Contractors

Britannia Construction has appointed Jon Woolfe financial director. Mike Mann is deputy managing director.

Nigel McArthur has been appointed regional construction director at EBC Construction, a division of the EBC Group.

Housebuilders

Nigel Perryman has been appointed deputy group finance director of the Shaftesbury Housing Group.

Derby-based Birch Homes has appointed Joy Goodman sales and marketing director.

David Hoy has joined the maintenance division of Willmott Dixon as general manager of the Manchester branch.

Consultants

Martin Clarke has become executive chairman of Heathcroft Properties.

Stuart Johnson, lead partner of commercial building surveying at Watts and Partners' west London office, has been elected to the firm's management board.

Tooley & Foster Partnership has made Keith Everitt a partner.

Chartered quantity surveyor Boxall Davenport has promoted Michael Grimes to partner.

Developer Hammerson has appointed John Clare, chief executive of Dixons Group, to non-executive director.

Gardiner & Theobald has made the following promotions: Michael Bull, Gary Faulkner, Stewart Rix, John Stratford and Marion Weatherhead have become partners in the London office; Kevin Ives has been made a partner in Scunthorpe and Thomas Greig in Edinburgh. Jeffrey Higgins and Brian Tingate have become partners for Gardiner & Theobald International.

McBains Cooper has promoted Paul Fleming to partner. He is responsible for building surveying services in London. Warren Beardsmore is now director of McBains Cooper Housing and James Baines is director of McBains Cooper Project Management.

Colin Cox has been promoted to partner at Meller Associates.

Institutions

The Electrical Contractors Association has appointed Colin Mitchison regional liaison officer.

Hugh Taylor, is now chair of the UK Notified Bodies Group for the European Construction Products Directive.