June 2026 - STEM College Visit - Amey in Collaboration with DYW

9 June 2026

Amey Bridges Presentation & Bridge Building Exercise for S3 Students from All Saints Secondary, Royston, Glasgow.

On Tuesday 09 June 2026, both Frank Quither (Structures Engineer - Amey South West Contract) and Martin Cochrane (Operations Manager - M8 Contract) both based at their Polmadie Office, provided six S3 students from All Saints Secondary in Royston, Glasgow with a short introduction about Amey’s Transport Infrastructure Projects for  Scotland’s trunk road networks. Collaborating with Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) as the second phase of three inputs, held in a class at Glasgow College, Cardonald.

Martin provided a short introduction to Amey as a business around the UK and Frank presented a PowerPoint on the different types of bridges that have been constructed around the world over the last 200 years. They then invited the S3 students to take part in a ‘Bridge Building Exercise’ using 5x sets of K’Nex playsets for building their own bridge design ideas. The bridge designs were then judged, with the students with the winning structure receiving some Amey notebooks; pencils and sweets as prizes.  

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