All Interviews articles – Page 38

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    Mr Rethink

    2000-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The boss of award-winning housebuilder Westbury is rising to the challenges of the stock market and the Internet.

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    Budding genius

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Ian Wall’s Edinburgh developer started with £5m; 14 years later, it’s worth £70m. And the funny thing is, its main aim wasn’t to make money at all.

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    Renzo Piano

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    He has the pick of the world's big private commissions. He can compare himself to a pianist and get away with it. It's OK to be jealous.

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    European Union

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Aukett Associate managing director John Thake may not speak any foreign languages, but he’s not letting that get in the way of his plan for a cross-Europe designer.

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    Enter the green knight

    2000-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Next week, Sir Martin Laing will launch a Construction Confederation report that aims to break the “vicious circle of blame” that is hampering sustainable building.

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    Stefan Allesch-Taylor

    2000-03-24T00:00:00Z

    The 30-year-old entrepreneur is turning his three-year-old property firm into an investment company and has just spent £85m on a stake in a US Internet business. So, why is he interested in quantity surveyor MDA?

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    Ross Taylor

    2000-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Meet Bovis Lend Lease's new group president. The 38-year-old Australian who brokered the deal between the companies has moved to London, with a brief to integrate the two and work out where the new business is going.

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    All change

    2000-03-03T00:00:00Z

    As chair of the RICS' Junior Organisation, Jacqueline Fearon personifies the young, dynamic image that the body is trying to promote in its Agenda for Change.

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    Bob Emmerson

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Ove Arup’s chairman designate has the job of preserving the Arup ethos while the firm changes into a heterogenous multinational. Here’s how he will do it.

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    David Anderson

    2000-02-18T00:00:00Z

    The new group managing director of O'Rourke has a reputation in contracting that means the subbie is probably glad to have him on its side. So, what plans does he have for the firm?

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    Allan Leighton

    2000-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Wilson Connolly's new non-executive deputy chairman plans to revolutionise UK housebuilding using the techniques he learned in his day job – as Asda chief executive.

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    Sir Steve Robson

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    This Treasury man has three years to change the way state and industry do business. Not everyone thinks he can. How on earth is he going to make it happen?

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    The wow factor

    2000-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Tom Wright designed a jaw-dropping hotel at Dubai's Jumeirah Beach. Now he's putting WS Atkins Architects on the map all around the world – even in the UK.

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    The outsider

    2000-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Bill Tallis was not the obvious choice to head the Major Contractors Group, in that he had never worked in construction. So, what does the new director have in store?

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    Playing safe

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    On new year’s eve, Richard Limb will be looking after 4 million people – it’s his job to ensure the capital’s millennium event goes off uneventfully.

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    Beverley Hughes

    1999-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Construction may be only one of the junior minister's responsibilities, but her message is that the industry is vital to Labour's wider agenda.

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    Action man

    1999-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Electrician Pete Dyer left Croydon to join a group expedition to Mongolia – which is a long way to go to organise the construction of a clinic out of straw.

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    Drama queen

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    This is the story of how solicitor Yang-May Ooi suddenly saw that the workaday world of construction power, conflict, corruption could be transformed into the plot of a hit novel

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    Medicine man

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Keith Airey left the world of cold and flu relief to become head of procurement at the new-look Laing. He has big plans to overhaul its buying policy and boost profit margins – and his ambition does not end there.

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    Keith Miller

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Privately owned Miller Group came to public notice with a protracted battle to buy Cala. That bid failed but the firm has a lot of hungry money. So how did a privately owned, family firm come by all that cash?