Sir Alan Cockshaw (born 14 July 1937) is an English civil engineer. Born in

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, he became the chief executive of Fairclough Civil Engineering in 1978 and, when this merged with the William Press Group to form AMEC in 1982, he became the chief executive (1984–88) and then chairman (1988-97). He was knighted in 1992. He became a

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of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1986 and was president of the

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from 1997 to 1998. He is a member of the

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board.

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