Appointments

1 Mark Heasman

Contractor Osborne has a new chief executive. Heasman, who joined the firm from R G Carter, takes over from acting chief executive Andrew Osborne who returns to his role as financial director. Mark, who graduated from Imperial College London in 1986, has held senior management positions with the Post Office, American Express, Railtrack, The Prince’s Trust and also has experience as a construction client.

2 David Hurricks

Hurricks has stepped up to area director for Cambridge at Bluestone. He joined the firm last year from Mowlem where he was regional director. Hurricks began his career as a planning engineer for Amec in 1975 and was crowned as the CIOB’s Building Manager of the Year in 1999.

3 Dave Carpenter

Fit-out specialist Spacetailors has appointed new contract director Dave Carpenter to help the firm break into the corporate sector. Carpenter was born and bred in Gloucestershire and has worked in the construction industry for over 24 years. He joins Spacetailors, which changed its name from Gwyn Powell & Son in August, from a leading construction and fit-out contractor. During his career he has progressed from carpenter to contracts manager and his credentials include City and Guilds and CITB qualifications.

4 David Cockroft

Lovell has appointed Cockroft to head up its new major regeneration projects team. He joins the affordable housing firm from Amec Developments with 20 years’ experience on commercial development and urban regeneration projects in the private and public sectors. Past urban regeneration experience includes the 85 acre Goodyear site at Wolverhampton, Castle Hill in Dudley and a new technology park at Longbridge, Birmingham.

also climbing the ladder...

Lancashire development, investment, and construction firm Hurstwood Group has recruited Martin Graves for its new position of group financial controller. He joins the firm from Dew Construction.

Letchworth Roofing has appointed three new people to its major projects team: senior projects manager Paul Byrne, contracts manager Dave Masters and project estimator Peter Orwell.

Currie & Brown has added to its nuclear, engineering and oil and gas team with the appointment of Jim O’Neill as director. O’Neill, who will be based in the firm’s Glasgow office, joins from British Nuclear Group where he was head of estimating and cost management.

Chris Stops has returned from a four-year stint with Turner & Townsend in Houston, Texas, to take up the post of regional director for Europe in the firm’s energy division. Based in Edinburgh, Stops will oversee a growing team of 30 consultants based in the UK and Continental Europe.