What difference does six years make? Last time Building interviewed Patricia Moore, at the start of 2019, she had just taken on the UK managing director role at Turner & Townsend. Back then, as the country navigated Brexit uncertainty, the UK business had a £250m-turnover and nearly 3,000 UK staff. For her part, Moore appeared unfazed by market challenges at the time and showed full confidence in T&T’s ability to win big strategic projects and invest in rapidly changing digital technology.

Fast forward to now and arguably the political and economic situation in the UK and globally has become even more unpredictable, with conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East disrupting energy supplies and trade, high inflation and interest rates, US tariffs, and a UK Labour government that has raised taxes on businesses and is struggling to deliver on economic growth.

The backdrop may be unstable, but T&T’s fortunes have been impressively solid. It has been on a turbocharged growth trajectory: across all international regions the latest figures show the group’s income was £1.5bn with pre-tax profit of £200m for the year to April 2024, while the UK’s income was £591m on £86m pre-tax profit (for the year to April 2025) and staff numbers exceeded 6,000. Moore’s confidence looks to have been well founded.