Ex-ISG boss to head regional push for McLaren Construction
Andrew Beaumont has joined the contractor to lead a new Yorkshire & North East division, based in Leeds.
Beaumont joins from ISG, where he worked for 14 years, latterly as regional director for the North East and North West business units.
Surrey-headquartered ISG went into administration in September, with the loss of around 2,200 jobs, the sector’s largest collapse since Carillion in 2018.
Joining managing director Beaumont to run the new division are regional commercial director David Faulkner, who joined in November after a 19-year career at ISG’s Bradford office, and regional pre-construction director Richard Harding.
Harding has been on McLaren’s books since July, following a 10-year stint with Morgan Sindall, where he had become the Leeds-based regional pre-construction director for Yorkshire, North East and Cumbria.
The Yorkshire & North East division becomes McLaren Construction’s sixth, sitting side by side with five sister divisions: London & South, regeneration, construction management & specialist projects, Midlands & North and international.
McLaren Construction chairman, Kevin Taylor said: “Based in Yorkshire, Andrew and the team give us the relationships we need to complete a strong national offer.
“His experience fits perfectly with McLaren Construction’s existing expertise in a full range of residential, commercial and industrial sectors and our ambitions for more clients in living and leisure and places on more public sector frameworks.”
Group chief executive Paul Heather added: “Andrew will be building a new team in the region, but one that follows McLaren’s culture, combining sector specialists with local connections and using early engagement to find the best value and most sustainable solutions to complex construction briefs.”
Beaumont himself described McLaren as “a rising star of the construction sector and well established as a billion-pound challenger to remaining tier one contractors”.
He added: It’s a relatively small step to take the firm’s expertise and offer it to those regenerating and investing in Yorkshire and the North East.”
With its Prospect House base in Leeds, McLaren Construction joins sister companies McLaren Property and McLaren Living, which already have a presence in the city as they look to deliver on a suite of major projects such as Wellington Square in the city’s West End.
