) [Lightbody] ...... 91 ScottLight 218 12 November 1999 ...... 91 A Week of Awards: Angela Lowle [SWHL] ...... 91 ICE Brunel Medal 1999 Awarded to M6 DBFO Team [Weir; McCafferty; Greta Bridge] ...... 91 PM Partnering for DE Scotland: Alistair Napier [Aikman; McCafferty et al] ...... 92 Kingston Bridge Lifted: Brian Robertson [Scholes; Redpath; Appleby; McCafferty] ...... 92 Intranet Newsgroups: John Redpath ...... 93 ScottLight 220 26 November 1999 ...... 93 National Cycle Network, Perth: Alan Baker [Kendrum Viaduct; MacLean; Ogilvie; McQueen] ...... 93 A warm welcome to Stephen Camp ...... 93 ScottLight 222 10 December 1999 ...... 93 Vacancies [Hunter] ...... 94 ScottLight 225 7 January 2000 ...... 94 Promotions [C Perrie]: from Geoff French [HMB] ...... 94 Congratulations to Alan Baker ...... 94 ScottLight 226 14 January 2000 ...... 94 Hat Trick of Jobs with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH): Sue Bell (RC, E) ...... 94 ScottLight 228 28 January 2000 ...... 95 Small Isles and Inverie Ferry Scheme, Phase 1: Robert Clegg [MacPhie; Greenock] ...... 95 A66 Temple Sowerby: Another Success S of the Border: David Webster [Hindshaw et al] ...... 95 A warm welcome to: Simon Palmer ...... 96 ScottLight 229 4 February 2000 ...... 96 HA Public Sector Comparator for Traffic Control Project: Denise Ritchie [Frew] ...... 96 Welcome to Zoran Levy David Torrance; Lynne Masterson; Mark Rinkus and Ian Lang ...... 96 ScottLight 230 11 February 2000 ...... 96 Kinlochleven Industrial Heritage Concept Market Appraisal: Ken Glass...... 96 Sumburgh Airport, Shetland Islands: David Stephens [Hindshaw] ...... 97 Scottish Trunk Road Maintenance: Alan Frew [McCafferty; Hunter; Frew; O’Hara et al] ...... 97 Site Staff - Small Isles & Inverie Ferry Scheme, Phase 1 [Clegg] ...... 97 ScottLight 231 18 February 2000 ...... 98 National Curling Training Centre Options Study Ken Glass ...... 98 ScottLight 232 25 February 2000 ...... 98 Tyneside Multi Modal Study Simon Hindshaw [Webster] ...... 98 Scottish Borders Railway Feasibility Study Simon Hindshaw ...... 98 ScottLight 233 3 March 2000 ...... 99 Congratulations to Stephen Leckie; Kath Healy; Derek Ogilvie ...... 99 Congratulations to Derek Appleby and Ross Macphie ...... 99 ScottLight 234 10 March 2000 ...... 99 13

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Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd Public Holidays 2000 Jim McCafferty ...... 99 Congratulations to Audrey Weir and Stuart Eide ...... 99 Welcome to Norman Millar ...... 99 ScottLight 235 17 March 2000 ...... 100 Experimental Road Pavement S Queensferry David Webster [Hindshaw] ...... 100 ScottLight 236 24 March 2000 ...... 100 Goodbye and Good Luck to Lynne Robertson ...... 100 ScottLight 237 31 March 2000 ...... 100 Senior Technicians! Technicians Required – Scotland [Hackney; Baker] ...... 100 ScottLight 238 7 April 2000 ...... 101 Scott Wilson Foundation Awards 2000/2001 Geoff French [Chairman, IHRG] [L Dowling] ...... 101 Welcome to Anne Russell ...... 101 ScottLight 240 21 April 2000 ...... 101 Adjudication & SWSL Experience: Alan Frew [Bathgate] ...... 101 ScottLight 241 28 April 2000 ...... 101 Adjudication & SWSL Experience Gordon Bathgate ...... 101 Welcome to S McKenna - AE[Gl], C Ansell - SE[E], A Farquharson - Sec[A720] ...... 101 ScottLight 242 5 May 2000 ...... 101 Sir Peter Innes Retires [McGowan] ...... 101 Adjudication/SWSL Experience Gordon Bathgate ...... 102 ScottLight 243 12 May 2000 ...... 102 36 Years with Scott Wilson: Peter Innes [Glasgow; GIRR; Townhead; Woodside] ...... 102 ScottLight 245 26 May 2000 ...... 103 Congratulations to David Ashton and Alistair Wilkie ...... 103 Congratulations to David Webster [SVC IHT Scotland] ...... 103 Welcome to Darren Corrie ...... 103 ScottLight 247 9 June 2000 ...... 103 PIP Award for Lynne Dowling: From Eleanor Crozier [McCafferty] ...... 103 Cost & Technical Audits [Kirkintilloch; M74; M77/GSO: Kenneth O’Hara [Hunter; Adams] ...... 104 Scott Wilson Scottish Area Golf Outing, Dunblane, 25 May 2000: Danny Macbeth [SWRS]...... 104 Jim McCafferty presents the Challenge Shield to SWSL Captain, Stephen Bradley [Doubal; Frew; Ogilvie; Napier; Aikman; Kitson; Monaghan] ...... 105 ScottLight 248 16 June 2000 ...... 105 Congratulations to Alan Baker Chairman of the Concrete Society Scotland ...... 105 ScottLight 249 23 June 2000 ...... 105 SSD Awards 2000: Merit for Float Viaduct: Mike Hackney [McCafferty] ...... 105 Wise Use of Floodplains Study for RSPB: Sue Bell [RC] ...... 106 Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate ...... 106 14

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ScottLight 250 30 June 2000 ...... 106 News Corrections Keith Wallace [SR] [Hackney; Dodgson et al] ...... 106 Welcome to Debbie Welsh ...... 107 ScottLight 251 7 July 2000 ...... 107 Promotions: Geoff French [SWHL] [Crozier; Aikman; Webster; Ogilvie; Eide] ...... 107 Congratulations to Audrey Weir ...... 107 Caption Competition [McCafferty; Baker et al] ...... 107 Welcome to Cristina Ciucci G[Gl]; D Welsh- Junior[E]; M Milne - IT[Gl] ...... 107 ScottLight 253 21 July 2000 ...... 107 Eleanor Crozier, recent Level 4.3 Promotion ...... 107 ScottLight 254 28 July 2000 ...... 108 ICE Council Election for Jim McCafferty: from Alan Frew...... 108 ScottLight 254 28 July 2000 ...... 108 Caption Competition Results [McCafferty; Baker; McKenna et al] ...... 108 Ode to the Millennium Bridge: Oliver King ...... 109 ScottLight 255 4 August 2000 ...... 109 Congratulations to Norrie Kitson ...... 109 ScottLight 257 18 August 2000 ...... 109 Andrew Aikman, recent Level 4.2 Promotion ...... 109 Welcome to Nicholas Williamson ...... 110 ScottLight 258 25 August 2000 ...... 110 David Webster, recent Level 4.2 Promotion ...... 110 Congratulations to Z Levi, C Curley and C Ciucci ...... 111 Welcome to A Leven, N Williamson [Gs], and L Welsh, R Hardie, P Maiden [TTs], ...... 111 ScottLight 259 1 September 2000 ...... 111 ScottLight 260 8 September 2000 ...... 111 Great Scottish Run — 20 August 2000 [Ogilvie; Forshaw et al] ...... 111 ScottLight 261 15 September 2000 ...... 111 Float Viaduct Highly Commended: N R A 2000: Jim McCafferty [Hackney; Doubal] ...... 111 More Border Raids Across Hadrian’s Wall: Alan Frew [Hunter]...... 112 A66 Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass ...... 112 A66 Interchange Middlesbrough ...... 112 Southampton Football Stadium ...... 112 Scottish Millennium Forest Auditing Nigel Hackett [RC] ...... 113 Welcome to C Kellichan [TT][E] and to S Tait and P Cameron [Gs][Gl] ...... 113 ScottLight 262 22 September 2000 ...... 113 Float Viaduct: from Jim McCafferty ...... 113 Projects in Ireland: From Alan Frew [Hunter; Hackney] ...... 113 15

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A5 Newtownstewart Bypass & A2 Sydenham Bypass ...... 113 Omagh Throughpass ...... 114 N54/A3 Accident Reduction Scheme, Monaghan ...... 114 RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Leuchars & Barry Buddon Army Camp: Andrew Aikman [Grant] ...... 114 ScottLight 263 29 September 2000 ...... 114 Success on the Home Front: From Alan Frew [Hunter; Hackett] ...... 114 Bridges across the Atlantic [Colintraive; Seil; Coll] ...... 115 A86 Rubha na Magach to Aberarder [Highland Council] ...... 115 A77 Turnberry [S Ayrshire] ...... 115 Road Inventory Surveys [Glasgow; Highland] ...... 115 ScottLight 264 6 October 2000 ...... 115 SW Scotland to Complete A74 Missing Link Carlisle-Gretna: David Webster [Hindshaw] ...... 115 Scottish Executive Transport Research Term Commission: David Webster [Hindshaw] ...... 116 Second Honeymoon: Design Build with Balfour Beatty: Alan Frew [Hunter] ...... 116 A830 Arisaig to Kinsadel [Hunter; Frew] ...... 116 A1 Howburn to Houndwood [Hunter; Frew] ...... 116 Welcome to T Thomas [AE]; M Hay [GE]; M McPhie [Marketing] : Glasgow ...... 116 ScottLight 265 13 October 2000 ...... 116 Another unusual holiday spot: Michael MacLean ...... 116 ScottLight 267 27 October 2000 ...... 117 Stan Johnston Promoted to Associate, C OU, July 2000. [Ireland] ...... 117 Ireland and N. Ireland: Jim McCafferty ...... 117 Benbecula Airport: Simon Hindshaw [Clegg] ...... 118 ScottLight 001-267 (Scotland) [July 1995-Nov 2000]: The End ...... 118 For ScottLight 268-476 (Scotland) [Nov 2000-Dec 2004] See Volume 8 Doc 12.53B ...... 118

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Background Scott Wilson, through all its various name changes, published the following in-house magazines and newsletters containing, among other things and in varying degrees over the years, news and information about people, projects, events, corporate issues, births, marriages and deaths:-

Pontifact 1-36 [Christmas 1960-Summer 1977] [printed]

SWKP / SWK Today 1-54 [Nov 1972-Oct 1995] [printed]

SWK News / ScottLight 1-476 [July 1995-Dec 2004] [printed]

Exchange [July 2004-Spring 2010] [printed]

Communiqué [June 2005-Dec 2005] [electronic] [Scotland & Ireland]

Benchmark 1-6 [Dec 2006-July 2009] [electronic] [Scotland & Ireland]

Interchange 1-251 [Jan 2005-Dec 2009] [electronic]

SW1 1-19 [Dec 2009-Sept 2010] [electronic] [Global]

ScottLight Articles from ScottLight [July 1995-Nov 2000] relevant to the history of Scott Wilson in Scotland are recorded below. These form a history of the events that staff or management chose to submit for publication and are not, therefore, a complete history of events but, rather, snippets of information that provide a flavour of events at the time and give clues as to what might be found elsewhere in papers, job description sheets and other records.

Articles from ScottLight [Nov 2000-Dec 2004] relevant to the history of Scott Wilson in Scotland are recorded in Doc12.53B

Significant or notable projects, people and events are highlighted as follows for ease of reference:-

Projects/Disciplines People Issue/Date Actions

Scans of the entire known collection of Scott Wilson Newsletters, including ScottLight, are included for interest and reference in Doc 15 Appendix 3.

J P McCafferty

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SWK News 1 6 July 1995

Welcome...to the first issue of SWK News PA Green [McKittrick] It provides a means of getting to know about what’s going on and who’s doing what. The title is not only temporary it is deliberately boring, in the hope that you will feel inspired to suggest an alternative. On offer to the author of the title eventually adopted is - a bottle of champagne! Written suggestions should be mailed or faxed to Anna Evans in Basingstoke, and the sooner the better.

To give you more information on the aims and purpose of this weekly Newsletter, the following is from Phil Green...The Board of SWK Holdings lid has received and reviewed the final report of the Industrial Society on completion of its Communications Consultancy. The report has been subsequently copied to all the Directors, and I will speak concerning it at the full Directors’ Meeting on July. Details of the Industrial Society’s report will be advised to staff in due course; however, one recommendation was adopted by the Holdings Board for immediate implementation.

A Weekly Newsletter: The Industrial Society considered that there was a Need for a regular circular that will serve to inform staff individually and directly of things that are happening in the Firm. The subject matter for inclusion and who can contribute are to be constrained only by what staff wish to submit - and good taste.

The intention is for there to be little or no editorial control once the style has been determined over the first couple of months of publication. This will allow the definition of ‘terms of reference’ which will then become the operational basis for the future. The Industrial Society has suggested that the circular is produced and distributed weekly, and this has been accepted. This is the first issue.

Who is to produce the Newsletter?

It will be an SWK Holdings Ltd publication as it will be distributed to all staff in the Operating, Associated and Subsidiary Companies in the Europe Region. It should be shared with any of our clients. Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co Ltd has agreed to manage the publication on behalf of the Holdings company using the Marketing Support Section’s expertise under the direction of Bob McKittrick. Anna Evans will be responsible both creatively and practically in terms of production and distribution.

Notice boards into the weekly newsletter, leaving the notice boards free to fill a more specific role. Examples of what the newsletter can and will be used for are:-

• vacancies • joiners, leavers, movers • births, deaths, marriages • social announcements – car for sale house to rent theatre trips, etc • new project proposals • jobs won / lost • forthcoming seminars / training courses • changes to mileage allowances, etc • items for action by all or specific groups, eg, a Fire drill at Plymouth office

Items that are simply gossip will not be included, and all contributors must be able to substantiate their submissions. It is to be accessible to management and staff alike, and there are to be no limits on the number of pages. In the weeks when there is a lot to include this will simply mean 2 or 3

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How do I get something into the Newsletter? Whoever you are and wherever you are based you can send an item for inclusion in the next issue to be published. This can be via a memo, a fax or a phone call to Anna Evans in the Basingstoke office (ext 297). You must state who you are (no anonymous submissions please!), where you are based and what you would like to publicize. We would like to see all parts of the organization using the Newsletter as a vehicle for staff communication. Anybody who is contemplating issuing a staff notice, a Memo for general circulation or is thinking of pinning something to the notice board must use the Newsletter from now on. P A Green

Promotions [Hindshaw; Leckie; Webster; Edmond; Proud; Scholes] The Directors announce the following promotions in [S] with effect from 1 July: To Associate - Simon Hindshaw (Gl) to Principal Engineer - Stephen Leckie, David Webster (Gl) to SCE - Graham Edmond (seconded to Scottish Office), Stewart Proud, Grant Scholes (GI).

New CEng: D Binns, D Hamilton, D Hamilton, D Riach and D Stephens (all Gl)

New Eng Tech: Kath Healy (Gl).

The Glasgow office held a post-incorporation bash on 2 June [O’Hara] Organized by Kenny O’Hara, it was agreed that the whole event was great fun.

SWK News 2 13 July 1995

Keith Wallace has transferred from Basingstoke to Glasgow.

SWK News 3 21 July 1995

A Tale of Teith Bridge (continued) - see SWK Today, Dec ’94. Following the well received feasibility study into options to overcome traffic and pedestrian problems at Teith Bridge, Doune, Scotland, SWK has been asked to carry out final design of the short-term improvements recommended in the report. In addition the Firm will audit and finalize the Region’s proposals for traffic calming measures on the A84 within the town and include them in the contract. The Scottish Office Roads Directorate wants the measures to be in place by winter 1995.

Congratulations: Audrey Weir and Alison Blackwood, both technicians in the Glasgow office, have obtained their HNCs in Civil Engineering.

New people in the Scottish Firm: [Picard; Flynn] Glasgow: Sabine Picard, graduate engineer (April); Edinburgh: Sharon Flynn, office junior, (June).

Well done to David Muir (Glasgow) who, representing East Kilbride Triathlon Club, finished 3rd Senior out of 200 competitors at the Ayr Olympic Triathlon on 9th July. His team won the 1st prize.

SWK News 4 27 July 1995 What’s Going On?

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RAF Lossiemouth Planning Supervisor Provision of health & safety planning supervisor under CDM regulations for airfield pavement restoration and associated works at RAF Lossiemouth. (Defence Works Services).

Haymarket Edinburgh Signalling [Hindshaw; Binns] Having previously carried out work at Broughty Ferry and Prestwick, SWK (Scotland) is now carrying out a feasibility study for Railtrack on options for possible signalling and track alterations at Haymarket in Edinburgh. The project aims to reintroduce a fully working layout as soon as possible after wire degradation caused the shutdown of the original signalling in May 1994. Simon Hindshaw and Douglas Binns of the Glasgow office are being assisted by Signalling Control UK in completing the study.

Congratulations: Alec and Jean Patterson had a daughter - Valerie Ann - on 23rd June, in Scotland. Alec didn’t get back from Vietnam (where he is based) in time and unfortunately missed the birth by a couple of days. All three are doing well.

Transfers: Bob Hill is scheduled to move from the A74(M) in Glasgow to the Ankara Peripheral Motorway (the equivalent of the M25) on 31st July.

ScottLight 5 3 August 1995

SWK News changes to ScottLight Well, as you can see - the title ‘SWK News’ is no more. It has faded into obscurity (thankfully) and been replaced by the far more imaginative ScottLight, with its own logo (designed by the marketing studio). And the winner of the bottle of champagne? Well - there were two... They were decided at the Directors’ meeting last Friday. A short-list - titles only, no authors - was given to them, and over coffee and biccies they voted for their first and second choices. Scottlight came first, with 7 ‘first choice’ votes and 2 ‘second choice’ votes. One bottle of champagne was therefore duly presented to... well, er... a Director, actually - Peter Guthrie. There was, however, another suggestion which came a very close second. ‘SQUAWK!’ was submitted by Mike Coveney in Chesterfield, and got 5 ‘first choice’ votes and 4 ‘second choice’ votes. Because he came so close it was decided that Mike ought to get a bottle of bubbly too! Well done to both of them... and many thanks to everybody who put pen to paper and wrote in. There was a tremendous response, and some inspired suggestions.

ScottLight Special Issue 7a 21 August 1995

Acquisition of British Rail Design Offices [French; Swindon; Glasgow; Neilson] Before you start wondering, Scottlight hasn’t forgotten which day of the week it is. This is a Special Issue, produced in order to let everybody know about a major development.

Geoff French has the details... The Firm is delighted to be able to tell staff that it has acquired the British Rail Design Offices at Swindon and Glasgow. These offices, with their 200 staff in total, have been our targets from the outset of the BR privatisation process because of their technical capabilities, geographic location and workload.

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An imposed requirement for confidentiality during negotiations has meant that there has been little chance for liaison between the staff at Swindon and Glasgow and our existing offices. This will be redressed over the coming weeks.

Finally it is worthy of note that this acquisition has largely been possible as a result of the restructuring of the Firm on incorporation. This is the clearest evidence yet of some of the advantages of going through that process. Martin Nielsen, the Director responsible for Railways who will be taking control of the Swindon operation, “This acquisition further consolidates our position as leading consultants to the transport sector. It provides us with a substantial core of skilled railway professionals and a workload that includes such major projects as the Heathrow Express surface works and the clearance works for running international Eurostar services north of London.

“Both offices include civil and permanent way engineers, surveyors, quantity surveyors, M&E professionals with a railway specialisation and admin support staff. The Swindon-based operation, MainLine, will remain at its current location and staff at Infrastructure Design Group will eventually merge with the main SWK Glasgow office.

“Both of the newly acquired companies will initially be retained as SWK Holdings Ltd subsidiaries. The two offices will support one another and allow us to offer a nationwide service to the railway industry. Initially, MainLine will focus on the Central and Southern Regions and overseas, while IDG concentrates its activities in Scotland and bordering parts of northern England.

“Our network of SWK offices is crucial to future success by providing a local front door for skills to local clients, particularly with Railtrack. Furthermore, railway consultancy and project management can and will continue in our local offices, especially Basingstoke, using MainLine and 100 in a supporting specialist role. “This new strength in depth represents an exciting opportunity for SWK. It also heralds our return to the privatisation market. I am confident that you will give our new colleagues an extremely warm welcome.

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PM for MOD DWS at Barry Buddon and Redford [Aikman; Kitson] From Andrew Aikman [Edinburgh]: SWK’s Edinburgh office has recently been awarded the following two Project Management commissions by MOD Defence Works Services: the second phase of the redevelopment of the Army (Scotland) Training Camp at Barry Buddon near Dundee (£7M): and a new Medical & Dental facility at Redford Barracks (£2M) to provide centralised treatment facilities for the Edinburgh Garrison.

SWK have recently completed the project management of a new Combined Kitchen & Messing Facility at Barry Buddon Training Camp and were delighted to be invited back to complete the Camp redevelopment. SWK’s Project Manager for the Barry Buddon project is Andrew Aikman whilst the Redford Barracks project shall be managed by Norrie Kitson.

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Falkirk: ground investigation of proposed tip site (Wimpey Minerals UK Ltd. Bristol) – D

SWK(S) Golf [Hamilton; Burrell; Oliver; Frew; Kitson; Napier; McBride; Anderson; Campbell] From Duncan Hamilton [Glasgow]: This year’s SWK (Scotland) Golf Outing took place on 7th September at Brunston Castle Golf Course, Ayrshire. 21

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Up for grabs was the prestigious KWOGS Quaich and a team prize was also available, keenly contested for by Glasgow, Edinburgh, M74 and IDG. First place went to W Burrell (IDG). By allowing an IDG representative to win on their first appearance it was felt that the recent boardroom directive to allow ‘integration and harmonisation’ had been satisfied! 2nd place went to A Oliver (Glasgow), and A Frew (Glasgow), Norrie Kitson and A Napier (both Edinburgh) all tied for 3rd place. W McBride (IDG) won the wooden spoon.

Edinburgh won the team prize, and remaining prizes were awarded to R Anderson for nearest the hole at the Par 3-8th, and to R Howie who confirmed his reputation as the ‘longest’ in Glasgow.

Special thanks to Peter Campbell who once again ensured a good day was had by all.

ScottLight 13 28 September 1995 What’s Going On? Scale: A: £l00,000+; B: £50,000 - £99,999; C: £10,000 -£49,999; D: £5,000- £9,999; E: £1,000 -£4,999; F: less than £999

Long Forgan stage 1 road safety audit (For Crouch Hogg Waterman, Glasgow) – F

Grant Scholes [Glasgow]: On 4th September my wife, Maureen, safely delivered into the world, with only a modicum of assistance, our daughter Jennifer Jayne. She (Jennifer, that is, not Maureen!) weighed in at a respectable 7lbs l4oz. Both are doing well.

ScottLight 14 5 October 1995 What’s Going On? Scale: A: £100,000+; B: £50,000 - £99,999; C: £10,000 - £49,999; D: £5,000- £9,999; E: £1,000 - £4,999; F: less than £999

Various locations: airport design reviews/advice – F

Alison Blackwood, technician in the Glasgow office, departs SWK after 6 years to take up a new post as Computing Technician at Paisley University. Best wishes to her from all at 6 Park Circus.

ScottLight 15 12 October 1995 International Directors’ Conference Cape Town [Green] From Phil Green [London]: Many of you will already know that an international Directors’ Conference is being held in Cape Town from 31st October to 5th November, resulting in considerable absences from the UK around that time. It will open with regional presentations and planning sessions in which all Directors will participate. There will also be a programme of workshops on both technical and management topics to allow those with a particular interest to meet and exchange ideas.

1995 has been a turning-point for the SWK companies and the next few years will be crucial for the longer term success of the Group. The conference will be the first time that all Directors from the three regions (Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific) have met since incorporation and will give them the opportunity to get to know new colleagues, to review recent progress and to plan for the future. Earlier international meetings of Partners were held in Athens (1981), Rome (1985) and Hong Kong (1990).

Mike Hackney [Glasgow]: Does anybody have the progress photos for the M8 Extension contract? If so, please return them to me ASAP.

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ScottLight 18 2 November 1995 What’s Going On? Scale: A: £100,000+; B: £50,000- £99,999; C: £10,000- £49,999; D: £5,000 - £9,999; E: £1,000 - £4,999; F: less than £999

PM for Multi-Storey Carpark, CSB Faslane for DWS [Leckie] From Stephen Leckie [Glasgow]: SWK (Scotland) has been commissioned for project management of a multi-storey carpark at Clyde Submarine Base, Faslane, for Defence Works Services (fee scale A).

ScottLight 19 9 November 1995 International Directors’ Conference, Cape Town [French; Hunter et al] From Geoff French [Basingstoke]: Cape Town 1995 proved to be the biggest and most successful meeting of the Principals of the International Finn that has been held to date. A total of 56 international Directors from Australia to Zimbabwe attended the gathering, which included presentations, main meetings, group discussions, breakfast meetings, lunchtime seminars and informal briefings, as well as functions of a more social nature.

One of the main aims of the meeting was to ensure that the Firm built on its worldwide strengths by thinking globally. The week provided a very solid basis for this with everybody now much clearer about the extent of these strengths. It was also an excellent opportunity for all Directors - especially the younger ones - to get to know each other better.

It was with this in mind that six of our younger Directors were asked to give the presentation on the strengths of the European Firm. Peter Guthrie, Martin Nielsen, Ronnie Hunter, John Nutt, Mike LeGouais and Jerome Munro-Lafon left our international colleagues in no doubt as to the range and depth of the expertise available in Europe. (I was just relieved that the actual presentation was a complete contrast to the shambles of a rehearsal the night before!)

As the meeting progressed, workshops were held on the technical disciplines and many other issues including all aspects of Human Resources; Inter Firm Charging and Contracts; Corporate Image and Identity; Internal Project Management; Marketing and Business Development; and Finance. A workshop dealing with the complex issues of staff mobility and its impact especially on families was greatly enhanced by the presence of contributions from the Directors’ wives.

A fuller report on all aspects of the Cape Town meeting will be issued as a special supplement to Scottlight. Finally I would like to thank all those who carried on the business so successfully while we were away, thus enabling the Directors to put their full effort into the issues being discussed in Cape Town.

ScottLight 23 7 December 1995 Saltire Design Award for A74(M) Cleuchbrae-Ecclefechan. Alan Baker [Blackwood] Last week at a ceremony at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick (Scotland) collected the Saltire Society Civil Engineering Design Award for the design of the A74(M) Cleuchbrae to Ecclefechan. A Construction Commendation was won by the three contractors involved with the scheme. The purpose of the Awards, which are made jointly by the Saltire Society and the Institution of Civil Engineers, is to recognise and encourage excellence in civil engineering projects in Scotland. The upgrading to motorway status of this section of the A74 in southern Scotland was commissioned in 1989 and has involved staff from all disciplines, both in the design office and on site. The citation made particular reference to the principle of off-line widening and the high degree of public consultation undertaken during the design process. High Blackwood (Project Manager) was presented with a stainless steel plaque and illuminated scroll.

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This represents the third consecutive success for the Scottish Firm, having won a Design Award for St James Interchange in 1994 and a Design Commendation for Preston Road Canal Bridge in 1993. Well Done Lynn Clark [Baker] From Alan Baker [Glasgow]: Well done to Lyn Clark, Technician in the Glasgow office, who won an Award of Excellence in the first year of her HNC course in Civil Engineering at Stow College.

ScottLight 24 14 December 1995 An apology to ‘High’ Blackwood Some of you may have noticed last week that in the item concerning the Saltire Award, a person named ‘High’ Blackwood accepted the plaque and scroll. Far from being a typo (which of course it was) this deliberate mistake was meant to convey a mood of excitement and happiness, a state commonly referred to as being ‘on a high’. Humble apologies, Hugh!

A Caption Competition [McGowan; Guthrie] This photo of Bob McGowan (left) and Peter Guthrie was taken at the Cape Town Conference. Can anybody think of a suitable caption / conversation?

ScottLight 25 4 January 1996 Caption Competition [McGowan; Guthrie] The photo in the Scottlight Christmas Issue of Bob McGowan and Peter Guthrie at the Cape Town Conference inspired a wit previously unknown among Scott employees! Here are a few, which all seem to be related to Bob McGowan’s missing tie!

Peter: You say you’re going to read out the Directors’ share of the profits from that sheet, Bob? Bob: Yes I am, Peter. It’s close, and what’s more, the winner isn’t wearing a tie or a long sleeve shirt! - G Bathgate, Glasgow

Peter: No tie, Bob? Careful, or everybody back home will wonder if we’re really here on holiday! Bob: Don’t worry Peter, they’re all thousands of miles away in the cold UK - they’ll never know! - Neil Evans, Basingstoke

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ScottLight 26 11 January 1996 New Received Stamp Basingstoke [French] From Geoff French [Basingstoke]: Some people in Basingstoke will have noticed that we are trying out a new ‘Received’ stamp (shown below).

It is smaller than the old one and has spaces for circulation of the original as well as spaces for copies, as before. I’d be grateful for feedback on the new stamp before we consider whether this design should be introduced across the Firm.

Post-Tensioned Bridges Paper [Redpath; McKillop] From John Redpath [Glasgow]: A Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Strainstall Engineering Services joint paper has been accepted by the Concrete Society for presentation at the F1P Symposium on Post- Tensioned Concrete Structures on 25th - 27th September 1996 in London. The paper is entitled: “The Identification, Measurement and Interpretation of Abnormal Stress Fields in Post Tensioned Bridges: A Case Study” and will be co-authored by Duncan McKillop (Glasgow), Dr Alan Owens of Strainstall and myself. The paper will be included in the Proceedings at the conference.

Is there life outside Basingstoke?? This issue could quite easily be called the ‘Basingstoke Bugle’, as 75% of the contributions are from staff at Scott House. There were a few comments in the questionnaires returned from people in other offices concerning the fact that most items seem to originate from Basingstoke. Well, unless people send in items from other offices, it will continue to happen! Some of these items have to come from Basingstoke staff, as they handle many of the Firm’s central functions - accounts, personnel, computing, etc. However, Scottlight is meant to reflect what is happening in the Firm EVERYWHERE, from Exeter to London, Sheffield to Inverness and Turkey to Cameroon. So, wherever you are based, and no matter how small your office or section, please let the rest of us know what you are doing!

