Walker Sime doubles down on infrastructure with director appointment
David Waugh has joined the Manchester-based construction consultancy, one of 14 recent hires in the company’s infrastructure services team.
Waugh brings with him 30 years of experience, having held director and partner roles at Gleeds, AECOM, and EC Harris.
As part of Walker Sime’s infrastructure services team, Waugh will provide advice around procurement strategies and business case preparations, as well as services around manage contracts, commercial risk, programme risk, and project delivery.
This will be targeted towards clients working on energy, marine, ports, transport, civils, data centre, defence, aviation, and transmission projects.
In addition to Waugh, the infrastructure team has grown with the hires of associate director Stephen Thorpe, project manager Muhammad Intowala, and senior quantity surveyors Abel Bognar, Joe Houghton, and Laurel Sweet.
Rounding out the 14 hires are Toby Denning, Simon Cliff, Adam Greene, Irenna Bailey, Jakpovi Igharha, Tom Bevan, Jess Newcombe, and Richard Pilsbury.
The expanded infrastructure services team has been necessitated by a series of project wins, including work that Walker Sime is doing with the National Grid to deliver its Great Grid Upgrade scheme.
“This growth is being driven by increasing demand from clients across a range of sectors, but particularly within transmission and distribution, where unprecedented levels of investment are creating exciting opportunities across the industry,” said Dom Gill, director of infrastructure at Walker Sime.
Walker Sime has also recruited senior quantity surveyor Jamie Mackley from CBRE and appointed Vekshana Soobarah as recruitment manager.
The recent hires bring Walker Sime’s headcount up to 68.
Walker Sime is part of Hanmi Global. In addition to its base in Manchester, Walker Sime operates offices in Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Middlesbrough.
