5 minutes with… Oliver Bayliss, director at Buckley Gray Yeoman

By Oliver Bayliss 2020-05-08T05:00:00

Oliver Bayliss tells Building about inspiration in Hong Kong, architects as mediators and how the 2008 recession seems less of a big deal now

What has been your biggest career challenge to date?

I think the current covid-19 pandemic has been an abrupt challenge for our industry’s way of life. It makes the 2008 recession seem much less serious in its impact on working practices.

If you could change one thing about the industry, what would it be?

A better balance between male and female employees, certainly at management level, across the sector. We also need to find a better way to procure buildings, where saving costs doesn’t necessarily mean we have to remove a building’s soul.

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