Stantec, a global leader of sustainable design and engineering, has appointed Scott Elliott as the company’s new regional business lead for buildings in the UK.

In his new role, Elliott is responsible for strengthening Stantec’s growing buildings services offer for clients, supporting the delivery of major interdisciplinary design and engineering projects across the country.

Elliott was previously managing director of Hydrock, acquired by Stantec in 2024, and has been leading integration efforts, bringing together technical experience  while leveraging collective strengths and relationships. He is now helping further embed Stantec’s buildings business in key UK sectors, including data centres, advanced manufacturing, education, healthcare, life sciences and defence.

Bringing about a strategic evolution of Stantec’s UK&I buildings team and strengthening collaboration across disciplines are core focuses for Elliott, helping the wider company cement its market reputation as a top-tier engineering and design firm through the diversification of its core businesses. He is using his extensive market experience to shape a more connected buildings business, aligning design, engineering, and advisory services to respond to evolving client demands.

“In the last year, Stantec’s building business has grown substantially, keeping technical excellence, creativity, and a deep understanding of our clients’ challenges at the heart of what we do,” Elliott said.

“From sensitive refurbishment schemes to new and complex advanced manufacturing facilities, we have an incredible depth of experience, as well as a great reputation for delivering pioneering, high-quality projects. Now, my focus is on sustained growth to reinforce our position as a market-leading interdisciplinary consultant. I’m excited to be building on our strong foundations in my new role, helping deliver resilient places that add long-term value for communities and the environment.”

Other new appointments across the infrastructure sector include:

Infrastructure, construction and developments group Kier has appointed Tracey Collins as its new sustainability director, giving her the lead on the group’s commitment to operate as a sustainable, responsible business.

Collins will take responsibility for Kier’s environmental and social sustainability commitments, set out in its Building for a Sustainable World framework. Overseeing the group’s focus to sustainability and leaving lasting legacies, she will build on Kier’s standout performance in carbon, as well as its Moving through May campaign which has combined employee engagement and wellbeing with social impact in local communities across the UK.

Tracey has been at Kier for 15 years, most recently holding leadership roles heading up the group’s approach to emerging talent, social sustainability and diversity and inclusion.

Global professional services firm, Turner & Townsend, has announced the promotion of Stephanie Marshall to managing director for UK cost management, real estate.

She joined Turner & Townsend 14 years ago as a cost manager in the company’s Newcastle office. Since then, she has consistently delivered exceptional results across both public and private sectors, leading major complex cost management commissions across the UK. 

Most recently Marshall led the UK regional cost management business and has pioneered the evolution of the firm’s mark leading digital capability in cost management. She takes over the role from Martin Sudweeks, who retires following more than 30 years at the business.

Ramboll has appointed Richard Dean as head of the Cities Service Line for the North and Midlands of the UK, focused on private development project pipeline; specifically in the commercial offices/workplace, residential, higher education, retail, hotels, culture and sports and leisure sectors. Dean will lead Ramboll’s multidisciplinary private sector focused engineering teams in Ramboll’s Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham offices.

Originally trained as a building services engineer, Dean originally worked in design before moving into project management roles at Balfour Beatty and Bovis. From there, he moved into property development including a role as managing director at KW Linfoot, which at one point was responsible for around a third of the residential city centre development in Leeds; and more recently serving as a project director and development director across major residential and commercial teams in the North and East Anglia.