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Keep up to dateBy Dave Rogers2019-02-27T06:00:00
Consulting-led firm abandons push into UK contracting sector following strategic review of the business
Aecom is pulling the plug on its main contracting business in the UK less than four years after saying it would be making a major push into the sector.
The firm brought in three former Bovis Lend Lease executives, including the former chief executive of its Europe business, John Spanswick, to help spearhead the initiative back in September 2015.
At the time the firm, which had bought US construction firm Tishman in 2010 for $245m, said its contracting arm would “lead our design and build offering in a targeted manner within the UK commercial and residential market”.
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