CIOB past president Sir Joseph (Joe) Dwyer has died age 82. Dwyer was chairman of Wimpey, masterminding its transformation from civil engineering contractor to housebuilder and taking profits from £15m to £451m.
He was perhaps best remembered for the Channel Tunnel – he was co-chair of TML, the Anglo-French consortium.
Dwyer started in construction at 16 as a tea boy, then chain boy, in Liverpool for Wimpey – leaving in 1999 after 44 years.
He eschewed retirement in favour of becoming chair of Liverpool Vision, the UK’s first urban regeneration company. He was knighted in 2001.
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