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Alan Leary

Alan Leary

Alan has 42 years experience in the construction industry, all of which has been in the private, professional sector. He started work at F C Graves and Partners in the summer of 1967, in the heady days of the ‘swinging sixties' and was involved in some very prestigious midlands based projects including the National Exhibition Centre. He left F C Graves and Partners in 1978 to gain a wider breadth of experience in the industry and this included a six month secondment to a large sugar producing complex in the Ivory Coast, West Africa to assist the QS team there.

He joined Walker Cotter in April 1986 where he developed his skills in negotiating final accounts and contractor's claims. In 1991 he headed up the newly formed Walker Cotter Projects Ltd which was created to expand the trend towards Design and Build procurement.

In May 1997 Alan was promoted to Associate and in May 2002 he became a full member of the Board of Directors.

During his career Alan has gained experience in a wide variety of projects including social housing, hospitals, factories, warehouses, cattle markets, exhibition centres, offices, schools, public houses, hotels and restaurants and has developed skills in cost planning, measurement, pricing, procurement, contract administration, project management, claims and partnering.

Over the last 17 years Alan has become more and more involved in the social housing sector and has been instrumental in expanding this area of the business within the Group.

Alan was one of the four directors who was part of the management buyout in July 2007 and is very much looking forward to the challenge of driving the business forward.

Alan is married to Patricia and has two daughters, Rebecca and Katherine, Rebecca was married to Kevin in May 2007 and in October 2008 gave birth to her first child, William. Katherine is a qualified Nursery Nurse and is engaged to Dan who works as a recruitment consultant in Birmingham.

When he is not working Alan enjoys playing the guitar, reading and walking and is very much looking forward to fulfilling his role as Grandfather to William.

March 2009

Alan Leary

Alan Leary