|
|
|
BIOGRAPHY
Both David Barwell and Kevin Sims seem to be men who are used to adapting to change and new environments, and indeed both entered the Middle East at the same time.
Barwell achieved an engineering degree from Brighton University in the United Kingdom, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia as well as a corporate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
He was regional director for Maunsell AECOM in Queensland, Australia, where he led the rapid organic growth of the business to become the top professional technical services firm in the state.
He then became chief operating officer for AECOM in Australia and New Zealand. He moved to Abu Dhabi to assume his current role in January 2009.
 |
During that time AECOM’s purchases within construction include buying Guy Maunsell International in April 2000 and the remaining two-thirds of Halpern Glick Maunsell in 2001, an Australian engineering firm in which AECOM had picked up a stake in the Maunsell acquisition a year later.
In October 2001 it bought Oscar Faber, another United Kingdom engineering firm, which was mostly involved in design and transportation planning. In 2006 the Maunsell operation bought out Cansult, creating one of the largest consultancy firms in the Middle East in the sector.
In 2008 the company swooped for Earth Tech, which gave it access into a number of new markets, including Mexico. It soon after bought San Diego-based Boyle Engineering.
Sims trained as a quantity surveyor but practices mostly in project management. He joined the firm in 1986 in the firm’s Cambridge office, transferring to run the Milton Keynes office in 1996.
Over the following 12 years, the Milton Keynes office was very successful and grew to be the largest office outside London since 2006. By January last year he moved to the Middle East.
| Articles | |
| Companies | |
 |
Site Map
 |
 |
 |
 |
|  |
\
FEATURED COMMENT
Please click here to comment on this article