Steven Laing started his stonemasonry career with Historic Scotland in September 1989 at Elgin Cathedral. Steven achieved awards over four consecutive years during his City & Guilds courses and represented Aberdeen Technical College at inter-city masonry competitions in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Steven graduated from Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen with an HNC in Building in 1996. Steven undertook the William Morris Craft Fellowhip in 1997, an award scheme aimed at broadening the skills and experience of trained craftsmen involved in historic building repairs.

Laing Traditional Masonry was established in February 1999 specialising in the sensitive repair and conservation of historic and ecclesiastical buildings. Steven’s focus on efficient and effective professional service combined with an excellent standard of workmanship has placed LTM at the forefront of the conservation industry in Scotland. Steven also regularly delivers Lime Mortar training courses to a variety of organisations; The Scottish Lime Centre Trust, Building Limes Forum and Scottish Traditional Skills Training Centre to name a few. More recently Steven and his company have received recognition in the fields of craftmanship for the Natural Stone Awards and for Environmental Awareness in the Civic Trust Green Apple Awards. Steven has also been awarded recognition in the Balvenie Artisan Awards.

Andrew Bradley has been a stonemason for almost 30 years. He has undertaken both the William Morris Craft Fellowship and the Quinque Fellowship, and was responsible for setting up the John Mather Fellowship on behalf of the NTS, and the NTS Apprenticeship scheme.

Andrew joined LTM in 2007 as Head Mason, and is now Operations Manager. He is responsible for the management of site operations, ensuring the project is delivered on time, within budget and to LTM’s quality standard. This includes liaising with clients and subcontractors as well as quantity surveyors and architects to discuss the project particulars.

Amy Taylor has over 10 years experiences of working within business administration and project environments. She also has an NHC in Administration and Information Management and an SVQ in Business Administration.

Amy joined Laing Traditional Masonry in 2005 as Technical Secretary, and is now Project Manager responsible for project management of new and existing contracts. This involves planning, organising and resourcing projects as well as co-ordinating the project team to ensure that the project is delivered on time, within budget and to LTM’s quality standard.

Craig Frew is the Technical Consultant with LTM Consultancy. Craig joined LTM in 2009, from the Scottish Lime Centre Trust, where as Senior Buildings Consultant he managed Charlestown Consultants, the Centre’s traditional buildings advisory service. Incorporating the technical enquiry service and materials analysis laboratory, Craig’s expertise in the field of masonry conservation and lime mortars has been put to good use at LTM. He also contributed significantly to the training and education programme offered by the Centre, including his role as an approved SQA ‘trainer’ and ‘assessor’ for the SQA National Units in Conservation Masonry.

Craig has been involved in developments at the forefront of ‘lime technology’ for the last 9 years, has lectured widely to a diverse range of groups including the RICS, Building Limes Forum and various building conservation professionals, contractors, homeowners and built environment students. He has written, and had published, a number of articles on lime mortars for various journals and magazines including the Building Conservation Directory: and the Journal of the Building Limes Forum.