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FeaturesHanif Kara
Hanif Kara, founding partner of structural engineer Adams Kara Taylor, knows that image can be crucial when you're building a business. So how come he's so nervous telling Marcus Fairs about his own?
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Brian Wilson
In an exclusive first interview, industry minister Brian Wilson talks to 星空传媒 about the procurement lessons of Picketts Lock, making construction feel at home in the DTI – and his Beach Boy namesake.
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The hard part
Meet the actress who became a temp, set up a management consultant and took a degree in France. Now she wants to try something challenging: turning around ailing quantity surveyor MDA.
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Femme fatale
Once rumoured to have called for the bosses of English Heritage to have their heads put on spikes, Judith Mayhew is a ferocious fighter for the development of the City. Mark Leftly meets London's top planner.
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Baroness Blackstone
Not only does the minister for the arts bubble with enthusiasm for architecture and architects, she's determined that Whitehall should take them seriously, too. And she's even ready to name and shame colleagues who aren't architecturally on message.
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Outside the box
Charlie Luxton was a student when TV decided he was architecture's answer to Jamie Oliver. 星空传媒 met him and found he's a pretty good riposte to housebuilders, too.
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Mark Whitby
The next president of the ICE talks to 星空传媒 about his role as construction's voice on the New York tragedy, and his passion for his profession.
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Benedetta Tagliabue
The widow of Scottish parliament architect Enric Miralles talks to 星空传媒 about her husband's death and taking over the reins of his most controversial project.
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The axeman
You may think Andrew Wyllie doesn't look the kind of guy who'd happily tell 800 people they were out of a job – and you'd be right. The Taywood boss couldn't sleep at night while he did it. He tells 星空传媒 why it was still the right thing to do.
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Eddie McElhinney
The quiet Irishman who has become one of the UK's biggest manufacturers never even considered giving an interview before. So, why is he talking now? And what does he have to say about the industry he supplies?
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John Spellar
The man with the task of saving the rail network and keeping Tony Blair in a job gives his first major interview. 星空传媒 finds out the minister's big ideas.
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Agent provocateur
Zara Lamont kicked off one of the biggest rows in 星空传媒's recent history by writing a column attacking QSs. Now she tells 星空传媒 why she did it.
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Cool as a cucumber
Swiss Re's project director has until 2004 to get Foster and Partners' "erotic gherkin" built. But neither this ambitious deadline, nor working in a male-dominated industry can ruffle the unflappable Sara Fox.
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In the hot seat
What is a man who knows more about air-to-air missiles than bricks and mortar doing in charge of superconsultant WS Atkins? Completely restructuring it, that's what …
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The wizard from Oz
Stone the crows! They've got someone from the New World to design the visitor centre for England's oldest monument. But Barrie Marshall has already won plaudits for his magical understanding of Stonehenge
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Stepping on the gas
BP man Struan Robertson is the first outsider to run the Wates' family concern in its 104-year history, and he's driving forward something of a quiet revolution.
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Neil Cossons
Ken Livingstone accused English Heritage of jeopardising London's economic future by opposing tall buildings. Now its chief executive is hitting back.
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Colin Busby
The man who took Kier from buyout to billion-pound business in under 10 years — by playing it safe. We meet a model contractor.
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The contenders
Meet Gus Robinson, Jane Briginshaw and Bernard Bateman, three construction professionals who have put their careers on hold to stand for election. Can they beat the heavyweight opposition?