1. Provide a brief overview of Halcrow Group's strategy.

Halcrow Group mission statement is to maintain and improve the quality of people’s lives’ including “skills and innovation; enjoying what we do; delivering within time and budget’. This serve as the code of business behavior and business principles.

Halcrow Group’s operations were brought together in 2001 to meet the future needs of business environment. All 4 main business groups - Property, Water, Transport and Consulting were brought together and operated as a matrix. This four unified business groups operated across eight geographical regions – UK North and Scotland, UK South, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and India.

This strategy aimed to leverage the collective human, technical and financial capital of the company.

Each of the Group’s 4 main business group are managed by a 5 people management team including a Group Board Director or a Managing Director. Different “Professional & Technical Staff” could be formed as into technical skills group and the leader of the group is responsible for their training and career development.

A Corporate Support Services, comprising all the corporate and business support functions, include the 31 people HR team are divided into ‘Personnel”, ‘Pensions” and “Training” lead by a director at the executive level. This group of non-technical staff is shared amongst the four business groups under the umbrella of corporate support services.

In this way, business projects are assigned to respective “Professional & Functional” team based on their location and relevant expertise such as transport or consulting to maintain its technical excellence and supported collectively by the Corporate Support Service for HR , Finance, System, Legal, Development, Corporate Communications, Administrative Services and Corporate