5 minutes with … Nick Hartwright at Projekt

2021-08-13T05:00:00

Nick Hartwright, CEO of workspace provider Projekt, appreciates the importance of being resilient and working your way up from the bottom. He drives a VW T25 and is pretty good at Lego

Why did you choose construction as a career?

I left school very early and started working on a construction site – mainly for the money rather than anything else. I spent my first year mixing cement on a board by hand (well, with a shovel), which gave me a good sense of hard graft.

I then went into the family business, which I eventually took over. That involved designing and manufacturing handmade carpets in Cairo, Egypt.

I began some work restoring theatres and listed buildings, and after that I needed a studio to work from. So I started a shared workspace company to pay the bills and completed my first project in 2010, in Bethnal Green.

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