The growth of IM Properties’ development pipeline has prompted the appointment of Frank Fitzgerald as project director. Recruited from global construction and property consultancy, RLB, a long-term consultant of IM Properties, Frank joins the project delivery team, swapping his external role for in-house. Having worked on many of IM Properties’
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
BDC 321 : Oct 2024
The growth of IM Properties’ development pipeline has prompted the appointment of Frank Fitzgerald as project director. Recruited from global construction and property consultancy, RLB, a long-term consultant of IM Properties, Frank joins the project delivery team, swapping his external role for in-house. Having worked on many of IM Properties’ large-scale strategic sites including Birch Coppice, Blythe Valley, Mercia Park and Peddimore, Frank’s in-depth understanding of the company and its projects makes him a perfect fit for the position. Jason Jasper, UK project director for IM Properties said: “We currently have a development pipeline of 15 million sq ft and are delivering some of the region’s most significant new manufacturing and logistic schemes. “To add capacity and the most impact to the team, we needed an individual who could hit the ground running and instantly understood us as a company, and Frank just ticked every box.” Jasper continued: “We’ve got some exciting plans coming forward and a range of sustainability targets we want to achieve over the next ten years, which adds significantly to both the planning and delivery of our schemes. “They’ll certainly be no shortage of challenges for Frank to get stuck into over the coming months and years.” Frank, who worked with Arcadis for seven years, now known as AYD, before his 10 years at RLB, added: “It’s a fantastic opportunity and natural transition for me from consultant to in-house project director. “IM Properties is such a fast-paced, innovative, industry leader, and that means that life is never dull when working for them, and you are guaranteed to always be pushing the boundaries and working on projects that inevitably turn into real career highlights.” Located in the Midlands, IM Properties is one of the UK’s largest privately-owned property companies owned by the IM Group, focused on a sustainable future in the sectors it invests and develops in including offices, logistics, manufacturing and new homes.
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.
