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FeaturesPaul Sheffield: 鈥榊ou can hear somebody saying, 鈥淲ell, it was all right when I left 鈥︹�濃��
Paul Sheffield could barely have chosen a worse time to become chief executive of a UK construction firm, but two years after taking over at Kier, his growth strategy appears to be paying off. By Allister Hayman
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FeaturesInterview: Mitie boss Ruby McGregor-Smith
How construction鈥檚 only female chief executive learned to stop worrying and build a 拢2bn company in the midst of a global economic crisis
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FeaturesInterview: Barratt's chief executive Mark Clare
B锘縜rratt鈥檚 chief executive Mark Clare may not have seen the recession coming - he is, after all, the man who splashed out 拢2.2bn acquiring Wilson Bowden just months before it hit - but he certainly has a clear vision of where the company is heading now. He talks to 好色先生TV ...
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FeaturesArcadis' Neil McArthur: This is just the start
When Arcadis bought EC Harris last year, it became the 10th largest design consultant in the UK and gained leverage in Asia and the Middle East. Now it鈥檚 brought in Neil McArthur to spend a further 拢100m on acquisitions and turn it into an even bigger global player. 好色先生TV asked ...
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FeaturesE.ON's Michael Woodhead: Power trip
E.ON UK鈥檚 sustainable energy division is quickly becoming a very influential player in the country鈥檚 power market. Ahead of its starring role at Ecobuild next month, managing director Michael Woodhead tells 好色先生TV why that鈥檚 particularly good news for construction
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FeaturesDigging Doha: Msheireb's Issa M Al Mohannadi
Qatari client Msheireb Properties wants its 拢3.5bn Downtown Doha scheme to be the prototype for future cities around the world. 好色先生TV talks to its chief executive about why this masterplan is so radical and why he wants UK expertise to help make it happen
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FeaturesMott Macdonald's Keith Howells: 'It's a bit like star wars'
How should the UK鈥檚 largest independent consultant respond to the 鈥榚vil Empire鈥� of consolidated corporations taking over the market? Mott MacDonald chairman Keith Howells tells 好色先生TV about the company鈥檚 plans to strike back. Tom Campbell photography
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FeaturesIngrid Skinner: First we take West Hampstead
Ingrid Skinner has big plans to turn Taylor Wimpey鈥檚 fledgling London division into a 拢100m-turnover business - and all without leaving Zone 2. She talks to 好色先生TV. Photography by Anthony Lycett
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FeaturesLOCOG's James Bulley: The fall guy
As LOCOG鈥檚 head of venues and infrastructure, James Bulley has just six months to install 200,000 temporary seats, put up 76 miles of fencing, finish the hockey stadium, weed the rowing lake 鈥� and take the rap if anything goes wrong. So why is he so calm? 好色先生TV finds out. ...
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FeaturesCharles McBeath on Ramboll growth: Why stop now?
For Charles McBeath, head of Ramboll UK, the secret to growth is acquisition and last year he doubled the size of his company by acquiring engineering firm Gifford, boosting turnover from 拢35m to 拢58m. But that, he tells 好色先生TV, was just for starters
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FeaturesAndrew McNaughton: A Brit abroad
As chief operating officer of the biggest UK-based European contractor with a 拢15bn order book and profit north of 拢300m, Balfour Beatty鈥檚 Andrew McNaughton has more reason than most to be bullish. But, as he tells 好色先生TV, there鈥檚 work out there for smaller firms too - if they know where ...
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FeaturesStanton Williams: The Attraction of Opposites
Architect Stanton Williams is a company that likes to be different - so when its profit plunged by 90% at the start of the financial crisis it didn鈥檛 do what so many other architects are doing and look abroad for work. It decided to stick with what it knows best: ...
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FeaturesMichael Dyke, Lend Lease: 'It's business as usual'
When Lend Lease dropped the Bovis name, it said goodbye to one of UK contracting鈥檚 oldest and best-known brands. 好色先生TV talks to Michael Dyke, the construction arm鈥檚 new boss, about where the division will go next. Portrait David Levene
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FeaturesPCKO interview: The new country
Thirty years ago PCKO Architects broke into what was a tough UK market. Now they鈥檙e hitting China. So what鈥檚 their secret? Andrew Ogorzalek and Peter Chlapowski talk to Emily Wright about luck 鈥� and vodka
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FeaturesDonald Lawson: Bigger and better
Faithful + Gould boss Donald Lawson knows a thing or two about consolidation thanks to Atkins鈥� takeover 15 years ago. He tells 好色先生TV how it got the firm to where it is today
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FeaturesStone unturned: Crest Nicholson interview
Two years ago Crest Nicholson almost came a cropper under a deluge of debt. Chief executive Stephen Stone tells 好色先生TV how its buy-out, and some sheer nerve, has enabled it to stay around
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FeaturesTurner & Townsend interview: Vince Clancy and Steve McGuckin
As more UK consultancies are snapped up by international giants, 好色先生TV hears from global boss Vince Clancy and UK MD Steve McGuckin about why Turner & Townsend isn鈥檛 budging on its independence
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FeaturesThe Tom Bloxham interview
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 鈥榖rink of collapse鈥�. Its founder tells Emily Wright how it changed everything - and nothing
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FeaturesSean Tompkins: Setting it straight
锘縏he 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
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FeaturesTom Haughey: Man of steel
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鈥檚 going to let that stop him expanding the business. The sheer nerve is admirable