This month's appointments …

Gavin Thompson (1) has replaced Padraic Kelly as managing director of Buro Happold. Thompson, who joined the practice in 1988, has worked in the Middle and Far East and, more recently, headed up the firm’s education arm.

Buro Happold has also made a series of promotions at its Glasgow office: David McNeill has been promoted to group manager; Lars Jepsen has completed his graduate training and been promoted to a building services engineer and Garry Buggy is now an engineering technician.

In addition, Laura Jones has joined the practice as senior lighting consultant and Joseph Hendry as senior public health engineer.

Sarah Cudmore has joined research organisation BSRIA as a workplace psychologist to work in its process and productivity group on ‘people’ aspects of construction.

Jerry Helley (2) has been named managing director of Gale Global Facility Services UK operations. He will be responsible for developing the company’s UK and European business. He was previously director of the facilities consultancy at consultant White Young Green.

Stuart Bond (3) has been appointed executive facade access engineer at Hoare Lea, where he will be responsible for developing facade access within the lift engineering group. Stuart was previously a project director at Lerch Bates.

Elsewhere, Colin Barnes (4), founder of Barnes Computing, has joined software provider Vixensoft; Ken Hutchinson (5) has been appointed the first national energy sales manager for Cofathec Heatsave and Graham Cree (6) is now UK sales manager for Thermoscreens.