Mark Hoyland has been appointed as managing director of Balfour Beatty Engineering Services, the group’s building services and M&E engineering business.
Hoyland will join Balfour Beatty in mid-August, with the company saying that the timing coincides with the ongoing recovery in UK construction beginning to feed through to the M&E engineering sector.
Nicholas Pollard, chief executive of Balfour Beatty Construction Services, said: “I am delighted to welcome Mark to Balfour Beatty. Mark’s extensive commercial and operational experience will ensure our smaller, refocused building services M&E engineering business will capitalise on the ongoing recovery in the sector.
Mark Hoyland
“Mark will lead the business to build long-term collaborative customer relationships, deliver operational efficiency and secure a commercial focus that improves profitability and the order book, winning sustainable business opportunities.”
Hoyland’s most recent role was as managing director of Peverel Property Services, part of Hampshire-based Peverel Group, a 3,500-strong business which manages a portfolio of retirement homes and installs specialist equipment in them. He was appointed managing director in June 2013, following troubles at the company after it was chastised by the Office of Fair Trading over fees charged for installing security and alarm equipment in homes.
According to Balfour Beatty he "led the business through a period of transformational change", but he apparently resigned earlier this year.
Hoyland’s previous career included five years as chief executive of City West Homes, a provider of housing services across the London Borough of Westminster, as well as extensive periods with Rok, Ballast and Wimpey Group in a number of senior commercial and operational roles.
Hoyland will be a member of the Executive Leadership Team, reporting directly to Pollard, who will now relinquish the role of Balfour Beatty Engineering Services managing director – a responsibility he has held on an interim basis since 6 May.
Following the group’s £30m profit warning at that time – where around two-thirds was said to be linked to the troubled M&E division – previous managing director Phil McGuire was shown the door, while three commercial directors and five regional directors were also replaced.
But this was followed on 3 July with a further £35m profit warning, after which Pollard told Construction News that BBES’s turnover for 2014 – previously estimated at £260m – might fall to £150m-£200m.
The group had identified 20 “problem contracts”, the majority of them in London.
According to its press statement, Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has a turnover of approximately £260m with 1,300 employees and operates across a number of markets including commercial offices, retail, leisure, education, health, rail, airports, industrial, pharmaceutical, custodial and defence sectors.
