All 5 Minutes with... articles – Page 4
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Features5 minutes with … Sarah Trahair-Williams at FORE Partnership
The partnership’s development director divides her time between London and the West Country. When not working or commuting, she might well be watching rugby or out running
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Features5 minutes with … Gillian Harrison at Levitt Bernstein
The firm’s senior associate describes the feeling of delivering buildings that change people’s lives for the better – and why it is important to walk everywherex
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Features5 minutes with … Scott Smyth at Soben
The consultancy’s founder and group CEO on getting the basics right, thinking big and surviving the challenges of the covid pandemic
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Features5 minutes with … Marcus Bate at Mount Anvil
The firm’s partnership and communities director has a Classics degree and trained as a lawyer before deciding his future lay in property development
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Features5 minutes with … Dan Clarke at Native Land
The firm’s development director on the importance of having a plan – and the satisfaction when that plan comes together.
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Features5 minutes with … Rob Speirs at Stepnell
The director leading the firm’s southern operations believes in listening before speaking and learning from mistakes. He designed his first house aged 14 and enjoys rugby and sailing
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Features5 minutes with … Duncan Greenaway at Greenaway Architecture
The firm’s founder on the importance of patience, his dislike of housebuilder-led, cul-de-sac centred housing and his admiration for the work of David Chipperfield
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Features5 minutes with … Oliver Plunkett at Buro Happold
The firm’s new CEO says he finds his job exhilarating and terrifying in equal measure. He has a problem with waste but can’t drink too much tea
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Features5 minutes with … Simon Spencer at EDGE
The consultancy director initially trained as a plumber but has since done a wide range of jobs across the industry. He grew up in Hull and now works in Leeds
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Features5 minutes with … Ellie Jenkins at Akerlof
The consultancy director on her work developing the Value Toolkit, making good ideas work at scale, the problem with tall buildings and a love of Welsh beaches
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Features5 minutes with … Andrew Carpenter at Constructing Excellence Midlands
The Southampton-supporting, theatre-loving former DJ on his ongoing mission to promote best practice as chief executive of CE Midlands
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Features5 minutes with … Tim Carpenter at Durkan
The former Willmott Dixon trainee on the challenges of working in the current environment and the buzz of handing over the keys to a new home
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Features5 minutes with … Lauren Bailey at Ridge
The firm’s head of social value is proud to have helped change people’s lives for the better. She is also a jazz-loving saxophonist
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Features5 minutes with … Chetan Parmar at Parmarbrook
The founding partner of the civil and structural engineering studio reflects on his journey through more than 30 years in the industry
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Features5 minutes with … Jane Ho at HKS
The firm’s principal and director of health on her love of gardening, her dislike of 1980s post-modern design and the importance of humility
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Features5 minutes with … Phil Sheldon at The Build Chain
The new firm’s sales director reflects on his time in South Africa and the pain of seeing businesses fail. He also reveals his favourite building in the world
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Features5 minutes with … Tim Molden at MESH Construction Consultancy
The firm’s managing director on the importance of patience, his love of fish and chips and his “frightening” memory for numbers
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Features5 minutes with … Tooey Courtemanche at Procore
The company founder and CEO on the challenges (and rewards) of launching a tech start-up, the importance of curiosity and the car that symbolises his career journey
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Features5 minutes with … Patrick Eley at DNCO
The agency’s creative director on the art and science of wayfinding, and the importance of employing people more talented than yourself
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Features5 minutes with … Guy Willis-Robb at Harley Haddow
The company director on the importance of communication, his industry heroes and his favourite and least favourite buildings