The Team at Scotwood

Chris Nugent

Chris Nugent FCIOB
Managing Director

Chris has over 20 years’ experience as an MD within the construction industry and has led and managed businesses of varying sizes. A graduate of Glasgow University in Business Management and Economics, Chris is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building and has an MBA. Chris is a strong believer in developing and maintaining relationships in business through strong communication with staff and customers and the delivery of a top quality service.

 chris@scotwood.com

James A Scott

James A Scott
Director

Jim joined the company in 1987 after three years in the insurance business. He was appointed a Director of Scotwood in 1993 and has always been actively involved in all aspects of the business. For twenty-five years, until 2024, Jim’s role was Joint MD with Doug Kerr, before he handed the MD reins to Chris Nugent. He continues in his role as Director and plays a lead role in sales and relationship management with clients. He is always on hand to ensure the smooth running of projects.

 jim@scotwood.com

John Taylor

John Taylor
Director

John Taylor joined Scotwood in 1985 as a joiner and worked his way up through the ranks before becoming the Contracts Director. John oversees all Scotwood’s contracts across the UK and is in charge of a department which includes over 20 qualified tradesmen. John’s project management abilities ensure customer satisfaction and much repeat business.

 john@scotwood.com

Andy Ashton

Andy Ashton
Contracts Manager

Andy joined Scotwood in 1997 as a time served joiner. Andy was recently promoted to Contracts Manager where he now has a large amount of contracts to manage on a day to day basis all over Scotland. His responsibilities are ensuring projects run smoothly to the clients’ time scales and to the agreed budget.

 andy@scotwood.com

Craig Rodgers

Craig Rodgers
Contracts Manager

Craig joined Scotwood in January 2013. He has brought his years of experience and knowledge to the company and is an integral part of the Contracts Team. Craig is responsible for looking after contracts from conception to handover, and he also assists in the surveying and pricing roles.

 craig@scotwood.com

Brian Rippon

Brian Rippon
Contracts Manager

Brian began his career as a joiner more than 30 years ago and from an early age, was given supervisory roles within the companies he worked - including Scotwood, who he worked with in the early nineties. He progressed to contract manger roles many years ago. Projects he is particularly proud of include the Gleneagles Equestrian Centre, the Royal Bank of Scotland Offices at Gogarburn and Ayrshire College, which won an FIS Gold Award.

 brian@scotwood.com

Graham Scott

Graham Scott
Contracts Co-ordinator

Graham joined Scotwood in 1990, working originally as a driver before moving into buying as a trainee, which was the beginning of his long career in purchasing. He achieved Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply accreditation and progressed to the position of buyer and contracts co-ordinator.

After a brief period away from Scotwood, he returned to the team in 2019.

 graham@scotwood.com

Anne Warren

Anne Warren
Office Manageress

Anne joined Scotwood in 1994 as Office Manageress and, coming from a training background, brought a sound knowledge of Administration and IT to Scotwood. She was instrumental in introducing and overseeing a new computerised system to the company. Anne’s new key roles include PR, Marketing, Web design and CDM manuals for completed projects.

 anne@scotwood.com

Megan Davies

Megan Davies
Accounts

Megan is responsible for the management accounts and month end activity including purchase and sales invoicing. She is also in charge of payroll and HR. Megan has a background in accounts and managerial roles and is also studying for a degree in marketing and business in her part-time.

 megan@scotwood.com

Winner Lanarkshire Business Excellence Award 2015

Winner Lanarkshire Business Excellence Award 2015

Sub Contractors

Our highly skilled and multi-trade workforce enjoy close working relationships with carefully selected sub contractors, unless nominated by the client. We provide repeat business for a select number of specialist contractors that we use on a continuing basis and they must comply with our stringent Health & Safety requirements.

Our high standards are well known to them because we have been working with the majority of our contractors for between 10 and 20 years.

“With a staff turnover of less than 2%, Scotwood truly is the definition of a happy and successful family-based business.”

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