{"id":3416,"date":"2019-02-26T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2019-02-26T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:02:46","slug":"laing-orourke-technical-director-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/laing-orourke-technical-director-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Laing O\u2019Rourke technical director to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laing O\u2019Rourke Group Technical Director Paul Westbury is leaving the business.<\/p>\n

The Enquirer<\/em> understands Westbury will quit at the end of this month.<\/p>\n

He joined O’Rourke in 2014 from Buro Happold where he was Chief Executive Officer.<\/p>\n

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Westbury was part of Laing O\u2019Rourke\u2019s Group Executive Committee reporting to Chief executive Ray O\u2019Rourke.<\/p>\n

He had global responsibility for the technical and engineering functions, including the Engineering Excellence Group.<\/p>\n

Westbury said: \u201cApproaching my five-year anniversary at Laing O\u2019Rourke, I reflected on the terrific team in place and the way our technical and offsite-manufacturing operating models were being sought-out by clients for their major projects.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith Laing O\u2019Rourke achieving its three-year refinancing earlier this year, signalling the completion of a significant turnaround, it\u2019s time for me to look to new challenges in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray O\u2019Rourke said: \u201cPaul has spoken to me of his desire to share our vision of a modernised construction industry in new sectors, possibly from the other side of the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wish him well and are well-positioned on our path to embody technical excellence and certainty in all we do \u2013 the core of our Deliver 2025 strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2Tj8kia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laing O\u2019Rourke Group Technical Director Paul Westbury is leaving the business. The Enquirer understands Westbury will quit at the end of this month. He joined O’Rourke in 2014 from Buro Happold where he was Chief Executive Officer. Westbury was part of Laing O\u2019Rourke\u2019s Group Executive Committee reporting to Chief executive Ray O\u2019Rourke. He had global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"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-3416","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\/3416","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=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}