{"id":32739,"date":"2025-10-12T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-hires-laing-orourke-boss-to-lead-construction\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:21:17","slug":"kier-hires-laing-orourke-boss-to-lead-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-hires-laing-orourke-boss-to-lead-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier hires Laing O\u2019Rourke boss to lead construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-502241\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Staehr will take up the role in January 2026, joining Kier\u2019s executive committee to lead the firm\u2019s Regional Build, Strategic Projects, Kier Places and KME businesses.<\/p>\n<p>A chartered civil engineer and fellow of the ICE, Staehr has spent the past 17 years at Laing O\u2019Rourke, most recently as one of its European delivery directors. <\/p>\n<p>His experience spans major justice, defence, health, science and education schemes and MEP manufacturing operations.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Stuart Togwell, who becomes chief executive of Kier Group on 1 November. Construction commercial director James Askew will act as interim MD until Staehr joins.<\/p>\n<p>He inherits an order book worth \u00a34.5bn and a division that delivers around 200 live projects across England, Scotland and Wales. <\/p>\n<p>Kier Construction generated \u00a31.9bn in revenue last year, completing the UK\u2019s first all-electric prison at HMP Millsike, maintaining over 70,000 homes and creating \u00a3275m of social value alongside 734 apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>Togwell said: \u201cMartin brings fresh thinking and a drive to make a meaningful difference within the construction industry\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Morby\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/10\/09\/kier-hires-laing-orourke-boss-to-lead-construction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Staehr will take up the role in January 2026, joining Kier\u2019s executive committee to lead the firm\u2019s Regional Build, &#8230; <a title=\"Kier hires Laing O\u2019Rourke boss to lead construction\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-hires-laing-orourke-boss-to-lead-construction\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kier hires Laing O\u2019Rourke boss to lead construction\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}