All Interviews articles – Page 35

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    Chris Mellor

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Some people might think AWG's admission that it paid £22m over the odds for contractor Morrison is a cause for embarrassment. But, as Victoria Madine discovered, the water group's chief executive isn't one of them.

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    Hanif Kara

    2002-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Hanif Kara, founding partner of structural engineer Adams Kara Taylor, knows that image can be crucial when you're building a business. So how come he's so nervous telling Marcus Fairs about his own?

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    Brian Wilson

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    In an exclusive first interview, industry minister Brian Wilson talks to ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about the procurement lessons of Picketts Lock, making construction feel at home in the DTI – and his Beach Boy namesake.

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    The hard part

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Meet the actress who became a temp, set up a management consultant and took a degree in France. Now she wants to try something challenging: turning around ailing quantity surveyor MDA.

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    Femme fatale

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Once rumoured to have called for the bosses of English Heritage to have their heads put on spikes, Judith Mayhew is a ferocious fighter for the development of the City. Mark Leftly meets London's top planner.

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    Baroness Blackstone

    2001-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Not only does the minister for the arts bubble with enthusiasm for architecture and architects, she's determined that Whitehall should take them seriously, too. And she's even ready to name and shame colleagues who aren't architecturally on message.

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    Outside the box

    2001-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Charlie Luxton was a student when TV decided he was architecture's answer to Jamie Oliver. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø met him and found he's a pretty good riposte to housebuilders, too.

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    Hugh Try

    2001-10-12T00:00:00Z

    CITB chairman Hugh Try talks about Construction Week, daunting recruitment targets, those adverts, and keeping a cool head.

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    Mark Whitby

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The next president of the ICE talks to ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about his role as construction's voice on the New York tragedy, and his passion for his profession.

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    Benedetta Tagliabue

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    The widow of Scottish parliament architect Enric Miralles talks to ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about her husband's death and taking over the reins of his most controversial project.

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    The axeman

    2001-08-31T00:00:00Z

    You may think Andrew Wyllie doesn't look the kind of guy who'd happily tell 800 people they were out of a job – and you'd be right. The Taywood boss couldn't sleep at night while he did it. He tells ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø why it was still the right thing to do.

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    Eddie McElhinney

    2001-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The quiet Irishman who has become one of the UK's biggest manufacturers never even considered giving an interview before. So, why is he talking now? And what does he have to say about the industry he supplies?

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    John Spellar

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The man with the task of saving the rail network and keeping Tony Blair in a job gives his first major interview. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø finds out the minister's big ideas.

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    Agent provocateur

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Zara Lamont kicked off one of the biggest rows in ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø's recent history by writing a column attacking QSs. Now she tells ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø why she did it.

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    Cool as a cucumber

    2001-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Swiss Re's project director has until 2004 to get Foster and Partners' "erotic gherkin" built. But neither this ambitious deadline, nor working in a male-dominated industry can ruffle the unflappable Sara Fox.

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    In the hot seat

    2001-07-13T00:00:00Z

    What is a man who knows more about air-to-air missiles than bricks and mortar doing in charge of superconsultant WS Atkins? Completely restructuring it, that's what …

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    The wizard from Oz

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Stone the crows! They've got someone from the New World to design the visitor centre for England's oldest monument. But Barrie Marshall has already won plaudits for his magical understanding of Stonehenge

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    Stepping on the gas

    2001-06-15T00:00:00Z

    BP man Struan Robertson is the first outsider to run the Wates' family concern in its 104-year history, and he's driving forward something of a quiet revolution.

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    Neil Cossons

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Ken Livingstone accused English Heritage of jeopardising London's economic future by opposing tall buildings. Now its chief executive is hitting back.

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    Colin Busby

    2001-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The man who took Kier from buyout to billion-pound business in under 10 years — by playing it safe. We meet a model contractor.