All articles by Chloë McCulloch
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CommentLeading with confidence: Patricia Moore’s story
T&T UK managing director Patricia Moore discusses how the consultant tripled turnover to £591m, leveraged its CBRE partnership and maintained growth through economic uncertainty while taking on 300 apprentices annually.
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Features‘We’ve really scaled this business to being number one in our market’: T&T’s Patricia Moore on competing at the top
Six years after her last Building interview, UK managing director talks about Turner & Townsend’s remarkable growth, its game-changing partnership with CBRE and what the future holds
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In partnershipClimate leaders push ahead despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
Business leaders and environmentalists have launched a new climate programme despite Donald Trump’s latest sceptical claims at the UN General Assembly, where he dismissed climate policies as a ‘green scam’
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In partnershipIn pictures: Ed Miliband and Mark Ruffalo lead calls for accelerated action at Climate Week NYC
Kicking off in Manhattan, Climate Week NYC 2025 urged governments and businesses to step up ambition and accelerate global collaboration, as mounting climate challenges demand faster innovation and decisive action
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CommentWhat’s driving consultants’ race to invest in AI and digital technology?
Our Top 150 Consultants survey shows the vast majority of firms are convinced AI will transform their businesses
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CommentThe case for optimism in construction
Amid the economic doom and gloom, some commentators believe confidence is returning, just slowly. So what will give it a boost?
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CommentWhat next for the Building Safety Regulator?
Evidence being heard by a House of Lords inquiry exposes fundamental flaws that ministers still need to address
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CommentHow do you solve a problem like construction product regulation?
There is just one week left to respond to the green paper on construction products reform, and it seems the government could really do with some help from industry experts
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Features‘You’re operating in the grey space, making decisions with a lot of unknowns’: Katy Dowding on two years at the top of Skanska UK
The firm’s president and CEO took the helm at a turbulent time for the country and for contractors. She tells Chloe McCulloch about her leadership style, her rejigged executive team and how industry and government can deliver more with less if they work together.
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CommentCan Starmer get us out of the mess of Trump’s tariffs?
As stock markets nosedived yesterday at the prospect of a global trade war, the prime minister presented a cool-headed response
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CommentConstruction left wishing and hoping for investor confidence and government action to get Britain building
Trapped in a holding pattern, a report out by Arcadis characterises the industry as one in need of some help - it’s hard to disagree
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SponsoredMaking their mark: the women pushing boundaries in the built environment
Making women in the industry visible can help us all make positive progress faster, writes Chloë McCulloch
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CommentThe Building Good Employer Guide 2025: A spotlight on best practice in the workplace
Our new guide, featuring employers in a range of disciplines and sizes, offers fascinating insights into modern working cultures
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CommentWe all have answers to the skills crisis, so let’s share them
Attracting and retaining talent is one of construction’s biggest headaches, but good employers are finding new ways to stand out – are there wider lessons for the sector?
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CommentThe chancellor has put infrastructure at the very centre of her growth plan – so where is the sense of excitement?
Backing for big and bold projects should help boost sector confidence, but with such long time horizons it all feels a bit distant
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CommentHow to look for and find confidence in UK construction
A few weeks into 2025 and already it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the relentless bad news cycle. Here are some bright spots on the horizon
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CommentHas 2024 been another lost year?
Our new government has squandered a promising start, it needs to work harder to harness the full potential of the construction sector
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CommentNever underestimate what construction can achieve
Building has launched its 40 Under 40 list of talented professionals – their stories of success remind us of what is possible
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CommentLabour should place construction at the heart of its growth agenda
Impressive as this week’s International Investment Summit was, much depends on how the tax and spend decisions in the forthcoming Budget impact firms’ ability to invest
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NewsMeta injects cash into low carbon concrete in the US
Tech giant Meta has moved into investing in low carbon concrete production in an attempt to reduce the embodied carbon used to build its data centres. Facebook’s parent company announced the agreement with CarbonBuilt, a company that has developed a concrete product replacing high-carbon Portland with a proprietary low-cost cement ...