More Interviews – Page 30
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FeaturesThe children's crusade
How can you make a name for yourself if that name belongs to your famous parent? We talk to people who've wrestled with this problem – and found their own answers.
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FeaturesMan of manners
David Hardy is a community-spirited man – chair of his parish hall, school governor and a fan of village life. Now he's trying to introduce a bit more neighbourliness into construction. We meet the manager of the Considerate Constructors Scheme.
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FeaturesRafael Viñoly
The Uruguayan's idea of resurrecting New York's twin towers as refined replicas of their former selves was an attempt to imagine how the city would look in 25 years.We asked him where the inspiration came from
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FeaturesMike Jeffries
How did a man with the reputation of being one the industry's shrewdest (and largest) operators let Atkins get into such a mess? And how will he clear it up?
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FeaturesPiercy Conner
It was splashed all over the headlines and even displayed in a Selfridges window, so why did the Microflat never take off? Its designers Stuart Piercy and Richard Conner have a theory – and haven't given up hope.
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FeaturesAt home with the BNP
Just when the construction industry thought it was making headway in its fight against racism, along comes builder and British National Party councillor Robin Evans to grab the headlines. We spent a day talking politics with him, his girlfriend and his party minder.
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FeaturesGeorge Brumwell
The UCATT general secretary has driven through a landmark pay deal in which Terminal 5 workers will earn more than company directors. Now he tells us why it will be his swansong.
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FeaturesKen Shuttleworth
He's transformed the London skyline, conceived the form of the world's largest building and his design for Ground Zero is wowing New York. So why have so few people heard of him?
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FeaturesRichard Saxon
As the Egan era draws to a close, the chair of construction think tank Be is ready to take over as the industry's helmsman. And, as he tells Marcus Fairs, his aim is to create an industry that has more self-confidence, more self-knowledge and more self-control.
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FeaturesIain Napier
The former brewer in charge of Taylor Woodrow aims to double margins within four years. His recipe? Take a diffuse conglomerate, blend, squeeze out PFI transport and 180 jobs then add a generous sprinkling of hospitals.
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FeaturesThe equaliser
Ras Patel, himself the victim of a racial attack, is in charge of ridding construction of racism. He tells Tom Broughton that the best way forward is to persuade companies that racial equality makes good business sense.
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FeaturesA Man and his tools
BuildOnline's Mark Oliver chose an odd moment to join a dotcom. Yet he is confident that his firm's collaboration programs will trigger a computer revolution – if only firms can find a way to upgrade those soft pink things that operate them.
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FeaturesPeter Gershon
Hired to overhaul government procurement, Peter Gershon is a huge fan of the PFI. But, as Marcus Fairs found, the chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce is uncomfortable singing its praises.
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FeaturesMichael meacher
The minister has a few modest targets for you to meet: like eliminating carbon dioxide emissions, beating the Germans, making Part L even tougher, rescuing pandas, preventing floods – and saving the world … Matthew Richards finds out more.
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FeaturesYoung man in a hurry
The dynamic new head of English Heritage is out to blow the dust off the conservation quango. Martin Spring meets charismatic super-curator Simon Thurley.
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FeaturesPower to the people
As a key player in Whitehall policy-making, Richard Rogers is an unlikely champion of devolved government. But, as Marcus Fairs finds out, he now thinks urban regeneration will only happen if decision are taken by the people on the ground
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FeaturesAfter Wembley
Two years of working flat out trying to get the new national stadium built would be enough to persuade most of us to hang up our boots, but Paul Gandy, managing director of the UK arm of Multiplex, has set himself a new goal – building, rather than demolishing, famous ...
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FeaturesThe artful dodger
Glenn Allison is planning a campaign to persuade the English public that they really do want to buy timber-frame houses, regardless of what they may have read about fire risks. Here he cleverly avoids telling us why …
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FeaturesA message to you
Georg Sieber knows what direction people panic in. He knows what terrorists are about to do. He even knows how to stop them, although clients don't always listen. We met the brilliant psychologist who has a chilling warning for contractors.