All Interviews articles – Page 19
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FeaturesChris Cole: Growth? It’s non-negotiable
In the week WSP issues a major profit warning, boss Chris Cole is still confident he can boost turnover by £300m in four years. Acquisitions across the globe and maybe even a major consolidation are on the cards
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FeaturesKen Shuttleworth: No more crazy shapes & silly profiles
Ken Shuttleworth, the man behind the Gherkin, doesn’t ’get’ the Shard, reckons the era of tall glass boxes is over and thinks a lot of designers are really egotistical. So why does the founder of Make think this is such a great time to be an architect? He tells Building.
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FeaturesSt Modwen's £200m war chest: With open arms
Regeneration specialist St Modwen would like contractors across the UK to get in touch - over the next six months, it has some £200m of tendering to get done
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FeaturesBuro Happold's new leaders: ‘We try to engineer better lives’
Buro Happold’s new leaders say that its mission is to improve the world. But can it really put ethics above profits as it expands globally? Here we ask the difficult questions
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FeaturesJeremy Horner: We will stay true to our values
When Davis Langdon merged with Aecom last August, many clients worried that the British institution would lose its identity. But for Jeremy Horner, the group’s global chief executive, things had to change in order to stay the same - and besides, it was never all that British anyway. Portrait by ...
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FeaturesDavid Higgins: Good move
Network Rail is going through its biggest investment phase since Victorian times - and it’s got itself a new boss. Building talks to David Higgins, ex-Olympics chief, about leaving one big project for another
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FeaturesRobert Care: looking up
Arup’s London office just got a much-needed burst of sunshine from Australia - Robert Care is here, with plans to steer the firm to success in the UK and abroad. David Matthews finds him characteristically optimistic
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FeaturesHey, big spender: Richard Pilkington
The UK development market is about to receive some much-needed good news: Oxford Properties is over from Canada with £3.5bn to spend - and that’s just for starters. Meet your new best friend, development director Richard Pilkington
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FeaturesWho's afraid of Zaha Hadid?
London developers are, says the world-renowned architect. But that’s not going to stop her increasing her presence in the UK and following up her aquatics centre success with tall buildings in the capital. She talks about work, high points and low - and why her clubbing days are over
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FeaturesBloom time: Dave Ward
Want to boost your chances of being nominated this year’s best employer in Building’s Good Employer Guide? Then have a listen to last year’s winner. Dave Ward, chief executive of Winvic, talks about how paying staff fairly has been the key to business success
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FeaturesJames Caan: Hear me roar
Any good story has a rags-to-riches theme and James Caan doesn’t disappoint. And as he makes a surprise move into property, he’s keen to share the cash around. This is the Dragon who hates to follow the crowd.
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FeaturesAndy Von Bradsky: A man of parts
At the heart of Andy Von Bradsky’s business strategy as boss of PRP is a paradox: to survive as an architect, you have to stop just being an architect. It’s time we used all the skills at our disposal, he says
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FeaturesA family affair: David Hurcomb
As chief executive of family-owned NG Bailey, David Hurcomb has a heavy weight on his shoulders – securing the future for generations of Baileys to come
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FeaturesRemixed: Ab Rogers interview
Ab Rogers, son of Richard, flopped at school, became a hippy, and is, by his own father’s judgment, ’pretty crazy’. None of that stops him being a sought after UK designer trusted with designs for the likes of Pizza Express and the Fat Duck. Meet a true individual
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FeaturesGreg Barker interview: 'We've got to transform the built environment'
Minister for climate change is nothing if not ambitious. He’s pushing through the government’s Green Deal to retrofit Britain’s 26 million homes. Fine idea, of course, but will it actually work?
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FeaturesAndrew Wyllie: Yes, we can
With Costain’s much publicised bid for Mouchel rebuffed no fewer than four times, and huge infrastructure plans dependent on funding, how come chief executive Andrew Wyllie is so upbeat?
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FeaturesPaul Wilson: Standing out from the dark
Whatever the fate of its stricken Irish counterpart, Sisk UK is determined to beat the recession with an ambitious strategy of expansion. Managing director Paul Wilson explains how he plans to make it work.
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FeaturesDennis Hone: the long goodbye
The Olympic Delivery Authority’s new boss has kept his cool in the furore over the Games’ legacy. He’s more concerned with meeting those unmissable deadlines and ensuring the ODA itself bows out with grace
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FeaturesNick and Christian Candy: The Candy men can
Nick and Christian Candy reckon you may as well put a sign up at Heathrow saying the UK doesn’t welcome successful people. But if anyone can persuade the country we have the entrepreneurial nous to get us out of the hole we’re in, it’s the men behind One Hyde Park ...
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FeaturesGreg Clark: Local hero
Greg Clark pretty much invented localism as a political idea, and now he’s the minister implementing it as a policy. But he’s adamant that he is genuinely pro-development and not the nimby champion we all fear