All Interviews articles – Page 18

  • Turner and Townsend
    Features

    Turner & Townsend interview: Vince Clancy and Steve McGuckin

    2011-11-11T00:00:00Z

    As more UK consultancies are snapped up by international giants, ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø hears from global boss Vince Clancy and UK MD Steve McGuckin about why Turner & Townsend isn’t budging on its independence

  • Bloxham
    Features

    The Tom Bloxham interview

    2011-11-04T00:00:00Z

    For 20 years, renowned regeneration company Urban Splash grew and grew. Then in 2008 the bottom fell out of the market and soon after the firm found itself on the ‘brink of collapse’. Its founder tells Emily Wright how it changed everything - and nothing

  • Sean Tomkins
    Features

    Sean Tompkins: Setting it straight

    2011-10-28T00:00:00Z

    The RICS has faced a lot of criticism lately, with its global expansion drive and proposal to drop its top level qualification under fire. Iain Withers finds out how chief executive Sean Tompkins plans to reconcile ambitious plans abroad with winning back support at home

  • Tom Haughy
    Features

    Tom Haughey: Man of steel

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    The structural steel sector has been knocked for six by the recession. No one knows this better than Severfield-Rowen boss Tom Haughey - not that he’s going to let that stop him expanding the business. The sheer nerve is admirable

  • john moore
    Features

    John Moore: Looking for Moore

    2011-10-14T00:00:00Z

    What do you do when your main revenue stream is reduced? If you’re John Moore and the head of Balfour Beatty Engineering Services, you turn to your other divisions - and boost them with acquisitions

  • Mike Carroll
    Features

    Hold very tight, please: Mike Carroll interview

    2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

    How do you put a consultancy firm in prime position for growth in the next few years? Mike Carroll, chief executive of Arcadis, tells Emily Wright why flexibility and change are essential to future success

  • Benny Kelly
    Features

    Being Benny Kelly

    2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

    To pay tribute to one of construction’s biggest names we re-publish a rare interview given by the ex-Sir Robert McAlpine London boss in 2011

  • Cormac McCrann
    Features

    Cormac MacCrann: Above and beyond

    2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

    With new transport links to the area and the Olympics up the road, Canary Wharf Group is fast expanding its Docklands home. But Cormac MacCrann, who heads the firm’s contractor business, isn’t just sticking to east London.

  • David Lawther
    Features

    David Lawther: The long haul

    2011-09-16T00:00:00Z

    The young-at-heart chairman of ISG says the spectre of retirement is a long way off yet - first he needs to grow the firm, starting with increasing overseas revenue to 50% of the business. Emily Wright probes David Lawther on his plan for the future

  • Rachel Wolf
    Features

    The free schools programme: Fancy free

    2011-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Rachel Wolf, at 26, is in charge of delivering the government’s free schools programme. In the week the first of these schools open, she tells Sarah Richardson about how construction firms can get involved, and the importance (or not) of good design

  • interview
    Features

    Larry Silverstein: Dreams & nightmares

    2011-09-02T00:00:00Z

    On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø talks to Larry Silverstein, owner of the World Trade Center complex, about how the responsibility of rebuilding the site keeps him awake at night, his controversial insurance claim - and what saved his life on that fateful day

  • janno lieber
    Features

    Working on the World Trade Center: Janno Lieber

    2011-08-31T10:13:00Z

    The president of World Trade Center Properties talks to ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about the responsibility of overseeing the construction of the different elements on the WTC site

  • richard paul
    Features

    Working on the World Trade Center: Richard Paul

    2011-08-31T10:08:00Z

    The British architect behind WTC 3 talks to ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about the practicalities and challenges of working on such a colossal project

  • Steve Morriss
    Features

    Steve Morriss interview: when opportunity knocks

    2011-08-26T00:00:00Z

    At just 44 Steve Morriss was headhunted to take on one of the most high profile roles in consultancy - heading up Aecom Europe. Emily Wright talks to him about his plans to grow the business and how the merger with Davis Langdon is working out

  • richard vining
    Features

    Richard Vining: True grit

    2011-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Shepherd Construction boss Richard Vining reckons the industry’s in for its hardest year yet. But instead of panicking, the straight-talking chief exec is on a mission to turn the firm from York into a national player

  • tony lenehan
    Features

    Tony Lenehan: New directions

    2011-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Styles & Wood has had a tough few years, taking huge hits as the retail fit-out market nose-dived. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø finds out how new boss Tony Lenehan plans to turn things round - and why you could be seeing more of the northern-based firm in London

  • olympics legacy
    Features

    Margaret Ford: After the Games

    2011-07-28T00:00:00Z

    For the Olympic Park Legacy Company, the end of the Games is just the beginning - that’s when its £315m transformation of the site will begin. Chair of the body Margaret Ford tells ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about its new powers, what’s up for grabs, and about her ’crazy’ past two weeks

  • Pete Redfern
    Features

    Pete Redfern: How the recession made me stronger

    2011-07-22T00:00:00Z

    In 2008 Taylor Wimpey’s chief executive was battling to rescue the firm from the brink of collapse, just months after the merged company became the UK’s biggest housebuilder. Today it’s back in growth and a far stronger business. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø talked to him about surviving tough times

  • Bob Bond Rydon
    Features

    Rydon's Bob Bond: Safe pair of hands

    2011-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Rydon boss Bob Bond finds being at the helm of a medium-sized company gives him the agility needed to steer a steady course through choppy waters. Even introducing an innovative investment model shouldn’t rock the boat

  • Alan Cumming EDF
    Features

    Alan Cumming: Worth the energy

    2011-07-08T00:00:00Z

    EDF is planning the UK’s first new nuclear plant in 30 years. But it needs contractors with the right skills. Alan Cumming, EDF’s procurement boss, tells ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø why it’s worth training up - and that you don’t need a French name to win the work