ENGINEERING and construction firm Burns & McDonnell has strengthened its UK Transmission & Distribution (T&D) practice with the appointment of Gareth James as head of civils, transmission & distribution.
He will support the delivery of energy infrastructure projects across the Glasgow, Birmingham and Burns & McDonnell India offices.
Gareth brings 28 years of experience across multi-disciplinary engineering consultancies in the UK and Australia, and has previously led teams across the built environment, aviation and defence sectors. Prior to joining Burns & McDonnell, he served as head of civil and structural engineering in Scotland for a European engineering and project delivery firm.
He will be based in the Burns & McDonnell Scotland office, overseeing civils teams in Glasgow and Birmingham, supported by colleagues in India. His remit includes developing and expanding the team, strengthening technical capability and ensuring high-quality civil engineering delivery for major clients including SSE and National Grid.
Gareth James said, “I’m excited to be joining Burns & McDonnell at such a critical time for the UK’s energy transition, with energy security and resilience high on the national agenda. My main responsibility at Burns & McDonnell will be enhancing coordination across our wider engineering team. The high‑quality EPC projects the organisation delivers depend on effective cross‑discipline collaboration, and my background in multidisciplinary environments means this way of working is second nature.”
