By Dave Rogers2021-04-27T09:22:00+01:00
Andrew Wolstenholme was criticised by politicians after it emerged scheme would miss opening deadline and be billions over budget
Laing O’Rourke has brought former Crossrail chief executive Andrew Wolstenholme back into frontline construction by making him the firm’s group technical director.
The 62-year-old will report to group chief executive Ray O’Rourke when he starts his role next week and has also been appointed to the company’s group executive committee.
Andrew Wolstenholme starts next week as the firm’s group technical director
Ray O’Rourke said: “His knowledge of our sector will ensure our engineering and innovation are seamlessly integrated with operational discipline and client connectivity.”
Former Crossrail CEO Andrew Wolstenholme has joined Laing O’Rourke as technical director
Laing O’Rourke has appointed former Crossrail chief executive Andrew Wolstenholme as its new group technical director.
Wolstenholme will report directly to chief executive Ray O’Rourke and lead the contractor’s delivery of technical work, enhance its digital capability as well as its health and safety priorities, the company said in a statement.
He is set to start his new role next week, having already worked for Laing O’Rourke in an advisory capacity assisting in technical complexities of major projects. He replaces outgoing group digital and technical director Damien Buie.
“When the Japanese took over in Hong Hong he ended up in a camp.” Begg has all the letters Fowler wrote home to his mother and family members, several from Stanley civilian internment camp established for nearly 3000 men, women and children after the Japanese invaded Hong Kong in 1942. On September 29, Fowler writes (he doesn’t give the year): “I have put on a bit of weight the last few weeks but am thinner than any of you have ever seen me. There has been a terrible lot of damage here. These years of starvation and cruelty have killed many Chinese and left most of the rest thin and weak.”