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Alan White Design Announces Strategic Leadership Transition to Propel Future Growth

Alan White Design (AWD), a leading civil engineering consultancy known for its award-winning work in...

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Top 4 Tips for Bridge Maintenance Access

Maintenance access to bridges is an unavoidable risk. It’s something that must be carried out throug...

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Will a rise in Professional indemnity insurance premiums harm SME consultants?

There has been a worrying trend over the last three years with regard to professional indemnity insu...

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4 Years as an ISO Certified Business

We’re proud to share that AWD has achieved both ISO9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certifications this ...

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AWD Are Back In The Premiership

As things slowly return to normal, we like to think that some things haven’t changed too much…..one ...

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AWD Turns 20!

It's official, we're 20! Yes, 2020 marks AWD's 20th anniversary as a world-class engineering consul...

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Supporting Scotland GAA

We’ve dived into the world of Gaelic Football this month by donating to the Scotland GAA Go Fund Me ...

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Student Project Success for Agata

For the last few months, we’ve had Agata Chmielewska, an HND Mechanical Engineering student from Ayr...

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How It's Made: Concrete Edition

As Engineers, nothing gets us more excited than diving into the specifications of our specialist wor...

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Malachy is Appointed Twf Director

Today we’re celebrating the news that our Managing Director, Malachy, has been appointed as a Direct...

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Running Roon the Toon for Hillhouse

Yesterday saw Christy, Euan and Malachy run ‘Roon the Toon’ for our friends and neighbours at Hillho...

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Euan Achieves Chartered Engineer Status

We’re celebrating our employee success this week with our Associate Director, Euan, achieving Charte...

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Lookout! We're Going Paper-Free

This month, Euan completed a skills course with the Business Improvement Academy, a Scottish Enterpr...

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From Student to Engineer: Paul Shows Us The Ropes

You may have noticed a new face on some of our recent posts: our Graduate Engineer Paul Lynch! Only ...

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Euan Becomes AWD Shareholder

We’re delighted to share the news that Associate Director, Euan Strathearn, is now a shareholder and...

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Have you got what it takes to meet our CE4R challenge?

This week saw AWD host the latest of the University of Strathclyde's Civil Engineering for Real (CE4...

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Haggis, Neeps & Ceilidh Dancing

Team AWD championed our Ayrshire base in celebration of local legend Rabbie Burns on Friday night at...

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Scottish Government Support for AWD Growth

We kicked off 2019 in style as Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation visited...

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Engineers to Elves: AWD Deliver for Charity this Christmas

Our multi-talented engineers took on the role of elves this week as they helped deliver a cheque for...

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Extreme Makeover: AWD Edition

It was ready, steady, hammer, yesterday at AWD HQ as we knocked down our internal office walls to ma...

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All the way to Dubai for a Cheeky Nando's ;)

Last week, Malachy took the opportunity to catch some winter sun, and headed to the UAE for the Depa...

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AWD Launch Middle East Temporary Works Forum

Last week saw the inaugural meeting of the Middle East Temporary Works Forum, hosted by AWD at our o...

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Introducing Our New Base In Dubai

Exciting things are happening at AWD and we want to tell you about them. Due to our work on several ...

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Founder Alan White Awarded APEC Accolade

We’ve been celebrating this week as our Founder Alan White has been awarded with the title of APEC E...

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On Site at Glasgow's £700m Education Hub

In early October, Malachy, Christy and Liam took part in a site visit to the University of Glasgow’s...

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To UK Pavilion and Beyond.....

An illuminated maze, augmented reality, and transmitting messages to space! No, it’s not Danny Boyle...

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AWD Highly Commended at Business Awards

Friday night saw team AWD head to Ayr Racecourse for the Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce Business Award...

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AWD Flying High in Ireland

We had a great time yesterday over in Dublin with the Department of International Trade at a Meet th...

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Government Support for AWD Irish Trade Links

It was a busy morning in Dublin yesterday as Malachy met MSP Ivan McKee, Scottish Minister for Trade...

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AWD Growing into Success

Great News!  Our customers are loving our services more than ever, and to build on our growing succe...

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AWD Rock in Gibraltar

Waking up with John and Yoko, and sipping Martini’s a la James Bond….just another site visit with AW...

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AWD Secure London Base at Scotland House

We are delighted to be the newest members of Scotland House, a state of the art business and meeting...

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Celebrating Export Success

Friday night saw team AWD get our glad rags on and head to the iconic Glasgow City Chambers to atten...

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AWD Matches All Race Donations

This Sunday saw our MD Malachy take on the 'Roon the Toon' 10K for the 3rd year in a row in support ...

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Westminster Calling....

This morning, AWD HQ had a visit from a special work experience student, local Kilmarnock and Loudou...

