Multinational construction consultancy firm, Linesight, has announced a strategic promotion within its UK management team, naming Michael Riordan as Managing Director.
Michael brings a breadth of industry expertise to Linesight, which delivers strategic advice and cost management services to clients in multiple industry sectors, including commercial real estate, data centres, healthcare, high-tech industrial, residential, retail and hospitality amongst others.
In the last year, Linesight has continued to build on its successes worldwide with 20% growth across its regions and strong referral rates of over 80%. In the UK, it is working on a number of high-profile projects some of which include a 37-storey PRS tower in Manchester, a 780-bed hotel in London, a 280,000 sq. ft. major office fit-out in London, Primark stores throughout the UK and data centres worldwide.
Michael has been part of the Linesight team for over 21 years, working on large-scale developments throughout the UK and Europe in the commercial, residential, leisure and high-tech industrial sectors. His role as Managing Director involves overseeing Linesight’s UK operations, managing and growing the UK team, establishing new strategic client partnerships and leveraging the company’s relationships with multinational organisations to further expand the business in the UK.
Gerard Campbell, Group CEO at Linesight said: “We are pleased to have Michael at the helm of our UK business. He has been a key driver of our growth in the UK and maintaining key client relationships and we look forward to supporting him in keeping Linesight at the forefront of the industry.”
Michael added: “The UK represents a strategically significant market for Linesight with many of our multinational clients having a strong presence here. Typically our clients take us with them as they expand into new regions, and my focus is to ensure that we have the right teams in place with the right skill sets to meet their complex construction project needs. We have enjoyed great success in the past year working on some prestigious UK builds across the commercial, residential, retail and hospitality sectors, as well as delivering data centres, which is a core specialism of Linesight. Our ambition is to maintain our UK growth and double our size in the UK by 2019, position the business as the construction consultancy of choice and attract the best talent.”