ScottLight 27 18 January 1996 Basingstoke Received Stamp! [McCafferty] From Jim McCafferty [Glasgow]: I was interested to see the new Basingstoke ‘Received Stamp’. Glasgow has been ‘circulating’ for years now. In fact, Harry Lauder used to sing a song about it! I think Geoff’s compact version is rather smart.

There is Life Outside Basingstoke! [McCafferty] From Jim McCafferty [Glasgow]: Greetings from Glasgow - City of Architecture & Design 1999! There is life outside Basingstoke - but perhaps not as you know it, editor!

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I quite like the idea of a ‘Basingstoke Bugle’ and am fascinated by all the unusual and interesting things that happen down there. Where is that window cleaner going to pop up next? How about keeping Basingstoke housekeeping and local gossip under the ‘Basingstoke Bugle’ banner? Perhaps we could also have a ‘Glasgow Herald’, a ‘Telford Tatler’, a ‘Chesterfield Champion’ etc, to stimulate some interest from the ‘provinces’. Is anywhere outside Basingstoke the ‘provinces’?

Editor’s note: thanks for your comments! I’m pleased to note that contributions for this issue are much more geographically spaced out - keep it up!

Well done to Bruce Lunn (E), Gordon MacDonald (Gl) and Graham Taylor (in transit somewhere between Glasgow and Hong Kong), who have all passed the autumn CPR.

Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate [ICE Arbitration Advisory Panel] From Hugh Blackwood [Glasgow]: Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate (FICE) in the Glasgow office, who has accepted an invitation from the Institution of Civil Engineers to be the Scottish representative on the Arbitration Advisory Panel until November 1997. Gordon joined the Scottish Firm in 1992 and is a member of both the ICE List of Arbitrators and of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Panel of Arbitrators. He also joins the inaugural List of Adjudicators which has been established by the ICE to adjudicate under the New Engineering Contract (NEC) and becomes the new Vice Chairman of the Scottish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Gordon’s ‘spare’ time is spent lecturing at the universities of Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde on Conditions of Contract and arbitration.

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Wayne Hindshaw NEBOSH Certificate [Napier] From Alistair Napier [Edinburgh]: As part of SWK (Scotland)’s commitment to carrying out the role of Planning Supervisor under the CDM Regulations 1994, Wayne Hindshaw studied for and took the NEBOSH National General Certificate in December. He heard recently that he has passed, and can now be added to the Health & Safety Division’s list of suitably qualified individuals able to fulfil the statutory duties!

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Alan Frew ScottLight Correspondent Alan Frew recently (bravely) took it upon himself to stir the Glasgow masses into letting the rest of us know what they are doing up there. Far from volunteering to write everything himself, he has put himself forward as a go-between. Staff in Glasgow can now send in their items for Scottlight via Alan (or directly to Anna Evans in Basingstoke of course). News from elsewhere in Scotland would also be very welcome! So, is the following an example of the Glasgow floodgate opening??

Jim McCafferty Presents Transport Paper to Scottish MPs at ICE London From Alan Frew [Glasgow]: Jim McCafferty, Managing Director of SWK (Scotland), recently presented a paper to a group of around 10 Scottish MPs and other interested parties who were being entertained at ICE’s Headquarters in Westminster by the Glasgow & West of Scotland Association.

Jim’s presentation, which endeavoured to redress recent anti-roads hysteria by presenting an informed case for an integrated transport policy, was well received by the audience. It is to be hoped that such presentations will make some small contribution towards having the engineer’s voice heard (and listened to) in the corridors of power. (It’s a shame, given his recent derogatory comments about engineers, that Michael Heseltine didn’t attend!)

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ScottLight 37 28 March 1996 In-House Seminars [Blackwood; Redpath; Frew; Hunter; et al] From Hugh Blackwood [Glasgow]: SWK (Scotland) has arranged a series of in-house ‘twilight’ seminars as part of the Scottish Firm’s communication framework and in order to aid the continuing professional development of all staff. Speakers are both internal and external. The programme of events is as follows:

1) In-house Technical Seminar Tuesday 2nd April (5:00-7:00pm, 5 Park Circus) i) Kingston Bridge Assessment - J Redpath; ii) The Design of Route 3 - A Frew

2) In-house Technical Seminar Tuesday 16th April (5:00-7:OOpm, 5 Park Circus) i) Marketing the Co - R Hunter; ii) Railways: the Addition of IDG to the Coy - H Blackwood

3) Lecture and Site Visit Tuesday 23rd April (4:00-6:00pm, Hillend Quarry, Caldercruix) The event will consist of a presentation entitled “From Rock to Road - Provision of Aggregates for Construction”, followed by a tour of Scottish Aggregates’ quarry and batching plant.

4) In-house Technical Seminar Tuesday 30th April (5:00-7:00pm, 5 Park Circus) i) Design and Construct: The Contractors’ Point of View - B Osborne and R Dixon, Balfour Beatty

5) In-house Technical Seminar time and date to be confirmed i) Risk Assessment and Analysis - D Wood, EC Harris

Please note:

• All graduates and trainee technicians in the Scottish Firm are expected to attend the above events. Attendance and the production of a 500-word report per meeting will be sufficient for /2 day CPD. Other members of staff may attend if they desire. • Heads of Sections should ensure that any staff likely to be involved in a ‘Design and Construct’ project attend the In-house Technical Seminar No 4. • The In-house Seminars will be held in the Glasgow Conference Room. Each lecture will last one hour, including time for questions and change-over of speakers. There is no need to notify interest in advance, but a register of interest will be kept for CPD purposes. • Details of the site visit to Hillend Quarry will be released shortly. • Any queries should be addressed to David Stephens in the Glasgow office (ext 425).

Saltire Society Plaque Unveiled: A74(M) Lockerbie [McCafferty; Blackwood; Bryson; O’Hara] From Kenny O’Hara [Glasgow]: In 1936 a group of like-minded gentlefolk founded the Saltire Society with the aim of restoring Scotland to its proper position as a cultural entity. In doing so they concentrated on all things Scottish, with their primary concern being the present and future. By 1980 the Saltire Society, in conjunction with the two ICE Local Associations, introduced a series of awards which were designed to recognise and encourage excellence in civil engineering within Scotland. The flagship awards were the Design Award and the Construction Award, with Commendations also being granted for Design, Construction and Conservation.

As part of the 1995 Awards, SWK was granted the Design Award for the A74(M) Cleuchbrae to Ecclefechan. This was made in recognition of the excellence of design, the high degree of public participation and the development of the concept of ‘off-line’ widening. Although the Awards were made in November 1995, at a ceremony at the Royal Society in Edinburgh, the official unveiling ceremony did not take place until 11th March this year.

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The day of unveiling started as it ended - with rain. No more than usual, admittedly, but rain all the same. (At least it wasn’t snowing!) Spirits, however, could not be dampened, and Jim McCafferty, supported by Hugh Blackwood, Tom Bryson and myself, were on hand to greet Sir Hector Monro, MP, who had accepted the invitation to carry out the formal unveiling ceremony. This was performed at Lockerbie where a sandstone cairn had been erected to carry the Award and associated information plaques. Following Sir Hector’s few brief words, Hugh Blackwood launched into his eloquent speech and, undaunted by the driving rain, reminisced about the early days of the project with his old pal Sir Hector. The return journey to the local hostelry was broken by a brief visit to the site of the Construction Award where similar plaques had been erected to commemorate the construction of the New Cowdens Railway Bridge by Balfour Beatty as part of the A74(M) Water of Milk to Ecclefechan contract.

ScottLight 40 18 April 1996 Grant Findlay ICE Glasgow Secretary for Year of Engineering Success 1997 From Grant Findlay [Glasgow]: Year of Engineering Success 1997

During a year-long campaign the role of the engineer and the importance of engineering will he celebrated the length and breadth of the UK. The Year of Engineering Success - YES - is backed by the engineering profession and its institutions, employers, business and industry, government, educational establishments and trade unions.

The aim is to increase awareness of engineering through the most ambitious public participation exercise ever mounted in support of engineers and engineering, which are vital to the success and prosperity of the nation.

I am the Secretary of the Glasgow Working Party of YES, having been nominated to represent the ICE Local Association. Members of this Working Party, like those around the rest of the country, include representatives of the engineering institutions, educational establishments, public bodies and business leaders. Our role is to advise on what events should be promoted locally and nationally and to assist in the staging of such events by seeking sources for funding, facilities, expertise, materials and sponsorship.

Ideas for events are. ambitious and diverse, and include such things as a national touring engineering roadshow, an engineering soap star, an interactive game for school children, a national day without engineering, and even a WI Conference entitled ‘Grandmothers in Engineering’! Local events in museums, libraries and shopping centres are also being planned, and may go hand in hand with events already planned by the engineering institutions.

Up to and beyond the pre-launch of YES in September this year, the various Working Parties around the UK will be planning and organising such events to take place in 1997, the Year of Engineering Success.

I would be interested to hear from anybody else in the Firm who is either involved with YES, and/or has an idea for an event, either local or national in scale. I will endeavour to keep you informed of YES events as the year progresses. Look out for the YES logo on products and packaging, publications, headed paper, franking labels and even company transport (a large vehicle sticker is available on request!).

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Love is in the air in Edinburgh...[Aikman; Lunn; Flynn] - Andrew Aikman and Julia were married on 12th April at the Braid Hills Hotel, Edinburgh: all SWK staff had a great time at the reception. - Bruce Lunn got engaged to Jillian on 28th April. - Sharon Flynn got engaged to Alex on 30th April.

5-a-side Football [Frew; Adams; Hamilton; Oliver] From Alan Oliver [Glasgow]: Commitment to the Firm was taken to new extremes (matched previously only by Alan Frew and Peter Adams) when Duncan Hamilton kept goal for the SWK team in the ICE Graduates and Students 5-a-side Competition. Duncan broke a bone in his wrist while making an acrobatic save, but bravely battled on to complete the game.

The team’s results were mixed. An impressive 4-2 victory over the Babtie team was followed by a particularly heavy defeat (of ‘Rangers in Europe’ proportions) to a strong Crouch Hogg Waterman side. Duncan’s injury, pitch conditions and a dearth of talent emerging from grass root level are among the explanations offered for the defeat.

ScottLight 44 6 May 1996 Marriage: D Hamilton David Hamilton married Jill on 10th May at Lenzie Parish Church SWK staff who attended the service and the reception at the Grosvenor Hotel, Glasgow, had a whale of a time.

Glasgow Staff Bonding [Frew; Farmer; Curley; Logan] From Alan Frew [Glasgow]: Around 30 of the Glasgow staff went out for an evening of ‘staff bonding’ last Thursday night. We were all enticed by Sharon Farmer’s memo promising ‘the sweet exhilaration experienced when looking forward to long golden summer days frolicking amongst the dunes to the sound of crashing, rolling waves, accompanied by that music from the Old Spice adverts’!

Instead we headed for a quick beer in the Blob Shop (at £I a pint who cares about the name) and on to the Bombay Blues - a strange mixture of a curry shop set to the theme of a deep south Louisiana blues ghetto (where do they get their ideas from’? Still, a good time was had by all - well, almost all - Chris Curley was called from his pakora to rush out and stop the Kingston Bridge falling down. Oh, to be so strong! Like all the best superheroes, he even managed to rejoin us in time for the chicken korma.

We all then headed on to enjoy the delights of the Horseshoe Bar and the Red Lion bar - well, almost ‘all’ - your hapless correspondent went to the Horseshoe Bar while everybody else went to the Red Lion. I wonder if they are trying to tell me something’? Still, I made lots of new friends. A further confession: somebody foolish decided that. I should be entrusted with the ‘team photo’ for onward transmission to ScottLight. Unfortunately. under the influence of one—too—man wine gums, the Polaroid remained in my shirt pocket all the way home and through a full 90-degree cycle of the washing machine. Still, I’m sure the photo never caught my best side. I guess we’ll have to arrange a follow-up . any volunteers?

From Alan Frew [Glasgow]: Following is Stuart Logan’s version of the night out…. It didn’t Tikka much to persuade a Large Portion of the Glasgow office staff to Poppadom down en Massala to a city Indian restaurant. After a few refreshments, it wasn’t long before the stresses of our Delhi work were ebbing from our bodies like water off a Bombay Duck’s back. The meal was excellent, didn’t Kofta packet (which was a real Boohna) and Naan of us were left disappointed. Let’s

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More Injuries: D Riach [Murray] from Alan Frew [Glasgow]: It seems, as a follow -up to last week’s article from Alan Oliver on Duncan Hamilton’s injury, that many others have suffered similar fates, above and beyond the call of duty. For instance, apparently David Riach dislocated his shoulder while passing a telephone to Bill Murray (and you thought all Scotsmen were big burly tough guys - he was heard to cry “Ooh, I could crush a grape). Perhaps others around the empire would care to relate their episodes of exceptional commitment to SWK?

ScottLight 46 30 May 1996 What’s Going On? Scale: A: £100,000+; B: £50,000 -£99,999; C: £10,000 -£49,999; D: £5,000 -£9,999; E: £1,000 -£4,999; F: less than £999

DB Win: A8 Euro-Central Interchange [Riach; Frew; Hunter; McCafferty; Hackney] From David Riach and Alan Frew [Glasgow]: The Roads Section in Glasgow has been commissioned by Lanarkshire Development Agency to implement a Design & Build competition for a £5 million interchange on the A8 to serve the Euro-Central enterprise zone at Mossend. The scheme will provide a grade-separated interchange from the main trunk road between Glasgow and Edinburgh into the 345 hectare Euro-Central development - one of the largest ever inward investments in Scotland. The scheme, which will also allow for the subsequent M8 DBFO contract, will be managed by Alan Frew, under the direction of Ronnie Hunter. The works have to be procured to a very tight timescale, with completion required by September 1997 to meet political commitments to major inward investor Chung Wa of Korea, who is establishing a television components factory at the site. The commission to fee scale B represents the culmination of the Section’s long and ongoing input to the project in the form of feasibility studies, traffic reports and professional advice. [Jim McCafferty and Mike Hackney were PD and PM for the major bridgeworks].

New start Andrew McCracken, a recent graduate from Paisley University, has joined the Roads Section in the Glasgow office on secondment from IDG, with whom he spent the sandwich periods of his degree course.

ScottLight 47 6 June 1996 What’s Going On? Scale: A: £100,000-i-; B: £50,000 -£99,999; C: £10,000- £49,999; D: £5,000 -£9,999; E: £1,000 -£4,999; F: less than £999

DB Tenders: M8/M9 Newbridge; A96 Blackburn-Kintore [Frew; Briggs; Hunter] From Alan Frew [Glasgow]: Following on from last week’s review of Scotland’s recent involvement in the design build (DB) field, we can report that we are continuing our close involvement with Balfour Beatty in this regard. The SWK/BB team has been successful in several previous DB schemes including the M8 St James Interchange, A8 Gogar Interchange, M8 Extension and M8 Widening.

Susan Briggs (under the direction of Ronnie Hunter), who has worked closely with BB on each of these schemes, is continuing the relationship by spearheading our input for the next batch, including the M8/M9 Newbridge Interchange and the A96 Blackburn - Kintore Bypass. Tenders for the £10 million Newbridge Interchange scheme, which will further relieve congestion to the west of Edinburgh, are due to be returned in July. The £30 million Blackburn - Kintore Bypass is intended to alleviate traffic and safety problems on the notorious Aberdeen - Inverness trunk road. SWK/BB have prequalified for the DB competition, and recently received the tender documents. 30

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Value Assessment: M6 DBFO [Bissland; Hunter; Ritchie] Also from Alan: SWK Scotland is currently undertaking a Value for Money assessment of the 100km M6 DBFO scheme. The assessment has been subdivided into 2 sections, with Russel Bissland evaluating the user-disadvantages (QUADRO, NESA) aspects and myself on construction, operation and maintenance costs. Ronnie Hunter is Project Director. The assessment has included a series of workshops aimed at identifying the risks associated with the scheme. Denise Ritchie then applied these quantified risks to the base cost estimates by Monte Carlo simulations using the HARM and @RISK systems. The resulting estimates will be compared with the DBFO tenders received to ensure that DBFO is indeed providing best value for money.

Value Workshop A96 Fochabers-Mosstodloch [Webster] From David Webster [Glasgow]: More value for money! SWK Scotland is examining the use of Value Management procedures in trunk road route selection. The Scottish Office has asked us to undertake a VM workshop on 5th/6th June with Mosstodloch Bypass. (If you don’t know where Fochabers is, just think of Baxter’s world famous soups and jams!) As Project Manager, I will let ScottLight know how successful the workshop turns out to be. Watch this space!

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International Directors’ Meetings: Phil Green With the incorporation of the firms on 1st May 1995 it was decided that the International Directors (IDs) of the two international holdings companies would meet quarterly. The last such meeting was held in Hong Kong at the end of April which fortuitously coincided with retirement parties for two Asia- Pacific Directors - David Butler and Vincent Chan! It also happened to be the end of the Firm’s financial year. Many subjects were covered in three days of discussion. There were formal reports dealing with Group finances, human resource development, marketing/business development and operations. Discussions took place on tidying up the legal documents resulting from incorporation, and agreement was reached on a series of policy papers dealing with the role and organisation of the holding companies and strategic planning. Some of the issues which were discussed will start to have an impact on your day-to-day lives over the next few months. The IDs approved a major project with the aim of formulating and implementing a framework for career development throughout the Group - more on this in a forthcoming Special Issue of ScottLight. Attempts will be made to enhance IT facilities and, in particular, to establish e-mail in all SWK offices as a matter of high priority. Work is also under way to explore how the Firm should create an image to match its vision and mission. Finally, the IDs discussed reports submitted by the discipline groups. These groups were set up in Cape Town in November 1995 to coordinate and develop specific aspects of the Firm’s business (eg aviation, bridges, etc) on a worldwide basis. The next two meetings of the IDs will both be held in the UK, the first at the end of July in London and the second in late October (venue to be announced).

Water Pollution Control on Highways David Ashton Established initially to monitor oil spillages within bunds for oil-cooled transformers in the electricity industry, Aqua Sentry* is marketing a product aimed for use in conjunction with oil interceptors, and which is having increased application at airports and petrol station forecourts to contain and monitor fuel spillages. This same product could be of potential use on highway schemes (council operations and DBFO schemes) where monitoring of contamination at outfalls is required. Oil interceptors do not necessarily have to be used, and other containment facilities might he considered, much depending on the location, land availability and other environmental considerations.

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I would be interested to hear from others with ideas on use, installation, practicality, etc. I’m on ext 457 in Glasgow. (* this information is from Aqua-Sentry in Brighouse, W Yorks).

Births: Ernie Crawford (Glasgow) and his wife Brenda were delighted recently by the birth of their first child, Anna, who arrived on her due date of 20th May (who says women are always late?) She weighed in at a healthy 81b 2oz and her parents would like to thank all those in the Glasgow office who contributed towards the card and flowers.

ScottLight 49 20 June 1996 The Glasgow office has successfully installed a PC network. B Robertson Seven machines in the Admin Section were networked in December and an additional number of machines have now been connected. As well as gaining access to the lull range of programs available within MS Office Pro, we now have the facility to fax directly from the network.

An ISDN server was installed to provide connection to the new Scott Wilson IDG office where the financial package Conquest was already in use. This server also provides connection to other offices within the Firm.

John Kelly, the IDG IT Manager, provided the network programming and technical assistance in connection of equipment. Unfortunately, John has been attracted away from the Firm and left us on 10th June. We wish John every success in his new position. Network development is likely to be constrained for a period hut we are now also connected to the Internet: address swk_scotland.co.uk.

Value Management Workshop: A96 Fochabers David Webster I promised to keep ScottLight informed about our Value Management Workshop on the A96 Fochabers Bypass Project, which was mentioned in Issue 47. The workshop was held at 6 Park Circus on 5th/6th June and was attended by the client (the Scottish Office), SWK (David Stephens and myself) and our environmental sub-consultant Holford Associates. The facilitator for the exercise was Value Management Ltd (part of the EC Harris group).

Following 11/2 days of intensive discussion, although a preferred route was not identified, a number of useful ideas were developed and are now being examined in detail. Thanks go to all, especially the ‘girls’ who kept the coffee supply topped up.

New Starts: G Blair. Following his 3-month temporary post, the Glasgow office officially welcomes Gordon Blair as a Graduate Under Agreement. Gordon is currently working in the Highways Section. All the best from all of us!

RAF Saxa Vord; NRTE Vulcan SWKCL, M&E is pleased to welcome the following to the Firm’s most northerly sites: At RAF Saxa Vord (Shetland Islands): Joan Thomson and Colin Clark At NRTE Vulcan, Thurso: Hugh Meiklejohn, Julian Harrop and Illa Robertson.

[These sites were run by SWKCL are included for information. JP McCafferty]

ScottLight 50 27 June 1996 S Hindshaw Vice Chairman CIT Scotland From Alan Frew [Glasgow]: Congratulations to Simon Hindshaw, who was elected Vice Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Transport in Scotland at its AGM on 18th June.

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Congratulations to Malky Gordon (SWIDG) - the winner; David Leith (SWIDG) - second; and Alastair Napier (SWK) - third. The team prize was wrestled from the Edinburgh office by SWIDG, with Glasgow trailing a distant third. George Smith and Stewart Fleming (both SWIDG) took ‘nearest the pin’ and ‘longest drive’ respectively, with Bruce Lunn (SWK) and Jim Millar (SWIDG) sharing wooden spoons.

ScottLight 51 4 July 1996 The restoration of the Glasgow offices marches on. Kenny O’Hara [McCafferty] This month saw the completion of the two principal ground floor rooms of 6 Park Circus. Under the watchful eye of Jim McCafferty and myself, these rooms have been completely refurbished and restored to their original Victorian splendour, while incorporating the needs of the 21st century. During the works several remarkable discoveries were made:

The two rooms in question were connected by an open archway which the ‘old timers’ in the Company remember as having a glass infill panel with a door. However, a few tell-tale signs and curiosity led to the removal of timber side facing panels, revealing two sliding doors each about 3m x 3m. One side of each door was intricately painted up in gold, depicting flowers, urns and lined artwork. These have been restored, brass runners replaced and are now fully operational. It is thought that the doors remained hidden for some 40-50 years.

• The Grade A listed ceiling of the front room was painstakingly restored using craftsmen with skills from a bygone age. The same style of artwork as depicted on the ceiling was discovered as a frieze covered by paint. Part of this was restored and remains on permanent display. • To facilitate the installation of service cables, a door facing was removed and this revealed fragments of newspaper which had obviously been used as packing between the timber and the wall. This suggests that time changes nothing and on Wednesday 2th July I858 some disgruntled painter cursed the workmanship of his fellow tradesmen and rammed his newspaper into the caps. The fragments reveal the paper to be The Daily Bulletin and the Glasgow News which, following Enquiries, appears to be the only copy in existence (This paper was only published between 1855 and I861)

Reading through the text, a letter written to the editor stands out as testimony to the Glaswegians’ ability to enjoy the traditional Glasgow Fair holiday. It is entitled ‘The Police Again! ‘ and concerns a publican who had been fined £5 for assaulting two men “to the effusion of blood and injury. The author had obviously interacted with the local constabulary in the past and claimed he was the subject of police harassment.

He describes the events leading up to his involvement thus:

“On the 19th current, being Glasgow Fair time, nine young men, evidently on the ‘spree’, paid a visit to my premises, situated in Saltmarket, adjacent to the Green. They called for and drunk four quarts of ale, being about a pint each. Having done so they began breaking the glasses and measures and creating uproar. The waiter went into the room where they were and demanded payment for what they had broken and bidding them to depart without further noise. They replied by assaulting him violently. Another waiter, hearing the noise came in to assist and he was also immediately attacked...”

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Scott Wilson IDG joined forces with their colleagues from SWK Scotland to enjoy a family barbecue in glorious summer weather. Risking all manner of organisational complications, Ritchie Adam of IDG broke with the tradition of ten previous IDG summer barbecues and invited, en masse, the troops from across the city; and what a fine time was had by all. Under Ritchie’s strict control of operations, a grand selection of barbecue fayre was dished up to the 22 SWK and IDG staff, their partners, children and friends. General relaxation, sunbathing and other leisurely pursuits were only temporarily interrupted by the introduction of a game of rounders on the shore. Probably through weight of numbers, namely grown- up kids versus normal kids, SWK claimed victory in this particular escapade, but then perhaps IDG could afford to be magnanimous following events on the golf course the previous afternoon...!

ScottLight 52 11 July 1996 SWK (S) Promotions. From Jim McCafferty [Aikman; Briggs; Clegg; Frew; O’Hara; McKillop; Bradley; Kitson; Johnston]

The Directors of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co (Scotland) Ltd are pleased to announce the following promotions, with effect from 1st July:

To Principal Engineer: Andrew Aikman; Susan Briggs; Robert Clegg; Alan Frew; Kenny O’Hara To Assistant Principal Engineer: Duncan MacKillop To Senior Chartered Engineer: Stephen Bradley; Norrie Kitson To Senior Technician: Bruce Johnston

Congratulations to Lyn Clark HNC, From Bruce Johnston Lynn has passed her HNC in Civil Engineering at Stow College, Glasgow and is progressing to her TPR with her submission to be completed by the end of August. The boys from Room 6, 6 Park Circus wish her well.

Well done to Peter (Paddy) Adams, Grant Findlay and Denise Ritchie [MICE] All have passed their ICE CPR examinations to become MICE.

Why not commission an SWK calendar? From John Campbell (or even produce one in-house - I’m sure the Marketing Department has the technology). We must be able to scrape together twelve presentable photos of aesthetically pleasing SWK projects (any bridge designed in the Glasgow office would obviously fall into this category!). The calendar would be distributed to clients and SWK staff (perhaps in lieu of a Christmas bonus!) and would undoubtedly raise the company profile as well as brightening up a few dark corners in offices across the SWK empire.

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Assessment of Scotland’s New Trunk Roads. From Russell Bissland [Hunter] In July 1996, the Scottish Office appointed SWK to assess conditions on the new trunk road network as part of the Scotland’s Trunk Roads-Economic development, Environment and Traffic (STREET) Review study. The project will involve the definition of traffic flow characteristics and trends throughout the network, the identification of current and future stress points, a review of the current trunk road programme and an assessment of the potential for value engineering. The project builds

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Widening of M8 Townhead. [McCafferty; Innes; Hackney] From R Hunter SWK (Scotland) recently took a nostalgic step back in time when we won a design-build contract for the widening of the M8 Westbound carriageway at Townhead, Glasgow. It was the highway planning of the Glasgow motorway system that first brought SWK to Glasgow, way back in 1960. The subsequent detailed design of the M8 motorway at Townhead in the mid 1960s was one of several major commissions for SWK that followed on from agreement of the Highway Plan. This most recent commission involves the widening and realignment of a 1km stretch of the motorway to cope with the ever-increasing traffic volumes, which perhaps is in itself a testament to the success of the city’s heralded motorway system. The scheme included intricate “stitching” of an additional lane onto an existing motorway bridge. Mike Hackney is managing the process, including continual reference to as-built records dated 1965 and prepared by some of the older hands at Park Circus. The current Project Director, Jim McCafferty, claims to have been too young to have worked on the original design, but suggested that Peter Innes probably did! The M8 widening scheme has been taken on in conjunction with Balfour Beatty, and continues SWK’s long and successful relationship with this firm in Design Build contracts on Scotland’s trunk road network. The relationship started in 1989 with the award-winning MX St James Interchange and continued on through the A8 Gogar interchange and the M8 Extension. We are now forging ahead with current tenders and expressions of interest for 3 further major schemes.

Congratulations to Alan Baker who was recently elected to the Scotland Region Committee of the Concrete Society.

ScottLight 54 25 July 1996 Procurement of Trunk Roads for Scottish Office. From Ronnie hunter SWK (Scotland) is remaining at the forefront of recent developments in the Scottish Office’s procurement procedures for trunk road schemes. These developments have included the introduction of aesthetic review procedures (particularly for bridges), and risk assessments as part of studies into value for money. In terms of aesthetic reviews, SWK has assisted the Scottish Office in reviewing the aesthetic submissions from the tenderers for the M6 DBFO scheme and also worked closely with Professor McMillan (the Scottish Office’s aesthetic adviser) in developing the aesthetic requirements for the A8 Euro central Interchange. “Value for Money” (VFM) has rapidly become a buzz-word in the corridors of power at the Scottish Office, and SWK has taken a lead in carrying out several VFM studies on their behalf. These studies have generally involved workshops amongst the various “stakeholders” to a scheme, aimed at identifying the risks associated with the works. The resulting quantified risks are then subjected to Monte Carlo analyses on the HARM or @ RISK suites to provide more robust estimates of the costs with associated probability distributions.

Gordon Bathgate: Adjudication and Arbitration. From Ronnie Hunter [GL]: SWK Contracts Adviser in Scotland, Gordon Bathgate, becomes the first in the Group of SWK Companies and the first Engineer in Scotland to join the ICE list of Adjudicators. Adjudication is a feature of the New Engineering Contract and features in the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Bill. Major Clients in Scotland have set the pace in the UK in new forms of capital procurement. Gordon continues the SWK tradition of offering Clients a premier service in this new age of contracts. “Adjudication has been identified as the way forward in the disposal of contractual disputes. Our Clients expect the best advice possible at all stages of contracts and our policy of continuing training

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ScottLight 55 1 August 1996 Grant Findlay transfers to Vietnam. Grant will start a 12 month assignment in Vietnam in early August, joining the growing team involved in the design of the Cambodia to Vietnam Highway.

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PM at Redford Barracks for Defence Estates [Napier; Kitson] From Alistair Napier [Edinburgh]: SWK’s Edinburgh office has recently been appointed as Project Manager for a £3rn development at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh for Defence Estate Organisation (Fee Scale A). The project comprises the construction of rehearsal and practice facilities and living accommodation for the two Army Divisional Bands located in Scotland. The Project Manager is Norrie Kitson.

Saltire Society Design Award for A74(M) Cleuchbrae to Ecclefechan [Baker] From Alan Baker [Glasgow]: A few months ago I reported that SWK Scotland had won the Saltire Society Civil Engineering Design Award for the design of the A74(M) Cleuchbrae to Ecclefechan. Anyone who is interested in finding out more about the project may find information and colour photographs on the Internet at http://www.civ.hw.ac.uk/saltire/cleu.html .

