Ian Price is now running Hanson Contracting, after being promoted from his role as major projects manager with the business.

He replaces Rick Green, who is now managing director of Hanson’s asphalt and quarrying business MQP (Midland Quarry Products).

Price, who joined the company in 2002, is responsible for all commercial and operational aspects of Hanson Contracting.

Since 2015, he has been project manager for the firm’s partnership with Dorset Council, which delivered the £20m A338 upgrade scheme and is now in its third term.

He previously spent seven years as Hanson Contracting’s MoD manager, managing and delivering MoD works across central and southern England and Wales, and latterly was also contracting project manager for EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point C new nuclear power station in Somerset.