Heathrow chief exec switches to Laing O'Rourke

The man who built Heathrow’s Terminal 5 is quitting BAA to become chief operating officer at Laing O’Rourke.

Tony Douglas has been with BAA since 1998 and oversaw the construction of Terminal 5 where O’Rourke is the main contractor.

Douglas has since been promoted to become chief executive of Heathrow Airport but will now become a senior player at the UK’s largest private contractor.

BAA chief executive officer Stephen Nelson said: “Tony’s outstanding achievement for BAA has been the development of Terminal 5, one of Europe’s largest building projects, which remains on time and on budget.”