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Route 3, Hong Kong Paper to IHT: Alan Frew For anyone who is interested (and who is not yet fed up with me reminiscing about Hong Kong!): I will be presenting a paper entitled “Route 3, Hong Kong” to the IHT on Monday 2nd September. The presentation is in Committee Room I at Strathclyde House, 1 India Street at 5.3Opm for 6.OOpm. A few friendly faces (or even just familiar faces!) in the audience would be appreciated.

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‘Glasgow Makes It’ St James Interchange: From Alan Frew We have been chosen, as one of twenty Glasgow companies, to take part in an exhibition entitled “Glasgow Makes It” as part of Glasgow’s International Festival of Design 1996. The exhibition panel selected our submission on the St James Interchange (which won the Saltire Award for Design in 1994, ahead of an overwhelming number of entries from areas such as product engineering, interior, multi-media, fashion, graphic and jewellery design. We have been allocated the largest space in the exhibition and our exhibit will endeavour to explain in simple terms some of the complex design issues that contributed to the development of the scheme. The exhibition will take place in the National Gallery of Scottish Art and Design, in the former Post Office building in George Square, from 31st August to 28th September.

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PM & Design: MoD Scotland & NE England: AG Napier [Aikman; Kitson; McCafferty] SW Edinburgh has been appointed to provide Project Management and multi-disciplinary design services on MoD projects under a two year Term Commission for Scotland and North East England (Fee Scale A). Alistair Napier will manage the commission supported by Andrew Aikman and Norrie Kitson. [PD Jim McCafferty].

Transfers and Leavers [Green; Wallace; Logan] SWK (Gl) welcomes Allan Green back to the fold following 2 years on the M74 site.

Keith Wallace has transferred from SWK Glasgow to Scott Wilson IDG as the Works Design Manager.

Stuart Logan is leaving the Glasgow office to undertake a course in teacher training. His 6 years have obviously taught him how to deal with children! Staff at Glasgow wish Stuart all the very best.

ScottLight 62 19 September 1996 John Ogilvie is leaving the Edinburgh office to pursue a degree in Civil Engineering (God bless him!) at Heriot Watt University where he will also take up residence. In his six years at the office, John has been an invaluable employee and staff wish him all the best in his aspirations. Over the years, John has demonstrated the wide ranging characteristics of his personality including his great tenacity which helped him to give up smoking every other month resulting in severe mood swings, his keen sense of direction which in one instance enabled him to navigate a car journey from Edinburgh direct to Aberdeen via Inverness, and finally his unwavering charm which has seen him enjoy coveted success with members of the more shapely sex! Leaving “do” Friday 20 September 1996. Best wishes John - keep in touch!

ScottLight 65 10 October 1996 ‘Standards Adviser & Auditor’ for Scottish Roads [Webster] From David Webster [Glasgow]: The National Roads Directorate of The Scottish Office has appointed SWK as “Standards Adviser & Auditor” for the Department. This is a one year term commission which involves provision of a wide range of technical advice to the Standards and Environment Branch of the Directorate. (Fee Scale A).

The work involved in the commission can be divided into four broad categories:-

• Assessment of designer proposed Departures from Standard. This will involve detailed analysis and recommendation on Departures which may be proposed at any stage of the development of a scheme. This will include designs by other Consultants, D&B Contractors, DBFO Companies etc. • Development and implementation of Trunk Road Design Audit Procedures. • Provision of general technical advice on Standards including a detailed Cycling Advice Note. • Development of Value Management Procedures for implementation on all Scottish Office Trunk Road Projects. (Assisted by Value Management Ltd). We will also be heavily involved in the VM Workshops themselves. SWK is delighted to be appointed to undertake this commission in the face of stiff opposition. (It is understood that we won this job despite lower fee bids by others!) It could be said that this appointment is one further step along the path of being the “Preferred Consultancy”! I am the PM under the Directorship of Hugh Blackwood.

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ScottLight 68 31 October 1996 Congratulations to Kenny O’Hara (Glasgow) and his wife Pam who are the proud parents of a baby girl, Lauren, born on 23rd October weighing 7lb2oz.

Farewell to Alan Oliver who’s “gone to ride the Aussie surf”, from all the staff in Glasgow. He is taking a year (or more) out to ‘find himself - we thought we would save him the bother and give him a mirror, but he was determined!

ScottLight 70 14 November 1996 Derek Appleby: Discrepancies in ScottLight. Derek has raised an important point by highlighting the discrepancies often caused in Scottlight regarding which of the Companies certain news is aimed towards - the latest example being the change from monthly to weekly time-sheets (this is an SWKCL matter only). In future, all articles will fully identify the businesses within the Company to be affected by specific news.

ScottLight 71 21 November 1996 What’s Going On? Scale: A: £100,000+; B: £50,000 - £99,999; C: £10,000 - £49,999; D: £5,000 -£9,999; E: £1,000- £4,999; F: less than £999

Ecologists, Geologists and Engineers work together. T Harding [SWRC, E] Earlier in the year, SWRC in Edinburgh was commissioned by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee to compile selected sections of the Coastal Directory. This document is composed of a series of volumes, each relating to specific stretches of coastline. Within each volume, topics such as coastal land-use, development and nature conservation are dealt with as well as descriptions of the coastal environment. In carrying out the project, SWRC was able to draw upon the expertise from Peterborough and Basingstoke offices of SWK (Fee Scale C). More recently, the Ecology section in Edinburgh (now doubled in size as a result of my recent arrival!) has won a contract with English Nature to write the freshwater chapter of their Upland Management Handbook. The handbook aims to provide guidance and information for land managers on best management practice for nature conservation in the uplands (Fee Scale D). It is hoped that the successful completion of these projects will establish our reputation in the area of research and ‘best practice’ manuals.

ScottLight 72 28 November 1996 A189 N Seaton Bridge Northumberland Check. Alan Baker SWK Scotland have been appointed to undertake the Independent Check of the substructure of the North Seaton Bridge, carrying the A189 across the River Wandsbeck in Northumberland. The substructure of the 178 metre-long, six-span bridge was redesigned by Carl Bro Group on behalf of Contractors Balfour Beatty Construction, who had submitted an alternative but compliant design with that of the Client’s at the tendering stage (Fee Scale C).

ScottLight 73 5 December 1996 Welcome to Lesley Thomson who joined SWKCSL Edinburgh as Secretary on 2nd December 1996.

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Farewell to David Hamilton of Glasgow Office, who leaves to explore new challenges in Health and Safety. David joined the Firm ten years ago as a Graduate. He will be missed by all staff in Glasgow and we wish him well in his new venture.

ScottLight 76 8 January 1997 What’s Going On? Scale: A: £100,000+; B: £50,000- £99,999; C: £10,000- £49,999; D: £5,000 -9,999; E: £1,000 -£4,999; F: less than £999

A701 Dualling. Alan Frew [Hunter; Bissland] Following recent articles on PFI capability, SWK (Scotland) have clinched a further commission in the field, thus reinforcing the position of SWKC(S)L as the preferred PFI adviser in Scotland. Midlothian Council have appointed SWKC(S)L to prepare their detailed bid, to be submitted to the Scottish Office, for Challenge-Funding for the upgrading of a 5 km section of the A701 to the south of Edinburgh to dual-carriageway standard. The strong competition for the commission was primarily overcome by SWKC(S)L’s solid background in the PFI field. The Scottish Office have indicated that the best chance of success of the scheme is for it to prove viable as a PFI scheme. With an overall value of less than £20 m however (which is lower than the ‘traditional’ threshold for PFI viability), a degree of lateral thinking will be required. SWKC(S)L are currently undertaking some market testing among PFI-related firms (banks, financial advisers, DBFO companies/ tenderers and the like) with a view to gauging the industry’s interest in such a scheme (whilst also marketing SWK’s PH capability!) Ronnie Hunter is Project Director, with Alan Frew as Project Manager, while Russel Bissland is undertaking the economic assessment of the scheme (Fee Scale C).

Agent for M6 DBFO: Alan Frew ... Stop Press Whilst on the subject of PFI, SWK Scotland have just been appointed as the Secretary of State’s Agent for the £245 m M6 DBFO project which was recently awarded to Autolink (Fee Scale A). This appointment continues SWKC(S)L’s long ongoing involvement in the scheme, and will be reported in greater detail in a forthcoming issue of ScottLight.

A96 Blackburn-Kintore Bypass. Alan Frew [Hunter; Briggs; Baker; Doubal] Once again, SWKC(S)L’s close alliance with Balfour Beatty has paid off with the recent award of the £25 m design-build contract for a much-needed bypass on the main Aberdeen to Inverness trunk road. The BB/SWK tender was chosen by the Scottish Office, despite early reports in the Construction News that one of four competitors, Morrison Construction Ltd., had been successful. The scheme involves the construction of approximately 10 km of dual carriageway, with some 8 km of associated slip roads, side roads and access roads. There are 14 principal structures involved in the scheme, including overbridges and retaining walls. The preparation of the tender submission involved the traditionally intense and demanding workload characterised by design-build contracts, and everyone involved is congratulated for their efforts. The detailed design will be undertaken by the same team that prepared the tender submission, led by Ronnie Hunter (Project Director), Susan Briggs (Project Manager), Alan Baker (Bridges team leader), and Roger Doubal (Geotechnical team Leader) (Fee Scale A).

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Kingston, Forth, Tay Bridges; Clyde Tunnel. J McCafferty [Robertson; Redpath; Hackney; McKillop] I won’t try to match Gordon’s colourful and unconventional language, but thought that it might be of some passing interest that while he was unravelling the ‘Great Erskine Bridge Disaster’, we found ourselves at one and the same time acting as Consulting Engineers and Advisers on the two other major crossings of the River Clyde, namely the Kingston Bridge (Brian Robertson and John Redpath) and the Clyde Tunnel (Mike Hackney with expert advice from David G E Smith). About a year ago, Mike Hackney was advising Railtrack on certain aspects of the Forth Bridge and, with Duncan McKillop, is currently giving advice on the Tay Bridge.

Welcome to Lee Langdale who joined SWKC(S)L Edinburgh as an SCE on 13 January 1997.

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New River Clyde Rail Crossing. [Blackwood; Hindshaw] Strathclyde Passenger Transport in conjunction with Railtrack and ScotRail are investigating the potential for the joint running of light rail vehicles on the existing railway network. As part of this investigation, SWKC(S)L has been commissioned to undertake a wide-ranging study into potential sites for a new crossing of the River Clyde, over a 15 km length downstream of Glasgow city centre. Project Director Hugh Blackwood; Project Manager Simon Hindshaw (Fee Scale C).

ScottLight 79 30 January 1997 M6 DBFO: Secretary of State’s Agent. [Blackwood; Hunter; Hindshaw] As indicated in ScottLight Issue 76, SWKC(S)L have been appointed by the Scottish Office to act as the Secretary of State’s Agent for the £245 million M6 DBFO project. The contract to construct 28 km of dual three-lane motorway and maintain 92 km of motorway for 30 years was awarded just prior to Christmas to Autolink, the documents finally having been signed at 5.30 a.m. after an all-night negotiating session. The Agent’s principal duties include monitoring the design and construction of the new works, monitoring the operation and maintenance of completed sections of motorway and certifying payments to Autolink. The commission is for the period of the new works, extendable up to five years. Project Directors are Hugh Blackwood and Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager is Simon Hindshaw (Fee Scale A). The commission is the latest in our involvement with the project to upgrade the A74 trunk road to motorway standard, which extends back to 1989. It follows on from our commission to develop the technical requirements of the contract documentation and the subsequent tender assessment, and to evaluate the risk transfer achieved by a DBFO contract as part of the development of a public sector comparator.

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Vacancies: RAF Lossiemouth. Senior Clerk of Works/Clerk of Works at RAF Lossiemouth, Morayshire, Scotland. To commence approximately 1st May 1997 and finish mid-end November’97. Full-time supervision of a contract for the resurfacing with asphalt of the majority of the taxiways at RAF Lossiemouth, together with drainage works and associated aviation ground lighting. A part-time RE based in Inverness will also be appointed. To gain further information about the above position, please call John Prosser, Basingstoke office.

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Swaziland Environmental Consultancy. Ron Bisset [SWRC, E] The Overseas Development Administration (ODA) have appointed SWRC to provide Ron Bisset to the Swaziland Environment Authority. (Fee Scale C) [See original text for full story]

Barry Buddon Training Camp 2 Starts. Andrew Aikman [McCafferty] SWKC(S)L Go Military. Brigadier Charles Grant, Commander 51 Highland Brigade, officially ‘turned the first turf at a ceremony held on 29 January 1997 to mark the contract commencement on the phase 2 redevelopment of the Army (Scotland) Training Camp at Barry Buddon, near Dundee. (Fee Scale A); SWKC(S)L, providing PM services under a Defence Estate Organisation (Works) commission, were represented at the ceremony by PD Jim McCafferty and PM Andrew Aikman.

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Falkirk Bridge Checks. Colin McKenna [SWKCL, B][Robertson; McCafferty] Bridging the North/South ‘Divide’. SWKCL Basingstoke Bridges Section have recently taken on the assessment of fifteen bridges in two contracts for Falkirk Council in Scotland. The contracts had initially been won by our Glasgow office whose resources were already being stretched to their limit, while work was becoming scarce within the Basingstoke Bridges Section. Global co-operation still being in existence, the respective workloads were satisfactorily re-adjusted. Overall Project Manager is Brian Robertson, whose team is carrying out the necessary inspection and liaison work, while Cohn McKenna is responsible for the analytical assessments (Fee Scale C). [PD Jim McCafferty].

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SWKIHL Organisation Chart February 1997 Note: SWIDG [Railways] reports to SWKCSL, which reports to SWKHL/SWKIHL.

ScottLight 84 5-11 March 1997 Welcome to [Bennett; Murphy; Blair; Shanks; Sturgeon; King] Hamish Bennett, Designers’ Site Rep, Blackburn & Kintore bypass; Willie Murphy, CEng and David Blair, GEng Structures; Robert Shanks, Sen CEng Geotechnical; Carolyn Sturgeon, Accounts Clerk; Steven King, Autocad Draughtsman, all [SWKC(S)L, Glasgow]

Farewell to: Duncan MacKillop(APE); Derek Nicholson(Tech) [SWKC(S)L, Glasgow]

ScottLight 86 28 March 1997 The M8 Baillieston-Shotts DBFO Tender Kenny O’Hara [McCafferty; Hunter et al] A tender is currently being prepared by SWK for Scotland’s next motorway project which involves the £120 million upgrading of the A8/M8 between Baillieston (Junction 8) and Shotts (Junction 5). In keeping with the flavour of month, this project is being procured through the DBFO route and SWK are acting as lead consultant to the Border Highways consortium, this consortium has Balfour Beatty and Kvaerner as the main contractors and SWK have engaged SWK (Pavement Engineering), Scott Wilson IDG, W S Atkins and Holford Associates landscape and environmental) as sub-consultants.

The SWK team has Jim McCafferty and Ronnie Hunter as Project Directors with Kenny O’Hara as Project Manager. Such is the workload in Scotland, Peter Mansell, Sara Pinnell and Suzanne Hallowes have joined the team from Basingstoke and the indoctrination process is almost complete.

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The project itself involves two separate design philosophies, the first being mainly off-line new build and the second on-line widening. The off-line works involve 11.5km of dual three lane motorway with 10.2km of parallel dual two lane collector-distributor roads and associated side roads. These works involve 22 structures which include railway bridges and interchanges. The on-line widening section involves shoehorning a dual three lane motorway into the existing two lane M8 motorway corridor. This section is being undertaken by W S Atkins who are part of the Border Highways consortium and claim to have extensive experience of such works in England. However, as no additional land is available for this widening and in view of the ‘canny’ land take associated with the original motorway project, things are very tight.

As usual, the programme is very short and deadlines unrealistic. Nothing changes, however, and the midnight oil continues to burn. Anyway, what else is there to do on the long, wet, windy and cold nights in Scotland? Well there is the pub for starters.

ScottLight 87 4 April 1997 Welcome to Graham McCallum who has joined the Glasgow office of SWKC(S)L as a graduate engineer, working in the traffic section for Billy Holmes (RT Hunter Director).

ScottLight 88 11 April 1997 Tories Target SWK at Campbeltown RoRo Kenny O’Hara [Clegg; McCafferty]

A surprise visit by the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party was made to the SWK site at Campbeltown last week. The party band wagon arrived by helicopter to see progress on the £4 million ferry terminal and the SWK Resident Engineer, John Toal, gave Michael Portillo, Minister of Defence and Michael Hirst, the Scottish Party Chairman, a tour of the site. (It is denied that the fall from grace of the Chairman a few days later had anything to do with the visit!!!!)

The project itself includes the construction of a sheet piled quay wall and dredged berth, a linkspan with supporting dolphins for access to the ferry, an area of reclamation for vehicle marshalling and a terminal building. SWK, under the guidance of Project Manager, Robert Clegg and Project Director, Jim McCafferty, designed the marine works while sub-consultants Montgomery Smith and Partners were responsible for the marshalling area and terminal building.

Since construction started in Dec 1996 the Contractor, Edmund Nuttall Ltd, has been progressing the works rapidly to an accelerated programme and is confident of meeting the critical deadlines to enable the new ferry service to Ballycastle in Northern Ireland to commence on 1st July 1997.

ScottLight 89 18 April 1997

ICE Council Elections: Alan Frew [John Campbell] John Campbell, a Senior Chartered Engineer with SWKC(S)L is standing in this year’s ICE Council election as a Territorial Candidate (which really means you can only vote for him if you’re registered in the West of Scotland). So, it’s time to rake through your bin, retrieve your voting papers and do your bit for your local SWK candidate. John, being a sprightly 32 years young, is angling for the youth vote. His ‘manifesto’ is listed on page 38 of the 10 April edition of NCE and promises to address the issues affecting younger members, in addition to remedying the Institution’s low esteem.

The competition is fierce, consisting of two relatively senior candidates (a director at the Babtie Group and an ICE die-hard), so your vote would help John greatly in ensuring that the views of both the younger members and SWK in general are heard.

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ScottLight 92 9 May 1997 Proposed Quarterly Newsletter: Alan Frew I read with interest the article in Issue 91 suggesting that nothing had been received from Europe for inclusion in the new quarterly staff newsletter. Now, while the recent results in the general election may tend to suggest that we Scots wish to break off links with the rest of the UK, we were still of the impression that we were part of (SWK) Europe. So, to put the record straight (and to be a tad pedantic) a bumper pack of details of ‘exciting’ SWK (Scotland) projects was in fact despatched to Hong Kong on 23 April.

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Craigmillar Castle Park Study: Nigel Hackett [SWKCL(SWRC), E] SWRC Edinburgh has just been appointed to prepare a business plan covering the practical implementation and management of the proposed Craigmillar Castle Park. The study (Fee Scale C) also includes updating and amending the previous development plan for the Park.

Curling - Construction League [Holmes; Brown] Recently our joint SWK/Holford’s curling team won the Division V Championship. This led to a Bonspiel playoff at Perth Ice Rink with the winners from all 18 divisions in Scotland.

Congratulations to our ‘Champion of Champions’ Super Skip Bill Holmes, number one, Sheila Brown and two from Holford Associates. After an exhausting day they won the championship outright. They came back to Glasgow with a hoard of treasures, i.e. league cup, silver salver, wall plaques and more importantly a bottle of our very own special liquid gold each to wet the palate, and of course, an ecstatic Skip. The team have never seen him smiling so much!

ScottLight 94 30 May 1997 Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate of the Glasgow office who has recently been granted the honour of being Chairman of the Scottish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (from 1997 to 1999).

ScottLight 95 6 June 1997 Pension Fund Trustees: Phil Green [Briggs et al] [SWKHL] [See ScottLight 95 for text]. As promised in Issue 94 of ScottLight please find below some brief details of all the Trustees.

Phil Green is Chairman of the Trustees as well as being Chairman of SWK Holdings Ltd and Managing Director of SWK International Holdings Ltd. Richard Denton-Cox is Managing Director of Scott Wilson in the Asia-Pacific region and an International Director. John Bean is a Chartered Accountant who joined Scott Wilson in 1981 as Chief Accountant. Peter Innes joined Scott Wilson in 1964, initially’ in the bridges Section of the Glasgow office. Susan Briggs joined Scott Wilson in Scotland in 1982 after graduating from Glasgow University and, with the exception of a couple of years on site at Garelochhead Bypass, has worked in the Glasgow office ever since. She is a Principal Engineer with a predominantly’ road and traffic background. Susan has been a member of the pension scheme since joining the firm and was appointed to the Board of Trustees in July 1996. She has attended two training courses in basic pensions knowledge and the role and duties of Trustees - one before becoming a Trustee and one in August 1996 which was designed specifically’ for Trustees of the SWK Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme. Geoff Leatham is based at Springwell House, Chesterfield.

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Since becoming a Trustee Geoff, like Susan, has attended courses run by William M Mercer (advisers to the scheme) and has obtained a useful grounding into how the pension scheme works and what is expected of a Trustee.

ScottLight 97 20 June 1997

Sports & Social: Kwogs Quaich: W Burrell [SWR(S)L][Scholes; Napier; Forshaw et al] This year’s annual golf outing in Scotland took place at Hilton Park Golf Club on 11 June where all were competing for that most prestigious of trophies, the KWOGS Quaich*.

On what must have been one of the wettest days of the summer so far, 29 gallant golfers teed-off all hoping to get their name on this fine trophy. The chaps from Glasgow and Edinburgh all hoping to take ownership away from IDG (now Railways (Scotland) Ltd who have had the honour of being the holders for the past two years.

Although the weather was miserable (skins and souwester) the scores were quite respectable with David Leith (SWR(S)L) being the winner with 38 points; Grant Scholes (SWKC(S)L) second (34) and John Forshaw (SWKC(S)L) third (33).

The team prize was won by Edinburgh with Railways and Glasgow coming second and third respectively. Nearest the pin at the 17th was Alistair Napier with John Forshaw hitting the longest drive at the 18th. Danny Keyes deserves a special mention in lifting the wooden spoon with a massive 4 Stableford pints- well done Danny!

* For those of you South of the border, a ‘Quaich’ is a drinking bowl, generally made of silver and decorated with fine Celtic designs.

(Ed: yes, but that doesn’t help us with KWOGS!)

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KWOGS Quaich Jim McCafferty [Burrell; Walker; McGowan; NIDGER; REGDIN] Willie Burrell, in his article in Issue 97, has explained the ‘Quaich’ but not the ‘KWOGS’. This was dreamt up many years ago by, I believe, Gavin Walter Blackie Walker, then of the Glasgow Bridges section as an acronym (of sorts) of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick Glasgow Office. Bob McGowan could well have a different story!

Around that time SWK used also to play golf with the Corporation of the City of Glasgow and the consultants involved in the planning and design of the M8 Glasgow Inner Ring Road for the ‘NIDGER’ Trophy. The ‘NIDGER’ was a roughly squared lump of pink granite in a fine wooden frame. When, all those years ago, having had ‘KWOGS’ revealed to me, I asked “why the NIDGER Trophy” I was told that the Glaswegian ‘NIDGER’ was really ‘an edger’ or a ‘nidger’ - an edging stone, either for the gutter or the kerb of a road made of setts, as most were in Glasgow at the time and clearly the most appropriate trophy given the project. It took a strong man to carry the trophy home! Later on Woodside 2 Site, I witnessed the manufacture of the ‘REGDIN’ Trophy which was for much more serious games - but that’s another story.

Another theory on the meaning of KWOGS comes from the originator of the article, Willie Burrell: “I understand that this is an anagram of an acronym for Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick Golf Outing”.

[From Jim McCafferty, Willie got it wrong, I was there!]

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Editor: I would like to thank Willie Burrell for his praise of my ‘Scots’ when he says:- 4 Stableford pints translates to 4 Stableford points i.e. ‘pints ‘ being Scots for ‘points’! Slaite Vhair!

ScottLight 99 4 July 1997 SJ Hindshaw & AJ Napier Appointed Directors of SWKC(S)L From Phil Green (SWKHL). The Directors of SWK Holdings Ltd are pleased to announce the appointment of S J Hindshaw and A J Napier as Co (Scotland) Ltd with effect from 1st July 1997. Profiles of Simon Hindshaw and Alastair Napier will be published in next week’s ScottLight.

Promotions: [Doubal; Baker; Bissland; Hackney From Jim McCafferty (SWKC(S)L). The Directors of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co (Scotland) Ltd are pleased to announce the following promotions from 1st July 1997:

To Technical Director (4.3), Roger Doubal To Associate (4.2), Alan Baker, Russell Bissland, Mike Hackney.

M73 & M8 Bridge Assessments Alan Baker The Glasgow office has been commissioned by North Lanarkshire Council to undertake the inspection and assessment of four bridges on the M73 and M8 motorways. (Fee Scale C)

In a sudden flurry of activity, four other councils have been touch within the last month either inviting us to bid, or asking if we had an interest in bidding, for some 50 or 60 further bridges.

ScottLight 100 11 July 1997 Director Profiles: SJ Hindshaw & AG Napier From Phil Green [SWKHL] I am pleased to provide brief profiles of the two new Director appointed last week.

Simon J Hindshaw BSc CEng MICE MIHT MCIT

Simon Hindshaw graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1979 and has gained a broad experience of the provision of transport infrastructure having worked for a consultant, a contractor and local authorities. Simon joined Scott Wilson in the Scottish firm in 1986 as a Senior Chartered Engineer. Major projects undertaken include the alignment development of the Medway to Ashford section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and the provision of operations expertise for London Transport’s proposed £1.5 billion Chelsea - Hackney metro. He has also been responsible for undertaking technical and cost audits of the £2 billion Cross Rail project in London and of the proposed light rail system for Johannesburg. Simon is currently responsible for the technical element of the Scottish Office’s initiative to complete the upgrading of the A74 to motorway by means of a £200 million design build finance operate contract. He is also the current Vice Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Transport in Scotland.

Alistair G Napier BSc CEng MICE MAPM

Alistair Napier joined Scott Wilson on graduation from Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh in 1977. His early design experience as a graduate under agreement was in the Basingstoke office working on Transportation and Building Structures projects. In 1980 Alistair moved to Cyprus to take up a site appointment that was the commencement of an extended period of overseas employment with the firm. He transferred to the Sultanate of Oman office in 1982 where he worked on the design and construction stages of a wide range of civil and structural projects in the commercial and defence sectors. Alistair returned to the UK in 1986 where he joined the Scottish firm and was subsequently appointed as the Regional Managing Engineer of the 46

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Edinburgh office in 1987. In addition to being an Associate involved in and responsible for projects undertaken by the Edinburgh office he has had particular responsibility for development of the Project Management and Building Structures disciplines in Scotland.

SWKC(S)L E-mail Brian Robertson Further to the notices regarding E-mail please note that all the SWKC(S)L offices in Scotland, i.e. Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness are connected to the Scott Wilson E-mail network.

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Campbeltown Ferry Terminal Opens Robert Clegg [McCafferty; Toal; MacPhie] Monday 30 June saw the inaugural sailing of the new ferry service between Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland and Ballycastle in Northern Ireland. The day started at 9.OOam with a Bucks Fizz reception at the new Campbeltown Ferry Terminal for which Scott Wilson are principal designer and Engineer. This was followed by an opening ceremony where Donald Dewar, Secretary of State for Scotland, unveiled the sign of the Argyll and Antrim Steam Packet Company (a subsidiary of Sea Containers) who are operating the new service.

Scott Wilson’s Project Director Jim McCafferty, Project Manager Robert Clegg and Resident Engineer John Toal were amongst the invited party of journalists, local dignitaries and others involved with the project who then boarded the M V Claymore, along with the Campbeltown Pipe Band, for the two and a half hour crossing to Ballycastle. Here, after further speeches and cutting of tape, the pipe band and the guests disembarked for lunch before returning to Campbeltown later in the afternoon. The new works at Campbeltown include the construction of a sheet piled quay wall and dredged berth, a linkspan bridge with supporting dolphins for access to the ferry, an area of reclamation for vehicle marshalling and the terminal building. Design of the marine works was carried out by Scott Wilson, mainly in the Glasgow office, but with assistance and specialist advice from Peter Stebbings in the Maritime Division. Sub-consultants Montgomery-Smith & Partners and Architects John Wilson Associates were responsible for the marshalling layout and services and for the terminal building.

Since construction commenced in December 1996 the contractor, Edmund Nuttall, has been working to a very tight accelerated programme in order to have the terminal ready in time for the scheduled service to start on 1 July and take advantage of the summer tourist season. This has kept both John Toal and Assistant Resident Engineer, Ross MacPhie, extremely busy over the past few months. Remaining work, which includes completion of a tubular piled pierhead extension, together with some fencing and paving, is expected to be complete by the middle of August. The project has been promoted by the local enterprise company, Argyll and Islands Enterprise, with assistance from the ERDF, and has strong support from local communities in Campbeltown and Ballycastle where the new ferry service should generate much needed employment.

ScottLight 101 18 July 1997 Scott World: from Angela Lowle, ScottLight Editor You should shortly be receiving your copy of Scott World, the new worldwide staff newsletter which will be published quarterly. I shall be coordinating items to be sent for publication, so please let me have anything suitable. The closing date for receipt of items for the October issue is 15th August.

Submissions for ScottLight thought suited to Scott World may be directed there with the author’s permission. Other items are planned and I shall be chasing these up with relevant people. You have been warned! I should also like to know your first impressions of the new newsletter.

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A8 Eurocentral Opens Alan Frew [Hunter; Bickett; Campbell; McCafferty; Hackney] The A8 Eurocentral Interchange was opened by Dr John Reid, MP on Tuesday 9th July on a beautifully sunny day before a crowd of local politicians and members of the construction industry (including Scott Wilson’s delegation of Ronnie Hunter, Alex Bickett, John Campbell and myself).

[Bridges: PD Jim McCafferty, PM Mike Hackney.]

The £6.6 million interchange provides grade-separated access from the A8 Glasgow to Edinburgh trunk road (one of Scotland’s busiest highways) into the Eurocentral Project, Scotland’s largest and most significant industrial and commercial development. Dr Reid pointed out that the Eurocentral development will bring around 6000 jobs to the area and that provision of the interchange was an essential element in its success.

