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Knighthood for Oakervee

4 Jan 22 Douglas Oakervee, former chairman of HS2 and Crossrail, is to receive a knighthood.

Sir Douglas Oakervee
Sir Douglas Oakervee

The 2022 New Year鈥檚 Honours List was thin pickings for construction industry figures.

Doug Oakervee rose to prominence in the construction in the 1990s as the chief tunnel engineer on the Hong Kong mass transit railway project and subsequently as project director of the Hong Kong Airport Authority during the construction of Chek Lap Kok airport. He was chairman of Crossrail between 2005 and 2009 and chairman of HS2 Ltd in 2012-13. More recently, he led a review of HS2 plans for prime minister Boris Johnson and co-authored a feasibility study into a fixed link between Scotland and Northern Ireland. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2003-04 and was awarded a CBE in 2010 for service to civil engineering.

Now 81, he is being knighted 鈥渇or services to transport and infrastructure delivery.鈥

Also recognised is the Institution of Civil Engineers鈥 immediate past president, Rachel Skinner, a director of consulting engineer WSP, who gets a CBE 鈥渇or services to infrastructure鈥.

Rachel Skinner CBE
Rachel Skinner CBE

Ray Hutchinson, owner and manager director of construction company Gilbert-Ash, gets an OBE 鈥渇or services to the construction industry and to diversity and inclusion鈥.

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