INVERNESS

Mark Bramley, Regional Director for Northern Scotland, gave us an update on recent progress in Inverness where the team have a new office and new support staff to help our sites in the North.

Since October 2022 the team have sourced and established the Inverness office which has encouraged long-service staff like Bill Henderson and Keith Niven to work from an official MCL office for the first time in over two years!

Mark has also recruited Fiona Stoddart to provide support to the regional team, and has also recruited some water operatives (Ryan McLaughlin, Nathan Hunter and Lewis Fitzgerald) to the team. Additionally, during the last few weeks, Calum Nicolson and Alex Smith have joined the team in temporary roles as Site Supervisor/Engineer and Contract Manager respectively. It’s great to see the team starting to establish itself in the Inverness area and bodes well for the planned growth in the region over the coming months/years.

The primary partners and clients in Inverness are Scottish Water and Scottish Water Horizons but the team have also been working on some smaller scale projects for a variety of locally based private sector clients.

In recent months, Mark’s highlight has been the ongoing and positive working relationship with the Invernessbased Scottish Water team which has seen continued awards of further projects under the SPMA Tank programme and Sample Tap Upgrade programme.

We recently spoke to Robbie MacLean, Contracts Manager at our Dundee site to find out a little bit more about the main works Mackenzie Construction carry out in the Dundee area.

Robbie confirmed that the main partner he works with in the Dundee region are Scottish Water, more specifically as part of the Sub Programme Management Approach (SPMA) programme to repair treated water tanks. The SPMA Repairs Programme have contributed significantly to the repair and refurbishment of treated water storage structures across Scotland which in turn will improve and protect water quality.

Over the past 12-months Peter Neen, our Project Manager, who lives and is based in the East, along with his team have maintained a very high rate of delivery of tanks across the east region for Scottish Water. They work closely with all of the Scottish Water partners to ensure these projects have been safely and efficiently delivered to a very high standard of quality.

The East SPMA Team have just been awarded another substantial number of tanks to be delivered over the next period. This will bring improvements to the quality of water being stored within the assets by carrying out internal and external refurbishment works to prevent ingress and egress into the tanks.