5 minutes with… Hero Bennett at Max Fordham

2020-06-08T05:00:00+01:00

‘We need more people like me’: Zoe Price, ISG’s construction boss

2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00By Chloë McCulloch

ISG’s new UK construction boss Zoe Price talks to Chloë McCulloch

Rory Stewart on Sadiq Khan’s housing failures, beautiful buildings and planting trees in London

2020-02-21T06:00:00+00:00By Tom Lowe

Rory Stewart faces an uphill battle to win the election – but it is a challenge he is clearly relishing

A taste for the hard stuff: Laing O’Rourke’s Stewart McIntyre

2020-01-28T06:00:00+00:00By Dave Rogers

A year after Laing O’Rourke agreed a crucial £177m refinancing deal, the man who fought against the odds to make it happen talks to Building

Caroline Pidgeon: A decade spent scrutinising Crossrail

2020-01-21T06:00:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

Caroline Pidgeon knows Crossrail inside out after scrutinising the project for a decade and grilling its key players for London’s transport committee. She speaks to Jordan Marshall about exactly what has gone wrong, why the delay is so frustrating and lessons to be learned

Ray O’Rourke: ‘I’ve never seen anything like this before’

2019-12-13T06:00:00+00:00By Jonathan Owen

Ray O’Rourke outlines his personal wish list for ministers and assesses the industry’s prospects for the year ahead

We fought a shark… and won: Rider Levett Bucknall talks to Building

2019-11-29T06:00:00+00:00By Dave Rogers

Sixteen years ago, venture capitalists tried to pick RLB clean. Dave Rogers asks three of its top team how it survived – and thrived

Never sitting still: AMCM directors Jon Wardle and Simon Wilkinson

2019-11-20T06:00:00+00:00By Dave Rogers

Both are known as steady hands in a storm-tossed industry, but that doesn’t stop them striking out to attract new talent and broaden their market

Building Awards 2019: Female Leadership Award shortlist

2019-10-25T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Nominees were chosen for their focus on ensuring women have a positive voice in construction and on attracting as wide a range of recruits as possible

On a mission: Gillian Charlesworth talks plans for BRE Group

2019-10-18T05:00:00+01:00By Chloë McCulloch

BRE chief executive Gillian Charlesworth sits down with Building

‘Different doesn’t scare me’: Mary Pierre-Harvey has big plans for Oxford Brookes

2019-09-06T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

The UK’s first black female director of estates at a large UK university talks to Building

‘We like to give people a chance, to give them a go’: Stanhope’s Paul Lewis and Tony Wall talk to Building

2019-07-26T05:00:00+01:00By Dave Rogers

Stanhope’s Paul Lewis and Tony Wall are preparing for the next phase in the firm’s three-decade history

‘We can’t continue as we are’: Philip Hoare, Atkins, talks to Building

2019-07-05T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Atkins’ new president talks about embracing digital, his plans to grow the firm outside the UK and his determination to transform construction’s broken models

Offsite, on trend - why volumetric modular construction is the future

2019-07-02T05:00:00+01:00By Ben Adams

There’s huge pressure for construction to find offsite solutions to boost its productivity and meet the housing and infrastructure needs of the country

Q&A with Lara Poloni: how can we drive digital change?

2019-06-26T05:00:00+01:00

Aecom chief executive EMEA Lara Poloni on how to champion high-tech transformation from the top

Keith Waller: Construction's improvement tsar

2019-06-07T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

How will the Construction Innovation Hub spend £72m budget and four years to bring the industry into the 21st century?

"In 100 years' time we'll have the Thames lined with derelict towers" - Peter Rees talks to Building

2019-05-22T05:00:00+01:00By Elizabeth Hopkirk

Former London planning chief Peter Rees thinks Londoners should be worrying about the rising forest of new-build apartment blocks

Interview: Charles O'Neil - solving construction's competency problem

2019-05-02T05:00:00+01:00By Will Ing

Construction expert Charles O’Neil reckons the industry’s core problem is competency. So he’s doing something about it

Interview: Turner & Townsend's Patricia Moore talks to Building

2019-01-18T06:00:00+00:00By Joey Gardiner

Patricia Moore only meant to leave her native Scotland for a couple of years down south, but 24 years later she’s still in London – and has risen to become Turner & Townsend’s UK managing director. She tells Joey Gardiner the secrets of her own and her employer’s success. Photography ...