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In Business: Douglas McCormick’s plans for growth at Gleeds

2021-04-26T05:00:00Z

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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5 minutes with … Stephen Good at the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre

2021-04-23T05:00:00Z

The CSIC’s chief executive is passionate about changing for the better. He also wishes he was Doctor Dolittle   

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5 minutes with … Laura Collins at Stanhope

2021-04-15T05:00:00Z

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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Pete Redfern interview: We were right to shut down but could have got back up to speed sooner

2021-04-01T05:00:00Z

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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In Business: How demolition firm McGee knocked down perceptions and branched out

2021-03-29T06:00:00Z

Managing director Seb Fossey on moving away from its traditional roots and into new markets

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5 minutes with … Christopher Collett at Quantem Consulting

2021-03-26T06:00:00Z

The firm’s youngest partner enjoys St Ives and pizza from Homeslice and he wants to know what goes on inside the SIS ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½

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In Business: How Tetra Tech hopes to leave its WYG past behind

2021-03-23T06:00:00Z

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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5 minutes with … Diego Padilla Philipps at WSP

2021-03-19T07:30:00Z

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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5 minutes with … Ray Hutchinson at Gilbert-Ash

2021-03-11T18:02:00Z

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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5 minutes with … Jelena Cousins at Cousins & Cousins

2021-03-05T06:00:00Z

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

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5 minutes with … Rachel Bell of Stride Treglown

2021-02-26T06:00:00Z

Director of Stride Treglown stresses the importance of role models and the need to make the industry more inclusive. She becomes chair of Women in Property on 1 March 

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In Business: Scape’s boss sees a strong pipeline of public sector work

2021-02-23T06:00:00Z

Mark Robinson on next week’s budget, cladding remediation, frameworks under scrutiny and why his London office is moving

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‘We want to see action’ – meet England’s first bishop for housing

2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Guli Francis-Dehqani, the first bishop for housing, takes up her post in April. With a Church of England housing report out this weekend, she explains why the role is much more than a token one

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5 minutes with … Graham Sturge at Red Construction

2021-02-11T06:00:00Z

Nothing is impossible, according to the MD and co-founder of Red Construction, although the ability to travel through time still needs some work 

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In Business: T&T’s Vince Clancy on why the global picture gives him confidence

Turner & Townsend’s boss is looking beyond the UK’s third lockdown to a ‘golden era’ for construction

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5 minutes with … Sean Clemons at RLF

2021-01-22T06:00:00Z

The executive partner at consultants RLF changed career direction after spending a six-month sabbatical in Brazil. He wishes he could have helped to build the Large Hadron Collider 

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5 minutes with … Julie Bregulla at BRE

2021-01-06T06:00:00Z

BRE’s technical director grew up in Germany. She was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 

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5 minutes with … Stuart Kings at Pagabo and Sypro

2020-12-17T06:00:00Z

Life and work should be fun, insists the technical director at both Pagabo and Sypro. If they are not, you should ask yourself why

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5 minutes with … Mike Wood at Hassell

2020-12-10T06:00:00Z

The principal at Hassell says travelling around the globe, taking risks and being ready to fail have all been important aspects of his work

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5 minutes with … Stephanie Edwards

2020-12-01T06:00:00Z

The co-founder of Urban Symbiotics has always been interested in how spaces shape people’s emotions