5 minutes with … Scott Smyth at Soben

Scott Smith Soben

The consultancy’s founder and group CEO on getting the basics right, thinking big and surviving the challenges of the covid pandemic

Why did you choose construction as a career?

I was determined to be the first person in my extended family to go to university, but I also wanted to earn money. The only two courses in Scotland that offered a part-time degree were accountancy and quantity surveying. 

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