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W M Donald establishes a new office in Perth
Over its 40-plus year history, W M Donald has regularly completed projects in the Tayside area. In recent years this has been reflected in the ‘migration’ of its employees to the extent that around 40% of the company’s workforce is located South of Brechin and Montrose.
With projects being taken on in the region and even more in the pipeline, it was decided to establish an office in Perth. Opening in June 2021, the Perth office will initially be home to four employees. This includes Mark Stewart, Commercial Manager – Tayside, who, along with Contracts Manager, Scott McDonald, has overall responsibility for the new office and the projects in the area:
‘Establishing an office in Perth made sense for so many reasons.
Firstly, it is a sign to our clients and potential future clients that we are committed to the region and willing to invest in it and its people. We are looking to recruit high-quality local tradesmen and women. As a company we pride ourselves on our training and occupational health provision, and we are particularly proud of our apprenticeship scheme. We currently have half of the new intake of apprentices working within the Tayside region.
W M Donald is the first civil engineering contractor in the UK to achieve carbon neutral status, and our goal is to maintain that status which requires us to improve our environmental performance year-on-year. We are currently looking to identify an operations base in the area to complement the new office facility at the King
James Business Centre. This will substantially reduce our carbon emissions as we will be able to mobilise personnel, plant and equipment locally.
Two of the many projects we are currently running from the Perth office are Balgillo Heights at Broughty Ferry and the construction of a new Starbucks and Burger King in Glenrothes.
At Balgillo Heights we are continuing our working relationship with Kirkwood Homes on phases four and five of the development which will deliver a further one hundred new homes. As with the first three phases, W M Donald is undertaking the cut and fill earthworks, infrastructure and the installation of foundations and the floor slabs and all associated external finishings.
We have also recently completed the installation of a new access road at Broxden Industrial Estate for a new client, Algo (Blairgowrie) Ltd. Hopefully, Algo is just one of many new clients that we will be servicing from the new Perth office in years to come.’
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