Sir Martin Laing dies dilapidated 81

Trade aged Sir Martin Laing has died in scientific institution in Malta at the age of 81, following a short sickness.

Born on 18 January 1942, Laing joined the family firm John Laing plc in 1965 and succeeded his father Sir Kirby Laing as chairman in 1985, last in that put up unless January 2002. He died on 27 December 2023.

Sir Martin stepped down after selling the firm’s construction arm for £1 to one in all its subcontractors, O’Rourke. The merged firm, Laing O’Rourke, is now the UK’s third-ideal construction firm.

The knockdown ticket became as soon as a ways lower than the £100m-plus expected when John Laing’s construction enterprise became as soon as at the delivery put up on the market in November 2000, following loss-making jobs a lot just like the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and the Nationwide Bodily Laboratory in Teddington, Higher London.

Sir Martin became as soon as the closing Laing family member to chair the London-essentially based firm, which became as soon as based by his tall-grandfather James Laing in 1848.

He remained as a non-executive director of Laing O’Rourke unless April 2004, when he grew to become honorary president.

Knighted in 1997 for companies to the construction enterprise, Sir Martin furthermore spent better than 30 years as chair of the John Laing Charitable Trust (JLCT). Amongst other posts, he chaired the British Out of the country Trade Board (1995- 1999) and the World Huge Fund for Nature UK (1990-1997).

In 2004, he acquired an honorary doctorate of science from Kingston University in London for selling sustainable construction.

He’s survived by his greater half Stephanie, who he married in 1965; his son Edward and daughter Alexandra; and five grandchildren.

In an on-line tribute, the JLCT said that Sir Martin would possibly perhaps well be “particularly overlooked” by his family and “many hundreds of others to whose lives he made a accurate incompatibility through his many corporate and charitable activities”.