All Interviews articles – Page 6
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Features5 minutes with … Eva Mills at Hydrock
The building performance specialist admires Norman Foster and wishes the industry could be more inclusive. She also loves lobster and is learning to play the drums
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Features5 minutes with … Joy Nazzari at Showhere
The founder of proptech platform Showhere - set up during the pandemic - has worked on some of London’s biggest regeneration projects
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Features5 minutes with … Dan Brown at HLM
The new head of MMC delivery at HLM attests to the influence of Lego, dislikes the Walkie Talkie but does enjoy a glass of wine with cheese
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FeaturesIn Business: McLaren on right track for record turnover
West Ham-loving chairman Kevin Taylor tells Building about the early days, new markets and why pent-up demand means the bubble won’t burst yet
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Features5 minutes with … Nicola Jones at Gleeds
The former gymnast and athlete is a senior project manager at hospitals where she was treated as a child
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Features5 minutes with … Ian Farmer at HB Reavis
The firm’s head of design on working on the 2012 Olympics, the industry’s issue with profits and how he can’t wait to play the guitar in the pub again
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Features5 minutes with … Victoria Manston at HUB
The Spurs-supporting, pasta-loving development manager at HUB enjoyed regenerating the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth and is starting work on two sites in Leeds
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FeaturesIn Business: Where McAlpine sees its future
Firm plans to re-establish itself in civils and infrastructure work, chief executive Paul Hamer tells Building
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Features5 minutes with … Michael Ruddick at Reds10
The firm’s director on starting out in consultancy, making the jump to offsite construction and a secret breakdancing skill
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Features5 minutes with … Elisa Sartori at Webb Yates Engineers
Less is more for the associate at Webb Yates who was educated in Italy, is inspired by Renzo Piano and refuses to reveal her secret skill …
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FeaturesIn Business: Douglas McCormick’s plans for growth at Gleeds
Executive director has ambitions to increase turnover to £400m and double the number of staff worldwide. He is also renovating a 700-year-old church
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Features5 minutes with … Stephen Good at the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre
The CSIC’s chief executive is passionate about changing for the better. He also wishes he was Doctor Dolittle
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Features5 minutes with … Laura Collins at Stanhope
The firm’s project developer on starting out at Davis Langdon as an apprentice QS, working compressed hours and the women who have inspired her
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FeaturesPete Redfern interview: We were right to shut down but could have got back up to speed sooner
Chief executive of Taylor Wimpey acted faster and more decisively than most firms during last year’s lockown. Here he looks back at those decisions
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FeaturesIn Business: How demolition firm McGee knocked down perceptions and branched out
Managing director Seb Fossey on moving away from its traditional roots and into new markets
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Features5 minutes with … Christopher Collett at Quantem Consulting
The firm’s youngest partner enjoys St Ives and pizza from Homeslice and he wants to know what goes on inside the SIS Building
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FeaturesIn Business: How Tetra Tech hopes to leave its WYG past behind
After racking up millions in losses, the GB boss of the renamed consultant says it has found a home free from the whims of the City
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Features5 minutes with … Diego Padilla Philipps at WSP
Diego would have liked to have been around to help Santiago Calatrava with his Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden, completed in 2005 Associate director at WSP says growing up visiting Peruvian building sites and working in Haiti after the earthquake have shaped his outlook on life ...
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Features5 minutes with … Ray Hutchinson at Gilbert-Ash
The firm’s MD enjoys his busy working life and to relax he takes long walks along the Northern Irish coastline
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Features5 minutes with … Jelena Cousins at Cousins & Cousins
Creative director was inspired by her parents to embark on her career but was appalled to be told by an ex-boss she could not be a good mother and a good architect at the same time