Adrian Ewer, group finance director of John Laing, prefers to look forward rather than back. This is hardly surprising. Laing, once one of the UK's leading construction companies, has undergone a painful and dramatic change of direction over the past three years. Ewer, who joined in 1991, has experienced at first hand the transformation that nearly killed the 150-year-old company.
Ewer says: "We needed to come out of intensive care and back into the world of the living â it was certainly a case of acute treatment."
