Scotland

Sara is currently on maternity leave and Donna Turnbull is looking after the Scottish region in her absence.  Please feel free to contact Donna if you have any queries.

Donna.Turnbull@pinsentmasons.com

Sara McGowan

Sara is an Associate Director with Mace, an international consultancy and construction company. She has more than fifteen years experience on a diverse range of projects for public and private sector clients. Sara started her career with Arup in London as a Building Services Engineer. While there she worked on, and led, a wide variety of projects; including offices, galleries, sports facilities, retail units, auditoria, conference facilities and laboratories. These projects have provided a breadth of experience in all aspects of environmental system design and sustainability issues as well as project and design management. Sara was also responsible for the co-ordination of the services design for City Hall in central London, for which she won the H&V News Building Services Engineer of the Year Award in 2003. That year she also won the WISE prize, Young Woman Engineer of the Year.

She joined the Mace team in Edinburgh in 2005. She is responsible for day to day Client facing project management including brief definition, stakeholder management and design team management. Sara was the Project Manager for the new Spire Healthcare Hospital in Edinburgh which was recently completed, with a delighted Client, and has now opened its doors to the public and recently completed a project with The Highland Council that involved moving the end of the West Highland Way and creating a new statement finish line. She is currently the Account Manager for the Mace commission with WRAP (Waste and Resource Action Programme) on their Client and Policy Engagement Campaign. She works with Clients in Scotland, and in the HE and Schools sectors in England, encouraging and promoting a reduction in construction waste to landfill.

Sara has a passion for sustainable design and masterplanning and has been involved in many sustainable developments over the years and is currently the Mace Scotland champion for all sustainability issues. She is also particularly interested in the wider perception of Engineering, Construction and Design. She has been the subject of a BBC Educational program entitled Snapshots and advises and mentors students. She also tutors in the Architecture Department at the University of Strathclyde.