Appointments

1 Jyoti Madlani

Lovell has named Madlani as regeneration manager for the East Midlands.

2 Gary Sullivan

The MD of Wilson James, has been named as the new chairman of Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership.

3 Duncan Clark

Clark has joined fit-out and refurb specialist Dean & Bowes as commercial director. He was previously southern regional director for Jarvis Construction.

4 Ken Power and 5 Sean Birrane

Lakehouse Contracts of Romford has appointed Power and Birrane to the board of directors.

6 Derek Duffy

Duffy, 44, is the new regional health, safety and environmental manager for Lovell in Scotland.

also climbing the ladder...

Wates has appointed senior civil servant and former director-general at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Eugenie Turton as non-executive director.

Skanska UK has recruited Barry White from Partnerships UK, Mike Staples from Faithful & Gould and James Berry from BAA to become director of education, development director and design director respectively.

Jon Becker has joined Midas Property Services – the specialist fit-out and refurbishment arm of the Midas Group - as head of its social housing division.

Joining Kajima Construction (UK) are planning manager John Gordon and senior project managers, David Peat and Craig Smailes.

Stewart Tilley has been appointed chairman of Kier Eastern. He takes over from Ian Lawson, who has moved on to become managing director of Kier Support Services, while Graham Howe becomes divisional director with responsibility for Kier Eastern’s Norwich office.

Lovell has appointed Alison Coles as a trainee site manager. Alison, 19, has been promoted after completing a three-year bricklaying apprenticeship with the company.

All in the family

There’s no room for nepotism in a good family firm like ours, runs the old adage – and apparently that’s true at Midas Property Services, which recently took on a third generation of the Heal family in the person of 16-year-old Andrew Heal, left, as an apprentice carpenter. He follows cousin Lynda Dymond, right, who joined as a trainee receptionist 15 years ago (she’s now a contract manager), and grandfather Mike Heal, middle, operations manager.

“You always think that family members get special treatment, but it isn’t true here,” said Lynda. “You have to find your own way.”

She added they avoid the two main hazards of family members working for the same company. First, they don’t talk shop at family get-togethers. Second, they don’t mix family politics with work politics.