Adrian Spragg joins Laing O’Rourke from Accenture, where he was managing director for its UK aerospace and defence business
Before that Spragg was Maritime sector leader for PwC and earlier in his career led the design team for a nuclear submarine programme with BAE Systems.
In his new role, Adrian Spragg will be responsible for ensuring the company’s digital strategy is fully implemented across every aspect of its operations, and with its supply chain, design and delivery partners.
He will lead the digitisation of all of the firm’s workplaces, including its UK manufacturing facilities and projects, and will focus on continuing to improve business processes to drive customer value and make all work as efficient, easy, safe and sustainable as possible.
More productive, safer and sustainable buildings
Adrian Spragg said: “I am delighted to be joining Laing O’Rourke, at what is an extremely exciting time for the business and the construction sector.
“Digital will become even more important in construction delivery and I am excited to be joining a company with a long history of innovation and the opportunities for more productive, safer and sustainable buildings and infrastructure.”
Group technical director, Andrew Wolstenholme, to whom Adrian will report, added: “Adrian is an experienced leader of digital transformation in complex capital programmes, bringing more than 25 years’ experience – predominantly in the aerospace, defence and maritime sectors – to Laing O’Rourke.
“I am delighted he has chosen to join us and look forward to working with him.”
Spragg has a Master’s degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from UCL and an MBA from the University of Bath.
