DBA attends STEMette event at Calderglen High School DBA have recently participated in a STEMette event held by Calderglen High School. The event was attended by our STEM Ambassador, Ross Cameron accompanied by Claire Kirk, one of our Civil Engineering Technicians. The purpose of this event was to engage with S2 girls and increase their…
Business Brunch at St Andrews & St Brides High School Dougall Baillie Associates had the pleasure of being invited to a Business Brunch at St Andrews & St Brides High School, East Kilbride on 4thOctober as business mentors for entrepreneurial training for their Micro-Tyco event. Scott Macphail (Associate) and Ross Cameron (Technician) both attended this…
TECHNICIAN MEMBERSHIP OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS We are pleased to announce that one of our technicians, Stuart McDermott, has been successful in his recent review for Technician Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Stuart has achieved this through his attitudes to work and demonstration of capabilities in his role. Whilst we have…
ON A MORE SOCIAL NOTE….. Our recent company badminton tournament, which involved 20 or so of the staff was a well fought contest! The overall Champions League winner was Rory Smith, after a bit of a battle with Calum Hyslop in the final. The Duffer’s cup was won by Colin MacCabe who narrowly defeated Kieran…
EARLY DAY MOTION IN PARLIAMENT Dougall Baillie were delighted to meet with Dr Lisa Cameron MP on Friday 16th of November at the local constituency office. We were proud to receive formal presentation of a copy of the Early Day Motion presented in Parliament earlier this year as recognition of DBA efforts as an employer…
GREAT SCOTTISH RUN 2018 DBA staff are celebrating after this year’s Great Scottish Run, where 20 of our staff entered the race. Plenty of weary legs after the race, but it was all for a good cause. Loads of money raised in support of the Bloodwise charity (bloodwise.org.uk), and to top it off, we were…
GREGOR MUIRHEAD MEMORIAL JUG Once again, DBA have successfully organised our annual Golf Tournament in memory of our former Colleague, Gregor Muirhead. This year’s event was hosted at the Lochwinnoch Golf Club, where we had 16 entrants to the competition. As always, the format of this competition was based on Texas Scramble, with this year’s…
CONGRATULATIONS FROM LOCAL MSP LINDA FABIANI DBA are very proud to have been visited by MSP Linda Fabiani in relation to our recent success in the ACE Awards. Linda was particularly impressed with our policy of paying the Living Wage, and our stance of zero gender pay gap. RECOGNITION FROM DR LISA CAMERON MP Click…
DBA are first class, and we can prove it…. DBA are delighted to confirm that four of our current staff have just received their University results and have achieved First Class Degrees. These are: Billy Robertson: First Class Degree BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of West Scotland Natasha Shaw: First Class BSc…
DBA Winners at the ACE Consultancy and Engineering Awards As an update from the earlier news article, DBA are immensely proud to have been confirmed as winners at this year’s ACE Consultancy and Engineering Awards. The award ceremony was held at the Marriot, Grosvenor Square, London where Fergus, Norman and Scott were in attendance to…