Contractors

Try Accord has promoted Steve Jarvis to business development manager for London. Sam Roscoe has been made business development manager for the South-west.

Jane Horswill has joined Roberts as area marketing manager for South Yorkshire.

Housebuilders

Laing Homes South Thames has appointed Alan Sellers sales and marketing director.

Consultants

Birmingham-based Wakemans has appointed Roy Walton, Mark Beddow, Mike Taylor and Paul Stokes to its project management team.

Derek Smith has been made a partner in QS and project manager Corderoy Group and a director of the group’s subsidiary Corderoy Contract Services. John Wedlake, Roger Allen and Alec Stroud have been appointed directors of Corderoy Contract Services.

Guildford-based consultant Project Techniques has appointed Derek Davis operations director.

Andrew Timlick has become a partner in Chichester-based QS Grant Associates.

Multidisciplinary practice Ridge and Partners has promoted Matthew Francis and Mark Gordon to partners in the Oxford office. Adrian Westbury has been made senior associate in Oxford.

Institutions

Arthur Moore, systems design director at Television Partnership International, has been appointed chairman of the Institution of Incorporated Engineers.

Buro Happold chairman Michael Dickson has been elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Evelyn McDowall of Turner & Townsend Project Management has been appointed Scottish chairman of the British Institute of Facilities Management.

Suppliers

Fastening specialist Fixing Point has promoted Adrian Steele to the new position of key accounts manager.

Plaster and plasterboard manufacturer Knauf has appointed Jonathan Abbott product manager.

Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning specialist Energy Technique has appointed Leigh Stimpson group managing director.

Adrian Thompson has been appointed managing director of Marley subsidiary Greenwood Air Management.