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Utilising his wide experience of planning construction projects, John has
been appointed as expert witness on a number of disputes involving planning matters and has
given evidence in the Technology and Construction Court and also to an arbitral tribunal.
John has also been involved in carrying out planning audits on projects and has led teams
involved in claim preparation work.
Prior to joining Fairway, John held overall functional responsibility as Planning
Manager for the planning activities of both the International and Civil Engineering
Divisions of Tarmac Construction with additional responsibility for IT within the
International Division. During this period John was closely involved in many of Tarmac's
wide variety of projects. For example he established the planning team and set up the
construction programmes for the £140m Box Encapsulation Project at Sellafield. This Design
and Build project is for a major part of BNFL's infrastructure and includes all Building and
Civil work together with Building Services and all in-cell and out-cell equipment.
John had joined Tarmac as part of the asset swap from Wimpey where he had held a similar
position as Planning Manager for both the Engineering & Construction and Building Divisions
of Wimpey.
John was the author of the Wimpey Planning Manual and carried out many planning awareness
seminars for the Building Division. John was also responsible for implementing major in-house
developments of Wimpey's computerised planning system.
In addition to his corporate managerial roles, John has led planning teams on:
• the £380m Pembroke Power Station project to convert the Power Station to
use emulsified fuel oil, which also included a Flue Gas Desulfurisation Plant,
• the £650m Hibernia Concrete Gravity Platform in Newfoundland, built to withstand
Iceberg impact,
• many other projects including the Dubai Chicago Beach Hotel, the M5, A417 and A31
road contracts, and process contracts such as the Singapore Hydrocarbons Project.
As part of John’s role for Wimpey’s Building Division he carried out a
number of planning audits on projects such as the Little Britain development in London
and the Oceanography Building in Southampton.
John was seconded to the Channel Tunnel Project and was responsible for the
co-ordination of all planning and programming effort on the UK side and the executive
level status reporting. He also played a leading role in setting up the computerised project
management system for the Channel Tunnel.
Earlier in his career John has acted as site Planning Engineer, Contract Engineer and
Deputy Project Manager on building and civil construction projects both in the UK and
overseas. He was involved in a major arbitration on one of these projects which was
successfully concluded.
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