5 minutes with … Chris Pollard at Fereday Pollard

2025-06-12T06:00:00

The 30-year-old firm’s founder and managing director on improving the design quality of transport and infrastructure projects, the frustrations of the consents process, the importance of perseverence and his love of pizza

Why did you choose construction as a career?

I was always on the more creative side at school, where art, design and technical drawing were my favorite subjects. I also had quite an interest in structure and how things were made. It was this combination of creative and engineering that took me down the path of studying architecture and then further down the line founding Fereday Pollard.

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