On a mission: Gillian Charlesworth talks plans for BRE Group

By Chloë McCulloch2019-10-18T05:00:00

Source: Jean Goldsmith

BRE chief executive Gillian Charlesworth sits down with Building

In May, Gillian Charlesworth became the first ever woman chief executive of BRE Group.

A woman breaking the glass ceiling may not seem remarkable these days – although in construction it is still a rarity – but it is more impressive at a building research organisation going back 90 years where the men at the top have typically been BRE lifers with a tech background in the vein of her high-profile and very public-facing predecessor Peter Bonfield, who left in 2018. Charlesworth is none of those things, and she has also never been a chief executive before.

Five months into heading the world’s first research centre for the built environment, she says …

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