5 minutes with … Andrew Williams at Quinn London

2024-05-16T06:00:00

The firm’s heritage director on the pleasure he derives from working on some of the UK’s finest historical buildings, the importance of asking questions and the benefit of hindsight

Why did you choose construction as a career?

When you are 16, you are never 100% sure about what you want to do. My nan always said, “get a trade behind you and then you can always fall back if other opportunities in life never work out”.

So I did my carpentry and joinery apprenticeship and then worked up through the various ranks of management. Every day is different and never boring when you are working on historical buildings that are all unique.

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