Celebrating 160 years

For more than 150 years the company has grown from its humble beginnings of fixing gutters and plastering walls to undertake multi-million pound projects until, in 2001, John Laing sold off its construction and house building businesses to concentrate on investments procured through Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) and Public Private Partnerships (PPP).

Consequently, the John Laing which operates in the 21st century global economy, combines its skill in the management of development risk, project financing, asset management and operations with those of its chosen partners. This has led to the company establishing an enviable reputation as a market leader in the privately financed form of infrastructure renewal and modernisation now recognised as a key element of public sector procurement policy.

Although James would no longer recognise the business models on which the global company now operates, the same core principles of innovation, flexibility and reliability are the cornerstones on which the company is founded and the qualities by which customers have, over more than a century and a half, come to know the company.