All Interviews articles – Page 28
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FeaturesCharm offensive
Despite his continuing war with the Labour party, the Daily Telegraph and the US Senate, George Galloway has opened a new front against Tower Hamlets council. Building reports on the leader of Respect’s struggle to persuade tenants to fight their council’s housing policy
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FeaturesThe old romantic
He may no longer be the carefree youth who proposed to his wife a week after they met, but Keith Miller’s more considered approach to business looks set to see the Miller Group pass the £1bn-turnover mark.
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FeaturesThe maverick
He’s proud to be a QS, he’s not afraid of enjoying himself and he doesn’t think every big practice should be an LLP. Mark Leftly met Richard Steer, senior partner of Gleeds, and found a leader in his prime.
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FeaturesMalcolm Wicks
The energy minister knows a crisis is looming – what he doesn’t know is how to find a quick fix. Instead, he’s looking at all the long-term options – such as wind farms in the South-east and plans for a new generation of nuclear plants.
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FeaturesRelax – it could be so much worse
Nick Leeson learned a lot about stress when he lost £862m, went on the run and ended up a Singapore jail. Now he’s sharing his coping strategies in a new book and executive workshops. Nick Jones introduced him to the famously relaxed Stef Stefanou, and felt his own blood pressure ...
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Alun Michael
Once upon a time, the government saw construction as a vital lever for regulating the economy, and gave it an entire minister. These says it gets an average of seven minutes of Alun Michael’s day. So what can he accomplish in that time?
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FeaturesI’ll be seeing you …
Stephen Williams has just been appointed head of construction at the Health and Safety Executive. As Building discovered, he is a man with an intense interest in the industry – and plans personally to visit as many sites as possible.
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FeaturesDo you trust this man?
Ian Livsey, head of the new TrustMark accreditation scheme, wants to banish cowboy builders from the market. But how will he get the industry on side?
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FeaturesJasper conran: The new Wayne hemingway?
Fashion guru Jasper Conran is already known for interior design, but with links to the Open House scheme and some heavy hints being dropped, it seems he may be moving into architecture. So do we have another fashion designer architect on our hands?
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FeaturesMr precedent
Barrington Billings, the first black person to hold the presidency of the Chartered Institute of Housing, spent years championing the cause of black and ethnic minorities. Now he’s giving firms run by them the chance to win public sector work.
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FeaturesShe’s back
Jennie Price, the famously combative former boss of the Construction Confederation, has been absent from the industry for some years. Now she’s returned, accompanied by … a row
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FeaturesThe man who kidnapped Gehry
Brighton developer Josh Arghiros is the kind of man who knows what he wants and sets out to get it. And if what he wants happens to be the world’s most famous architect, well … He tells George Hay what happened next.
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FeaturesThe green knight
Sir Neville Simms has made an epic personal journey from vilified motorway contractor to champion of sustainable procurement in the public sector. He tells Building about his plans.
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FeaturesNot the David Prichard show
Architectural firm Metropolitan Workshop is not about star architects, even though it has been set up by one of the starriest. We found out why from David Prichard and Neil Deely.
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FeaturesSimon Vivian begins
Most of Simon Vivian’s six months in charge of Mowlem have been spent struggling with disastrous projects, boardroom bloodletting and a predecessor who didn’t leave. Now he’s finally ready to do it his way. Tom Broughton finds out what he has in mind.
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FeaturesHead first
Former headmistress Valerie Bragg has been a leading player in implementing Labour’s schools strategy. Here she tells us about why architecture doesn’t really matter – and how she got on with Norman Foster at the Bexley academy.
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FeaturesDo you want to join my tribe?
Henry Pitman is the Eton-educated businessman who founded Tribal as the universal solution to the public sector’s property problems. And he wants you to help him
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FeaturesNo regrets
Nobody knows better than Sir Martin Laing, former chairman of Laing, how a wafer-thin margin can turn into a catastrophic loss. He tells us about how a contract used to be a gentlemen’s agreement and why he wasn’t to blame for that £1 sale.