Laing O'Rourke is a multinational construction company headquartered in Dartford, England. It was founded in 1978 by Ray O'Rourke. It is the largest privately owned construction company in the United Kingdom.[3]
History
The company was founded by Ray O'Rourke and his brother Des in 1978.[4] Initially a specialist concrete subcontractor, it was originally based in East London, and was known as R. O'Rourke & Son.[5] In September 2001, R. O'Rourke bought main contractor Laing Construction from John Laing plc for £1. Laing's construction business had been making significant losses, in part due to additional costs on the Cardiff Millennium Stadium project, the National Physical Laboratory, and No 1 Poultry in the City of London.[6] The name of the company was changed to Laing O'Rourke.[7]
In May 2004, the company acquired Crown House Engineering, a mechanical and electrical engineering business, from Carillion.[8] Laing O'Rourke went on to expand its operations in Australia in July 2006, when it acquired Barclay Mowlem, also from Carillion.[9] In 2015, the company became a member of the Housing and Finance Institute.[10]
In December 2015, the chief executive officer of the company, Anna Stewart, stepped down with immediate effect due to ill health. Ray O'Rourke, the company's executive chairman, assumed her role[11] although it was reported that O’Rourke could only spend a limited number of days in the United Kingdom, due to his tax exile status in Jersey.[12]
On 11 January 2016, Laing O'Rourke announced that it had begun the formal sale process of selling its Australian business. This was a result of multiple unsolicited offers and a desire to invest more heavily in the company's operations in the United Kingdom.[13]
In the year to 31 March 2016, the group made a pre tax loss £246m, after being hit by poor performance on its £1.3bn PFI hospital contract (at CHUM) in Montreal, Canada, and on several now completed problem contracts in the United Kingdom.[14] In December 2016 it was rumoured the Australia arm has been taken off the market after Laing O’Rourke failed to find a buyer.[14] The sale process was later discontinued and the Australian business was refinanced in 2017.[15]
In March 2017, the company withdrew 800 of its workers from the Ichthys LNG storage tank project after not receiving payments from Kawasaki for its work for several months: the amount in dispute was $250 million[16][17] although Kawasaki rejected claims that it owed the disputed money.[18]
In the year to 31 March 2017, the group made a pre tax loss of £67m, largely due to losses of £81m (on revenues of just over £2 billion) at the largest operating division, Laing O'Rourke plc, mainly attributed to its PFI hospital contract at CHUM in Montreal, Canada. The contracting business then employed 8,539 people, more than half of the group's then 15,273 staff.[19]
Publication of the group's results of 2018 was delayed due to "historic turbulence in the construction sector" following the January 2018 collapse of Carillion;[15][20] in December 2018, the company said increased scrutiny from lenders and accountants was delaying a refinancing move,[21] finally closed in January 2019.[22]
With its operations refinanced in the United Kingdom, Laing O’Rourke published accounts for the year to 31 March 2018, showing the group made a pre tax loss of £46.5m (down from £60.6m in 2017) on turnover down to £2.93bn from £3.17bn.[23]
In March 2023, Ray O'Rourke's son Cathal O'Rourke was appointed the company's chief operating officer.[1] In June 2024, it was announced that Cathal would succeed his father as Laing O'Rourke CEO.[24]
Laing O'Rourke accounts for the year to 31 March 2023 showed a pre-tax loss of £288m on total revenues of £3.4 billion (including £2.18bn turnover from its Europe operations and £1.13bn in Australia).[25] In January 2024, it began company-wide cutbacks as financial analysts warned about the company's financial safety. People on sites across the group were served redundancy notices, including 60 at the Laing O'Rourke Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction (CEMC) at Steetley in Nottinghamshire.[26]
Operations
Laing O'Rourke has operations in two major geographic hubs, Europe and Australia. European operations span Abu Dhabi, Canada, Dubai and the United Kingdom. Australian operations cover Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and South East Asia[27] The company operates in building construction, infrastructure construction, investment & development, modular manufacturing, engineering expertise and support services.[28]
Its projects span a range of sectors including, building, transport, power, water & utilities, mining & natural resources and oil & gas.[29]
Major projects
Major projects involving the company have included;
Laing O'Rourke and its acquisition of 2004, Crown House, were revealed as subscribers to the United Kingdom's Consulting Association, exposed in 2009 for operating an illegal construction industry blacklist. Laing O'Rourke was later one of eight businesses involved in the launch in 2014 of the Construction Workers Compensation Scheme,[62] condemned as a "PR stunt" by the GMB union, and described by the Scottish Affairs Select Committee as "an act of bad faith".[63]
In October 2016, Laing O'Rourke and the other construction companies admitted that the blacklist was unlawful and apologised to those damaged by it.[64] In December 2017, Unite announced it had issued High Court proceedings against twelve major contractors, including Laing and Crown House.[65]
Late payment
In April 2019, Laing O'Rourke was suspended from the UK Government's Prompt Payment Code for failing to pay suppliers on time.[66] It was reinstated in November 2019.[67]
Ipswich housing development
In January 2024, at a meeting of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Conservative MP for IpswichTom Hunt criticised Laing O'Rourke for doing what he described as a "shocking job" as design-and-build contractor for The Mill, a 327-home high-rise development in central Ipswich, completed in March 2009. Some homes have been deemed unsafe since 2013, when "gale-force winds caused damage and tore cladding from the tower"; cladding on the block was found to be unsafe a year later. Hunt said there were also "deep structural problems" and that over 200 of his constituents had been in limbo for years.[68]
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