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5 minutes with … Matt Thomas at SLR

2024-02-01T07:00:00Z

The firm’s built environment senior sector leader for Europe on the importance of sustainable transport networks and his admiration for planning barristers. His favourite building is almost 1,000 years old 

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5 minutes with … Rosie Bard at Orms

2024-01-25T07:00:00Z

The firm’s associate and sustainability lead on her mission to help reduce the industry’s impact on the environment, the importance of challenging the status quo and her love of art galleries and pizza 

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5 minutes with … Tony Wells at Merit

2024-01-10T07:00:00Z

The firm’s founder and CEO would change ‘pretty much everything’ about the industry and sees a huge opportunity to innovate and transform construction’s archaic ways of working 

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5 minutes with … Paul Staley at Wise Living

2024-01-05T07:00:00Z

The BTR housing provider’s managing director on rising to challenges, embracing opportunities and doing your best, while not being overly competitive

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5 minutes with … Richard Farrey at Silverstone ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Consultancy

2023-12-07T07:00:00Z

The firm’s lead director on building his business, the importance of a can-do attitude and why the best buildings are in the North-east  

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5 minutes with … Rebecca Hartshorn at Sisk

2023-11-23T07:00:00Z

The firm’s national framework director on the need for greater industry collaboration, juggling her career and motherhood, her favourite roast dinner and her dislike of blocky concrete buildings

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5 minutes with … Priya Shah at Linesight

2023-11-16T07:00:00Z

The global consultancy’s associate director on her transition from the nuclear sector, her training scheme for chemical engineers and the need for digital transformation

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5 minutes with … Michael O’Shea at Gowling WLG

2023-11-02T07:02:00Z

The partner in the law firm’s construction team believes the tendering process needs to change and urges new recruits to read books rather than websites. He is a fan of The Smiths and wine gums 

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5 minutes with … Chris Jones at 10 Design

2023-10-26T06:00:00Z

The firm’s managing principal (Europe and Middle East) considers the need to work collaboratively, the impact of the pandemic, why he went to art college – and his secret skill learnt while funding his studies

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5 minutes with … Ashwin Halaria at Symmetrys

2023-10-19T06:00:00Z

The firm’s associate director on the incident that made him want to be an engineer, the vital importance of material reuse and why his mother will always be his role model

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5 minutes with … Jonathon Bentley at Bentley

2023-10-05T06:00:00Z

The firm’s managing director on the challenges of building his business, the importance of seeing every angle and why he has the ball from the men’s Euro 2021 final. 

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5 minutes with … Jack Newton at RSHP

2023-09-29T06:00:00Z

The firm’s associate partner on struggling with dyslexia at school, increasing diversity in the profession, working under Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour and watching his children playing with his Lego

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5 minutes with … Charlene Shum at Platform

2023-09-21T06:00:00Z

The project executive on the industry’s blame culture, the importance of collaboration and why it is vital to care about those smallest details

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5 minutes with … Mandie Sewa at Brevis Law

2023-09-14T06:00:00Z

The firm’s head of immigration law on the importance of recruting and retaining the right staff, the challenges posed by new immigration rules, the universal power of food and why steak should always be eaten rare

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5 minutes with … Lee Parkinson at Efficiency North

2023-09-08T06:00:00Z

The group’s chief executive on starting out as a YTS apprentice, surviving the pandemic and why the finest seafood should be simply served

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5 minutes with … Gemma Pont at CPMG Architects

2023-09-01T06:00:00Z

The associate architect on making the right choices, working collaboratively, the importance of cheese and the first book she ever read

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5 minutes with … Katia Polidoro at Tp Bennett

2023-08-25T06:00:00Z

One of the firm’s principal directors on designing inclusive places to live and work, trusting her instincts and learning to row at the age of 49. 

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5 minutes with … Simon Arnott at Morgan Sindall

2023-08-17T06:00:00Z

The managing director for the firm in the North-west on the importance of working hard and being inquisitive – but also on striking the right work/life balance

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5 minutes with … Jonathan Hunter at Elecosoft

2023-08-03T06:00:00Z

The software company’s chief executive wants to see more data sharing and collaborative working. He is an admirer of Mace Group and Asian cuisine and wishes he had invested in Bitcoinx

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5 minutes with … Jenny Hyden at NVB Architects

2023-07-27T06:00:00Z

The landscape architect on the importance of designing with a view to the future, why the use of peat is now unforgivable and why she likes to keep her wetsuit close at hand