Construction industry gossip: Bowled over

By Hansom2019-04-05T05:00:00

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True grit

Mott MacDonald chair Keith Howells, who retires in June after 45 years at the consulting firm, seems to be a bit of a romantic. In a profile on the company’s website Howells recalls some of his most memorable experiences: being on a yacht in a “huge” mid-Atlantic storm, being lost with a broken-down Land Rover in a Nigerian desert, driving from the UK to Iraq. And they go on: singing with a live band in Hong Kong, getting caught up in a failed military coup in Lesotho, and meeting a tiger on a footpath in a Nepali forest. One more memory made the list: “Getting married (second time round).” Some might consider this his most daring feat of all.

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