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Budding genius
Ian Wall’s Edinburgh developer started with 拢5m; 14 years later, it’s worth 拢70m. And the funny thing is, its main aim wasn’t to make money at all.
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Renzo Piano
He has the pick of the world's big private commissions. He can compare himself to a pianist and get away with it. It's OK to be jealous.
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European Union
Aukett Associate managing director John Thake may not speak any foreign languages, but he’s not letting that get in the way of his plan for a cross-Europe designer.
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Enter the green knight
Next week, Sir Martin Laing will launch a Construction Confederation report that aims to break the “vicious circle of blame” that is hampering sustainable building.
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Stefan Allesch-Taylor
The 30-year-old entrepreneur is turning his three-year-old property firm into an investment company and has just spent 拢85m on a stake in a US Internet business. So, why is he interested in quantity surveyor MDA?
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Ross Taylor
Meet Bovis Lend Lease's new group president. The 38-year-old Australian who brokered the deal between the companies has moved to London, with a brief to integrate the two and work out where the new business is going.
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All change
As chair of the RICS' Junior Organisation, Jacqueline Fearon personifies the young, dynamic image that the body is trying to promote in its Agenda for Change.
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Bob Emmerson
Ove Arup’s chairman designate has the job of preserving the Arup ethos while the firm changes into a heterogenous multinational. Here’s how he will do it.
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David Anderson
The new group managing director of O'Rourke has a reputation in contracting that means the subbie is probably glad to have him on its side. So, what plans does he have for the firm?
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Allan Leighton
Wilson Connolly's new non-executive deputy chairman plans to revolutionise UK housebuilding using the techniques he learned in his day job – as Asda chief executive.
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Sir Steve Robson
This Treasury man has three years to change the way state and industry do business. Not everyone thinks he can. How on earth is he going to make it happen?
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The wow factor
Tom Wright designed a jaw-dropping hotel at Dubai's Jumeirah Beach. Now he's putting WS Atkins Architects on the map all around the world – even in the UK.
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The outsider
Bill Tallis was not the obvious choice to head the Major Contractors Group, in that he had never worked in construction. So, what does the new director have in store?
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Playing safe
On new year鈥檚 eve, Richard Limb will be looking after 4 million people 鈥� it鈥檚 his job to ensure the capital鈥檚 millennium event goes off uneventfully.
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Beverley Hughes
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.
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Action man
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.
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Drama queen
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
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Medicine man
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.
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Keith Miller
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?
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Partners in design
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.