5 minutes with … Alex Macaulay at Kinland

2025-12-09T07:00:00

The firm’s founder and managing director on the challenges that followed the acquisition of their first site, why it is important to keep moving and why you need to network even when you don’t want to

Why did you choose construction as a career?

I have always been fascinated by the built environment and the creative impact development can have on shaping our surroundings. Even as a teenager, I was writing development appraisals and pitching them to my parents! That desire to influence and improve the spaces we live and work in never really left me.

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