Scott Wilson’s involvement in this stage of the scheme began a mere five months ago when the client, Lanarkshire Development Agency, appointed us to advise on procurement options to achieve the unprecedented short programme. A design and build form of contract was chosen including a degree of competition on timescale for construction.

A novel aspect of the project was that in order to meet the tight deadlines, outline planning permission and construction consent were sought (and received) on Scott Wilson’s Specimen Design and the resulting consents were written into the design and build documentation.

The interchange consists of a ‘dumb bell’ arrangement and includes a 120m long four-span steel girder bridge. The relatively long bridge length was required in order to not only span the existing A8 but also to accommodate the planned M8 DBFO scheme (for which Scott Wilson are currently assisting the Borders Highways Consortium in its tender). The bridge appearance was given careful consideration in close consultation with the Scottish Office’s aesthetic adviser resulting in the use of white concrete and ‘European blue’ girders.

The contract was awarded to Balfour Beatty in November with a 35 week construction period, and was completed on time and within budget.

Campbeltown Ferry Terminal Peter Stebbings [SWKCL, B][Clegg et al] Further to Robert Clegg’s excellent piece on the Campbeltown Ferry Terminal, I would like to add that Scott Wilson’s ‘seamless office’ also undertook a Category 3 check on the Contractor’s Linkspan Design. This was carried out wholly ‘in house’ with Darren Kimberley and Steve Metheringham in Chesterfield checking the structure, and Mike Brown of SWK M&E checking the electrics and hydraulics. As far as I know, there is only one other UK consultant that can truly say that they have this capability wholly in-house.

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Standards Adviser for Scottish Office David J Webster Some time ago (Issue 65 10/10/96), I wrote in ScottLight about our appointment as Standards Adviser to The Scottish Office National Roads Directorate. This commission has been progressing well with our workload being varied and interesting. To date we have been heavily involved in a number of aspects including Design Audits Assessment of Departures from Standard, Land Audits, preparation of Cycling Design Guides, and provision of advice on new consultation procedures currently being examined by The Scottish Office.(As an aside, it is interesting to see how other consultants tackle road design issues!)

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One important aspect of the commission has recently reached a significant milestone. The new Scottish Office, National Roads Directorate, Value for Money Manual has just been completed and a formal launch took place by way of an afternoon seminar to Scottish Office personnel and a selection of their consultants. The presentation was carried out by myself and Glyn Harrison of Value Management Ltd (our sub-consultant). It was the culmination of around 7 months work and was well received (according to the client). The procedures detailed in the Manual are now mandatory for all Scottish Office major roads projects. Our role will continue for the time being in monitoring the progress of the procedures, ensuring that the various aspects of the process are kept up to date and remain appropriate for the needs of the National Roads Directorate.

Should anyone wish further information (or the Manual) please contact me at Glasgow Office.

Beware of Dangerous Pursuits: Hamish Bennett, Scott Wilson’s DSR at the A96 Blackburn & Kintore Bypass site, had a lucky escape when he was forced to make an emergency landing in a field when his light aircraft developed engine trouble at 2000 ft. Hamish was fortunately uninjured and reportedly delighted to be described as a ‘crack pilot’ in his local newspaper. Hopefully he wasn’t following the lorry carrying a 26 tonne cargo of whisky which was the first vehicle to use the A8 Eurocentral Interchange, the opening of which was reported in Issue 101 (the road, not the whisky!)

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Changes to the Boards of SWKHL and SWKCL from Phil Green [SWKHL] It has already been announced in ScottLight that Simon Hindshaw and Alistair Napier became Directors of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co (Scotland) Ltd on 1 July 1997. The boards of SWK Holdings Ltd and Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co Ltd have also decided that some changes are needed and with effect from 1 August:

There are four new Directors on the board of SWK Holdings Ltd - Jim McCafferty, Bob McKittrick, Martin Nielsen and Chris Sketchley.

There are two new Directors on the board of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co Ltd - Peter Guthrie and Jerome Munro-Lafon. Congratulations to all the above Directors on their appointment.

I would also like to take this opportunity to announce my intention to retire on 30 April 1998.

Changes in Structure of SWKCL Bob McGowan [SWKCL] The appointments to the board of SWKCL announced by Phil Green reflect a change in the structure within this Operating Company. The new structure involves six Divisions with each one being responsible for the projects being controlled by its Directors and run by them as a business unit. The general principle that has been followed is to group Directors with similar interests technically or geographically and this has resulted in the Divisions shown on the chart printed over the page. I would like to emphasise that these are internal Divisions designed to improve the management, accountability and profitability of the firm by forming a clearer link between individual projects, and the performance of the entire company. It is expected that there will be a large amount of co-operation between these Divisions to ensure that clients are offered the complete range of skills which we have to offer. All technical staff [2012 in SWKCL] will be allocated to one of these operating Divisions.

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SWKCL Organisation Chart August 1997 SWKCL reports to SWIHL [as does SWKCSL] [Note: 6 internal Divisions in SWKCL. JP McCafferty]

Retirement: John Warburton The time has come.

Unlike the farewell in Issue 87 this lamb has strayed from the corporate fold on two occasions previously, only to return in due course. Maybe a case of the if you know being better than the one you don’t or am I getting things mixed up.

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Having started life as a contractor’s man (in those days not a gentleman’s occupation, even in international circles) I found myself building the early motorways in Kent and Buckinghamshire. After some seven years of toil my engineering had vanished, to be replaced by the all important costings and management as orders of the day.

After all I had trained as an engineer I felt I was too young to be written off as a manger, so to a consultancy I turned. In the words of Captain Mainwaring Stupid boy” some would perhaps say. To the surprise of myself and my contracting colleagues it may now safely be revealed that the salary offered by SWK was higher than my basic contractors one, though not covering all the perks (legal or otherwise) open to those on the other side of the site compound.

In due course I exchanged my muddy boots and dawn-to-dusk working for the high life in a gentleman’s country mansion in the Lake District, as one member of large design office coming to grips with the task of taking the M6 Motorway over Shap in what was then Westmorland.

On a recent visit to the Westmorland service area north of Tebay I noticed on close inspection, that the plastic bonded steel hollow section motorway fence posts have still some life left in them after 28 years; doing better than the carriageway surfacing.

A change to the third side of the triangle saw me involved as a technical client in the Eastern Road Construction Unit with M11 and M40 on the books. After a period of the very ordered life of a civil service corridor, adventure beckoned in the shape of an offer I just could not refuse - to pack a bag and wander off into the Sahara Desert (photograph in evidence is available in SWK Today, circa 1975.) The sun and sand hooked me and I stayed for a couple of years without getting seriously lost.

After all that adventure a spell back in London with a competitor consultancy was on the cards. Old ghosts turned up as the consultancy worked on projects that had my name on the client correspondence from way back.

Escape from London was limited to visits as far away as Hong Kong and Shetland, on a not infrequent basis. In the end the search for quality of life has brought me north and here I am, retiring into the mountains and lochs of Scotland. We overshot the Lake District on purpose; too many visitors and not enough space. I much prefer the west coast midges to some of the visitors.

Wandering here and there has enabled me to spend some 40 years designing and building roads in the UK, North Africa, Middle East and Far East. I have re-visited and driven on some of these roads abroad, and have found that it is not easy to travel a long distance on the UK motorway network without thinking of the personalities who were involved in projects.

I have put pen to paper for two reasons; the first is that the previous writers on retirement gave me an idea, the second is that the foregoing may I hope (though tedious to some) inspire the younger engineers just starting their careers to realise that by taking the opportunities offered they can have a very rewarding working life.

It is the tangible evidence left behind you which will remain, we hope, for many years to come. Evidence in many cases of projects which will enhance the way of life for people in future generations.

On status and rewards I would say that most artists are not recognised within their life time and I do not, at present, feel the need to risk even one pound on the lottery.

Pension Scheme: from Robert Howie In ScottLight Issue101, Phil Green responded to queries raised about Budget implications on the firm’s pension scheme, in which he intimated that discussions will take place regarding possible changes to the type of scheme being operated. This is a fundamental part of our employment

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ScottLight 106 22 August 1997 A Meeting of the Minds - Architecture on the Fringe: Alan Frew [McCafferty; Forbes]

The Firm’s culturally-minded employees may be interested to know that Jim McCafferty, MD of SWC(S)L, made an appearance in this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 14th August.

Jim was invited by the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland (RFACS) to take part in their ‘Minds Meeting’ - an annual event involving presentations and public debate on a topical issue amongst eminent members of the profession and, of course, the public.

This year’s topic was derived from the concurrent RFACS exhibition on the Poole Harbour Bridge competition and was entitled ‘Rivalry in Bridge Design - good or bad’.

Jim made a presentation on a subject close to his heart - aesthetics in bridge design - and then took part in the debate alongside his fellow presenters, Raymond Johnston of the Scottish Office and Edmond Hollinghurst of Gifford. The debate was well attended, particularly by architects and other professionals, and undoubtedly went some way towards re-asserting our position in leading the bridge aesthetic debate. The Right Honourable the Lord Cameron of Loch Broom, Scottish Law Lord and Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland presided at Bakehouse Close on the Cannongate. Alister Forbes, son of Jim Forbes Chairman of SWIJ, who is spending a couple of months working in Edinburgh, was the only Scott Wilson representative at the event - he made it for the wine and small chow and dinner afterwards at the Hawes Inn on the Firth of Forth, an old haunt of Robert Louis Stevenson who, to round the story off nicely, decided not to follow the family tradition and become a civil engineer (lighthouses) but decided to write Wee Willie Winkie, Treasure Island and Kidnapped instead.

ScottLight 107 29 August 1997 ICE Professional Services Contract John Campbell

We are currently preparing several tenders using the above form of contract which, for the uninitiated, falls under the ICE’s New Engineering Contract family of documents and was published in 1994. If anyone out there has actually used this contract recently then I would be pleased to hear from them. Of particular interest is the generation of Activity Schedules automatically linked to Project Programmes using Microsoft Project Version 4. If anyone has the faintest clue what I’m on about please contact me at the Glasgow office (x458).

ScottLight 108 5 September 1997 Congratulations to Simon Hindshaw, 40 on 4 September 1997: from all in the Glasgow office.

ScottLight 112 3 October 1997 Reel to Reel Tape Recorder? Alan Baker.

I would be very grateful if anybody would be prepared to lend me a stereo reel-to-reel tape recorder. I have some reels which I want to transfer to cassette, but my old recorder has long ceased to function. A bribe or inducement in the form of a bottle of your favourite tipple will be included in the contract.

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‘SWK Today’: Missing Copies for SW History! Phil Green [SWKHL] I am soon to start work on a history of the firm and am currently gathering documents that might provide useful information. Marketing have been able to let me have a complete set of ‘SWK Today’ with the exception of Issues 36, 44 and 47. Does anybody have copies of these issues which I could borrow? (photocopies will suffice).

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A701 Dualling S of Edinburgh - Preferred Alignment: Alan Frew

Midlothian Council have recently appointed SWKC(S)L to undertake a review of the alignment options for the proposed 4.5km Dualling scheme south of Edinburgh. We previously helped Midlothian Council to secure a Challenge Fund grant from the Scottish Office to progress the scheme by the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

The current commission has come about because the alignment on which the Challenge Fund bid was based had been prepared some years previously and it was felt that the influencing factors had changed sufficiently to require a review. SWKC(S)L will therefore review the alignment options and access requirements and then conduct an extensive consultation exercise with affected parties (both within the Council and with existing and proposed developments).

The commission was against stiff competition, and although not particularly significant in itself, it keeps the opposition at bay in advance of the £1 million technical adviser commission for the development of the DBFO scheme. (Fee Scale C)

Millennium Link-Contract C3 Client’s Agent Alan Frew

British Waterways Scotland have secured funding from the Millennium Commission and various local agencies for the £78 million Millennium Link scheme aimed at re-opening to navigation the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals in Central Scotland.

The link has been subdivided into a number of manageable contracts, and SWKC(S)L were recently appointed as Client’s Agent on Contract C3, involving the removal of obstructions (by the construction of new bridges) at 12 sites. The sites are located in Edinburgh, Falkirk, Castlecary and Clydebank. Our role will involve feasibility studies at each site, followed by the development of the preferred schemes into Exemplar Designs. British Waterways wish to procure the construction contracts by Design and Build and so our role will then involve the preparation of Employer’s Requirements for each construction contract. Our extensive experience in Design and Build procurement undoubtedly helped in securing the commission.

Contract C3 is the first of several commissions to be let on the scheme and it is hoped that our “foot in the door” will help in securing future work. (Fee Scale B).

Thought for the week Mike Hackney “There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.” Ruskin.

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ScottLight 119 21 November 1997 Welcome to Donna Lawrie who joined the Edinburgh office as a Secretary on 27 October.

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‘Double Whammy at Vulcan’ Dounreay: Brian Murphy [SWK(M&E)] Congratulations to Ian Smith and Julian Harrop at Scott Wilson EWC Office, Vulcan, Dounreay, for successfully attaining their NEBOSH Certificates. Due to the remote location of this site enforced learning from books at home was the order of the day, followed by a 250 mile round trip to site the exam in a small cold enclave of Inverness College. Well done!! [2012. Note: The Vulcan project staffed by SWKCL is included for completeness.]

Retirement: Len Briggs: from Robin Dawson [SWKCL, Ch]

Len Briggs, Chief Resident Engineer, professional Lancastrian, raconteur, wit and the man who never smiles at the camera, retired on 28 November 1997. The Derby Southern Bypass Site Christmas Lunch, held on that day, was to be the scene of the formal leave taking. Unfortunately Len was laid up with his back. The strains imposed on the Briggs’ backbone by playing Rugby League for Rochdale Hornets and by youthful rock climbing exploits had finally caught up with him.

In his absence somebody remarked that they could have a minute’s silence for him; had he been there nobody would have got a word in!

In his 25 years’ continuous service with the Derbyshire Sub-unit and Scott Wilson he was responsible as CRE for 60 km of high quality dual carriageway trunk road in the East Midlands as well as a section of the M74 when he made a foray into Scotland.

Those who worked with him will remember his insistence on quality, his integrity, his interest in the people he worked with as persons, his ability to think on his feet, and in spite of his extrovert personality, his modesty. There are a lot of robust pavements and structures around the East Midlands now because Len pushed the Contractor, his own staff and himself to get the job done right.

Those who worked with him will also remember his talent for saying something outrageous, his ability to think up appropriate nicknames, the cloth cap worn in the office and sometimes the dog under They don’t make CREs like him anymore.

We wish you all the retirement, Len, and hope the back sorts itself out soon.

Thought for the week Jim McCafferty Heard from a Senior Director of a rival firm “Turnover is for Vanity - Profit is for Sanity!”

ScottLight 122 12 December 1997 Fire Evacuation Drill at Park Circus, Glasgow: Robert Howie [Crozier]

A simulated fire and evacuation drill will be carried out in the Glasgow Office during the week commencing Monday 17th December at a time when the weather is suitable.

Would everyone in the building please treat this as is if were a genuine fire and leave the building immediately (without finishing the paragraph being typed), assembling in the grass area of the Circus where a name check will be carried out by Eleanor Crozier.

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Scott World Angela Lowle [SWKHL] You should shortly be receiving your copy of the second issue of Scott World. The Editor, Bronwyn Alexander, would be pleased to receive your feedback. If you have any comments please send them to me and I will forward them on to her.

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Long service awards: [McCafferty; McKittrick; McGowan; Nielsen; Sketchley; Munro-Lafon] Jim McCafferty who completed 30 years’ service on 24 July 1997. Bob McKittrick who completed 30 years’ service on 31 July 1997. Bob McGowan who completed 30 years’ service on 20 November 1997. Martin Nielsen who completed 20 years’ service on 4 April 1997. Chris Sketchley who completed 20 years’ service on 23 May 1997. Jerome Munro-Lafon who completed 20 years’ service on 1 November 1997.

ICE Christmas Presents! John Campbell Can’t find the ideal Christmas gift for the Man of Your Dreams? Fear not, your prayers have been answered, because the newly-released Scottish ICE ties are now available.

The bold and innovative design features a regular ‘shadow’ effect Scottish ICE coat of arms with a silver one on the bottom right hand corner, all on a navy blue tie. To cap it all the ties (or ‘neckwear fashion accessories’ as they are known in Glasgow’s trendier wine bars) are available to Scott Wilson staff at a special subsidised price of only £8 each. Interested? Then contact myself or Denise Ritchie in the Glasgow Office NOW to avoid disappointment. Readers may also be interested to know that Denise has been tasked with designing a suitable ICE fashion accessory for female staff which may feature in our Spring Collection ... Watch this space!

ScottLight 124 9 January 1998 What’s Going On? Scale: A: £100,000+; B: £50,000 -£99,999; C: £10,000 - £49,999; D: £5,000 - £9,999; E: £1,000 - £4,999; F: less than £999

Milngavie to Larkhall Rail Scheme David Webster [Blackwood; Leitch] Scott Wilson Railways (Scotland) has been engaged by Railtrack(Scotland) to undertake a Verification Study into re-opening two railway lines in the Glasgow area. (Fee Scale A)

The initial task involves re-assessing and updating previous feasibility work undertaken a number of years ago with a view to confirming the feasibility of the projects and provision of robust cost estimates. Railtrack have intimated that they may wish to procure the project by way of a type of ‘Private Finance’ approach, although this is at present uncertain. It is anticipated that Scott Wilson will be requested to prepare Employers requirements for a ‘Design & Build’ type of procurement approach. Scott Wilson’s role in the project covers a wide spectrum of disciplines including Permanent Way, Structures, Mechanical & Electrical, etc. Scott Wilson are also undertaking the Lead Consultant role for the scheme. Other disciplines include Signalling, Telecom, Environmental and Planning Aspects (SWRCs Edinburgh Office have been engaged to assist). I have been ‘seconded’ from SWK(S)L at Park Circus to perform the Project Manager and ‘Lead Consultant’ role under the directorship of Hugh Blackwood. My right hand man on the project is Ken Leitch.

Congratulations to Alan Green MICE, who successfully presented for the Institution of Civil Engineers Chartered Professional Review and is now MICE CEng.

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Refurbishment at Glencorse Barracks Edinburgh Norrie Kitson [Napier] Scott Wilson (Edinburgh) have been commissioned to provide Project Management Services for ‘Refurbishment Phase 1’ at Glencorse Barracks, near Edinburgh. The project comprises the planning, design and construction of new build facilities and associated works including a Combined Junior Ranks Mess/Club/Naafi, Physical and Recreational Training Centre and an Ammunitions Store, together with the completion of the Heating Decentralisation programme. The project is to be procured under a traditional route and Scott Wilson (Edinburgh) will also be responsible for Structural and Civil Engineering Design and Planning Supervisor Services. Approx. value £6m. Fee Scale A.

The Project Director will be Alistair Napier whilst the nominated Manager will Norrie Kitson.

ScottLight 127 30 January 1998 Dundrennan Training Camp Kirkcudbright Phase II Andrew Aikman

Scott Wilson (Edinburgh) have been commissioned to provide Project Management Services for Dundrennan Training Camp - Phase H, near Kirkcudbright. The project comprises the planning, design and construction of new build facilities and associated works including 4No Junior Ranks Accommodation Blocks, an Officers Accommodation Block, a Guardroom and Armoury, a Combined Kitchen/Dining Facility, Visiting Unit Stores and Offices, a Junior Ranks Club and an Indoor Military Training Accommodation building. The project is to be procured under a design and construct route. Approx value £12.5m. Fee Scale A.

Welcome to Mike Monaghan, who joined Building Structures, Edinburgh, as a Senior Structural Engineer on 26 January. Mike adds additional ‘fire power’ to the Edinburgh Golf Team.

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There are TWO Edinburgh Offices Janet Calder [SWRC, E] Would everybody please note that there are TWO Edinburgh offices, one at 7-9 Mentone Gardens (Resource Consultants), the other at 23 Chester Street (Engineering Section). No, we are not in the same building, nor in fact are we near each other. As you will appreciate, Edinburgh is quite a big city!

So could everyone please make the effort and either telephone or send the post to the right address.

[SWRC, Edinburgh was part of SWKCL but later merged with SWSL.]

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MoD Advisory Services Scotland & N England Alistair Napier The Edinburgh office has been appointed, under a 3 year term commission, to provide multi- disciplinary professional advisory services to the Ministry of Defence for locations throughout Scotland and North England (Fee Scale A). This completes a notable recent ‘MOD treble’ for Edinburgh following the two major Project Management commissions already awarded in 1998.

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Cycling by Design David Stephens [Webster] Scott Wilson were appointed as Standards Advisor and Auditor to The Scottish Office in October 1996. As part of the original commission we were required to produce an internal cycling advice note which would be aimed at updating existing Scottish Office guidance. However, since its original inception the scope of the client’s brief has been extended and the document, titled Cycling by Design, now looks to the contribution the bicycle can make to the Government’s integrated transport philosophy and is aimed specifically at satisfying a range of outputs set by the National Cycling Strategy. (Key aspects being Design Guidelines, Cycle Audit Procedures, Local Strategies for Cycling and Cycle Parking Standards).

A draft version of cycling by Design was recently presented to the Scottish Cycling Liaison Group and senior members of The Scottish Office National Road Directorate by myself and David Webster, where it was well received. Once minor amendments have been completed it is intended that a workshop will be held involving members of the Cycling Liaison Group in order that any remaining contentious issues may be ironed out.

Cycling by Design will then be issued as a consultation document for a period of 12 months following which it is envisaged that the document will be developed into a guidance note for incorporation into DMRB. The formation of a countrywide working group is currently being reviewed.

If anyone has experience of the application of any cycling design methods or previous Scott Wilson experience in the provision of cycling facilities please contact David Stephens in the Glasgow office.

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Pensions: Susan Briggs The next meeting of the Trustees of the SWK Retirement and Death Benefit Scheme will be held on Thursday 5 March. If you have any particular concerns about the operation of the scheme or there is a relevant issue you would like to raise you are welcome to contact me or any of the other Trustees about it.

Public Holidays 1998 - Scotland: Jim McCafferty Easter Fri 10 April, Mon 13 April Queen’s Birthday Mon 25 May Glasgow Fair Mon 20 July September Weekend Mon 28 September Christmas Fri 25 December Mon 28 December New Year Fri 1 January 99 Mon 4 January 99

SWKC(S)L will also close between Christmas & New Year on 29, 30 & 31 December 1998. These days are to be taken from annual leave entitlement except for those required to work on critical projects by agreement with Director.

Congratulations to Russell Bissland, who completed 10 years service in February.

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Scott Wilson International Board Changes: 1 May 1998: Phil Green [SWHL][McGowan et al] The International Board are pleased to announce that Bob McGowan is to take over as Chairman when Robin Osborn, the current Chairman, retires along with Phil Green and John Voysey.

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Bob McGowan also becomes Chairman, Europe region, Richard Denton-Cox becomes Chairman of Asia Pacific region, with Richard Rawson joining the Board and becoming Chairman, Africa region. Also joining the Board are Ron Rakusen and Geoff French.

Some staff may have seen an announcement of these reported changes in the press last week. It was not intended to publish these externally before advising staff, something we were anxious to avoid, but the publication in question printed one week earlier than expected.

Company Name Changes [SWHL; SWIHL] Chris Bennett [SWHL] In line with the new global image, I am pleased to report that the certificate of incorporation of change of names for SWK Holdings Ltd to Scott Wilson Holdings Ltd and SWK International Holdings Ltd to Scott Wilson International Holdings Ltd became effective on 12 February 1998.

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International Board Changes [McGowan et al] Robin Osborn writing in News SWAP last week announced the changes to the International Board featured in Phil Green’s article in Scottlight last week. Robin Osborn also gave details of the portfolio responsibilities which are: From 1 May 1998 the International Board will comprise:-

Bob McGowan (London): Chairman & International Finance Group (IFG) Richard Denton-Cox (Kuala Lumpur): Managing Director & International Marketing & Business Development Group (IMBDG) Geoff French (Basingstoke): International Human Resources Group (IHRG) Richard Rawson (Johannesburg): Ron Rakusen (Hong Kong): International Operations Group (IOG).

Spoof Staff Performance Appraisal [Note: A similar ‘spoof’ appeared in a very early newsletter.]

Ideas of the Month February 1998 [French; McCafferty; Nielsen] On behalf of Scott Wilson Holdings Ltd, Geoff French, Jim McCafferty and Martin Nielsen, the directors who constitute the selection committee, are pleased to announce the Ideas of the Month awards for February 1998. The committee hope that you keep your ideas coming and remind everyone that contributions are invited from all companies in the region, not just SWKCL, or are they

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M8 White Cart Viaduct Assessment Mike Hackney Scott Wilson (Glasgow) have continued their recent success in winning commissions to access major steel bridges by being appointed to inspect and assess the M8 White Cart Viaduct near Glasgow Airport. (Fee Scale B)

Completed in 1968 the structure is over 800 metres long and comprises twin trapezoidal steel box girders acting compositely with a reinforced concrete deck slab, supported on piled, reinforced concrete piers and abutments. The bridge is curved in plan and rises to a height of 20 metres above the White Cart River. The commission includes the inspection of the interior of the boxes, for which a detailed method statement is required. Six tenderers were invited to submit bids, each consisting of a ‘Quality’ bid and a ‘Fee’ bid.

The client, Renfrewshire Council, then made a value assessment of each bid, awarding marks for both quality and fee offer, which were weighted in the ratio 2.5 to 1. Scott Wilson, having attained the highest aggregate mark, were awarded the commission in March. Inspection of the structure is programmed to start in April, with draft inspection and inspection reports due 6 months later.

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Scottish Office Standards Adviser and Auditor David Webster

Following recent submission of a 2 envelope ‘Quality/Fee’ Bid to the National Roads Directorate of The Scottish Office, I am delighted to confirm that The Scottish Firm has been awarded a 3 year Term Consultancy as Standards Advisers to the Directorate. (Fee Scale A) This important Commission follows on from our success over the last year or so in a similar role.

The term consultancy is wide ranging and covers a number of aspects of the National Roads Directorate’s business, some of which are described below:

Departures from Standard It is becoming increasingly common for Designers to prepare road schemes which ‘don’t quite’ adhere to all of the complex design rules of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. Scott Wilson’s role in this regard will be to assess the operational, environmental, cost and safety implications of such instances. We will then prepare a detailed Determination Report which will be passed to the Scottish Office, making recommendation as to whether the Departures from Standard should be approved or otherwise.

Cycling The commission will allow us to continue the work which we have been undertaking over the past year or so in the development of ‘Cycling by Design’ which seeks to bring together the vast quantity of existing advice in relation to the design of cycling infrastructure into one ‘best practice’ document.

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Value for Money Together with ‘Value Management Ltd’ we will embark on further implementation of the Value for Money Initiative which we were involved in establishing on behalf of the Directorate. A number of Studies and Workshops are likely over the 3 year period.

General Standards Advice We will be asked from time to time to prepare general advice on a number of topics relating to Road Standards and, in addition, we will be asked to provide some members of staff to work in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh on short term ‘secondments’.

We are particularly pleased to land this appointment since it keeps us at the ‘Client’ end of the market and is an undoubted endorsement of our work over the last while for the Scottish Office. For the record, Simon Hindshaw is the Project Director, I am Project Manager, ably assisted by my right hand man, David Stephens.

Welcome to: [Lightbody; Sichel] Rona Lightbody who joined SWKC(S)L on 16 March as the Scottish Companies Information Technology Support Analyst.

Martin Sichel who recently joined the Edinburgh Office as Senior Environmental Specialist. He will be assisting in the development of SWRC’s service in biodiversity project work and strengthening the Unit’s capability in such areas as capacity building of local organisations e.g. design and implementation of environmental planning and management systems, forest restoration and protected area management. Previously he spent 3 years working in the natural resource and conservation sector of Brazil.

Williams Wood Duncan Hamilton The Scottish Offices are holding their Annual Golf Outing at Lenzie Golf Club on 21 May 1998. The current holders, Glasgow, would like to invite challenges from other UK offices within the group for the prestigious Williams Wood inter-office trophy which has been proudly displayed in Hugh Blackwood’s office at Park Circus for the last 7 years.

The trophy, named after our late senior partner Geoffrey Williams, was first played for in 1983. The contest is between four man teams (best 3 of 4 stableford points). The competition only takes place when the holders issue a challenge to the other group offices. Any office wishing to take up that challenge this year should nominate a team who are able to make their way to Lenzie (on the outskirts of Glasgow) on the 21st May 1998 for a day’s golf and Scottish hospitality. To register your team please contact Duncan Hamilton in Glasgow.

ScottLight 140 1 May 1998 Retirement Special [Osborne; Green; Voysey; Webster] This week sees the retirement of four of Scott Wilson’s senior staff, Robin Osborn, Phil Green, John Voysey and Ken Webster. We wish them all well and hope they enjoy being gentlemen of leisure.

What’s on your Mind?: Derek Appleby I would like to share with ScottLight readers the cure to an Office 97 problem which has, until today, caused the highly computer-dependent M6 DBFO site some headaches. See ScottLight 140 for text.

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RC DBU Edinburgh: from Peter Guthrie[SWKCL][Mathews] With effect from 1st May, Russel Matthews and the staff in Edinburgh and Leeds offices will all be in RC DBU. The move is intended to simplify responsibilities and communications, although naturally they will continue to be in close liaison with staff in C DBU and throughout the firm.

Edinburgh has: S Bell, K Glass, N Hackett, PJ Meynell, S Oakley, M Sichel, L Robertson. Leeds has: M Holt, A Docherty, S Mannings, S Peay, N Stephenson, B Ainscough. [RC DBU Edinburgh later merged with SWSL]

CIC Adjudicators: Gordon Bathgate of Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd (Glasgow) has been informed that from 1 May 1998 he has been included on the CIC Register of Adjudicators.

