Davenport was previously employed by Balfour Beatty Construction as an operations director, and more recently worked for Bouygues as director of major projects within its Energy and Services division.
He joins after Hurcomb left to run Willmott Dixon’s north east operation three months ago.
Davenport will be based in the Normanton office in West Yorkshire, reporting in to North East and Yorkshire managing director Cliff Wheatley.