Laing O’Rourke coup as firm lands £150m Oxford university win

By Dave Rogers2022-01-05T06:30:00

Scheme being bankrolled by US founder of private equity group Blackstone

Incoming Laing O’Rourke chief executive Seamus French has been handed a tonic in the first week of 2022 with his new firm winning a £150m scheme to build a humanities block for Oxford university.

Called the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, the scheme will see the university’s courses in English, history, linguistics, philology & phonetics, medieval & modern languages, music, philosophy, and theology & religion housed under one roof on a vacant plot at its Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site.

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