Willie, Has been an amazing colleague and friend to me, starting from before I joined COWI.  He was instrumental in me joining COWI and went “above and beyond” in making me feel welcome when I joined COWI and providing help, support and direction.  He has done something similar for lots of others in COWI, from my perspective he always made me feel that he was “in my corner” whenever I needed help and support. A typical example of this was offering himself for internal ICE Professional Reviews for countless younger engineers that have past through COWI. Willie liked to set high standards for these reviews and the review reports, if you got past Willie, you were pretty much guaranteed to pass the actual review, this is because he really cared for everyone.  Consequently it feels like Willie’s presence is built into the fabric of COWI UK, someone I and many more will remember as being fundamental in shaping and setting the culture of our organisation. I will miss Willie, but fortunately I can still hear his voice providing his sage personal and work related advice and guidance…”what would Willie have done?”….so I have good reason to remember him.  Rest in Peace Willie. Martin.