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MoD Firing Ranges Kirkcudbright Sue Bell [SWRC, E] Scott Wilson have just been appointed to prepare an Integrated Land Management Plan (ILMP) for the MoD firing ranges at Kirkcudbright. This is separate from the commission to build accommodation blocks which was won earlier this year by Scott Wilson (Scotland). The ILMP will involve extensive ecological survey work (bats, badgers, vegetation, invertebrates, reptiles & amphibians) and some landscape assessment. The completed plan will combine this new data with existing information about the archaeological features present on the site, and produce recommendations on how the land can best be managed in the future. The data will all be placed onto a specially designed GIS system. This is the first of a number of ILMP to be commissioned by the MoD, and this project places us in a good position to compete for these future projects. Fee Scale C.

The Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (TEEM) recently held the inaugural meeting of their Scottish branch. Biodiversity formed the theme of the day and I was invited to address the meeting to provide ‘a consultants perspective of Biodiversity’. I stressed the role that consultants have to play in maintaining biodiversity (a fancy name for wildlife!), and the particular importance of working with developers to ensure that projects are designed in an environmentally sensitive manner. IEEM hope to publish the proceedings of the meeting in due course. But in the meantime, anyone who wishes to see a copy of my talk should contact me in Edinburgh.

PFI Alan Frew [M6 DBFO; Dalkeith PFI; Balfron High PFI; A92 DBFO; Hunter; Ritchie] SWSL is continuing to forge a strong foothold in the PFI ‘industry’ in Scotland. Having been heavily involved in Scotland’s two previous major DBFO road schemes (the £300 million M6 DBFO as Client’s Agent, and the £150 million M8 DBFO as designer to the Border Highway consortium), we are now being courted by various local authorities to assist them in adapting PF 1 to suit their needs. Essentially the Councils still see PF1 as a Pandora’s Box full of bewilderingly complex requirements and need a friendly consultant to guide them through the maze - enter Scott Wilson. In addition to the previously reported A701 PFI scheme, we have recently been commissioned to assist Midlothian Council in preparing the Outline Business Case for the £300 million Dalkeith Regeneration PFI scheme, and Stirling Council in facilitating their risk workshop on the Balfron High School PFI scheme. We also recently submitted a tender for a major Technical Advisor role on the A92 DBFO scheme in Angus Council. All this work is under the direction of Ronnie Hunter, with myself as Project Manager and Denise Ritchie doing all the hard work.

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Scott Wilson Foundation Awards 1998/99 Geoff French [SWIHL][Stephens] The International Board at their meeting held in Glasgow on the 4 May 1998 were pleased to make the following awards under the Scott Wilson Foundation.

PIP Awards - The successful applicants for awards are to receive assistance with the costs of studies they have personally committed their own resources (time and money) to pursue. David Stephens [SWSL, Glasgow] David is studying for an MSc in Engineering Management by distance learning.

Golf Outing Alan Frew Being a modest chap (??!) I’m going to find it very difficult to complete the following article, but here goes. SWS entered a team into the NT Central and Southern Scotland golf outing at Schawpark in Alloa on 14 May 1998 and by a mixture of sheer luck and divine intervention managed to amass the embarrassingly high Stableford total of 51 points to win by a substantial margin. The team, consisting of Alan Seywright (Scottish Office PFI Unit), Bill Sandland (Midlothian Council) and myself are undergoing intensive drug testing and handicap scrutinising; however since we’ve already spent the winnings in the bar, and the pro-shop, any attempt to reverse the result is unlikely to be fruitful. Hugh Blackwood, who had to withdraw from the team at the last minute (to be replaced by Bill) now finds his place for next year in serious jeopardy - perhaps a position as caddy and score keeper is all he can hope for. I, by dint of a more respectable individual score of 36 points for 2nd place, now get to represent the local branch at the national “Locan Cup” at Worgret Manor, Dorset in September. Heady heights indeed - bring on Tiger!

Idea of the Week – Leave Robert Shanks Regarding Rob Rushmer’s Idea of the Week (Issue 141) we too have a backlog of leave which staff usually take in April. The simplest system must be for the annual leave year to be the same as the calendar year. Therefore, any backlog would be used in December, when the offices are closed, thus minimising the inconvenience to the company.

Ideas of the Month Awards April 1998 [McCafferty et al] On behalf of Scott Wilson Holdings Ltd, Geoff French, Jim McCafferty and Martin Nielsen, the directors who constitute the selection committee, are pleased to announce the Ideas of the Month awards for April 1998. The committee hope that you keep your ideas coming and remind everyone that contributions are invited from all companies in the region, not just SWKCL, or are they the only company with innovative and inventive staff? * ** = £25 award, ** = a commendation that very nearly merited an award, * = a commendation Accumulate commendations and an award of £25 can be claimed. Cheques in the post!

Idea 1 - Area on the computer system where staff could place copies of CAD drawings, spread sheets, standard forms etc. This is happening locally but it is something that an Intranet can address. Jim McCafferty is the Director responsible in Europe to act as a channel for suggestions concerning what should be on the Intranet. ScottLight can continue to provide a means of communicating your suggestions or you can send them directly to Jim in Glasgow office.

Idea 5 - Q Forms put onto the computer network to stop use of DIY forms. This suggestion has prompted responses in ScottLight from John Taylor and Andreas Sher (SWAP) and met with a high degree of agreement in committee. As with Jim McNally’s idea, this is an issue that is perhaps going to be addressed by the Intranet and, to repeat, such perceived operational needs that you believe could be helped by the Intranet you can use ScottLight as the means to communicate them or send them to Jim McCafferty in Glasgow office.

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Scott Wilson’s New International Board [McGowan et al] From Bronwyn Alexander [SW, Hong Kong]: With the retirement of Robin Osborn, Phil Green and John Voysey at the end of April 1998, a new board of International Directors (IDs) has been formed. Five people comprise the International Board, and two of them - Bob McGowan and Richard Denton- Cox - remain on the Board while three others are new. The incoming IDs are Ron Rakusen representing the Asia-Pacific region, Geoff French from Europe region, and Richard Rawson from Africa region.

In this issue we highlight Bob McGowan and Richard Denton-Cox, the Chairman and Managing Director, respectively, of both international companies (Scott Wilson International Ltd and Scott Wilson). [See ScottLight 144 for full text].

Scott Wilson on Top of the World Charles Walker [SWSL, M6 Site] Noon on Saturday 6th June will see five of Scott Wilson’s M6 site group on top of Scorr Ruadh (The Red Peak), one of the highest mountains in the infamous Torridon range, north west Scotland. The time and date has been set by WaterAid Munro+Challenge and it is planned to have teams on every summit in Britain over l000m.

Led by David (Ranulph Fiennes) Fleming and supported by navigator Howard (Compass) Seward, medic Gayle (Masseuse) Pearson, R&R Convenor Chris (The Railway) Curley and publicist Chic (1S09001) Walker, the Moffat based team are confident of raising hundreds of pounds for charity. Details of their training techniques, team photographs, autographed T-shirts and other commemorative memorabilia will soon be available by accessing the ‘Red Peak’ web site. Until then sponsorship commitment can be forwarded to the team leader at “david.flemingm6dbfo.co.uk”.

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Re-opening Ceremony: Barry Buddon Training Camp Alistair Napier [Aikman; McCafferty] Major General M J Strudwick, General Officer Commanding the Army in Scotland, officially re-opened Barry Buddon Training Camp, Monifieth, Scotland, at a ceremony held on 31 May 1998 following the completion of the second phase of the Training Camp redevelopment (5 3m).

In his address Major General Strudwick noted that:

“It gives one great pleasure to be able to be here today to mark in this symbolic way the completion of the second and final phase of the rebuilding of this Training Camp.

Budgetary restraints meant that we had to spread the rebuild over a number of years. The first phase was in two parts with the building of the Wathgill accommodation blocks in 1991/92 and the camp headquarters block in 1992/93. The second phase was again in two parts with the building of the combined kitchen and messes in 1994/95 and then the last, and largest part, the construction of the remainder of the camp.

Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick were appointed as project managers for the final phase. They had also previously had the same responsibility for the combined kitchen and messes. Andrew Aikman has been the Project Manager for both and he and his design team are to be congratulated on their pivotal role in the project.

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The contract was let on 6 January 1997 and was completed on time on 14 May 1998. It is not often that the three critical constraints of time, quality and cost are met in the way that they have been on a project of this size. This can only be achieved by team work and everyone associated with the project can be very proud of their achievements.

This training camp has set the standard for the future and I look forward to the start of the work at Kirkcudbright next year and then subsequently at Garelochhead and Cultybraggan.”

SWSL were represented at the ceremony by Directors Jim McCafferty and Alistair Napier, and Project Manager Andrew Aikrnan.

Dundrennan Camp, Kirkcudbright SWSL are currently Project Managers on the development at Dundrennan Training Camp, Kirkcudbright. (Fee Scale A)

Sports & Social: Kwogs Quaich Willie Burrell [SWR(S)L][Monaghan; Napier; Kitson; Bryson] The Annual Scotland Golf Outing for the KWOGS Quaich took place over Lenzie Golf Course on Thursday 21 May 1998 (You all remember what a Quaich is don’t you!) The event attracted 39 golfers of mixed handicaps.

The sun blessed us with its presence all day and there are a few people with red noses and foreheads and also some with wee patches of red at their crown. The competition was fierce, but the eventual winner of this most prestigious of trophies was Mike Monaghan of the Edinburgh office with 38 stableford points. The competition was so close that Mike won it on a count back of the last 6 holes with Alan Soutar of Railways coming second. Third was that most hardened of professionals Alastair Napier of the Edinburgh Office with 35 points.

Nearest the hole at the short par 3 6th was Paul Bracegirdle of Telford. The longest drive at the part 4 14th was Norrie Kitson of the Edinburgh office. The wooden spoon was won convincingly by David Rollo of Railways, who managed, somehow, to accrue 12 stableford points over 18 holes. Second booby was won by Tom Bryson on a better inward half with 18 stableford points.

Of the non-team members Jim Millar was first with 32 points (BIH), Douglas Walker second and Alex Kerr third with 29 points.

You will recall in the Easter Issue of ScottLight, the Glasgow Office invited challenges for the Williams Wood having held it for seven years without a challenge. the gauntlet was picked up by all of the other Scottish offices and a team from that far flung corner of Englandshire, Telford. In the end Edinburgh, with 101 points, are now the proud holders of the Williams Wood and await challenges. Telford were a close second with 97 points and took away the Scottish Team Trophy for their efforts. The Scottish Offices would like to thank the four chaps from Telford, Paul Bracegirdle, Peter Ansell, Robin Hogben and Bob Elcock for coming to the Scottish Golf Outing and putting up a fine display. Haste Ye Back! Future challenges for the Williams Wood should be directed in writing to Alastair Napier at the Edinburgh Office.

Sports & Social: Scottish Golf Outing Peter Ansell [SWKCL - TL] Many thanks to Willie Burrell for his kind remarks regarding the recent Telford office golfing sojourn north of the border to contest the Williams Wood: we enjoyed ourselves very much - fine course, tremendous weather, good food and excellent company; pity about some of our golf! I had intended to thank Glasgow office for their hospitality, and Willie and Duncan Hamilton in particular, after dinner but I was so overwhelmed by Hugh Blackwood’s largesse in letting us Sassenachs walk off with the (albeit damaged) Scottish Team Trophy that I completely forgot - please 65

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Update ‘Scott Wilson: Top of the World’ Charles Walker [SWKCL - M6JV] Just after noon on Saturday the 6th June a Scott Wilson flag was proudly unfurled on the summit of Scoff Ruadh (Red Peak). This climaxed the gruelling ascent undertaken by the Moffat based team stalwartly led by Ranulph Fiennes Fleming. Overcoming all adversity, including a pre-climb sausage, bacon and egg breakfast, the triumphant team were now equally proud, knowing they had raised over £500 for WaterAid Munro Challenge(see issue 144).

Soaking in the magnificent views over to the Isle of Skye they also noted with some pleasure their audit team struggling up towards them (the event organisers check to ensure teams in fact reach their designated summit by allocating a second team to each peak but approaching from a different start point). With pleasantries exchanged, log sheets signed and photographs taken, the SW group began their descent down the notorious north east scree slope. They got further satisfaction coming upon a forlorn and forsaken audit member transfixed with vertigo and unable to complete his push to the top. Some alpine advice along the lines that he shouldn’t be a big baby seemed to have had an effect and he was last seen slowly but courageously crawling towards his colleagues up at the summit.

On returning to base camp the day was rounded off by a BBQ laid on by the sponsor, a well known whisky distiller. A good night was had by all with the aching limbs and even the ubiquitous midges soon a thing of distant memory thanks to partaking of the sponsor’s hospitality. The happy campers retired to their snug tents content in the knowledge they had achieved the target set and after a good night’s rest would be ready to face the long drive south in the morning.

Photographs documenting the event are available with proceeds going to WaterAid. Autographed T - shirts first worn on the summit are expected to become collector’s items but a few are available at £20 each, again with proceeds to WaterAid. The flag is currently on view in the Glasgow office but maybe not for many more weeks, as the Smithsonian Institute is believed to being considering a bid to obtain this now national treasure. Further updates on this and any last minute donations on top of the many already so generously given, will be acknowledged at: [email protected]

ScottLight 149 3 July 1998 Promotions Jim McCafferty [Frew; Adams; Hamilton; Irvine; MacDonald; Murphy; Ritchie; Stephens; Brown; Healy; Milne] The Directors of Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd are pleased to announce the following promotions from 1st July 1998

To Level 4.2: Alan Frew: Associate To Level 3.2: Peter Adams; Duncan Hamilton; George Irvine; Gordon MacDonald; William Murphy; Denise Ritchie; David P Stephens: Senior Engineers. To Level 2.3: Sheila Brown Senior Secretary To Level 2.2: Kathleen Healy; Robert Milne: Senior Technicians

Congratulations to Simon Hindshaw on becoming a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

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A701 Dualling PFI Alan Frew [Hunter; Ritchie] We were delighted to learn that, having helped Midlothian Council through the various preparatory stages for their scheme to upgrade a section of their strategic road network via the Private Finance Initiative, we have now won the major commission of Technical Adviser for the DBFO tender competition.

As it transpires our appointment has been achieved in the ideal circumstances of a high technical mark more than compensating for a fee that was some 15% higher than the opposition. As has been noted in previous articles, we have established a niche in the PFI roads market in Scotland and this latest appointment helps to keep the opposition at bay.

The Technical Adviser role covers the whole gamut of PFI procurement matters including:

• Development of the Outline and Full Business Case • Planning Application and Other Statutory Procedures • Traffic Study • Site Investigation • Planning Supervisor • Specimen Design • Public Transport Strategy • Procurement Advice • Development of the Public Sector Comparator • Value for Money Assessment • Preparation of Tender Documentation • Control of Tender Process • Negotiations with Preferred Bidders

The scheme capital costs are estimated at £20 million, which is at the lower end of the conventional PFI- viability threshold; one of the major challenges will therefore be to develop the procedures and documentation to enhance the viability. We have been successful in assisting the Council in persuading the Scottish Office (and the private sector) of the scheme’s PFI viability to date but the main challenges lie ahead!

Once again Ronnie Hunter is Project Director, with myself as’ PM and Denise Ritchie as Project Engineer. This is a major commission that will utilise specialist resources throughout the Glasgow office. (Fee Scale A++)

ScottLight 152 24 July 1998 Welcome to Andrew Gillespie who joined the Edinburgh office Project Management section as a Graduate on 13 July.

Scottish Offices’ World Cup Sweep Michael Maclean [Buksowicz] Just when you thought you’d heard the last of the World Cup.... Congratulations to Marek Buksowicz for winning the Scottish world cup prediction competition, which unlike the English version made it all the way to the final! [See ScottLight 152 for full text].

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SW Intranet Jim McCafferty [McKenna] In ScottLight 153, Brian McKenna requested news of progress on the Scott Wilson Intranet.

Progress on the introduction of a Scott Wilson Global Intranet has been slow, partly because of difficulties in servicing Africa with the existing EQUANT system out of Hong Kong. This matter is being addressed and should be resolved soon. In the meantime, SWKCL have appointed a new member of staff whose prime responsibility will be the development of an Intranet service for all the OpCo’s in the Europe Region. In collaboration with Asia-Pacific and Africa, the options for system architecture and the way in which the Intranet will be accessed and presented are now being considered. The current plan is for a pilot Intranet to be established in October 1998 with a launch of the full service expected in the first quarter of 1999.

In answer to Brian’s specific point, it is intended that all remote or overseas offices should be connected to the Intranet.

ScottLight 158 4 September 1998 Congratulations to Stewart Proud and Peter Adams who completed 10 years service in August.

Congratulations to John Forshaw on completing the Great Scottish Run - Glasgow Half Marathon in 1hr 46mins and many thanks to all members of staff who sponsored him, raising around £200 for Glasgow Yorkhill Sick Children’s Hospital MRI Scanner appeal.

ScottLight 161 25 September 1998 Congratulations to David Riach, who completed 10 years service on 19/9/98

ScottLight 162 2 October 1998 A Scott Wilson Double: from Bob McGowan [SWHL]

I stand to be corrected, but I believe for the first time in Scott Wilson’s history, we have two Institution of Civil Engineers Local Association Chairmen (elect) being installed at AGMs and delivering their Chairman’s address on the same evening.

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On 8 Oct 1998, Jim McCafferty becomes Chairman, Glasgow & W of Scotland Association (the first formed); and Kim Candler becomes Chairman of the Southern Association.

We wish them both an enjoyable year in office. [JMcC to left]

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Pensions Susan Briggs The next meeting of the Pension Scheme Trustees will be held on Friday t1h6 October. If you have any particular concerns about the operation of the scheme, or there is a relevant issue you would like to raise, you are welcome to contact me or any of the other Trustees about it.

The other Trustees are: Bob McGowan (Chairman), Geoff French, Richard Denton-Cox, Peter lnnes, Geoff Leatham.

Apologies from Bob McGowan with regard to the article in last week’s ScottLight about Jim McCafferty and Kim Candler becoming Chairmen of their local ICE Groups.

Jim McCafferty’s inaugural speech was given on 1st October (not 8th as stated in the article). Kim’s was the one on 8th October.

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A96 Corridor Study - Inverness to Fochabers Russell Bissland Building on the success of the recently completed A9(T) Perth to Inverness Route Strategy Study (Fee Scale A), SWSL has been appointed by the Scottish Office to undertake the A96(T) Corridor Study, the primary objective of which is to identify a programme of improvements to enhance transport conditions within the 70 km corridor between Inverness and Fochabers.

The study involves, inter alia, an assessment of existing and future conditions along the A96, an examination of opportunities for improved bus/rail public transport integration, an analysis of road safety issues and the improvement of the environment along the route. Schemes will be developed and assessed in accordance with the Government’s five point appraisal criteria considering economy, environmental impact, safety, accessibility and integration.

A multi-disciplinary team has been created to undertake the required engineering assessments of the route, traffic and transport modelling of existing and future operating conditions and environmental assessments. Various client/consultant Value Management Workshops have also been scheduled to discuss, review and agree the study objectives and to confirm options for development. (Fee Scale C)

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Fife and South Tayside Rail Study Russell Bissland [Hindshaw] Further strengthening our position in transport studies, SWSL has been appointed by a partnership headed by Fife Council to assess the potential for enhancements to the local rail network and the possible effects on the wider Scottish network.

Key issues to be addressed include optimising current and future use of the rail network, examining possible enhancements of the network to encourage increased use, assessing the economic viability of re-opening the line to St Andrews, and examining the potential re-opening of local stations at Bridge of Earn, Newburgh and Wormit. The project team combines the railway infrastructure planning and operations experience of SWR(S)L, the environmental expertise of SWKCL and the demand forecasting capabilities of SWSL to address the requirements of the project. The project director is Simon Hindshaw. (Fee Scale D)

Scott Wilson Europe Operating Structure 1 October 1998 [Jim McCafferty remains Director on SWHL Board and MD of SWSL]

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ScottLight 166 30 October 1998 Further ICE Appointments from Alan Frew [Hunter; O’Hara]

Following on from Bob McGowan’s article on Jim McCafferty’s election as Chairman of the ICE Glasgow and West of Scotland Association (Issue 62), two further staff members from SWSL have been appointed to positions within the local association:

Ronnie Hunter is the new Chairman of the Graduates and Students Section (and a Vice Chairman of the main Committee).

Kenny O’Hara is the Scottish Representative on the Civil Engineering Panel (reviewing Proceedings and other publications) and is the local School’s Liaison Officer. Congratulations to them both.

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A720 Edinburgh City Bypass Alan Frew [Hunter; Briggs] Despite the obvious downturn in trunk road schemes, SWSL has picked up a unique double in Scotland by being successful in the last two major roads schemes to be awarded by the Scottish Office. The A96 Corridor Study was reported by Russell Bissland in Issue 164, and this was followed by the recent appointment as Engineering Services Provider for the upgrading of the 4km Water of Leith to Dreghorn section of the Edinburgh City Bypass. The service includes Feasibility Study, Specimen Design and ultimately procurement of the upgrading scheme by Design & Build. Ronnie Hunter is Project Director with Susan Briggs as Project Manager and multi-disciplinary support from within the Glasgow Office.

Jerusalem Highway Design Review David Webster Following an enquiry from The Jerusalem Transportation Masterplan Team (JTMT), SWSL has been appointed to undertake a “Second Opinion Investigation” of a series of current urban highway design proposals for the Municipality of Jerusalem. (Fee Scale C).

The design proposals comprise approximately 21km of dual 2 and 3 lane urban road valued at around 500 million US dollars and include complex interchanges and tunnels. They represent the next phases in an extensive urban highway development programme which seeks to provide for the transportation needs of the City of Jerusalem well into the next century. The plans are ambitious, however the first sections of the overall proposals have already been implemented, demonstrating JTMT’s firm commitment to succeed.

Our Client, the JTMT, is a non-profit making organisation funded by the Israeli Ministry of Transport and the Municipality of Jerusalem dedicated to the improvement and development of the transportation needs of the city. Projects also include an extensive LRT system which is currently under investigation.

The Review will examine the road design standards currently in operation in Jerusalem and will make recommendations as to whether there is scope to utilise other accepted international standards in order to bring added value to the schemes.

Additionally, we will examine the alignment and interchange strategies to identi1v possible areas of improvement and alteration which may be worthy of development. The study is already under way and extends over a five week period during which I am resident in Jerusalem. I have been joined by Bill Holmes for a three week period and will complete the exercise with the assistance of Simon Hindshaw who, after his initial one week visit will return for the final week of the project.

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We have had discussions with the various local consultants involved in the schemes and are now undertaking the detailed examination of the design proposals. The project has already thrown up some interesting aspects including an insight into the how the Arab-Israeli conflict can have an influence on the design proposals.

Finally, we understand that we fought off competition from France and Italy to land this interesting job. If only our football team could be so successful!!!!!! (Fee Scale D).

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South East Edinburgh Wedge Masterplan Model Nigel Hackett [SWKCL, E] SWRC Edinburgh has been appointed by Midlothian Council and the City of Edinburgh Council to prepare a CAD visualisation and 3D model of the South East Wedge masterplan development proposals. The model is intended to illustrate the land use development proposals located to the south of Edinburgh so that councillors and members of the public can see what the development would look like once completed. (Fee Scale E)

The study team is supported by the SWRC Abingdon office who are providing the CAD and urban design expertise. It is interesting to note that the client originally wanted a physical model of the area but we suggested that an electronic model would be much more useful and adaptable and this was the Wadded value’ we were able to offer.

Hamilton Southern Edge Study Nigel Hackett [SWKCL, E] SWRC Edinburgh has been appointed to carry out a major development feasibility study for an area over 30sqkm south of Glasgow and adjacent to Hamilton. (Fee Scale D).

The study is to investigate the development potential of the area and includes a planning and environmental appraisal, highway planning assessment and the preparation of an integrated land use and transportation masterplan. It involves a range of staff expertise including land use and development planning, environmental assessment, landscape design, infrastructure planning and transportation planning. The study team is supported by the Glasgow office together with the CAD expertise of the Edinburgh Chester Street office.

ScottLight 169 20 November 1998 Pension Meetings: From Chris White Meetings for Scott Wilson Pension Scheme Members are scheduled as follows:

Edinburgh 26 November Edinburgh Office 9.30 Glasgow 26 November Glasgow Office 12.30 and 14.30.

These represent the last of the scheduled meetings. The first Question and Answers Newsletter has been distributed and if you are reading this yet have not seen a copy, and wish to do so, please contact Chris White in Basingstoke office. A second Q&A Newsletter is due for distribution early week beginning 23 November 1998, with a final round up of Questions and Answers after the meetings in Scotland have taken place. Should any members of the Pension Scheme require that further meetings be arranged could they please let Chris White know as soon as possible.

SWSL Profit Related Pay Marek Buksowicz [McGowan; Green] I refer to the announcement from R McGowan regarding PRP in Issue 168. It is suggested in ScottLight that the available pool of money for the outstanding PRP bonus is based on the combined fortunes of all subsidiary companies within the group and this has now been exhausted.

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From my copy of “Employee Guide to Profit Related Pay” I understand that the total amount of PRP for the whole year will be based on the profits of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co (Scotland) Limited. The decision to pay the final 10% bonus should be therefore be based on the performance of each operating company and not the performance of the group. How well did Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd do in the 1997/98 business year? This is in contrast to the “continued outstanding performance of the operating company in Scotland” [Phil Green, Chairman Scott Wilson Europe Group] in 1996/97?

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Charles G Sang (1914 - 1998) We regret to announce the death of Charles G Sang, Retired Partner of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Company and Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Company (Scotland).

Charles Sang joined the SWK Group in 1949, becoming an Associate in 1958 and a Partner in 1960. He helped build up the firm from a dozen fledgling engineers into a multidiscipline international practice with over 2,000 staff and was responsible for the formation of the Staff Services Department (now Personnel). He retired in 1976. In later years he unfortunately suffered a debilitating illness, but he carried himself through with courage, dignity, kindness and an unfailing sense of humour.

[Note: CG Sang was a named partner but took no active part in the running of SWKC(S)L. JPMcC]

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Annual Results - PRP Implications Bob McGowan [SWHL] With the completion of the audit of the operating companies forming the Scott Wilson Holdings Group in the last two weeks, we are now in a position to enhance the statement included in ScottLight Issue 168 regarding PRP. The Directors felt it was necessary to issue the previous brief statement to advise all staff as quickly as possible of the actual situation regarding the five individual PRP schemes in SWHL, SWKCL, SWSL, SWRL and SWR(S)L.

As part of the external audit process each individual operating company’s PRP scheme was reviewed and assessed. With the exception of Pavement Engineering, no other operating company either achieved the results necessary to allow for the planned final payment or had any money left in the available poo1 to distribute. The rules covering PRP schemes are fairly complex and include a series of limitations or ‘caps’ on the available pool that can be distributed. The SWHL, SWKCL and SWRL schemes were subject to such a ‘cap’. SWSL and SWR(S)L were both profitable in 1997/98 but the results were not good enough to permit the planned final payment.

You will recall from last year, under each individual scheme the intention was that for those joining their company scheme, 20% of the basic pay, up to a maximum of £4,000 was targeted to be paid as tax free PRP. Of this amount, 90% was paid monthly with the normal pay during the year ended 30 April 1998. Therefore, those that participated in these schemes should have enjoyed an increase in their net take home pay of around 3.5%-4.5%(depending on their salary level) during the course of the year. I would like to stress that there is no clawback of the PRP that you have already received and therefore, even without the final payment, it has been, and continues at the reduced levels for the current year to be, a valuable benefit.

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Retirement Special [McKenna et al] The end of 1998 saw the retirement of David Lyon, John Bickerdike, John Taylor, Brian McKenna, Mike Shalders, John Henley and John Parkhouse. We wish them all well and hope they all enjoy long and happy retirements. [See ScottLight 175 for full text – Brian McKenna follows]

Brian McKenna joined in 1953 after he graduated from Imperial College as an Assistant under Agreement. After initial structural design and materials testing experience he gained his first site experience on the Shell Centre and the BEA hangars at Heathrow. This was followed by bridge design for the Ross on-Wye bypass and the M6 Motorway.

In 1960 he moved to Hong Kong to take charge of the firm’s materials laboratory. He was then awarded an SWK fellowship to do an MSc in structures, soil mechanics and foundations at the University of Illinois, USA. He returned to UK to lead the structural design team for a prestressed concrete pressure vessel for a nuclear power station.

Between 1963 and 1971 he was involved in the design and construction of sections of the Glasgow Motorway system. For the next 6 years he was involved in the design of bridges in UK, Nigeria, UAE, and Pakistan, which included the Ouse Bridge, the M180, and Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. He moved to Pakistan in 1977 as CRE for the Jinnah Bridge in Karachi, before returning to UK in 1982 as the firm’s Representative on Terminal 4 at Heathrow. In 1984 he returned to Hong Kong as CRE for the Tsing Yi North Bridge over the Rambler Channel. On its completion in 1988 he moved to Turkey as Deputy Head of the Kutlutas-SWK J/V carrying out the design check and supervision of the Gerede- Ankara and Ankara Peripheral Motorway, some 230km of dual carriageway with a construction cost of £1 billion, the last section of which has just been opened.

Congratulations to Sue Bell, Principal Environmental Specialist, SWRC, Edinburgh. Who gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday 23 December 1998 - Eleanor Grace – at 8lbs l4oz. Well done Sue & Nigel!

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International Paper on Cycling D Stephens [Webster] From David Webster [SWSL, Glasgow]: As a by product of our Standards Advisor and Auditor role for the Scottish Office National Roads Directorate, the Glasgow Office has been involved in the

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The importance of this work has recently been recognised by the organisers of the forthcoming 11th International Bicycle Planning Conference- VELO CITY 99 to be held in Graz, Austria and Maribor, Slovenia in April of this year. David Stephens from the Glasgow Office is to make a joint presentation with our Scottish Office client contact, Neil Wands, on the forthcoming consultation document. Good luck David, - perhaps you should buy a bike now????

Congratulations to Lyn Clark [Inc Eng] from the Glasgow Office. She has successfully negotiated the Institution of Civil Engineers Incorporated Professional Review and can proudly claim to be the first “Incorporated Engineer” within Scott Wilson Scotland. Well done from all her friends and colleagues in Glasgow. All your hard work was worthwhile!

Welcome to Lynne Dowling, David Johnson and Karen Templeton and who started in Glasgow recently as Accounts Assistants and Secretary.

