Dalcour Maclaren managing director move: implications for UK infrastructure delivery
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Planning consultant Dalcour Maclaren has appointed former RSK Group environment division managing director and operations director Pete Whipp as its new managing director, succeeding Andrew Barker, who becomes chief client officer. Whipp brings 15 years’ experience at RSK working with developers, engineers and planners on complex infrastructure schemes where delivery, environmental constraints and stakeholder management must be balanced. The move signals Dalcour Maclaren’s intent to scale its advisory role on land, planning and environmental issues across major UK infrastructure programmes.
Technical Brief
- Experience working “alongside developers, engineers and planners” points to closer alignment between land access strategies and engineering design development.
- Emphasis on “putting clients and landowners at the heart” signals continued focus on negotiated access, compensation and minimising construction disruption on third-party land.
- Reference to “complex infrastructure projects” indicates continued involvement in schemes with overlapping constraints: environmental designations, statutory undertakers, and multi-stakeholder consent pathways.
- Strengthening the senior team around environment and client roles aligns with UK major project practice, where land, consents and stakeholder risk often dominate early programme critical paths.
Our Take
Within our 425 Infrastructure stories, UK-based consultancies like Dalcour Maclaren feature most often where complex land access and consenting risk can delay linear projects, so leadership changes here are likely to matter for programme certainty on major utilities and transport schemes.
RSK Group’s long-standing presence in UK infrastructure and environmental services means a senior move into Dalcour Maclaren could tighten links between environmental assessment and land rights workstreams, which are frequently cited in our database as critical path items on Projects-tagged schemes.
For UK infrastructure clients, a managing director with 15 years’ tenure at a large multidisciplinary group such as RSK can signal a push for more integrated, portfolio-style delivery rather than one-off commissions, aligning with how many Projects-tagged utilities frameworks are now being structured in our coverage.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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