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Scott Wilson Scotland: a History Volume 6 the SWK Today Years Doc 12.52: Scott Wilson Scotland: A History: Vol 6 The SWK Today Years 1972-1995 JP McCafferty Scott Wilson Scotland: A History Volume 6 The SWK Today Years 1972-1995 Transcribed and edited from ‘SWK Today’ JP McCafferty 1 Doc 12.52: Scott Wilson Scotland: A History: Vol 6 The SWK Today Years 1972-1995 JP McCafferty Significant or notable projects, people and events are highlighted as follows for ease of reference:- Projects/Disciplines People Issue/Date Actions Contents Background ......................................................................................................................................... 12 SWK Today ......................................................................................................................................... 12 JP McCafferty [See P83, 90 photograph Spacing][Check Heads 2 eg P20 No11].............................. 12 SWK Today 1-Nov 1972 ..................................................................................................................... 13 The firm now has in hand over sixty projects, each worth more than £1 million .............................. 13 6014 - Glasgow Comprehensive Highway Study ............................................................................ 14 SWKP Today 4-Aug 1974 ................................................................................................................... 15 Oil from Troubled Waters: North Sea Oil Projects [Williams] ........................................................... 15 Thistle and Ninian Platforms ............................................................................................................ 15 BA Helicopter Hanger Sumburgh, Shetland [Rutter] ....................................................................... 15 Hong Kong Highway: Tuen Mun Road Stage 1 Starts [Lindsay; McCafferty] .................................. 15 Smooth Move: Winsley Street to Scott House, Basingstoke ........................................................... 16 Retirement: Mervyn Johnston .......................................................................................................... 16 SWK Today 5-Oct 1974 ...................................................................................................................... 16 Moving Along the Highway: M8 Renfrew Motorway Stage 1 [Breakey] ........................................... 16 Facelift: Forth and Clyde Canal, Clydebank .................................................................................... 16 SWK Today 6-Jan 1975 ...................................................................................................................... 16 Brandon Street Bypass, Motherwell Opens ..................................................................................... 16 High Stacks: Report on Inverkip Power Station Chimney [Thorp; Peterhead Chimney] .................. 17 Lowland Fling; GMJ Williams at Trades House, Glasgow ............................................................... 17 Highway Supervision: John Warburton rejoins as CRE Libya ......................................................... 17 SWKP Today 7- March 1975 .............................................................................................................. 17 All Our Todays: Mike Slinn Moves to Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong ................................................ 17 Oriental Print: Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong [Lindsay; McCafferty] ................................................. 17 Current Major Jobs. (Construction cost exceeding £1million - Scotland and NI). ............................ 18 Belfast-Antrim M/way: Ballybentragh-Sandyknowes On site, £3.9m, completion due 1975 Glasgow, Townhead Interchange Stage 2 Design, £5m Glasgow, Ayr Motorway Stage 1 Design, £4m Glasgow, Renfrew Motorway Stage 1 On site, £14m completion due 1976 ......... 18 SWK Today 8-Aug 1977 ..................................................................................................................... 18 SWK by Staff Numbers [Halved in Scotland] ................................................................................... 18 Faces & Places: Promotions [Osborn; Elliott; Innes; Grace et al] .................................................... 18 SWK (Scotland) has opened a branch office in Dingwall ................................................................ 19 SWK Today 9-Nov 1977 ..................................................................................................................... 19 Hong Kong News [Tuen Mun Road; Tsuen Wan Bypass; McCafferty; Kemp; Stamper et al] ......... 19 2 Doc 12.52: Scott Wilson Scotland: A History: Vol 6 The SWK Today Years 1972-1995 JP McCafferty Scottish Reel: M8 Renfrew Motorway Stage 1 Film ........................................................................ 20 SWK (Scotland) is continuing to help out the other SWK offices ..................................................... 20 Counter to this trend. Glasgow has had an influx of engineers on secondment .............................. 20 SWK Today 11-May 1978 ................................................................................................................... 20 Opening of Sumburgh Hangar [Brief history of Glasgow and Aberdeen Airports; Baillie] ................ 20 SWK Today 12-Sept 1978 .................................................................................................................. 20 Highland Works [Rona & Raasay Jetties; A9 Sutherland; Baillie; Blackwood; Breakey] ................. 21 Tuen Mun Road Stage 1 Opens 5 May 1978 .................................................................................. 21 Hong Kong Cross Harbour Tunnel Approaches Saturation [SWK(S); Cullen; Holmes] ................... 21 Hong Kong Office moves from Star House to Ocean Centre [Elliott; McCafferty] ........................... 21 SWK Today 13-Dec 1978 ................................................................................................................... 22 Projects [GIRR S&E Flank Studies; Dumbreck Road Tenders; Dougall; Munro; Brown; French] ... 22 Nigerian Capital Roads [Rakusen] .................................................................................................. 22 Hong Kong: Tuen Mun Road Stage 2: First Contract [J McCafferty PM] ......................................... 22 Footnote: Jim McCafferty was, among other things, Project Manager Tuen Mun Road Stage 2. ... 22 SWK Today 14-March 1979 ................................................................................................................ 23 Hong Kong Now ‘The Greatest’ [400 Staff] [Scotland 44] ................................................................ 23 SWK Today 15-July 1979 ................................................................................................................... 23 Flying Carpet Survey: Baghdad CTS [SWK(S)] ............................................................................... 23 New Land for Oil Tanks at Nigg Bay [Dodd; Hunter; Tobiasiewicz; Cullen; Baillie] ......................... 24 Drain Brains Conference for Eastern Europe Engineers [Breakey] ................................................. 24 SWK Today 16-Nov 1979 ................................................................................................................... 25 Gas Pipeline from Scotland [Coldstream to Bishop Auckland] ........................................................ 25 Scott Wins ‘Kirkpatrick’ Scholarship; DJ Monteith gets the ‘Wilson’ ................................................ 25 Offshore Engineers: Ninian Central Platform for Chevron [Swift] .................................................... 25 SWK Today-17-March 1979................................................................................................................ 26 Poland [Slinn] .................................................................................................................................. 26 Cyprus [Napier] ............................................................................................................................... 26 Persons and Places [Breakey; Baillie; Dougal; McGowan Associates-Scotland] ............................ 26 SWK Today 18-June 1980 .................................................................................................................. 27 Scottish Landscape [Brora; Pipeline Survey, HK Tunnel; Blackwood; Breakey; Cullen McGowan] 27 SWK Today 19-Dec 1980 ................................................................................................................... 27 Cromarty Firth Development [Guthrie; Baillie] ................................................................................. 27 People & Places [Breakey Resigns; Monteith; Sabah Road; Guinness; Hedges; McCafferty] ........ 28 SWK Today 20-March 1981 ................................................................................................................ 28 Geotechnical Checks in HK [RJ Doubal] ......................................................................................... 28 SWK Today 21-July 1981 ................................................................................................................... 29 Abuja New Capital of Nigeria [Greenland; Gandy; Cullen; McGowan; Hancock; McCafferty] ......... 29 3 Doc 12.52: Scott Wilson Scotland: A History: Vol 6 The SWK Today Years 1972-1995 JP McCafferty Footnote: Jim McCafferty returned to Glasgow from Hong Kong in September 1981 to become PM
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