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Gargie Girls Dressed for Success

This week we dropped in on the girl’s football team at Gargieston Primary School to deliver their br...

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AWD Called On to Provide Scaffold Expertise after Dramatic Collapse in Gibraltar

AWD have been called on to provide our design checking expertise for a replacement scaffold for the ...

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Spotlight on West Gate Bridge

Next up on our tour through the AWD archives is our award-winning suspended access platforms for the...

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Meet the New Kid on the Block

Our newest Graduate Engineer, Liam Brannan, is now six months into his career here at AWD, having be...

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Spotlight on Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

The next stop on our tour through the AWD archives takes us to the UAE, and our structural calculati...

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Uncovering the Tricks of the Trade in Dubai

The tallest building in the world, a dancing water fountain and the best hummus ever tasted….….just ...

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Discover Work Experience at AWD

AWD work in partnership with local colleges and universities to offer work experience to students, g...

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The New Look AWD Has Arrived!

2018 marks our 18th birthday, and to celebrate we have rebranded to mark our coming of age! We’re s...

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AWD in the Community

AWD got into the Christmas spirit this year by making a donation to our friends and neighbours, Hill...

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Spotlight on Hunterston

We continue our journey through the AWD archives, taking a look at some of our most memorable projec...

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V&A Dundee Highly Commended at Concrete Society Awards

One of our most iconic projects, V&A Museum of Design Dundee, has been highly commended at the C...

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AWD Celebrates Living Wage Week

This week at AWD, we are celebrating our first anniversary as an accredited living wage employer. Ou...

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Spotlight on Shiploader

At AWD, we’re looking through our archives at some of our most memorable projects, and this week we’...

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MD Blog: BCI Awards 2017

Last Wednesday 11th October, team AWD took the short trip to London for the British Construction Ind...

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BCI Awards 2017

This week, team AWD will be getting suited and booted to attend the British Construction Industry Aw...

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MD Blog: Growing an SME

While scrolling through Twitter this week I saw a post by Engineering UK stating, ‘over 80% of UK en...

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A Year in the Life of an Office Manager

I recently completed a year-long position with AWD as Office Manager, covering the role while Emma w...

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AWD's Adventures in Arran

On a cold and wet Thursday in July, the AWD team packed their bags, hung the "do not disturb" sign o...

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ISO 14001:2015 certification

Alan White Design Ltd achieves ISO 14001:2015 certification and ISO 9001:2015 recertification.AWD ar...

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Robbie's Summer with AWD

  I am a 3rd year Civil Engineering student from Dumbarton, studying at the University of Strathclyd...

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Inside V&A Dundee: Temporary Propping System

Last week saw us shortlisted for the Temporary Works Award at the 2017 British Construction Industry...

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AWD Shortlisted at BCI Awards 2017

Alan White Design are proud to announce that we are shortlisted finalists for the Temporary Works Aw...

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We're Recruiting: Join Our Team

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Design Engineer to join us on a full-time basis at ou...

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Mhairi Becomes an Arkwright Mentor

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Arkwright Scholarship Trust, a charity which provides en...

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Our Suspended Access Platform wins Project of the Year

AWD’s Suspended Access Platform design has won Project of the Year for our client iMS Access at the ...

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MD Blog: Scottish Export Awards 2017

This week we were delighted to attend the BQ Scottish Export Awards 2017 at the Hilton Hotel in Glas...

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AWD inspire Tomorrow's Engineers

Alan White Design recently hosted an activity afternoon for high school pupils from across the West ...

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Does Big Always Mean Better?

Our newest Graduate Engineer, Mohammed, has been working with us for six months now, and is a fully ...

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MD Blog: Market Visit to Ireland

In early December, our MD Malachy Ryan, in partnership with Scottish Enterprise’s International Deve...

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AWD supporting Hillhouse this Christmas

Alan White Design is delighted to be supporting Hillhouse this Christmas by making a donation to hel...

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AWD Celebrates Living Wage Commitment

Alan White Design Ltd is pleased to announce that we have achieved accreditation as a Living Wage Em...

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Office Refurbishment

Alan White Design have recently completed an office refurbishment to create additional workstation s...

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Temporary Stability of Concrete Cores

Since the beginning of the year Alan White Design has experienced a significant increase in the requ...

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'Roon the Toon' 10k charity run

Euan “The Cheetah” Strathearn and Malachy “The Walrus” Ryan from Alan White Design are running the K...

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K'NEX challenge for local primary school

Local primary school pupils become engineers for the day!Managing Director and STEM ambassador, Mala...

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ISO 9001:2015 Certification

Alan White Design Ltd have been awarded an ISO 9001:2015 certification. External auditors have asse...

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Main Office Relocation

Kilmarnock town centre has welcomed a new business in the form of Alan White Design Ltd. The seven-y...

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