Two is better than one

King Sturge’s Polish operation is expanding its project management section. The company is to employ more specialists this November after its merger with Caledonian Project Management

Caledonian Project Management has been operating on the Polish market since 2005 on such projects as the Luminar, Mokotów Plaza, Jana Kazimierza and Helion office buildings in Warsaw and the Point Park Poznań warehouse complex. Caledonian Project Management is also engaged in a project to revitalize a post-industrial district in Brasov.

The contract signed between the two companies came as the result of an almost year-long search for a partner. Following the merger, the King Sturge Project Management and Construction Consultancy Team will be made up of 16 employees, making it the most developed section within the company.

Iain Leyden (right), who has until now been the managing director of Caledonian Project Management, has become the manager of the new enlarged team. The section is to move in mid-2009 to its new head office in the Deloitte House office building, which is currently under construction. The post of director of property management has been entrusted to Iwona Laszkiewicz, who had previously held the position of director of Est-On Property Management, a subsidiary of Echo Investment. In her new post she will manage a 6-person team that currently services 20 projects in Poland.

Jason Sharman (left) of King Sturge continues to assess the situation on the Polish market in positive terms and, as the agency stresses, it is focusing on the search for new employees with substantial potential and experience. However, the fragile political and economic situation in Ukraine has led King Sturge to put on hold its earlier announced expansion plans into that market, with the company’s Ukrainian customers to be looked after by a Russian partner
company. ν MP