NEWS

August / September 2024

Our Plumbing, Heating and Mechanical team have recently completed another lead project to a newly formed orangery at a property in Rothes.

This roof was formed and installed to LSA as per the LSA Association, using code 7 lead sheet supplied by ALM.

26th September 2024

Massive congratulationes to our apprentice Liam Marshall for being awarded 'UHI 2nd Year Best Lead Development'.

This is his 2nd award in recent months, after wirnning the silver medal at 'The Scottish Plumbing Apprentice of the Year 2024' competition, which was held at Lanarkshire College on the 7th of June.

Excellent achievements Liam, keep up the good work!

24th July 2024

Another lead job completed by Plumbing, Heating and Mechanical team. We were asked to replace a lead bay roof that had been leaking.

This was replaced using Code 8 and Code 7 lead sheets dressed over lead wood core rolls. Well done to the team who installed it, Great work!

10th June 2024

Liam Marshall from McDonald and Munro Ltd and UHI Moray has taken second place in the Lead Category at the Scottish Plumbing Apprentice of the Year 2024 competion!

A huge congratulation on reaching this incredible milestone, Liam! 

18th September 2023

Proud to be involved with the installation of some feature lighting at Nelson's Tower in Forres.

25th November 2022

Massive congratulations to Sean and Craig. There were a few nervous moments while watching the World Skills UK results come in this afternoon. Worth the wait in the end though and Sean (on the left) won the silver medal in the plumbing category and Craig won the gold medal in the electrical category.

Amazing achievement guys, well done. 

SkillELECTRIC UK FINALS - NOVEMBER 2022

Well done to Craig for competing in the SkillELECTRIC UK finals in Middlesborough. Great job and look forward to getting the results.

SkillPLUMB UK FINALS - NOVEMBER 2022

Sean can finally relax now after finishing his competition in Middlesbrough. His work here looks awesome I’m sure everyone will agree. Fingers crossed for Friday 25th November when the winner is announced. Whatever the result, we are extemely proud.

RETIREMENT OF GRAHAM  AND CHRISTINE MORRISON -  01 JULY 2022

Graham and Christine retired as directors from McDonald and Munro Ltd on 01 July 2022.
Graham has worked with the Company for 44 years and Christine for 22 years!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for all their years of hard work and dedication to McDonald and Munro Ltd, and wish them all the very best for a long, happy and well deserved retirement.

SKILLELECTRIC 2022  - JUNE 2022

Massive congratulations to Craig Fairweather for achieving first place in the SkillELECTRIC 2022 competition at Forth Valley College - well done! 

SCOTTISH COPPER COMPETITION JUNE 2022

Massive congratulations to Sean Esslemont for winning the Scottish Copper Competition - well done! We now wish him all the best for later this year when he goes forward to the national competition in Middlesborough.

MORAY COLLEGE CONSTRUCTION PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY 2019

We are pleased to be able to congratulate two of our apprentices - Lewis Sim and Nathan Kennedy following their success at the '2019 Construction Prize Giving Ceremony' at Moray College UHI on Thursday 26th September 2019. 

Lewis won the 'Edmunson Electrical Factors LTD Sheild' for the 'Top Electrical Apprentice - 3rd Year'

Nathan won the 'City Electrical Factors Ltd Sheild' for the 'Top Electrical Apprentice - 1st Year'

Lewis also won the Special Award - the 'Robertson Construction/Rotary Club of Elgin Shield' for the Top Craft Apprentice, Final Year.

We are very proud of you both, congratulations and keep up the good work!  

NORTH OF SCOTLAND ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR COMPETITION 2019 

Well done to Nathaniel Kennedy for getting so Far. Unfortunately he didnt win although he made a very good effort! Hopefully the hard work will continue to pay off adn you will get another shot at the competition next year. 

3RD YEAR ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR 2019 

We are very proud to announce following on from last years success Lewis Sim has won the Scottish 3rd Stage Electrical Apprentice of the Year Competition in Dundee.

This is now 3 apprentices so far who have served time with McDonald and Munro in the last 20 years who have won this award. This quite an achievement considering there have been around 30,00 apprentices during this period. 

2ND YEAR ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR 2018

We are proud to announce that Lewis Sim won 2nd Year Apprentice of The Year at Moray College Technology Centre in 2018.

Following on from his success, Lewis has now reached the 3rd stage ‘Electrotechnical Modern Apprenticeship Competition’ and has been invited along to North East Scotland College in Fraserburgh on Tuesday 19th February 2019. We wish him luck in the next stage of the competition.

MORAY COLLEGE CONSTRUCTION PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY 2017

Everyone at McDonald & Munro Ltd would like to congratulate our apprentices Lewis Sim, Matthew Davidson and Ian Muir.

Lewis has been awarded the "City Electrical Factors Ltd Shield" for Top Electrical Apprentice - 1st Year.

Matthew has been awarded the "William Wilson Cup" for Best Plumbing Apprentice - 2nd Year.

Matthew has also been awarded the "Speyside Plumbing Services Ltd Trophy" for Best Lead Development - 2nd Year. 

Ian has been awarded the "Grampian Plumbing Services Ltd Shield" for Best Adult Plumbing Apprentice. 

We are pleased to confirm that both Matthew Davidson and Ian Muir have both now completed their training and are qualified plumbers.

News

Please follow below links to our Facebook page, showing photographs of recent projects we have completed. 

www.facebook.com/mcdonaldandmunro/posts/299432923827938 

www.facebook.com/mcdonaldandmunro/posts/299430683828162

We are pleased to announce that we have taken on another 3 apprentices for 2022. We proudly offer the opportunity to individuals wishing to secure employment and in securing a suitable apprenticeship to learn these trades.

McDonald and Munro Ltd are now members of WaterSafe. See https://www.watersafe.org.uk/ for further information.

McDonald and Munro Ltd have successfully completed Daikin Altherma Air Source Heat Pump training and have been awarded the certification of as approved installers of these units.

All electrical employees have completed necessary BS7671 regulations Amendment 3 training at our premises. This is very important to keep engineers up-to-date with regulations.

We can also confirm that our electricians are now in the process of completing the new 18th Edition Amendment Regulations training.

ELGIN CITY FOOTBALL CLUB SPONSORSHIP
For the 10th consecutive year, McDonald and Munro Ltd are proud to be Main Sponsor of Elgin City Football Club. We wish the team the best of luck for the 2022-23 season. 

http://www.elgincity.co.uk/ 

MCDONALD AND MUNRO LTD SPEYSIDE STAGES 
Also for the 11th year running, we are proudly covering the Main Sponsorship for the “McDonald and Munro Ltd Speyside Stages” Rally. We wish the best of luck to all participants taking part on Saturday 23rd April 2022.

http://www.speyside-stages.co.uk/     http://www.63carclub.com/

Please follow the link to our photographs from last years event https://www.facebook.com/mcdonaldandmunro/posts/296878180750079

McDonald and Munro Ltd are members of SafeContractor. See http://www.safecontractor.com/ for more information.

McDonald and Munro Ltd receives the Construction Licensing Executive Licensed to trade accreditation. The Construction Licensing Executive (CLE ) aims to eradicate "rogue traders" by providing consumers with a list of reputable Scottish Construction Companies. See www.clescotland.co.uk for more information.

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