Campus Update Winter 2016 | Page 10

Third year apprentice Devlin Martin, first year apprentice Connor McGoogan and site supervisor Gregor England. Gregor started with D&D Decorators fourteen years ago as an apprentice and has worked his way from tradesman to foreman. He is one of our senior supervisors who looks after large projects. The Apprentice (s) from D&D Decorators We caught up with Scott Davidson from D&D Decorators. What is your role in Ayrshire College’s new campus development? We are contracted to carry out the Ames taping and painting and decorating works. What are the biggest opportunities of the project? This is a large local contract which involves a significant number of trained staff directly employed locally. This benefits our business and the local community. What other projects have you worked on? We have worked on similar projects in St Josephs Academy and Grange Academy in Kilmarnock. Tell us about the relationship you have developed with Ayrshire College? We have a long history of recruiting our apprentices from the College. We have trained four apprentices each year over the last 22 years abd we are really pleased with the high standard of applicants.