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The Scottish Government has appointed seven new members to its Building Standards Advisory Committee.
The people appointed are: Mr Kevin Burnett is an Associate Director with Mott MacDonald Ltd and has over 18 years experience of working within the Scottish construction industry; Mr Malcolm MacLeod is the Scottish Director of National House Building Council, a Chartered Building Surveyor, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, and a Chartered Environmentalist; Ms Lori McElroy is Project Director of Sust at The Lighthouse; Mr Nick Montgomery is a Chartered Fire Engineer and a specialist fire engineering consultant; Mr Len Murray is a local authority building standards manager and has been a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for some twenty years; Mr Gordon Souter is a Chartered Architectural Technologist with almost 23 years experience in the architectural field, the last 14 within the house building industry and Mr Scott Restrick who is the Technical & Training Manager for Energy Action Scotland.
The appointments have been made for a period of two years only, from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2009 and have been made to meet statutory requirements and ensure that the Committee is quorate. However, the Committee is to be abolished in line with the Government's approach to reducing the number of Advisory Bodies established to advise Scottish Ministers. Expert advice on building standards will be obtained in other ways. This change requires legislation and in the interim, the Committee is required to discharge its function in line with the legislation creating the body.
These posts are unpaid, other than the reimbursement of necessary travelling expenses, and require the members to attend an average of 3 main Committee meetings each year. Members may also become involved in additional, technical working groups related to the development of new building standards.
These Ministerial public appointments were made in accordance with the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland's Code of Practice.
(CD/JM)
