All Interviews articles – Page 39

  • Features

    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.

  • Features

    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.

  • Features

    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

  • Features

    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.

  • Features

    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?

  • Features

    Partners in design

    1999-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Tristram Carfrae has brought his engineering skills from the other side of the world to rebuild, repopulate, and re-enthuse Arup Associates. Now, he also finds himself having to fill the void left by the departure of design director James Burland.

  • Features

    Green fingers

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Architect Bill Dunster has championed sustainable design at work and home. Now, he's about to combine the two with a low-energy scheme modelled on his own house.

  • Features

    Chris Wilkinson & James Eyre

    1999-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Chris Wilkinson Architects has been one of the practices that set the tone for Britain's visual identity over the past 10 years. Now the man behind it is sharing the limelight with the rest of his team – above all partner, James Eyre.

  • Features

    Golden girl

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Although she’s in her 80s, Mollie Parsons found herself roped into project managing the refurbishment of a Cornish village hall, complete with the full horrors of dealing with funders, bureaucrats and builders.

  • Features

    The strength of Sampson

    1999-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Claire Sampson, production director on the Millennium Dome, is a cool operator. Which is just as well, as she's co-ordinating the backstage elements for the whole shebang

  • Features

    Alun Michael

    1999-09-17T00:00:00Z

    As "prime minister" of Wales, Alun Michael holds the purse strings for development in the country. But will the man once called "Tony Blair's poodle" boost or curtail it?

  • Features

    Life after Rogers

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    When architect Pierre Botschi was made redundant after 14 years with Richard Rogers, he found the going tough – until he met interiors specialist Jack Pringle and moved into hotels.

  • Features

    Andrew Wolstenholme

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Six months after ditching half a dozen of its framework contractors and consultants, can BAA's construction director regain the trust of the industry?

  • Features

    Mr Macob

    1999-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Eric Mouzer earned his nickname, and a place in legal history, by refereeing Macob vs Morrison, the case that put adjudication on the map. So, who better to ask what an adjudicator actually does.

  • Features

    Married to the job

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Edgar Gonzalez and Cécile Brisac were already working day and night – so how did the couple cope when they won an international competition to design a £20m museum in Sweden?

  • Features

    Kate Priestley

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    A woman in a male domain, the head of NHS Estates has had to work hard to earn respect. Now the most powerful woman in construction, it is her job to ensure that the health building budget of £1.8bn a year is spent efficiently.

  • Features

    Rick Mather

    1999-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Oregon-born, Camden-based Mather has joined the architectural superleague with his appointment to a high-profile project in the city he loves – London's South Bank Centre.

  • Features

    John McCarthy

    1999-07-23T00:00:00Z

    He trained as a carpenter but before you could say "self-starter", the McCarthy & Stone boss had earned his first million. Now his retirement homebuilding business makes profits that turn contractors green with envy.

  • Features

    Home run

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    UK architect Mark Dziewulski lived the American dream in New York and California for 17 years. Now, he is bringing his can-do approach and value engineering expertise back to Britain.

  • Features

    John Hobson

    1999-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The man charged with implementing Egan has a job-and-half on his hands. But with bosses John Prescott and Nick Raynsford respectively providing power and commitment, he believes he has the backing to do it