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SWKCL’s Edinburgh Office Moves to SWSL! With effect from Monday 1 February SWKCL’s Edinburgh Office has moved to new offices above those of SWSL and all future communications should be sent to: Scott Wilson Resource Consultants, 2nd Floor, 23 Chester Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7ET Tel: 0131 225 8655 Fax: 0131 225 8803

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A68 Drygrange Bridge Diaphragm Analysis & Assessment Grant Scholes Following on from our assessment of this 6 span steel box girder bridge, we have been commissioned by Scottish Borders Council to investigate the diaphragms (which failed the assessment) using a Lusas finite element model. This is the third such commission won recently and reinforces our ability to provide advanced modelling techniques to clients. The first analysis led to our paper “Diaphragm Analysis of a Major Steel Box Girder Bridge” being published in the proceedings of the 13th Annual Lusas User Conference in Tewkesbury last September. (Fee Scale D)

Congratulations to Bruce Lunn, SW(S)L, Edinburgh, promoted on 1 Feb to Sen Eng (Grade 3.2).

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Cable Stayed Bridges and Cable Trusses Derek Ogilvie [Baker] We have recently been asked to prepare an outline scheme for a footbridge/cycle track in a rural location. The client is keen that we use a Tensile Structure of some sort. It would be helpful if anyone who has prepared a similar type of structure recently could contact either Alan Baker or me to discuss outline details and highlight any pitfalls which were encountered in the design.

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Holdings Management Board: Bob McGowan [SWHL][McCafferty; McKittrick; Nielsen] The Board of SWHL have decided to create a new management board which will be called the “Holdings Management Board” and a new “Business Improvement Unit”, Preliminary details as follows:

Holdings Management Board. The board will be responsible for the profitable and efficient management of the Europe Region group and will report to the SWHL Board. It will include those responsible for the major operating units, i.e. the operating companies, plus the SWKCL DBUs. A full composition and revised organogram will be issued shortly.

[Jim McCafferty remains Director of SWHL, MD of SWSL and joins the new HMB]

Business Improvement Unit. This group will be responsible for the detailed preparation of a business improvement plan and monitoring its implementation. It will report to the SWHL Board. It will consist of Pelham Allen who will be seconded from PricewaterhouseCoopers on a part time basis for a 6 month period, Bob McKittrick and Mark Smith from Scott Neale.

Meetings Under these new arrangements the statutory boards of the subsidiary companies will only hold meetings for the conduct of formal business. Management meetings of DBUs and OpCos will continue but it is not envisaged that there will be an ongoing requirement for SWKCL management board meetings.

Marketing. Bob McKittrick will relinquish his responsibilities for marketing. Martin Nielsen will take over these duties and be Europe Region representative on the International Marketing and Business Development Group.

Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd Public Holidays 1999 The SWSL offices will be closed for the following Public Holidays.

Easter Fri 2 April, Mon 5 April Queen’s Birthday Mon 31 May Glasgow Fair Mon 19 July September Weekend Mon 27 Sept Christmas Mon 27 Dec, Tues 28 Dec New Year Fri 31 Dec, Mon3 Jan, Tues 4 Jan

Friday 31 December is an additional public holiday for 1999.

As all SWSL offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year, 29 & 30 December 1999 are to be taken from annual leave entitlement. Any member of staff required to work on critical projects on any of the foregoing dates should agree special arrangements with Directors.

Rail Study Success Keith Wallace [Hindshaw; Fife; Tayside; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Highland] Following the notice of our success in winning the Fife and South Tayside rail study we have recently won the South Fife and Forth Estuary Study acting for MVA; the Edinburgh to Bilston Re-opening Study and the East Lothian Rail Study with MVA as Sub-Consultant. We are also involved in the Glasgow Cross-City Tunnels projects and a number of initiatives with the Highland Rail Development Partnership.

This represents a major step forward for the Group in rail transport planning particularly as local authorities seek to take a greater involvement in such matters in line with directives on the preparation of Local Transport plans. The studies encompass station improvements, service improvements,

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SWS lead; Simon Hindshaw PD; Keith Wallace PM. (Fee Scale C).

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P M Seminar-Glasgow Steven Murdoch [Blackwood] The Role of the Project Manager Within the Scott Wilson Organisation.

Hugh Blackwood is going to give a short talk on the above subject on Monday 29 March in the conference room of the Park Circus Office, Glasgow at 430pm. All are welcome to attend but first please ring Jill Irving on 0141 332 2258 if you are interested as numbers are limited.

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M74 Raith Bridge Case Study on the Web: Grant Scholes Last year, we completed the finite element analysis and assessment of the diaphragms of the steel box girder M74 Raith Bridge. A paper on this was included in the proceedings of the FEA Lusas User Conference in September. An abridged version of the paper is included as a case study on the Lusas web site (www.lusas.com) with a hyper-link to our own www.scott-wilson.com.

Goodbye and Good Luck to Marek Buksowicz, whose many friends in the Glasgow Office wish him every success as he and his family emigrate to Edmonton, Canada.

Marek started in Glasgow in May 1989 and in his time has worked on the design of many structures including the St James Interchange, Campbeltown ferry terminal, various M74 bridges and of course the assessment and strengthening design check of the Kingston Bridge and its approaches. Marek’s ‘send off’ from the Hogshead was a memorable event - we only hope he remembers who it was that gave him that rather nice watch!

Marek always had time to share his experience with others and his keen eye and sharp wit will be missed - but will the Canadians understand?

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Float Viaduct DB: Mike Hackney [McCafferty] SWSL, together with client Tarmac Civil Engineering, have recently won Railtrack’s Design and Build contract to replace the curiously named Float Viaduct. The existing bridge, which was built in 1869 and carries the West Coast Main Line over the River Clyde near Carstairs, comprises a 3 span lattice girder deck supported on masonry abutments and cast-iron piers. The new scheme is a 4 span, continuous, half-through, steel plate girder deck supported on the existing modified abutments and new mini-piled reinforced concrete piers. The new piers will be constructed beneath the existing bridge prior to a 5 day possession of the line in October, during which time the existing deck and caissons will be removed and the new deck erected in sections using two very large mobile cranes.

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Detailed design is in ‘full swing’ with very tight deadlines to meet fabrication dates. SWR(S)L are providing the design team with valuable assistance on specific railway related matters.

October promises to be an exciting month! (Fee Scale C). [PD Jim McCafferty; PM Mike Hackney.]

Williams Wood: Duncan Hamilton The Scottish Offices hold their Annual Golf Outing at Lenzie Golf Club on the 21 May 1999. The current holders, Edinburgh, would like to invite challenges from other UK offices within the group for the prestigious Williams Wood inter-office trophy. The trophy, named after our late senior partner Geoffrey Williams, was first played for in 1983. The contest is between four man teams (best 3 of 4 stableford points). The competition only takes place when the holders issue a challenge to the other group offices. Any office wishing to take up that challenge this year should nominate a team who are able to make their way to Lenzie (on the outskirts of Glasgow) on the 21 May 1999 for a day’s golf and Scottish hospitality. To register your team please contact Duncan Hamilton in Glasgow.

ScottLight 191 7 May 1999 Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate who has recently received his first appointment as Adjudicator under the terms of the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.

Adjudication pursuant to the Act requires the Adjudicator’s decision to be issued in 28 days, and the process was identified by Sir Michael Latham as the panacea for lengthy and expensive arbitration and litigation in the construction industry. As of 1 May 1998 adjudication now features in virtually all of the commissions won by Scott Wilson in the UK.

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SWHL New Arrangements: Bob McGowan [French; McKittrick; McCafferty et al] In Scottlight, Issue 183, I announced the formation of the new Holdings Management Board and Business Improvement Unit with further details to follow.

The Business Improvement Unit has completed the preparation of the business improvement plan and has now been disbanded. The implementation of the plan will be managed and maintained by Geoff French and Bob McKittrick supported by Mark Smith, as part of the normal business of the Holdings Management Board. Pelham Allen of PricewaterhouseCoopers will continue to advise on a part time basis.

The composition of the Holdings Management Board (HMB) and the operating units reporting to it will be as shown in the attached organogram. Geoff French will chair the HMB and have the title Chief Executive Officer. Bob McKittrick will work with the operating units to ensure they achieve, or better, their business plans and will be the Chief Operating Officer. He will be based primarily in Basingstoke but will retain an office in Chesterfield. Stephen Kirnmett has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of HMB.

[Jim McCafferty remains a Director of SWHL, MD of SWSL and joins HMB]

A new operating unit, PPA, has been formed by the merger of P and PA divisions. Jerome Munro- Lafon will lead this new unit. Peter Innes will support Jerome until Peter retires in April 2000. In addition Peter Frankham will transfer with his staff and projects from SP to PPA and will be based in Basingstoke. Health & Safety projects will remain with SP operating unit.

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The formal boards of directors for the various companies will still exist and will conduct statutory business when required but they do not provide a suitable management structure to meet our ever changing business needs.

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Scott Wilson Europe Organisational Structure 1 May 1999: New Holdings Management Board [Jim McCafferty remains a Director of SWHL, MD of SWSL and joins HMB.]

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ScottLight 194 28 May 1999

New Organisational Arrangements: Geoff French, Holdings Management Board The new organisational arrangements announced by Bob McGowan in Scottlight Issue 192 mean that some amendments to the previous functional responsibilities and office administration arrangements need to be made.

Europe reps on International groups [McGowan; French; Nielsen; McKittrick] International Finance Group: Bob McGowan International Human Resources Group: Geoff French International Marketing & Business Development Group: Martin Nielsen International Operations Group: Bob McKittrick

Jim McCafferty will be the European champion for the Bridges discipline.

Administrative responsibility for UK offices: Abingdon: PPA Basildon: SP Birmingham: Railways Chesterfield: C Crewe: Railways Edinburgh (both parts of Chester St): Scotland Glasgow Buchanan House: Railways (Scotland) Glasgow Park Circus: Scotland Inverness: Scotland Leeds: RC London: SP Manchester: C Matlock: C Nottingham: PE Peterborough: RC Plymouth: SP Swindon: Railways Telford: C

Basingstoke will be the direct responsibility of Geoff Redwood.

The organogram shown in Issue 192 identified the operating units reporting to the Holdings Management Board. The text identified that individual members of the Holdings Management Board would take responsibility for the overall co-ordination of various parts of our core services. These are:

Bob McKittrick: Administration, QA, IT Geoff French: Human Resources Stephen Kimmett: Finance Martin Nielsen: Marketing, Health & Safety.

[Note, all based at SW Basingstoke!]

Long Service Awards

Congratulations to Susan Beattie, Stephen Bradley and George Irvine, who received Long Service Awards for 10 years service in May.

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Kwogs Quaich and William’s Wood Golf 35 players competed in the Scottish annual golf day at Lenzie Golf Club on Friday 21st May. Teams of four players representing Glasgow Office, Edinburgh Office, Railways and M6 Site also played for the William’s Wood following a challenge issued by the holders Edinburgh - no teams were tempted from South of the Border this time.

Having enjoyed a winning year in 1998, the honour of organising the event fell to Edinburgh Office who had the perfect plan - return to the same venue at Lenzie for what would surely be a guaranteed repeat success. What is it they say about the best laid plans of mice and men’?

Unfortunately the weather did not favour the ‘mice’ as Typhoon Lenzie struck the course and gale force winds, rain and hail were the order of the day. Surely these conditions would unfairly favour the outdoor types from the M6 site we all thought - apparently not! It must be a sign of changing times with non-adversarial procurement methods, QA based auditing roles, E-mail links to the partnering contractors office etc. - are the site boys going soft’? On the day the ‘men’ were the Railways Golfers led by local man Danny McBeth whose knowledge of the course, the ability to hit quail high 5 wood shots and a pair of lead boots (‘?) were the recipe for success. He became the 35th winner of the KWOGS Quaich trophy with an unbelievable 36 pts. His Railways colleagues George Smith and Malky Gordon tied for second on a very creditable 33 pts, with George clinching the runner up place with the better last nine holes.

Not surprisingly, the Railways team, comprising Danny, Malky, Ian Hay (28 pts) and David Leith (30 pts) finished as runaway winners of the William’s Wood with Glasgow office in second place. Other prize winners included Tom Bryson (M6) for closest to the hole, John Forshaw (Glasgow) for longest drive and Gary Coutts (Railways) who won’ a culinary implement for his efforts.

The arrangements for next year are now in the hands of the winners. Pleas from the ‘mice’ for a midsummer date are likely to be ignored by the Railways ‘men’ who were overheard in the bar discussing the merits of playing in January with the greater certainty of repeat conditions such a date might offer.

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Software Application for Kingston Bridge, Glasgow: John Redpath [Appleby; McCafferty] We have recently completed our first fully stand-alone software application. It has been installed on our Client’s PC’s in the Kingston Bridge Project Group at Glasgow City Council as well as on our own PC’s in Edinburgh. The application is called “RIvIA2” - Remote Monitoring Application 2, and follows an earlier version written in Excel 97. RMA2 is written wholly in Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6.

What does it do? The monitoring system at Kingston Bridge over the past 8 years has produced a vast amount of data and numerical fog has been a continual hazard. RIvIA2 loads, compresses, indexes and manipulates literally billions of values (currently archived on 10 CD ROM’s) and allows parametric comparisons over any time interval since 1991. For example, concrete temperature can be plotted against any one of the numerous displacement readings. Statistical analysis is performed on the resulting x-y series, some of which can comprise more than 100,000 points. Regression analysis form signature charts which give insight into the bridge’s temperature behaviour. When the bridge is “lifted and shifted” this coming winter, the signature charts will enable the temperature displacements to be deducted from the altered behaviour that will result from the jacking operation. All of this is done within the package by means of a specially designed user interface.

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Programmer - Derek Appleby; Project Manager - John Redpath; Project Director - Jim McCafferty Fee Scale (for the application development) D.

Congratulations to Ernie Crawford from the Glasgow office, whose wife, Brenda, gave birth to their second daughter, Olivia, on 10 May 1999, weighing in at 81b l0oz.

A warm welcome to Nikki Wood, Edinburgh, who joined us on a permanent basis on 1 June 1999.

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Booming Ireland: Don Wootton [PPA] [Munro-Lafon] The Ports and Harbours Division of the newly formed PPA Operating Unit are presently awaiting the outcome of two proposals submitted in Ireland. One of these is for a £400,000 master plan study of the harbour in Cork, and the other is for a £1 5m redevelopment of two Ro/Ro ferry berths in Dublin. In preparing the proposals it was surprising to discover the level of current and past Scott Wilson activity in Ireland.

Jerome Munro-Lafon is responsible for our business development in this area and suggested that others may be interested to know what is happening. The economy in Ireland is booming (some would say overheating) and there are other opportunities for us there. If anyone has any projects to add to the list below or if you need any help in following new opportunities please speak to me and I will try and point you in the right direction.

• Ports - Galway Harbour: Strategic development plan including urban planning -Wexford Waterfront: Fishermans quay, breakwater, boating basin and dredging - Dublin, Berth 45: Civil works for relocated Ro/Ro ramp

• Airports -Dublin, Cork, Shannon: Land/Master Plan studies followed by detailed Master Plans for Aer Rianta -Belfast: Taxiways and aprons associated with new passenger terminal

• Traffic Planning -Sandyford & Dundrum Dublin: TIAs for major office and mixed developments

• Structures -Blood Transfusion Building, Dublin: Atrium roof -Water Tower, Fermoy: Elevated tower -Pumping Station, Wexford: Deep pumping station -Sewage Treatment Works, Dublin: Design & Build for Ascon

• Tourism and Leisure -Lough Boora Parklands Tourism Development, Shannon-Tralee Waterworld feasibility study -County Leitrim Economic Development Study -Northern Ireland Tourism Signing Review -Sperrins Tourism Development Framework -Lough Neagh Tourism & Recreation Development Plan -Strangford Lough Sustainable Development Plan -Aviation as a tourism development theme

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• Roads & Bridges The Glasgow office are working on two projects in Northern Ireland: A5 Newtownstewart Bypass; A8 Belfast-Larne Road

We have worked with a number of Irish Consultants but most of our recent projects have been with T J O’Connor & Associates of Dublin.

Footnote: Jim McCafferty was Chairman of the Europe Group from 1990 and responsible to the Scott Wilson Main Board for penetration of the Europe Market, including Ireland, until this responsibility was handed over to the International Division Chaired by John Nutt around 1999.

ICE Glasgow and West Graduate and Students Paper Competition: John Redpath

Congratulations to Derek Appleby from the Edinburgh Office, who won the local Graduate and Student’s Section papers competition on Tuesday 8 June from a field of 3. To win the competition, Derek had to write a paper on a subject of his choosing and then make a 20 minute presentation to an ICE evening meeting. Derek’s paper, which discussed the use of shadow tolling on the M6 DBFO project, has now gone forward to Great George Street for consideration of a national award.

Congratulations to Norrie Kitson in the Edinburgh office and Joanne who tied the knot on 5 June.

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Promotions: Geoff French [HMB] [Proud; Riach; Crawford; Gillespie; MacLean; Lemon] The directors are pleased to announce the following promotions

To Level 4.1: Stewart Proud Principal Engineer To Level 3.2: David Riach Senior Engineer To Level 3.1: Earnest Crawford; Jason Gillespie; Michael MacLean Chartered Engineers To Level 2.1: Barry Lemon Technician

Congratulations to: Earnest Crawford; Jason Gillespie; Michael MacLean, who passed the CPR at the spring sitting and are now Members of the Institution of Civil Engineers and CEng.

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....And then there were three [Ecologists]: Sue Bell [RC][Wood; Oakley] The RC operating unit’s Edinburgh office is now able to boast three ecologists following my return from maternity leave. The team consists of:

Sue Bell, Principal Environmental Specialist: I have experience of integrated management plans, environmental education, public consultation, and freshwater and marine ecology. In addition to leading the work of the Edinburgh ecology team, I am currently managing a vegetation and bathymetric (depth) survey of a freshwater loch, and developing monitoring mechanisms for the vegetation of a canal.

Nikki Wood, Senior Environmental Specialist: Nikki joined Scott Wilson from Scottish Natural Heritage (Government advisers on nature conservation, landscape and access in Scotland). She has particular experience of policy development, freshwater management, and environmental audit and management systems. Recent project experience includes providing ecological advice on the installation of a constructed wetland to treat minewater, and the development of an Integrated Land 85

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Management Plan for the MoD range at Kirkcudbright. She is currently working as an Environmental Task Manager for the West Coast Mainline route.

Sarah Oakley, Ecologist: Sarah has wide-ranging field survey experience including otters, badgers and plants. She is currently undertaking surveys for the West Coast Mainline route, windfarm locations throughout Scotland, and supervising a Phase 1 habitat survey.

Nikki and Sarah and I are happy to provide help and advice on projects throughout Scotland and further afield (anything legal with a valid Scott Wilson job number considered!). We keep in close contact with our colleagues in Basingstoke and Leeds to ensure that the most appropriate person is appointed to projects. Give us a call sometime.

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Wick Airport Rehabilitation for HIAL: David Stephens [Hindshaw; Grant] Scott Wilson Scotland have been appointed by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) to undertake the project management, design and contract supervision of the £2,000,000 rehabilitation of Wick Airport. The commission was awarded to Scott Wilson on the grounds of their quality submission (Fee Scale D).

This success builds on the relationships developed with the client during the current commission with HIAL for the £1,000,000 Runway 06/24 Pavement Rehabilitation works at Inverness Airport (Fee Scale D).

Through negotiation HIAL have also recently extended Scott Wilson’s existing commission at Inverness to include the upgrade of the Light Aircraft Maintenance Area (Fee Scale D).

The Director responsible for the airport commissions is Simon Hindshaw with the role of Project Manager being undertaken by David Stephens. Technical support is provided by Hamish Grant from the Inverness Office.

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Great Scottish Run Grant Scholes [Ogilvie; Lemon; Symon] This Sunday sees the Glasgow Half Marathon taking over the streets of the city. Spurred on by Darren Kimberley’s success in the London Marathon, Derek Ogilvie, Barry Lemon and Craig Symon (the only three of the five initial entrants from Structures not affected by injury or family commitments) will be running to raise money for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. The nearest estimate for their total time, along with sponsorship, wins a donated bottle of wine.

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Update on successes in the rail market: David Webster

Scottish Borders Railway Feasibility Study [Hindshaw; Webster; Wallace; Hackett] In April of this year Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd was appointed by The Scottish Office (or Scottish Executive as they are now known) to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the feasibility of reopening the former Waverley Rail line which ran between Edinburgh and Carlisle, traversing the difficult topography of the Scottish Borders. The area has suffered recently from the continued demise

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Our brief covers the assessment of potential passenger and freight demand in the area, appraisal of the physical condition of the route, assessment of the environmental and planning impacts and identification of funding options for the scheme.

In addition, our role covers assessment of the socio-economic impacts which a new railway line may bring to the area including increased demand for housing (especially for commuters to Edinburgh), increased attraction for potential industrial investment and the potential effects on tourism. There is a high level of expectation locally that reinstatement of the route would go some way to solving the problems which the area currently suffers.

We are currently approximately 50% through the project and have undertaken an initial assessment of the key passenger & freight demand, physical infrastructure and environmental aspects of a number of reopening options. From this, three base options have emerged which are now undergoing rigorous analysis with a view to establishing firm recommendations for re-instatement. This stage also involves identification and development of alternative and complementary transport systems in the area.

We are due to report during November and it is likely that the outcome of the study will feature heavily in the local and national press. I will keep you posted! For the record, the Project Director is Simon Hindshaw and the Project Manager is David Webster assisted by Keith Wallace and Nigel Hackett in the railway and environment/planning aspects. Fee Scale C.

Ashington, Blyth and Tyne Railway Study [Hindshaw; Webster] Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd, has also been appointed by Northumberland County Council to undertake a feasibility study into the potential for reintroducing passenger service on to the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne Railway line. The key elements of the study will be to establish the costs associated with introduction of a passenger service, the revenue which may accrue, identify station locations, and the impact on freight traffic. The study will also examine the wider public and private transport issues including modal shift and the potential for development of integrated transport facilities. The Project Director, Simon Hindshaw, Project Manager, David Webster. Fee Scale D.

Congratulations to: R Howie [20 Years]; G Thompson, R Greenock [10 Years] who received Long Service Awards in August 1999

Welcome to Joanna Glass and Allan Kerr who joined the Roads, and Transportation, Sections in Glasgow office as a graduates in August.

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D Webster JVC IHT Central & Southern Scotland [Blackwood] At a recent committee meeting of the Central Southern Branch of the Institution of Highways and Transportation, David Webster was confirmed as Junior Vice-Chairman of the Branch for the rest of who received Long Service Awards in August 1999the 1999-2000 session. This is the first stage in a progression towards Branch Chairman, which David will become in the 2001-2002 session. This will keep up the proud Scott Wilson tradition of Branch Chairmen, since he follows in the footsteps of a certain Hugh Blackwood Esq. who held the position in 1993-94.

Congratulations to James Douglas, Engineering Geologist at Scott Wilson Glasgow, for completing his NEBOSH course by passing his examination. Cheers James, the drinks are on you!

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Level 5 Executives Meeting Amsterdam: Geoff French [HMB] The Level 5 Executives from all around the world will be holding the latest of their four-yearly meetings from Thursday 16 September to Sunday 19 September.

The last two meetings were held in Cape Town and Hong Kong so this time it is Europe’s turn to host the event. A mixture of international accessibility and geographic proximity to the UK led to the choice of Amsterdam for this extended working weekend.

Individual operating units will be establishing their own systems for dealing with the absence of their Level 5 Executives. If there are any serious issues that arise and you are uncertain of what to do please contact Geoff Redwood in Basingstoke. He will either provide a response or make contact with the Executives in Amsterdam.

ScottLight 210 17 September 1999 Welcome to Kirsty McHugh G, Ian Dick CAD Tech, Tracey Bender Accounts, who joined the Glasgow Office on 13 September.

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Lifting Experiences [Kingston and Float Bridges]: Mike Hackney [Robertson; McCafferty] SWSL (Structures) are right at the heart of two high profile civil engineering events due to take place in Scotland in October, both involving the lifting of major bridges.

On 16th October, Kingston Bridge, arguably Europe’s most heavily trafficked bridge, and weighing over 45,000 tonnes is to be raised 15 mm. The following weekend the bridge will be repositioned 30- 50 mm to the south of its current location. Road closures are limited to 36 hours for each move.

Having initially inspected and assessed the structure in the early 1990’s, SWSL has acted as Checker and Advisor to Client Glasgow City Council in their contract to strengthen and re-locate the bridge. The decision to proceed with the lift follows on from the recent successful installation of additional pre- stressing in the main span, and represents the culmination of over 6 years of hard work, innovation and dedication by Brian Robertson and his team.

As a prelude to the “ BIG LIFT” a smaller but equally important bridge lift is planned between 2 and 7 October. The existing Float Viaduct is to be demolished and replaced in 5 days with a new structure to carry the WCML over the River Clyde near Carstairs. The new 4 span steel structure, designed by SWSL, will be assembled in sections on site and erected onto the new supports using a 1000 tonne mobile crane. The scheme was designed and detailed in just over 5 months; the programme being so short that at times the contract was almost “Build and Design”, necessitating good relations and co- operation with Client Carillion Construction Ltd.

Thanks to everyone involved in both projects for their hard work and dedication.

[Jim McCafferty PD on both projects; Mike Hackney PM on Float Viaduct.]

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Congratulations to Derek Appleby who married Angela on Friday 17 September 1999. Best wishes from everyone at the Edinburgh office.

Welcome to Nicholas Rey who joined as a Graduate in the Glasgow office.

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Amsterdam Conference: One Scott Wilson 16-20 Sept 1999: Bob McGowan [Chairman SWIHL] Scott Wilson is owned by its shareholders, all of whom are employees of the group companies (unlike many of our competitors). Scott Wilson international shareholders, the owners of the international firm, meet every four years to explore new strategic directions for the group and review recent performance. We have recently returned from the latest conference, held in Amsterdam, from 16th - 19th September.

The Amsterdam Conference took the theme “One Scott Wilson” and the Level 5 Executives worldwide debated at some length how this aim would be achieved whilst giving the Operating Units sufficient flexibility to run their business in the most efficient manner.

There was a clear desire for “One Scott Wilson” to be the image that clients and the public have of us. The International and Regional Strategic Plans will define those things that are essential, and only those things that are essential, for this concept. The Operating Units would then produce Key Business Plans within this framework before they are consolidated at Regional level.

Much of the force for “One Scott Wilson”, the corporate glue as it has been called, depends on the relationship between the Level 5 Executives and other senior staff worldwide. Thus much of the benefit of an international gathering such as the Amsterdam Conference is the chance for informal contacts between the delegates. The hectic programme of formal meetings outlined later in this report was therefore supplemented by social activities designed to facilitate these informal contacts.

Amsterdam also provided an excellent forum for exchanging ideas on best practice in many different areas across the group.

In addition to the overall “One Scott Wilson” theme, the change to the strategic and business planning process, the chance for informal contacts and the exchange of best practice ideas, the Amsterdam Conference also recommended that there should be:

• no change in our corporate structure • wider staff share ownership (and simpler share transfer rules) • each Region to be wholly responsible and accountable for the financial performance of that Region • a combination of the Africa and Europe Regions for management purposes • detailed consideration of how this is to be implemented to ensure that Africa does not lose its identity • flexible management structures which are responsive to the changing needs of the group • consideration of the benefits of being clearly identified as a sustainable development consultancy • improved communications, existing policy too prescriptive; to be reconsidered and re-issued • urgent research into reward schemes • an Intranet that better meets the needs of users • more effort on Innovation • a new system of Discipline Champions who are the custodians of our intellectual capital, in future only the International Discipline Champion (IDC) will be identified by the International Board. The IDC will be responsible for the appointment of others.

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Conference Programme

Thursday 16th September Introduction and Welcome Bob McGowan

Presentations by Market Sector Corporate Structure Richard Denton-Cox

Financial Structure Bob McGowan

Friday 17th September Management Structure Richard Rawson Business Development Richard Denton-Cox Profitability

Saturday 18th September Break-out groups on: i) Ten best ways to reduce overheads ii) Ten best ways to win more fees iii) Ten best ways to make projects more profitable Employment Geoff French

Sunday 19th September Break-out groups on: i) Staff Recruitment ii) Communications iii) Working Practices

Rewarding Success

Operations Ron Rakusen

Break-out groups on: i) Innovation ii) Intellectual Capital iii) Knowledge Management iv) Outsourcing

Closing Comments Bob McGowan

Further information on the conference can be obtained by talking to any Level 5 Executive.

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Success at Float Viaduct: Mike Hackney [McCafferty] Further to my article in Issue 212 of ScottLight, I am pleased (and relieved ) to announce that the new Float Viaduct was successfully erected.

The old bridge was removed and the new structure installed in just 84 hours, 36 hours ahead of the scheduled re-opening of the WCML. Great credit is due here to Carillion’s programming and organisation. not to mention hard work. Members of SWSL and SWSRL were able to visit the site and were impressed by the new bridge and the variety and scale of the plant needed on a project of this nature. Congratulations to all those involved. [PD Jim McCafferty, PM Mike Hackney.]

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The Millennium Link: Alan Frew [Hunter; Adams] The recent award of two design and build contracts to Balfour Beatty and R J McLeod brings to an end the firm’s involvement as Client’s Agent on Contract C3 of the Millennium Link, an ambitious £80 million scheme to reopen the Forth & Clyde and Union canals to navigation across Central Scotland.

Scott Wilson have been responsible for feasibility studies, exemplar designs, planning applications and procurement of (NEC) design and build contracts for ten separate road and bridge schemes. Each individual scheme presented unique problems, particularly due to the constrained urban locations. However, a blend of innovative design and close consultation with the local authorities has produced exciting and attractive solutions at each location, including the UK’s first dropped lock (lowered pound) below Dumbarton Road on the outskirts of Glasgow. The dropped lock is already being targeted as a future tourist attraction in its own right with ambitious plans for an adjacent hotel and restaurant being mooted.

Our original appointment was won via a cut-throat fee tender competition, not helped by the fact that the risk of delivering acceptable solutions at each site was passed on to the consultant. However, by adopting a close-knit project team under the direction of Ronnie Hunter and applying strict controls on budgets we were able to not only develop acceptable technical schemes at each location, but also show a modest profit. Everyone involved is therefore to be congratulated, with particular thanks going to Peter Adams, who at times single-handedly guided our proposals through a sea of local authority intransigence.

