Lehane, Mackenzie and Shand


Lehane, Mackenzie and Shand was a British civil engineering and construction company, and responsible for some of Scotland's most iconic bridges.

History

Lehane Mackenzie & Shand Ltd was incorporated on 8 April 1974. In February 1981, the Alexander Shand group of companies was bought for £24.8m by Charter Consolidated. In 1989, it was acquired by Morrison Construction.
Morrison Construction had been founded by the Morrison family in 1948 in Tain, Scotland. In the 1980s, 80% of the company was sold to Charter Consolidated, with the Morrison family retaining 20% of the ownership. In 1989, the Morrison family repurchased the 80% of the business sold to Charter Consolidated earlier that decade, acquiring the businesses of Biggs Wall and Shand Construction in the process. In 1994, Morrison Construction plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange. In September 2000, Morrison Construction was purchased by AWG Plc. In March 2006, the construction division of the business was sold to Galliford Try and merged into its new parent. The Shand business was officially dissolved in October 2012.

Structure

Its main headquarters was south of Rowsley in Derbyshire, on the A6 road. Derbyshire County Council has a site in the former headquarters. The company was a subsidiary of Alexander Shand Ltd. Alexander Shand was a former President of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, and made a CBE in the 1984 New Year Honours.

Gas pipelines

It had a pipeline division on Kiln Lane in Immingham; this became MK-Shand, when merged with M.K. River Constructie Maatschappij of the Netherlands, and built gas pipelines for the Gas Council in the early 1970s. It did much work in the North Sea.

Products

Roads