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FeaturesBest foot forward: the former Army brigadier plotting Sir Robert McAlpine’s return to defence work
Mike Hickson spent 30 years in the military. He hopes his experience will help the contractor get a bridgehead in the sector, he tells Dave Rogers
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Features‘This industry is absolutely fine…’ Andrew Davies on the naysayers, rescuing Kier and what the firm plans to do next
The contractor’s chief executive goes in to bat for construction. It’s a good time to be in the business, he tells Dave Rogers
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Features40 Under 40: meet the brightest and best of construction’s next generation
Building is spotlighting 40 people under the age of 40 who seem set to change the future of construction
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Features‘It was always the plan ...’ Keltbray’s Brendan Kerr on selling infrastructure and what he’s going to do next
The specialist contractor’s owner talks to Dave Rogers about going back to building, succession planning and why he never intends to quit
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Features‘I’ll retire when we double in size’… Stantec’s new regional boss on his ambitions for the UK energy sector
As the government presses ahead with its plan to decarbonise the UK grid by 2030, the engineering firm aims to take advantage of the huge amount of infrastructure work up for grabs over the next 10 years. Managing director Brian Yates tells Tom Lowe there are exciting times ahead
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Features‘We’ve won stuff we know we wouldn’t have won before’… Talking growth with Kenneth Wood and Neil Fyles of Drees & Sommer UK
Two years after being bought by the German consulting giant, the team behind AA Projects is now on an acquisition spree of its own
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Features‘It’s madness what the industry goes to work for’… Sisk’s Paul Brown on margins, making the right decisions and working on Man City’s stadium
‘The last two or three years in the UK have been the toughest I’ve experienced,’ the Irish contractor’s Liverpool-born chief executive tells Dave Rogers
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Features‘The contracting model needs to change’ – Permasteelisa’s boss on why the industry can’t go on like this
Liam Cummins joined the cladding specialist in 2023 after years working for main contractors. He talks to Dave Rogers about unsustainable margins, working for some formidable CEOs and why London is still the place to do business
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Features‘Bid for everything, always haggle’: The life and times of John F Hunt’s John Hall
The founder of the specialist contractor turned 75 over the summer. He tells Dave Rogers about nearly going under, having the gift of the gab and why he did well out of the Cardiff Millennium Stadium
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Features‘If you’re not adding value, what’s the point?’- Ridge & Partners’ Adrian O’Hickey on the firm’s multidisciplinary approach
Ridge & Partners is one of the fastest-growing large firms in Building’s Top 150 Consultants list out this Friday. Senior partner Adrian O’Hickey explains more about the firm’s plans
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Features‘We’re too self effacing’: BCO chief Richard Kauntze on why UK offices are some of the best in the world
Kauntze speaks to Tom Lowe about where the office market is heading as he prepares to step down from the body he has led since 1999
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Features‘Significant growth is likely to be in other parts of the world’… Cundall boss Carole O’Neil explains her global ambition
Cundall is rapidly making a name for itself in the world of sustainable engineering and design. Managing partner Carole O’Neil shares her strategy with Carl Brown
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Features‘I think we can do a lot for young architects’ – meet Chris Williamson, the next RIBA president
Ben Flatman talks to the founder of Weston Williamson + Partners about the role RIBA has played in his career, the importance of lifelong learning, and why he wants to help the next generation of architects get a leg up in the profession
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FeaturesAdjaye London CEO Lucy Tilley: ‘We’ll work even harder to carry on our legacy. We’ll keep going’
New London CEO talks about her vision for the future, the allegations that threatened to bring the practice down, and the resilience that she says helped it survive
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Features‘There’s been a lack of consistency, and you need consistency to deliver’ – What the outgoing CIOB president wants from the next government
Sandi Rhys Jones is clear where the Conservatives went wrong in their dealings with the construction industry. So, with a general election looming and her term in office coming to an end, Nora Redmond asked the president of the Chartered Institute of Building what needs to happen next
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FeaturesInside Gbolade Design Studio: A new era of architecture where the only way is ethics
Ben Flatman talks to Lanre and Tara Gbolade about setting up their practice and their vision for architecture as a tool for social and environmental change
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FeaturesHome Truths podcast: In conversation with Liz Peace
Episode 5: Follow the money – Liz Peace, former chief executive of the British Property Federation, talks to Jackie Sadek and Peter Bill about finding a financial model to kick-start a nationwide affordable housebuilding programme
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FeaturesHome Truths podcast: In conversation with Darren Rodwell
Episode 4: Bricks and mortar, hearts and minds - Darren Rodwell, Labour’s candidate for Barking and council leader for the east London borough, on how he expects the Labour leadership to reveal more housing policy detail now the election has been called
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FeaturesHome Truths podcast: In conversation with Toby Lloyd, former No 10 adviser
Housing policy expert Toby Lloyd talks to Jackie Sadek and Peter Bill about his time in government at the height of Brexit chaos, higher space standards, capturing land value and what we should read into Labour’s stated ambitions for after the general election
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Features‘We have witnessed increasing hostility in these meetings’... Architect Joe Morris explains what’s wrong with the planning system
Ben Flatman talks to Joe Morris about the complexities of the planning system and the importance of workplace civility