5 minutes with … Ken Graham at Burdens

2026-06-12T06:00:00

The firm’s national sales director on fine margins, being patient, his dislike of modern glass towers and his wife’s ’unbelievable’ meat pies

Why did you choose construction as a career?

Having played football at a semi-professional level, I harboured hopes of playing professionally, but it wasn’t to be. Instead, I went to a polytechnic where I studied to become a quantity surveyor and worked in this role for a while in the civil service before moving into the merchant sector.

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