October 10, 2016

HS2 Joint Venture Appoints New Project Director

A new project director has been appointed to the HS2 joint venture between Morgan Sindall, Bam Nuttall and Ferrovial. Mike Robins will join the Fusion team having worked overseas for the last five years. Most recently, he helped to deliver the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation’s Express Rail Link

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Murphy Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Murphy has appointed David Burke as its new Chief Financial Officer, taking responsibility for the firm’s financial control, planning and reporting. Burke joins the world class infrastructure company from Serco Group plc where he held various senior financial roles for more than 12 years, most recently as global finance transition

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October 10, 2016

HS2 Joint Venture Appoints New Project Director

A new project director has been appointed to the HS2 joint venture between Morgan Sindall, Bam Nuttall and Ferrovial. Mike Robins will join the Fusion team having worked overseas for the last five years. Most recently, he helped to deliver the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation’s Express Rail Link to China and has also worked on Queensland Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas for QGC in Australia. Mr Robins has been employed by all three companies in the joint venture in a number of roles, working with Ferrovial on developing Heathrow’s Terminal 2A, with Morgan Sindall on Heathrow’s Terminal 5 and with Bam Nuttall on Queensland Gas Company’s Icthys offshore gas project. Currently, the Fusion team is bidding for all three of the HS2 Phase One enabling packages, which are expected to be awarded early next month. It has also been shortlisted for four of the Phase One seven civils packages, worth a combined total of £11.8 billion. Last November, former Laing O’Rourke Europe boss Roger Robinson was appointed chairman of the Fusion joint venture. Mr Robinson commented: “Mike’s appointment is part of our ongoing preparation plan realising our commitment to HS2. “Mike’s pedigree in leadership on major infrastructure programmes is widely recognised, and I am personally delighted that he is attracted by the HS2 project and importantly, by Fusion and has consequently decided to join our team. I am looking forward to working with Mike again.” Meanwhile, May of London Sadiq Khan has said that he thinks the “right solution” for the High Speed 2 redevelopment of Euston station is still to be found. The Mayor claims that more work is “urgently required” and called on the Department for Transport to think “more radically”. He repeated his suggestion that the link, set to open fully in 2033, should terminate temporarily at the Old Oak Common interchange.

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Murphy Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Murphy has appointed David Burke as its new Chief Financial Officer, taking responsibility for the firm’s financial control, planning and reporting. Burke joins the world class infrastructure company from Serco Group plc where he held various senior financial roles for more than 12 years, most recently as global finance transition director, where he led on the development and introduction of a new finance operating model. Previously, he managed the design, build and operation of the global finance shared-service centre, taking on operational finance director roles for the consulting and Indian company, while also having been divisional chief financial officer for the AMEAA region (based in India) and UK Central Government Division. His earlier career included professional financial roles with Barclays, Citibank and KPMG. Chief executive officer at Murphy, Steve Hollingshead, commented: “This appointment further boosts our senior management team, to effectively deliver the commitments laid out in our ten-year business plan. “David becomes a key member of our executive management board, reporting directly to me.  I look forward to working closely with him to increase our turnover to £2bn by 2025, as we continue to focus on our key sectors of power, water, rail and natural resources”. Meanwhile, Burke said: “I am extremely pleased to join Murphy, having been impressed with how progressive the company is, with clear direction for the future and its growth. I look forward to using my experience to create additional value for the business”. Burke joined Murphy on 3 October 2016. Meanwhile, J Murphy & Sons Chief Executive Steve Hollingshead has outlined his plans to double the size of the company over the next 10 years. Hollingshead, who spent 24 years in senior positions at Laing O’Rourke, is planning to target main infrastructure markets using the contractor’s largely direct labour model. Unveiling the steady growth plan he said: “The strong operating performance across our business gives us the confidence to invest, building a platform for us to double in size over the next ten years.

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