We retain an involvement in the Millennium Link through our role as Client’s Agent on Contract C10, which involves the procurement of a further seven opening bridges. Our role has included the assessment (by our Bridges Section) of three existing opening structures which will be refurbished and the preliminary design and procurement of a further four new opening bridges.

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Scott Wilson Intranet: Update from Kevin Lloyd (CS) [Lightbody] If you have any questions or comments concerning any document located on the Intranet, please contact the relevant Page Manager.

The SWSL and SWRSL Curricula Vitae are now available for all staff to access under the Personnel category of Scott Wilson Europe Holdings Ltd. The CVs are grouped in the menu by the first letter of the relevant person’s surname. The Page Manager for the SWRSL CVs is Willie Gray (Glasgow), and for SWSL Rona Lightbody (Glasgow x459). [See ScottLight 216 for full text].

ScottLight 218 12 November 1999 A Week of Awards: Angela Lowle [SWHL]: Last week was a very good one for the presentation of awards to Scott Wilson and its staff.

ICE Brunel Medal 1999 Awarded to M6 DBFO Team [Weir; McCafferty; Greta Bridge] At The Institution of Civil Engineers in London, the Brunel Medal 1999 was presented to Scott Wilson Scotland for excellence in civil engineering for the M6 DBFO Project. Audrey Weir of Glasgow Office represented the Scott Wilson team of civil engineers responsible for the M6 DBFO Project. Audrey has spent her professional career with Scott Wilson in Glasgow where she specialises in a wide range of traffic and transportation planning projects. She is currently responsible for the collection of traffic flow data for the M6 DBFO Project and involved in the verification of shadow toll payments to the Operator, Autolink. Joint recipients of the medal were the Client, Scottish Executive Development

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Department, represented by Alan Clark, and the Operator, Autolink Concessionaires Ltd, represented by Douglas MacDougall. [Jim McCafferty also attended.]

Also on Tuesday 2nd November, at the Concrete Society Dinner, the official announcement was made that Scott Wilson had won the award for the best concrete structure of the century for Greta Bridge in Cumbria (see ScottLight Issues 214 and 217).

What a splendid week - many congratulations to everyone involved.

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PM Partnering for DE Scotland: Alistair Napier [Aikman; McCafferty et al] SWSL have been awarded a Partnering Term Commission for the provision of Project Management and Advisory Services to the Defence Estates (DE) Scotland Business Unit. The Commission, for an initial term of 2 years with the option for an extension to 4 years, will include multi disciplinary advisory services and project management and design of projects up to £5m in value.

SWSL will be the sole partner for all of DE work throughout Scotland and the Commission represents a major change in project procurement for DE. Alistair Napier will lead the advisory services team and co ordinate the partnering approach and Andrew Aikman will be the co-ordinating Project Manager. Thanks to Birmingham office and David Johns for the use of their conference room and facilities for preparation and rehearsal prior to our presentation to the Client at Sutton Coldfield. (Fee Scale B) [PD Jim McCafferty.]

Kingston Bridge Lifted: Brian Robertson [Scholes; Redpath; Appleby; McCafferty] In the small hours of the morning on Sunday 24th October, the twin decks of the Kingston Bridge over the Clyde in Glasgow were finally lifted off their original piers by sixty four 1000 tonne jacks. Scott Wilson Scotland has been heavily involved in the project to strengthen this thirty year old pre-stressed concrete bridge and took an active part in the jacking operation. During the lift Brian Robertson and Grant Scholes were part of the design team ensuring that all stages of the lift and load redistribution to the jacks were completed safely.

John Redpath and Derek Appleby processed the instrumentation monitoring which analysed the bridge and the approach viaducts behaviour in response, as the 26000 tonne structures were raised by about 20mm off their piers. Jacking operations commenced at 2pm on Saturday with three different systems of jacks being inflated and made ready for the lift. The structures were raised on 64 primary vertical jacks while the other jack systems restrained and controlled the structure longitudinally and transversely. At 7pm the motorway was closed to allow the jacks to be inflated beyond the nominal loads. The closure itself was no small feat, being the largest temporary traffic management scheme undertaken in Scotland.

Inflation of jacks continued in stages into the night, with pause periods to allow the structure to be inspected to detect any unexpected cracking or distortion. All went well and by about 4am the separation of the decks was achieved. The lift continued in further stages to create a gap of about 20mm at the bearings, allowing sufficient room for the existing piers to be removed. After a final 2 hour pause period and final inspection, bridge reopening started at 13:30.

After a glass (more accurately a plastic cup) of champagne provided by the jacking contractor VSL, all retired to catch up on lost sleep.

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SWSL are independent checkers of the strengthening works and are responsible for processing the information from the structural monitoring. The client is Glasgow City Council who act as agents for the Scottish Executive. The current contract value is estimated at £32M. Project Managers are Brian Robertson and John Redpath, Project Director is Jim McCafferty.

Intranet Newsgroups: John Redpath Those familiar with the newsgroups on the Internet might agree that this is where the greatest interest and exchange of information Lies. I would like to suggest that, if the technology allows, our Intranet contains a newsgroup area. There are currently 35,000 newsgroups on the Internet. To those unfamiliar with this, a newsgroup consists of a single subject where anyone is free to post a query, suggestion or comment etc. Anyone else is free to post a reply to this in the form of an open letter’ or “open e-mail or to post a new message. The great benefit is that others can browse these conversation ‘threads” and either participate in the exchange of information or just observe. The free flow of information exchange usually leads some way from the original poster’s query in long threads and spawns sometimes surprising insights. On our Intranet, the newsgroups could be arranged by discipline e.g. Airports, Bridges, Roads, Computing etc. and, again if technology allows, restricted areas like Finance, Strategy etc where perhaps only Level 5 executives would have access. One disadvantage is that with some of our best ideas being openly discussed, our competitors would be only too keen to gain access also. For this reason, Intranet security would have to be assured.

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National Cycle Network, Perth: Alan Baker [Kendrum Viaduct; MacLean; Ogilvie; McQueen] SWSL have been appointed by the environmental group Sustrans to design and supervise the construction of some 10 km of the National Cycle Network around Lochearnhead in Perthshire. The route follows the lines of the disused Crieff, Comrie & Lochearnhead Railway and Callander & Oban Railway, reckoned in their time to have provided travellers with some of the most scenic views from any railway in Scotland.

The project includes the replacement of a missing span on a multi-span mass concrete viaduct across the Kendrum Burn, and parapet rehabilitation work on a further multi-span masonry viaduct in Glen Ogle. Both structures are listed buildings.

The work will be undertaken in four separate contracts. Alan Baker is Project Manager, assisted by Michael MacLean. Derek Ogilvie will undertake the structural design, with Walter McQueen acting as planning supervisor. This commission builds on the successful work currently being undertaken on the Millennium Cycle Routes on behalf of the Scottish Executive. These works include the design and contract procurement of 32 km of new cycle track adjacent to the A9, A86 and A95. (Fee Scale C)

A warm welcome to Stephen Camp who started in the Glasgow office on 15 Novas a Transportation Planner. He is working for Simon Hindshaw’s section, based in John Forshaw’s room (ext 408).

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I have recently been appointed as secretary to the IEEM. [For full text see original.]

Vacancies [Hunter] A number of enthusiastic individuals are sought to strengthen current capabilities in Glasgow and Edinburgh offices:

Chartered Engineers, or those approaching chartered status, with at least three years practical and relevant experience in any of following disciplines: • highway design • bridges and highway structures design • civil engineering/infrastructure • project management • transport planning and traffic engineering

Candidates should be able to demonstrate sound technical experience in one or more of the disciplines, good communications skills, the ability to work productively with minimal supervision and the ability to work within existing teams.

Technicians or draughtsmen with experience in bridges, highway structures and/or highway design. Candidates should be able to demonstrate their proficiency in the use of AutoCAD release 13 or 14 and/or MOSS.

Chartered Engineer, Belfast: Chartered Engineer, or approaching chartered status, with at least three years practical and relevant experience in highway and traffic engineering to work within the office of our Joint Venture Partners in Belfast. Candidates should be able to demonstrate sound technical experience in one or more of the disciplines, good communications skills, the ability to work productively with minimal supervision and the ability to work within existing project teams and to develop the interests of the firm in Northern Ireland.

If you are interested in any of the above positions please contact R T Hunter in Glasgow office.

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Promotions [C Perrie]: from Geoff French [HMB] The Directors are pleased to announce the promotion of Craig Perrie to 2.1 - Technician [SW Scotland] from 1 January 2000.

Congratulations to Alan Baker on his recent marriage to Anna at the snowy backdrop of Westerwood Country Club in Cumbernauld on 4 December 1999. The wedding was attended by many Scott Wilson employees, with Roger Doubal leading the “Scottish” country dancing. Alan took Anna on a surprise honeymoon to Hong Kong (the destination being the surprise, not the honeymoon itself!) including a visit to Scott Wilson’s office in Metroplaza - surely the highlight of the entire fortnight!

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Hat Trick of Jobs with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH): Sue Bell (RC, E) The Edinburgh office finished the year with a flourish by winning a hat trick of commissions from Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). These call on a variety of skills based in the office. As most of the work has to be completed by March, we are all going to be pretty busy! The projects are:

Guidance Manual for Condition Monitoring of SSSI [See original for full text.]

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.This project will involve staff from Edinburgh, Leeds, Abingdon and Basingstoke. Fee Scale D.

Review of School Grounds Grants Pack [See original for full text.] Fee Scale D.

Encouraging Responsible Behaviour Linked To The New Public Right of Access

[See original for full text.] Fee Scale E.

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Small Isles and Inverie Ferry Scheme, Phase 1: Robert Clegg [MacPhie; Greenock] Work is now well under way in Edinburgh and Glasgow on the detailed design of new ferry terminals for the islands of Rum and Muck on the West Coast of Scotland. Just before Christmas. The Highland Council awarded the design and build contract to Inverness based contractor The Construction Centre Group Ltd with Scott Wilson as their designer. Scott Wilson Project Manager. Robert Clegg, has been closely involved with the scheme since an expression of interest was first submitted over two years ago and, since the invitation to tender in June last year, he has been ably assisted by Ross MacPhie and Robbie Greenock in the Edinburgh office who have undertaken the bulk of the design and draughting work for both the tender and now the detailed design. Input from other offices includes environmental proposals (RCOU, Edinburgh), geotechnical, roads and drainage design (SOU, Glasgow) and electrical design (SROU Glasgow).

The four islands of Rum, Muck, Eigg and Canna, which are located just south of Skye and are known as the Small Isles, are currently served by a Caledonian MacBrayne passenger ferry from Mallaig which is only able to berth at the jetty on Canna, with passengers and freight for the other islands having to be transferred from the ferry to the shore by small ‘flit’ boats. These flit’ boat operations are slow, inconvenient and hazardous, especially in bad weather, and have recently fallen foul of new EU safety directives. The present contract, the first phase of a programme to improve ferry services to all four islands and to the isolated community at Inverie on the mainland, will provide new t5rn wide, 1 in 8 slipways and alignment structures at each of the two islands for the new roll-on roll-off ferry which is currently on order, as well as associated access roads, turning and storage areas.

The Highland Council placed considerable emphasis on finding low maintenance solutions for facilities at these remote locations and the Scott Wilson design is based on the use of unreinforced precast concrete blockwork for the bulk of the marine structures. This largely avoids the problem of steel corrosion due to chlorides in the aggressive marine environment and has the advantage for the contractor of minimising the need for site batching of insitu concrete. In an area of outstanding natural beauty, environmental considerations and aesthetics have also been important considerations for all aspects of the design and especially for the access roads, with Scottish Natural Heritage being closely involved in the assessment of tender design proposals. Fee Scale C.

A66 Temple Sowerby: Another Success S of the Border: David Webster [Hindshaw et al] Following hard on the heels of the 1-0 hammering at Wembley, us northerners have done it again.

After a long, hard campaign, taking one submission at a time, Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd qualified for the final stages of the A66 Temple Sowerby ‘Trophy’ being organised by the Highways Agency (without the need for a play-off or penalty shootout). Tenders (or should I say team sheets’?) were handed in to the referee in mid November and, just before the mid-winter break, we were confirmed as champions!!

For those of you who perhaps don’t quite understand the football clichés I can confirm that [S] has been appointed by the Highways Agency to take forward the A66 Temple Sowerby bypass project in Cumbria. The preferred route for the scheme, a 4.2km dual carriageway valued at around £10M, has 95

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Thanks are due to Mary Holt[ RC] in the Leeds office for her input to the bid, (Mary will look after the environmental aspects of the project for us.) ( Fee Scale C). Director of Operations - Simon Hindshaw; Team Manager - David Webster. The boys done good!

A warm welcome to: Simon Palmer who joined as a Technician in the Glasgow Office this month.

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HA Public Sector Comparator for Traffic Control Project: Denise Ritchie [Frew] Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd are currently finalising the Public Sector Comparator (PSC) for the above PR project on behalf of Carlbro IBI for the Highways Agency. The scheme objective is to optimise the efficiency of the core network of English trunk roads. The provision of driver information, including via VMS’s (Variable Message Signs) and indirectly through third parties, is a key part of this.

Tenders have recently been returned for the PR contract and these are currently being compared with the PSC which was developed via a series of Value-for-Money workshops in London. The process has involved the presentation of base cost estimates, which were subjected to risk assessments via the workshop process and ultimately the simulation of these risks using Monte Carlo simulation techniques. This commission builds upon the considerable value management! engineering experience gained in the Glasgow office over recent years, which has grown since the M6DBFO Value for Money study. This has included assistance with the PSC for the Balfron Secondary School PR project and Value Engineering aspects of numerous ‘traditionally’ procured projects. Fee Scale C. Alan Frew is the Project Manager assisted by myself.

Welcome to Zoran Levy David Torrance; Lynne Masterson; Mark Rinkus and Ian Lang who joined the Glasgow office recently.

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Kinlochleven Industrial Heritage Concept Market Appraisal: Ken Glass With the imminent closure of the Alcan aluminium smelter site at Kinlochleven in Lochaber, an agency partnership comprising Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Lochaber Ltd and the Kinlochleven Land Development Trust is investigating a range of tourism initiatives to be accommodated on the site following clearance of most of the smelter buildings and decontamination of the site.

Funding activity is already under way for the development of an indoor climbing facility and related outdoor activities, eg cycle hire and canoeing, and in the autumn of last year, the Scott Wilson Edinburgh office undertook a market appraisal and outline development plan for a proposed garden themed visitor attraction utilising part of the smelter site but also including part of the hilly landscape that surrounds the village.

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Following this work the Scott Wilson Edinburgh office has now won a contract to evaluate the market potential for interpreting and presenting the industrial heritage of Kinlochleven and to advise on how best the interpretation should be implemented to maximise the tourism appeal of the village. In addition we will also investigate the potential market, management and operational synergies that could be capitalised upon through the critical mass of proposed activity centre, garden themed attraction and industrial heritage interpretation provision. Fee Scale D.

Sumburgh Airport, Shetland Islands: David Stephens [Hindshaw] Scott Wilson Scotland have been appointed by Highlands and Islands Airports to undertake a study into the feasibility of extending runway 09/27 at Sumburgh Airport. The airport is located at the southern extremity of the Shetland Islands, with the Atlantic Ocean at one end of the runway and the North Sea at the other. Significant marine works would therefore be necessary if any extension is implemented. The study is also required to assess the implications of an extension on the existing airfield ground lighting installation and instrument landing system.

Sumburgh Airport has suffered in recent times from the loss of oil related traffic to Scotsta Airport near Sullom Voe, 60 miles to the north. A key element of the feasibility study will be an assessment of the aircraft types likely to use an extended runway and their operating criteria. This will determine what length of extended runway, if any, can be justified by future market requirements.

The Project Director is Simon Hindshaw, with myself acting as Project Manager. Fee Scale D

Scottish Trunk Road Maintenance: Alan Frew [McCafferty; Hunter; Frew; O’Hara et al] The management and maintenance of Scotland’s Trunk Road network is going out to tender in the near future. The network is being subdivided into four geographical areas, (North West, North East, South West and South East) with Operating Companies being sought for each area. The Operating Company will be responsible for both the network management (and associated ‘design functions) and the maintenance works themselves.

After a series of discussions with potential partners in the public and private sectors, Scott Wilson Scotland have established partnerships for the respective areas as follows:

North West - Local Authorities, Morrison Construction, Scott Wilson. South West - Local Authorities, Tarmac, Scott Wilson. South East - Colas, Scott Wilson.

Prequalification submissions will be submitted at the end of February.

Our approach in each area is being handled as follows:

North West - Project Director - Jim McCafferty, Project Manager - Alan Frew. South West - Project Director - Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager - Alan Frew. South East - Project Director - William Kemp, Project Manager - J Trinnick, Liaison - K O’Hara.

In the North West and South West, we are providing design consultancy skills, whilst in the South East we will also provide the Network Management capability (and hence have involved the Area 14 expertise from Central Unit). These contracts offer us the possibility of a substantial volume of repeat work as well as a major marketing opportunity within many of the local authorities.

Site Staff - Small Isles & Inverie Ferry Scheme, Phase 1 [Clegg] Scott Wilson Scotland are looking for the following site staff for a design and build ferry terminal project to be constructed in a very beautiful part of the West Coast of Scotland over the coming summer.

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Designer’s Site Representative: Chartered Engineer, with maritime experience, required from mid March until end October 2000, based at the mainland fishing port of Mallaig. Contractor intends to be on site from 1 April to end October 2000 with off-site precasting of 15-20T concrete blocks commencing in the middle of March. Works at the islands of Rum and Muck include rock and soft dredging, 1:8 slipways with precast slabs on rockfill core, precast block alignment structures, access roads and turning/storage areas.

Assistant DSR: Graduate engineer, preferably with some maritime experience, required to assist the Designer’s Site Representative on the above project. Please contact Robert Clegg on 0131 225 1230, if you are interested in either of the above positions.

ScottLight 231 18 February 2000 National Curling Training Centre Options Study Ken Glass (RC) The Edinburgh office have just been awarded a commission to undertake an independent site options study for a proposed National Curling Training Centre on behalf of sportscotland and the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. The study will examine four existing ice rink locations in Scotland and produce a preferred option recommendation based upon a range of criteria considerations.

Scotland are currently the World and European men’s curling champions and the National Centre will cater for the training and event preparation of elite curling squads but will also be used for the development of curling at all levels. [Fee Scale D]

This is the third National Centre study undertaken by the Edinburgh office (following hockey and tennis). The Hockey Centre is now under construction in Edinburgh and an announcement is expected in the near future as to the implementation of the Scottish National Tennis Training Centre.

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Tyneside Multi Modal Study Simon Hindshaw [Webster] Following the Firm’s success in winning the West Midlands to North West Conurbation multi-modal study jointly with Arup, we have been similarly successful in winning the Tyneside multi-modal study. The purpose of the study is to consider multi-modal options to solve problems on the Al and A19 in Tyneside, covering in particular congestion on the Gateshead Western Bypass, existing congestion and proposed dualling of the Tyne Tunnel, development pressures and road safety. The output of the study will be in the form of an appraisal of the various options, with recommendations to the Regional Planning Body for a strategy to address the identified transport problems. Our component of the study input is being managed through David Webster in the Glasgow office and principally comprises the provision of highway and railway design, public transport operations and environmental expertise. Fee Scale C.

Scottish Borders Railway Feasibility Study Simon Hindshaw We recently completed our 10 month study assessing the feasibility of re-opening of some or all of the former Waverley line between Edinburgh and Carlisle through the Scottish Borders. The region has been hard hit economically of late and poor accessibility is considered to be a factor. The study therefore attracted widespread local interest and our presentation of the report attracted some 70 MP’s, MSP’s, councillors, officials and media representatives. The Scottish Transport Minister, Sarah Boyack, who was also present paid tribute to “this landmark report”. Indeed, one of the Scottish Executive officials had earlier described it as “probably the most comprehensive and methodologically

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The study assessed in detail the costs and benefits of re opening a railway south from Edinburgh, either to Gorebridge or to Galashiels. Whilst both options showed a negative NPV (Net Present Value) when assessed using the Common Appraisal Framework, there were clear socio economic benefits, not only to the Borders, but also to Edinburgh whose overheating labour and housing markets could constrain further growth. The next stage for proponents of a reinstated railway is to put together a funding package to provide the £73million needed. However it was pointed out at our presentation that as there are 100000 people in the Borders this only equated to £730 each. If there is anyone who wants to follow in the footsteps of the Victorian railway promoters and wishes to speculate this sum, I can provide contact details of someone who would gratefully receive your contribution!

ScottLight 233 3 March 2000 Congratulations to Stephen Leckie; Kath Healy; Derek Ogilvie, who recently received Long Service Awards for 10 years service.

Congratulations to Derek Appleby and Ross Macphie of Edinburgh office for passing their CPR. Due to delays in the process this year there has been a particularly long wait for the results for Scottish candidates — especially for Ross who had to have his CPR date rearranged to fit in with a honeymoon in Australia. At one stage he was heard to say that he nearly had to cancel it, but we didn’t like to enquire as to whether he meant the wedding or the CPR!

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Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd Public Holidays 2000 Jim McCafferty The SWSL offices will be closed for the following Public Holidays.

Easter 21 April, 24 April Queen’s Birthday 29 May Glasgow Fair 17 July September Weekend 25 Sept Christmas 25 Dec, 26 Dec New Year 1 Jan, 2 Jan

Any member of staff required to work on critical projects during any of the foregoing dates should agree special arrangements with Directors.

Congratulations to Audrey Weir and Stuart Eide of SWSL Glasgow office on becoming Incorporated Engineers.

Welcome to Norman Millar who joined the Edinburgh office as Sen Architect on 28 February.

On behalf of Scott Wilson Holdings Ltd, Geoff French, Jim McCafferty and Martin Nielsen, the directors who constitute the selection committee, are pleased to announce the Ideas of the Month awards for December 1999. The committee hope that you keep your ideas coming and remind everyone that contributions are invited from all companies in the region.

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Experimental Road Pavement S Queensferry David Webster [Hindshaw] Echline Development Site is situated west of South Queensferry, overlooking the Forth road and rail bridge crossings, near Edinburgh.

This experimental project comprises the design and construction of a short length of single carriageway, 300 metres long, the contract for which was awarded to SWSL as a direct result of our involvement as Standards Advisor to the Scottish Executive. The experimental section is 225 metres long sandwiched between two turning areas constructed using conventional methods as controls. The construction works are currently being undertaken by Tarmac Heavy Building Materials UK Ltd, with the programme of works due for completion by the end of March 2000.

Pavement design is for a forty year life and IOOMSA with overall pavement thickness of 450mm. Design constraints include for the maximum use of recycled and low energy construction materials through all stages of the production process, outwith the current scope of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges.

The project provides an opportunity for the Scottish Executive to have an active involvement in valuable research into current developments for road pavement design and the wider application of such materials and their future implications on the trunk road network.

Transport Research Laboratory are also involved to assist with interpretation of final results.

The Project Director is Simon Hindshaw with David Webster as Project Manager.

ScottLight 236 24 March 2000 Goodbye and Good Luck to Lynne Robertson who will be leaving the Edinburgh office at the end of March for pastures new. During her time at Scott Wilson she has played host to a number of visiting computer support staff from other offices, who I am sure have not forgotten her Scottish hospitality and encyclopaedic knowledge of the city’s history and hostelries. To the staff in the Edinburgh office she has performed an essential role as office administrator, and we would like to wish her all the best and thank her for her support over the past 3 years.

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Senior Technicians! Technicians Required – Scotland [Hackney; Baker] Enthusiastic and self motivated Technicians are required to help with the heavy workload in the Structures Department of the Glasgow office. The positions will provide an excellent opportunity to be involved in a number of exciting projects including the design of major road and railway bridges. Duties will include:- • Preparation of drawings using AutoCad • Assistance with the preparation of reports • Assistance with bridge and structural surveys If you think that you have the right qualities and would like to work in Glasgow, please contact Mike Hackney or Alan Baker on 0141 332 2258.

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ScottLight 238 7 April 2000 Scott Wilson Foundation Awards 2000/2001 Geoff French [Chairman, IHRG] [L Dowling] A Fellowship has been awarded by Scott Wilson International Holdings Ltd to:

Lynne Dowling, Based in Glasgow with S Operating Unit - support for Chartered Institute of Management Accountants examination studies.

Welcome to Anne Russell, who joined the Edinburgh office as Office Administrator on 3 April.

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Adjudication & SWSL Experience: Alan Frew [Bathgate] In this, the first of three articles, Gordon Bathgate records the experience of [S] in terms of adjudication under The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. In this first article, he highlights the harsh effect of an Adjudicator’s Decision which was upheld by the Court, followed by his thoughts on when payment becomes due. Article two will consider whether or not the Adjudicator is the servant of the Parties and discuss the meaning of “completion”. The final article will discuss when a notice of adjudication can be issued and conclude with consideration of who pays for the cost of the adjudication. The experience from [S] is that although statutory adjudication may be quick, it is far from being simple and inexpensive. Article 1: [See ScottLight 240 for the complete text].

ScottLight 241 28 April 2000 Adjudication & SWSL Experience Gordon Bathgate Article 2: [See ScottLight 241 for text].

Welcome to S McKenna - AE[Gl], C Ansell - SE[E], A Farquharson - Sec[A720]

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Sir Peter Innes Retires [McGowan] Friday 28th April 2000 marked the retirement of Sir Peter Innes after 36 years service. Bob McGowan made the farewell presentation on behalf of staff. As is becoming customary on retirement Peter has been asked to write an article for ScottLight which will be published in the near future.

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Adjudication/SWSL Experience Gordon Bathgate Article 3: [See ScottLight 242 for text].

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36 Years with Scott Wilson: Peter Innes [Glasgow; GIRR; Townhead; Woodside] Forty-two years must be a long time as a consulting engineer, but it certainly does not feel it. Thirty- six of them were with the Scott Wilson Group and most of them have been happy and fulfilling.

Such a long period contains many memories. The early days with Motts in an old building off Victoria Street, in a room containing five young engineers, warmed by an old gas fire, cosy and friendly, designing the biggest bridges in Britain. Next, three years on the “old” Severn Bridge, enduring some of the coldest winter nights I have spent in my life, doing tidal shifts. There were ice floes in the river in February 1963, really.

To join Scott and Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners (note the comma!) on 1 April 1964 sounds like carelessness — and in the far outpost of Glasgow! However, we had one of the best and most advanced bridge teams and left “Townhead” and “Woodside” to prove it. Structural analysis used mostly slide rules, with rudimentary computer grillage analysis, used with caution. We knew something was not right when bending moment diagrams went off to infinity and returned from minus infinity on the next sub-grid.

The first mistake was to apply to go to Hong Kong. The Cross-harbour Tunnel seemed interesting. “Innes was too busy” to be detached from Glasgow — but not too busy to be offered Nigeria three months later. “A good career move!” said the Partners. At the time the salary seemed low but when, as a Partner, my personal tile was handed back to me there was the memo from the resident Partner to Staff Services: “Innes is rather expensive”. Eighteen months in Lagos inevitably turned into four years.

The next four years in Germany were too good to last. They didn’t, and Richard Rawson can relate his experiences with Hans G****, the dreaded Hun, to confirm how it all fell apart. From 1974 to 2000, totalled 26 years in Basingstoke, with long and short trips to almost everywhere else. The most remarkable fact must be that the same job was in progress at the start and was finally paid up at the very end. Job Numbers 69093, 72017 and 78010, all Kota Kinabalu Airport. Our final invoice was paid in year 2000, nine years after submission! Thanks to SW(M). 102

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The biggest invoice in this time, and one of the quickest, was for £1.6million, paid in three weeks by the Iraqi Air Force, with their apologies for being slow, but we had produced 14,000 drawings in 12 months — and they did have a war on at the time. (A 22 strong consultants project team in Baghdad did its best to make the amount more modest, at the Sheraton nightclub before Bill Sterling arrived.)

For many years airports were all “international” in such places as Kenya, Al Am, Macao, Anjouan (where’?) — Comoro Islands, and almost anywhere in Africa. In 1988 we achieved the breakthrough into the UK market ahead of the competition and have gone from strength to strength since. During these years it has been a pleasure and a privilege to make so many friends in SW. 1995 to 1998 were very special, with the responsibilities of Personnel and meeting nearly everyone, in SWKCL at least. It was a formative time, with the introduction of Pathways, communications policies, new legislation and equal opportunities. It still is now! Then came Europe Board, PA DBU and, finally, PPA. Hopefully, the latest organisation should now stick.

Over such a long period there have been very many changes, not least the growth of the Scott Wilson group from a few hundred staff to 2500 worldwide, and proudly independent. To see it all happen has been a pleasure in itself. Lots of friends indeed, and I thank so many for their good wishes, the greetings cards from all over the world and the wonderful presents to which so many staff subscribed. Thank you all!

ScottLight 245 26 May 2000 Congratulations to David Ashton and Alistair Wilkie of Scott Wilson Scotland, who have received Long Service Awards for 10 years service this month.

Congratulations to David Webster [SVC IHT Scotland], who has been elected Senior Vice Chairman of the Central and Southern Scotland Branch of the Institution of Highways and Transportation.

Welcome to Darren Corrie who has joined Glasgow office as a Trainee Technician.

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PIP Award for Lynne Dowling: From Eleanor Crozier [McCafferty]

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With regard to the recent article announcing the granting of a PIP award to Lynne Dowling (SWSL) to aid in her further studies, a presentation was made of the award by Jim McCafferty at one of the Scottish company’s regular social gatherings. Congratulations again Lynne.

Cost & Technical Audits [Kirkintilloch; M74; M77/GSO: Kenneth O’Hara [Hunter; Adams] Over recent months, Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd have been successful in their proposals to undertake both cost and technical audits for various Scottish local authorities. For many years the Firm in Scotland has been working with Balfour Beatty on a wide range of Design and Build projects. Some of the recent successful joint ventures have included the A96 Blackburn-Kintore Bypass, the M8 St James Interchange and the A8 Gogar Roundabout in Edinburgh. In each of these projects, Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd have acted as a sub-consultant with all the thorny issues such as agreements, multipliers and payment being a continual source of discussion. Anxious to turn the tables one day, we were faced with submitting a proposal for the cost audit of several major roadworks projects in Scotland. Who better to use as a sub-consultant to establish robust cost estimates but Balfour Beatty.

