{"id":1071,"date":"2018-12-04T06:54:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T06:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2018-12-04T06:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T06:54:24","slug":"ex-laing-orourke-chief-to-lead-stansted-airport-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/ex-laing-orourke-chief-to-lead-stansted-airport-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Laing O\u2019Rourke chief to lead Stansted Airport expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London Stansted has hired Laing O&#8217;Rourke project leader Gerry Whyte as delivery director for the airport\u2019s \u00a3600m expansion project.<\/p>\n<p>Whyte will work closely with business change director, Paul Willis on the\u00a0\u00a0transformation of the airport, reporting to\u00a0airport CEO, Ken O\u2019Toole.<\/p>\n<p>He previously worked on some of the UK\u2019s largest construction developments ranging from Edinburgh St James, Liverpool One and Bluewater in Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"136297\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ciob.org%2Ffellowship-fciob%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fellowship MPU.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most recently he was preconstruction director at Laing O\u2019Rourke leading the team through the preconstruction phase of the retail expansion of Brent Cross.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Toole said: \u201cThe \u00a3600m transformation of the airport is really gathering momentum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"209475\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faset.org.uk%2Fguidance-2%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CE_FASET-MPU_JULY18.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve made fantastic progress so far, but it\u2019s next year when the project really starts to take-off with work beginning on our \u00a3130m arrivals terminal which we expect to open in August 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plans also involve the reconfiguration of the existing terminal into a departures only facility.<\/p>\n<p>It also features a revamped retail and restaurant offer, more seating, as well as new car parks and airfield infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"128602\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Felfinkitchens.co.uk%2F%3Futm_source%3DConstruction%2520Enquirer%26utm_medium%3DMPU%26utm_campaign%3D100718%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elfin_Construction-Enquirer-mpu_cyan-300x250-5.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2zDx6yo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Stansted has hired Laing O&#8217;Rourke project leader Gerry Whyte as delivery director for the airport\u2019s \u00a3600m expansion project. Whyte will work closely with business change director, Paul Willis on the\u00a0\u00a0transformation of the airport, reporting to\u00a0airport CEO, Ken O\u2019Toole. He previously worked on some of the UK\u2019s largest construction developments ranging from Edinburgh St James, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}