Lucy Howard, Turner & Townsend
Lucy Howard
UK major bids lead
Turner & Townsend

Lucy has 24 years experience from construction to work winning to driving industry change. Since 2013 Lucy’s focus is programme and project management consultancy with Turner & Townsend to maximise outcomes delivered from clients’ assets; including London Overground, Network Rail, Heathrow Express and Heathrow Airport. Progressing from Senior PM to Operations lead for the southern region, to Transport Sector Lead, to UK Head of Infrastructure Markets, to UK Major Bids Lead. She works with sector, service, and regional experts to arm our team with the best of industry innovation for clients across Infrastructure, Real Estate, Advisory, Energy & Natural Resources and Defence. Lucy is active in industry with Project 13 since 2017 with the Infrastructure Client’s Group as Development Board member and co-chair of the Capable Owner workstream. She contributes to the Institution of Civil Engineers on Productivity and produced the Programmes with Purpose report. Lucy regularly contributes to debates on infrastructure; diverse thinking (particularly neurodiversity); and mental resilience. Originally from the North-East of England, in her early career she studied Civil Engineering at Imperial with experiences in nuclear, residential and upgrading the Albert Hall. Graduating to the Kings Cross redevelopment and East London Line Viaduct reinstatement, she was NCE Graduate Civil Engineer of the year and quickly chartered. By 26 she was leading South Quay DLR station construction, chairing Constructing Excellence’s G4C, moving on to improving her division’s work winning rate for major projects.