It has become increasingly difficult for consultants to prepare cost estimates in recent years due to the lack of traditional forms of procurement. Consultants no longer have access to rates from the last “big job” as Design and Build forms of contract no longer gave either the Client or the contractor’s Designer the actual details relating to the cost of the job. As a result, many schemes in Scotland have fallen victim to low pre-tender cost estimates and indeed we have just completed an audit of one such consultants work for an unhappy Client. With this background we were successful in our proposals to East Dunbartonshire Council for a cost audit on the Kirkintilloch Relief Road and to Glasgow City Council for the M74 Northern Extension — Phase 2. The latter commission also involved a land agent, James Barr, who undertook the audit of land related aspects. As the Firm’s raison d’être in Scotland was for the development of the Highway Plan for Glasgow it was very fitting that we continued our involvement for the completion of the final phase of the City’s motorway network. Valued at between £200m and £300m this project needs all the wisdom that the Firm’s elder statesmen can muster and keep the young blood within the Council on the right track.

In undertaking these projects we worked very successfully with Balfour Beatty. The culture change seemed to be slightly unnerving for Balfour Beatty and, in particular, issues like Agreements and extra payments were dealt with in a like for like basis! Balfour Beatty’s biggest worry was how on earth do they invoice a consultant for the works undertaken. Continuing our involvement with the major roadworks projects in Scotland we have also recently been awarded a commission to undertake a full technical audit of the M77 and Glasgow Southern Orbital (GSO) projects. It is proposed that these arterial schemes to the south of the City be procured as PFI projects with construction scheduled for the summer of 2002. The M77 involves 15km of dual two-lane motorway with associated all purpose roadworks running between the existing M77 motorway at Malletsheugh and the Kilmarnock Bypass at Dalmusternock. The route replaces the notorious A77 high-speed four lane carriageway across high moorland. The route has one of the highest accident statistics on the network with high-speed head on collisions commonplace. At the northern end of the motorway an interchange will link in the proposed GSO. This 9km dual two-lane carriageway will link the M77 motorway with East Kilbride and create a strategic traffic route serving traffic movements between Central Scotland and Ayrshire. For all these projects the key players are Ronnie Hunter in his guiding role as Project Director, Kenny O’Hara as Project Manager and Peter Adams as the Project Engineer.

Scott Wilson Scottish Area Golf Outing, Dunblane, 25 May 2000: Danny Macbeth [SWRS] On a bright, sunny day 35 competitors arrived to compete for the prizes available on the day, the KWOGS Quaich, the Williams Wood and the 4 man Team Challenge Shield. Six teams competed for the Williams Wood, two from Scott Wilson Railways (Scotland), the Glasgow Office, the Edinburgh Office, the Birmingham Office and the M6 Offices. The trophy, awarded for the best three from four scores (stableford points), was a closely run event with the eventual winners being the Glasgow

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Office, with a team comprising Stephen Bradley, Roger Doubal, Alan Frew and Derek Ogilvie, with a team score of 107 points. The runners-up were the Edinburgh Office comprising Alistair Napier, Andrew Aikman, Norrie Kitson and Mike Monaghan, with a team score of 104 points.

Jim McCafferty presents the Challenge Shield to SWSL Captain, Stephen Bradley [Doubal; Frew; Ogilvie; Napier; Aikman; Kitson; Monaghan] The 4-Man Team Challenge Shield was also won by the Glasgow Office with a score of 134 points. The Edinburgh Office and the SWR (5) Team! comprising Malky Gordon, Danny Macbeth, David Leith and Jim Millar tied in second place with team scores of 129 points. Glasgow completed a “hat-trick” in the KWOGS Quaich for the best individual score when Alan Frew returned a score of 41 points. Close behind on 40 points was Douglas Walker from SWR (S) with a score of 40 points with Malky Gordon third on 38 points. Thanks are due to the Birmingham and M6 Offices who journeyed north for what was hopefully, for them, an enjoyable day. Also, thanks to all the other individuals who appeared on the day. We look forward to the Glasgow Office’s chosen venue for the defence of their titles next year. In the meantime, Keep Swinging!

ScottLight 248 16 June 2000 Congratulations to Alan Baker Chairman of the Concrete Society Scotland on 2 June.

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SSD Awards 2000: Merit for Float Viaduct: Mike Hackney [McCafferty] On behalf of Scott Wilson Scotland, I recently attended the Structural Steel Design Awards 2000 at the Savoy Hotel in London to collect a Merit Award for the design of Float Viaduct.

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It was a very enjoyable day culminating in the presentation of the award by H R H The Duke of Kent, who is pictured here discussing the project with myself and other members of the team.

According to the judges the competition was very strong this year, and therefore it is a credit to all concerned that the project won an award. Thanks once again to all those who contributed to the success of the project. [PD Jim McCafferty.]

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Wise Use of Floodplains Study for RSPB: Sue Bell [RC] The Edinburgh RC office has recently been commissioned by the RSPB to assist them with their wise use of floodplains study. This forms part of an EU-LIFE funded project. The purpose of the study is to review the availability of data for the River Forth Catchment, and from this define floodplain units. Different potential management options will be considered for two focus areas, and the environmental, social and economic impacts associated with the different options will be determined. Identifying constraints on data availability and form for management of floodplains is an important part of the project (to identify difficulties with implementing the Water Framework Directive). Data storage, and GIS development forms another component of the project. (Fee scale D).

Congratulations to Gordon Bathgate who earlier this month was admitted to the FIDIC List of Dispute Adjudicators. Those on the List will be eligible to be included on Dispute Adjudication Boards (DAB) or Dispute Review Boards (DRB) where FIDIC is called upon to nominate persons to such Boards for international projects which have adopted FIDIC Conditions of Contract.

FIDIC will shortly place the List on its website (www.fidic.org) and will incorporate the List in the booklet “Info 2001”.

The news is the welcome outcome of a 48hr assessment in February 2000 which incorporated an unannounced 90 minute written examination, an unexpected 7hr overnight exercise and the unannounced and unexpected requirement to submit a reasoned decision in an adjudication of a dispute. The names of the parties had been exchanged to protect the innocent. Gordon is also on the ICE List of Members for Dispute Boards which is used by the President when he is required to appoint members to Boards either at home or abroad.

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News Corrections Keith Wallace [SR] [Hackney; Dodgson et al] May I bring to attention two recent omissions from ScottLight articles:

Firstly in Mike Hackney’s article on Float Viaduct, Mike forgot to mention one of his client’s representatives, Colin Dodgson, currently seconded to Railtrack from our office. Cohn has continued to get glowing reports from Railtrack as previously reported in ScottLight and was also presented to the Duke of Kent, albeit with a Railtrack hat on. Congratulations to Colin.

Secondly, in Danny McBeth’s article on the Scottish offices golf outing, Danny neglected to mention the prize winning efforts of Gordon Lindsay. Gordon made a magnificent effort in snatching the “Scott Wilson Spirtle” for the worst score of the day, narrowly outscoring yours truly by a stroke. Gordon managed a princely 13 points in the Stableford. Given that this was after I had done his Pathways review, his score must be seen as genuine. Gordon’s effort kept the Spirtle in Railways, it never having lived anywhere else. Indeed, four of the five winners work for me! Top notch consistency. It remains in our trophy cabinet beside the “Golden Drainage Rod” but that’s another story. Footnote: A spirtle is a large wooden implement for stirring porridge. 106

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Promotions: Geoff French [SWHL] [Crozier; Aikman; Webster; Ogilvie; Eide] The Directors are pleased to announce the following promotions earned by [S] staff this year.

To Level 4.3 Eleanor Crozier - Company Secretary To Level 4.2 Andrew Aikman and David Webster Glasgow – Associates To Level 4.1 Derek Ogilvie - Principal Engineer To Level 2.3 Stuart Eide - Senior Assistant Engineer

Congratulations to Audrey Weir, Glasgow Office who received a Long Service Award during June.

Caption Competition [McCafferty; Baker et al]

The photograph shows Scott Wilson’s “Bridges Champion” Jim McCafferty relaxing on the south bank of the River Thames with Alan Baker and Dave Hubie after a divisional meeting in London. A visit was made to the (in)famous Millennium Footbridge. But what is he thinking having seen it? Send your answers to Angela Lowle (see back page for contact details) by 21 July. There will be a small prize for the best answer. (photograph supplied by Colin McKenna).

Welcome to Cristina Ciucci G[Gl]; D Welsh- Junior[E]; M Milne - IT[Gl]

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Eleanor Crozier, recent Level 4.3 Promotion Eleanor joined Scott Wilson in the summer of 1980 for what was then intended to be a temporary post of 4 weeks. Prior to this time she had spent some years training and working in an Accountancy background. Since joining the Glasgow Office she has been involved in all aspects of the day to day Administration and Finance of the Scottish offices as well as assisting with Personnel matters. On incorporation in 1995 she was appointed Company Secretary for SWSL and SWR(S)L but continued to keep control of the Scottish purse strings. She is a keen member of the local Company Secretaries Group. Most of her time is now spent in dealing with financial matters.

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In her spare time outside the office, which she tells us is not a lot, she enjoys reading, walking and foreign travel. Eleanor lives in Blantyre near Glasgow with her two daughters.

Eleanor Crozier

ScottLight 254 28 July 2000 ICE Council Election for Jim McCafferty: from Alan Frew

Following the recent ICE Council Elections Jim McCafferty, was duly elected as a General Member of Council of the ICE for the next three years. Jim wishes to thank all those who took the time to vote for him. As a member of Council Jim provides Scott Wilson with a voice in the ICE corridors of power: any staff members with comments or concerns on ICE affairs should contact Jim, so that they may be aired at the appropriate Committee or Board.

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Caption Competition Results [McCafferty; Baker; McKenna et al] Scott Wilson’s “Bridges Champion” Jim McCafferty is shown relaxing on the south bank of the River Thames with Alan Baker and Dave Hubie after a divisional meeting in London. A visit was made to see at first hand the (in)famous Millennium Footbridge. But what is he thinking having seen it?

The winning entry is starred. The judge was Jim McCafferty himself, who judged the entries without knowing who had submitted them. The fact that the winner was Colin McKenna, who supplied the photograph, just proves that if you want to win you need to suggest competitions you are good at! Your prize Colin - no not a trip to the Millennium Bridge but a £10 book token - will be on its way to you soon. Thanks to Oliver King for his ‘Ode to the Millennium Bridge’ featured overleaf.

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Ode to the Millennium Bridge: Oliver King [EWC, Bulford] [See original for text.]

ScottLight 255 4 August 2000 Congratulations to Norrie Kitson whose wife Joanne gave birth to baby Fraser on 20 July 2000.

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Andrew Aikman, recent Level 4.2 Promotion

Andrew Aikman

Andrew joined Scott Wilson in 1993 as part of the Scott Wilson Scotland Project Management team in Edinburgh. He graduated from Heriot Watt University in 1982 in Civil Engineering and followed a well trodden path down south to work initially in Cambridge, followed by 4 years enjoying the delights of ‘sunny’ Croydon with Mott Macdonald. Building structures was his principal interest and he was

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Welcome to Nicholas Williamson who joined Edinburgh office as a Graduate on 24 July.

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David Webster, recent Level 4.2 Promotion

David Webster

David initially joined Scott Wilson on graduation from the University of Glasgow in 1980. Like many other graduates he undertook varied training during his early years in the profession. He spent some time in traffic and transportation, roads design, bridges section and also a one-year secondment to Balfour Beatty. In early 1986 he joined the Scottish Development Agency (now Scottish Enterprise). His first challenge in this new job was to deal with the situation where he became client on a number of projects on which a certain Mr Hugh Blackwood was consultant’s Project Manager. (The words “Poacher” and “Gamekeeper” spring to mind.) Having successfully escaped in 1986 he was “recaptured” and returned to Scott Wilson in January 1990 joining the M74 design team. Since then David has been involved in several major roads schemes, principally for the Scottish Office (now Scottish Executive). In 1997 the Government’s trunk road review intervened and the heavy workload ceased almost overnight. Diversification was the key! Over the next few years he spread his wings (literally) and 110

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Congratulations to Z Levi, C Curley and C Ciucci who were married recently.

Welcome to A Leven, N Williamson [Gs], and L Welsh, R Hardie, P Maiden [TTs], who recently joined Glasgow Office.

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Great Scottish Run — 20 August 2000 [Ogilvie; Forshaw et al] Derek Ogilvie and John Forshaw would like to thank all staff who sponsored them in the run last month. A total of £360 was raised for the Friends of the Beatson who provide support for cancer patients at the Beatson Oncology Centre at Glasgow’s Western Infirmary.

The total combined time for Derek and John to complete the half marathon and for Derek’s son Stephen (9) to complete the junior 3km race was 3hr: 52mm: 39sec. The closest estimate was from Darren Gorrie - a mere 9 seconds out. Runners up were Craig Symon and Stephen Kerr. All 3 received a bottle of wine.

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Float Viaduct Highly Commended: N R A 2000: Jim McCafferty [Hackney; Doubal] Earlier this year Mike Hackney reported that “Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd Structural Engineers for Float Viaduct, Carstairs” were awarded “a Certificate of Merit for the high standard of design achieved” at The Structural Steel Design Awards 2000.

Now I can report that Mike Hackney and his team of bridges experts, supported by Roger Doubal and his geotechnics experts, working in association with contractor Carillion have been “Highly Commended” in the Project of the Year category at the National Rail Awards 2000 held in London on 7 September. Full details of the Awards are included in a special supplement to the NCE of 7 September 2000 from which it seems that Scott Wilson were the only consultants to get a mention.

The full text of the High Commendation is as follows:

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In late 1998, Railtrack invited its first ever fixed price bids for the design and build replacement of the Float Viaduct, a curved steel truss structure built in 1863 to carry the West Coast Main Line over the River Clyde near Carstairs, Scotland.

A consortium of consultant Scott Wilson and contractor Carillion won the contract, delivering an all steel superstructure made of three plate girders connected by cross girders supporting a steel plate over four spans.

Installation of piles and piers had to be carried out in a confined space beneath the existing structure, without interfering with train services or river ecology. Major items were prefabricated to minimise the amount of work needed on site. During a five day line possession, the old viaduct was craned out and sections of the new crossing lifted into place. Handed back to Railtrack on time and on budget, the Float Viaduct can now be crossed by trains at full speed.

Congratulations are due to Mike and his team in Glasgow for excellence and innovation in design & project management and for delivery on time, within budget and at profit, to an extremely tight design and construction programme. An excellent working relationship with Carillion and flexible and innovative approach brought speedy resolutions to the unforeseen conditions that inevitably arose during construction.

Carillion and Railtrack are both delighted.

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More Border Raids Across Hadrian’s Wall: Alan Frew [Hunter] Following on from David Webster’s article on Scott Wilson Scotland’s success in picking up the A66 Temple Sowerby Bypass in Northern England, we have continued to pursue opportunities south of the border and these are starting to bear fruit with success on three further commissions:

A66 Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass We were invited to join Balfour Beatty in attempting to prequalify for this £8m Design and Build scheme just outside Workington on the far west end of the A66 in deepest Cumbria. We were duly successful and have now begun the tender stage design - the scheme involves a major earthworks and roadworks input along with three principal structures, so the full weight of Scot Wilson Scotland’s Glasgow office will be enlisted. Balfour Beatty have appointed Ferguson McIlveen for the environmental/landscape disciplines, a company with whom we are coincidentally pursuing opportunities in the north of England following on from our successful relationship in Ireland. [Fee Scale D] Project Director Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager Alan Frew

A66 Interchange Middlesbrough Yet another job on the A66 ( would it be tacky to say ‘ we get our kicks on the A66 ‘ ?). Once again we’ve teamed up with Ferguson Mcllveen to great effect in pursuing infrastructure opportunities in the north of England. We were invited by the local enterprise company, One North East to bid for the Detailed Design and procurement of a £5m interchange on the A66 to provide grade-separated access to a major development at Middlehaven ( including the Riverside football stadium). Once again we saw off the opposition and were informed that our bid had been successful - with the slight caveat that as DETR were reviewing the strategy for the development as a whole our appointment would have to await their findings. Still I suppose it gives a chance to plan our approach for a nice change! [Fee Scale C] Project Director Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager Alan Frew.

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Scottish Millennium Forest Auditing Nigel Hackett [RC] The Edinburgh office of Scott Wilson Resource Consultants has just received confirmation from the Millennium Commission of the fifth term consultancy re-appointment for providing project monitoring and auditing advice in respect of the Millennium Forest for Scotland funded scheme. I quote from the appointment letter ‘I am grateful for your involvement in the project to date and the work you have carried out on behalf of the Millennium Commission and am delighted to continue to work with you in this final phase of the project.’ Fee Scale D

Welcome to C Kellichan [TT][E] and to S Tait and P Cameron [Gs][Gl]

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Float Viaduct: from Jim McCafferty Lest there be any confusion over the header to last week’s article, please note that Float Viaduct received A Certificate of Merit at The Structural Steel Design Awards 2000 earlier this year and was recently Highly Commended at The National Rail Awards 2000. I’m always happy to grasp every opportunity to ‘milk’ a success story for all it’s worth!

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Projects in Ireland: From Alan Frew [Hunter; Hackney] Following on from last week’s article on our forays across Hadrian’s Wall, we have also been taking to the seas and picking up a few jobs in Ireland. This is not say that we’re ignoring our home market ( more of which next week ) just that a number of our initiatives to broaden our horizons seem to have come good all at the same time ( anybody got any staff?). So, back to Ireland:

A5 Newtownstewart Bypass & A2 Sydenham Bypass We have been working for Roads Service in Northern Ireland on two major schemes over the past two years and during this time we have been taking the opportunity to explain the benefits of Design Build procurement ( and obviously our skills and experience in the field ). This persistence has paid off, firstly in the decision to adopt Design Build on one of our pre-existing schemes ( A5 Newtownstewart Bypass), but also in a new commission to provide Design Build advice on the A2 Sydenham Bypass Scheme in Belfast, adjacent to the Belfast City Airport. The scheme involves the replacement of a bridge over the Belfast to Bangor railway along with some upgrading of the A2 itself. Our role is as specialist DB adviser to Roads Service, whose local design office are responsible for the preparation of the tender documents - a pleasant reversal of roles whereby we are reviewing and commenting on the deliverables produced by our erstwhile client. Project Director Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager Alan Frew. Fee Scale D

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Omagh Throughpass During a recent presentation in Omagh on the subject of the A5 Newtownstewart Bypass, our client Roads Service was clearly impressed with our knowledge of bored pile walls, and immediately asked us to undertake two Cat III checks on the Omagh Throughpass which they are designing in-house. a Dublin Road Bridge and Druniragh River Bridge : Mike Hackney and his team in Glasgow are currently checking these bridges. Fee Scale D

N54/A3 Accident Reduction Scheme, Monaghan Another cross-border raid, this time into Eire. We have teamed up with two of our traditional partners in Northern and Southern Ireland, namely Ferguson McIlveen and Malone O’Regan respectively, to land a job to investigate and resolve a chronic accident area on a stretch of the main Belfast to Galway route. The border in this area zig-zags back and forth across the route requiring work in both countries, hence our decision to team up with both FMcI and MOR. In formal terms the project will be undertaken by the MOR/SW joint venture, with FMcI being employed as a subconsultant. The route suffers from very poor vertical and horizontal alignment in addition to having been built across a typical Irish bog. Our task will therefore be to develop (low cost ) alignment improvements in conjunction with prudent geotechnical solutions. PD Ronnie Hunter, PM Alan Frew [Fee Scale D].

RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Leuchars & Barry Buddon Army Camp: Andrew Aikman [Grant] Scott Wilson have recently been appointed as Project Managers on two RAF developments at RAF Lossiemouth, under the Defence Estates Partnering Agreement (DE PA).

The commissions include extensive refurbishment of five WWII hangars to provide modern operational facilities, including training, office, workshop, storage and hangar accommodation for a Tornado Squadron and the RAF’s busiest Search and Rescue (SAR) Flight in the UK. Whilst an inspection and detailed structural analysis of the original hangar structures will be necessary to ascertain their condition and the extent of any strengthening works required to meet current design loadings, the principal difficulty will be maintaining the RAF’s operational effectiveness during the very tight programme. It will be necessary to allow Tornadoes to be placed in two of the hangars every evening and ensure that the minimum response/mobilisation time for SAR Flight is achieved throughout the construction phase. Tackling these problems will be Scott Wilson’s PM Teams lead by Andrew Aikman in Edinburgh and Hamish Grant in Inverness.

Other recent commissions under the DE PA include two projects at RAF Leuchars and an Army Cadet Force training development at Barry Buddon, Carnoustie. Fee Scale C

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Success on the Home Front: From Alan Frew [Hunter; Hackett] Having spent the last two weeks rabbiting on about our many cross-border forays, it is time to reassure anyone who cares that we are still looking after our home market in Scotland. We’ve won a batch of jobs recently which fall neatly under the heading of’ partnering ‘ (with a small ‘p’ ). We announced a few weeks back that we were tendering for three of the four Term Maintenance contracts for the Scottish Trunk Road Network — one of these was in joint venture with Colas, whilst the other two are working in partnership with the local authority consortia. Tenders are not due in for the maintenance contracts until mid October, but our relationships with the local authorities are already bearing fruit both in terms of preferential treatment and award of untendered work. A few such snippets are listed below:

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Bridges across the Atlantic [Colintraive; Seil; Coll] One of our partners on the South-West unit, namely Argyll and Bute Council invited us to ‘bid’ for a very interesting commission to consider the economic, social and technical feasibility of constructing fixed links (bridges to you and I) to connect up the following island communities (you may wish to look out your atlases!): • Colintraive – Bute • Seil – Luing • Coll - Tiree Following an interview, we were duly awarded the commission, and are about to start the process of site visits. OK, it’s not Sydney or Barbados, but I can think of many worse places to be. The broad nature of the commission has meant that we have enlisted the full services of ‘One Scott Wilson’ — Bridges, Geotechnical, Environmental (courtesy of Nigel Hackett in RC), and Funding/Procurement, in addition to specialist advice from Dr John Riddell and Roger Tym. Project Director Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager Alan Frew Fee Scale D

A86 Rubha na Magach to Aberarder [Highland Council] The job title may be a bit of a mouthful, but don’t let that put you off. We were invited by Highland Council, one of our partners in Caledonian Roads (ie the North West Unit), to undertake a design review of a recently completed Design Build scheme in which the contractor was claiming that a compliant scheme could not have been built within the land made available. Peter Adams, Kirsty McHugh and Stewart Proud have undertaken a detailed review of the alignment and geotechnical issues, and while we cannot reveal our findings whilst the dispute is continuing, it has been very rewarding and reassuring to be working as a specialist technical adviser both to the Council and to the ultimate paymaster, the Scottish Executive. Once again site visits have been spectacular, with the site being set in the fictitious Glen Bogle from the BBC series ‘Monarch of the Glen’. Project Director Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager Alan Frew Fee Scale D

A77 Turnberry [S Ayrshire] Another nice setting and another good job. In this case, South Ayrshire Council, a partner from the South West Unit invited us to undertake the detailed design and procurement of a 1.5km stretch of realigned carriageway and climbing lane on the main trunk road to the port of Stranraer. As with the A86 scheme, we were awarded the commission without competition and were able to negotiate reasonable timecharge rates. The scheme involves our roads and geotechnical disciplines under the leadership of Denise Ritchie and Stewart Proud respectively. Project Director Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager Alan Frew Fee Scale D

Road Inventory Surveys [Glasgow; Highland] Our relationship with the various local authorities is also helping to contribute towards a reasonable workload for SWPE, with both Glasgow City Council and Highland Council awarding commissions over the last few months for inventory surveys on their respective road networks.

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SW Scotland to Complete A74 Missing Link Carlisle-Gretna: David Webster [Hindshaw] We are pleased to confirm that our involvement in the upgrading of the A74 to motorway status is to continue. Following a recent tender submission to the Highways Agency, we have been appointed to take forward to completion, the “Cumberland Gap” from Junction 44 on the M6 at Carlisle to Guardsmill, just south of Gretna. Our partners in their commission are Cumbria County Council Design Services. The commission will examine a number of route options with a view to identifying a preferred scheme which will comply with the Highways Agency’s requirements for a “lower cost” option. Thereafter the promotion of the scheme will be carried out under a novel procurement technique entitled the “Early Contractor Involvement” where Design and Build Contractors will be invited to tender to take the scheme through the Stage 3 Assessment, Environmental Statement, 115

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Road and Compulsory Purchase Orders and Public Local Inquiry before embarking on final design and construction. Scott Wilson’s role during this stage will be to act as Department’s Agent and to monitor and review the D & B contractors work. This should be an interesting approach, and one in which we are pleased to be involved from the outset. This commission means that Scott Wilson’s association with the A74 upgrade will be continuous from our initial appointment in 1989 through to completion of the route (hopefully around 2006/7). Thanks to all who assisted in the tender. PD - Simon Hindshaw PM - David Webster Fee Scale B

Scottish Executive Transport Research Term Commission: David Webster [Hindshaw] We have been appointed by the Scottish Executive as call off consultants for a 3 year commission to undertake a number of transport research projects. The commission covers a wide range of aspects including sustainability, transport policy, materials, geotechnics, structures, safety and operations & maintenance. It is likely that the resources of the Scott Wilson’s UK group operations will be called upon to fulfil the requirements of the commission. As the commission develops I will keep you informed. Project Director Simon Hindshaw, Project Manager David Webster. Fee Scale C

Second Honeymoon: Design Build with Balfour Beatty: Alan Frew [Hunter] I promise this is the final instalment of my series of articles. This time it is to announce the re- formation of our relationship with Balfour Beatty on Design Build roads schemes in Scotland. Having each had a number of affairs with other firms over recent years, both ourselves and BB, have realised that we should never have broken up a winning team - we did after all win 4 major DB schemes in the 1990s worth a combined total in excess of £50M. Over recent months we’ve been to marriage counselling and decided to give it another go - already with great success, having prequalified for the latest two trunk road tenders:

A830 Arisaig to Kinsadel [Hunter; Frew] This scheme involves the construction of a 6km single carriageway offline scheme across typically highland terrain ie a mixture of peat bogs and rugged rocky outcrops - a genuine challenge for Roger Doubal and his geotechnical team. The scheme is located in stunning countryside, adjacent to a series of campsites near the Glenfinnan Monument and on the road to the ferry terminal and fishing village of Mallaig. Project Director - Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager – Alan Frew Fee Scale D

A1 Howburn to Houndwood [Hunter; Frew] The first of a series of upgrades on the main road south out of Edinburgh ( why you would want to drive south out of Edinburgh I’m not sure !). We’ve teamed up with BB for all 4 of the series of schemes amounting to a total of around £40million. The first scheme is worth around £5million and involves a significant realignment of both the Al and the adjacent Eye Water. Earthworks will once again be a major challenge, with a major cutting to be designed and then hauled across the Al to create an embankment across the flood plain ( no doubt with the usual settlement control issues). Project Director - Ronnie Hunter, Project Manager – Alan Frew Fee Scale D

Welcome to T Thomas [AE]; M Hay [GE]; M McPhie [Marketing] : Glasgow

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Taken at the top of Mount Taishan, the most sacred of the Five Sacred Taoist Mountains of China. The summit is covered with various places of worship, stone tablets and dodgy souvenir shops!

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Stan Johnston Promoted to Associate, C OU, July 2000. [Ireland] Stan graduated from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 1972, and following a brief period working in N Ireland, moved to South Africa where he worked on a major earthworks project for Murray & Roberts, Contractors Ltd and on roadworks design & supervision for VKE, Consulting Engineers He returned to the UK in 1979 and worked for the Department of Transport before joining Scott Wilson, Hong Kong in 1981. He spent two years in Hong Kong working on the design of the approach viaducts to the Tsing Tsuen Bridge over the Rambler Channel. He has worked in the Chesterfield Office since 1983 and has been involved in the design and construction supervision of a number of the major roads and bridgeworks contracts on the M42/A42 and A50 routes in the Midlands and the A19 in the North East of England. He has been involved in all the Design & Build and Design, Build, Finance & Operate Contracts undertaken by C Operating Unit, gaining experience as the Contractor’s Designer, the Employer’s Agent and the Employer’s Site Representative. Stan is married with two daughters and lives at Tansley near Matlock in Derbyshire. His recent appointment as Project Manager for the N8 Cullahill to Cashel section of the new National Route between Dublin and Cork has meant that he and his wife Anna have temporarily relocated to Waterford, Ireland.

Ireland and N. Ireland: Jim McCafferty Scott Wilson are now working on several projects in Ireland and N Ireland in association with local consultants T J O’Connor and Malone O’Regan of Dublin, and Ferguson McIlveen of Belfast. Relationships are complex and sometimes convoluted so every care needs to be taken to ensure that we have a co-ordinated approach. Jim McCafferty, who is co-ordinating Scott Wilson interests in Ireland, should be contacted for advice and agreement concerning all visits, partnerships and proposals in this market.

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Benbecula Airport: Simon Hindshaw [Clegg] SWSL has been appointed to design, prepare contract documentation and provide site supervision for the works necessary to rehabilitate the main runway and a localised area of subsidence to the secondary runway at Benbecula Airport. SWKPE will be undertaking the assessment of the residual strength of the existing runways. Associated works include remedials to the surface water drainage system and any consequential adjustments required to the airfield ground lighting system. Benbecula Airport is one of ten airports operated by Highlands & Islands Airports which provide lifeline services to some of the most remote communities in Scotland. This commission follows similar ones undertaken previously at Kirkwall (1995), Inverness (1999) and Wick (2000). Whilst all of these airports are lightly used, the constraints of working in an operational airport environment are the same as for larger airports and are compounded by the logistical difficulties of simply getting the requisite quantity of specified material to these remote locations and completing the works within a narrow weather window. Project Manager is Robert Clegg. Fee scale C. PS. Benbecula is at about the midpoint of the chain of islands forming the Outer Hebrides!

ScottLight 001-267 (Scotland) [July 1995-Nov 2000]: The End

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