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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 星空传媒 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 星空传媒. 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? 星空传媒 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 星空传媒, 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 星空传媒, 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. 星空传媒 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 星空传媒 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 星空传媒 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, 星空传媒 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
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FeaturesJohn Moore: Looking for Moore
What do you do when your main revenue stream is reduced? If you鈥檙e John Moore and the head of Balfour Beatty Engineering Services, you turn to your other divisions - and boost them with acquisitions
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FeaturesHold very tight, please: Mike Carroll interview
How do you put a consultancy firm in prime position for growth in the next few years? Mike Carroll, chief executive of Arcadis, tells Emily Wright why flexibility and change are essential to future success
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FeaturesBeing Benny Kelly
To pay tribute to one of construction鈥檚 biggest names we re-publish a rare interview given by the ex-Sir Robert McAlpine London boss in 2011
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FeaturesCormac MacCrann: Above and beyond
With new transport links to the area and the Olympics up the road, Canary Wharf Group is fast expanding its Docklands home. But Cormac MacCrann, who heads the firm鈥檚 contractor business, isn鈥檛 just sticking to east London.
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FeaturesDavid Lawther: The long haul
The young-at-heart chairman of ISG says the spectre of retirement is a long way off yet - first he needs to grow the firm, starting with increasing overseas revenue to 50% of the business. Emily Wright probes David Lawther on his plan for the future
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FeaturesThe free schools programme: Fancy free
Rachel Wolf, at 26, is in charge of delivering the government鈥檚 free schools programme. In the week the first of these schools open, she tells Sarah Richardson about how construction firms can get involved, and the importance (or not) of good design