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FeaturesRapid growth and leaving a legacy: Liam Bevan on the rise of Cardo
Backed by private equity, buoyant from no fewer than 18 acquisitions and expecting to turn over £460m in its current year, the Welsh repairs contractor has grown sevenfold in just three years. Its co-founder talks about the firm’s background, strategy and what comes next
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Features‘There’s been a lot of noise about the business.’ Vistry’s new chief executive on what’s next for the housebuilder
Adam Daniels tells Dave Rogers how he plans to put the housebuilder back on track - and what the government must do to support the sector
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Features‘This year has been remarkable for London…’ How 10 Design’s Sabrina Klor is creating a new global hub in the capital
Sabrina Klor, the new chief executive of global practice 10 Design, has more than doubled the firm’s London headcount this year and is targeting 10% annual growth as she repositions the 400-strong practice around retrofit, mixed-use and landmark city projects
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Features‘We didn’t know we’d end up where we’ve landed’: Shaun Holdcroft on his journey with LGAH
In eight years, the pensions giant has created an 8,500-home for-profit provider with exemplary regulatory gradings. Daniel Gayne spoke to the group’s affordable housing boss to find how it got there and why it’s tempered its growth targets
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Features40 Under 40 2026: The rising stars set to reshape construction
Building’s annual 40 Under 40 returns to celebrate the young professionals already making their mark on the built environment
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FeaturesPhoenix ME’s Lee Compton on building a £500m business – and preparing to let it go
The owner of the M&E specialist sold a majority stake in the business to private equity over the summer. He tells Dave Rogers why
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FeaturesHow the West of England plans to rocket-boost its regeneration
The West of England Combined Authority is one of the UK’s most productive regions - but its director of homes and regeneration believes it is only just getting started
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Features‘We’ve only got this one chance’: how Newcastle-under-Lyme seized the regeneration opportunity
In the latest in our Voices of Regeneration series, Simon McEneny explains how a small Staffordshire town is drastically revamping its town centre in a bid to revive the High Street
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FeaturesMark Reynolds on what’s next for Mace Construct
The firm’s executive chairman speaks to Dave Rogers on why the business is ‘not for sale’, how he is in no rush to find a new CEO and what the future looks like
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Features‘We will build the crème de la crème’… Inside £10bn Czech giant Penta’s ambitious launch in London
Building flies to Prague to speak to Marek Dospiva, co-founder of one of central Europe’s biggest companies, and to hear about the firm’s plans to become a major developer in the UK capital
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Features‘They were hard blows to take, it created a siege mentality…’ Bovis boss David Cadiot on that sale, losing jobs and how the firm has bounced back
One year after being bought by Atlas Holdings, the contractor’s chief executive tells Dave Rogers what is coming next
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Features‘I think we could get to £1bn, but I hope we’re not here when that happens…’ BW’s top team on thinking big
The fit-out specialist has come a long way since Steve Elliott and Anthony Brown joined over a decade ago, with turnover topping £300m for the first time last year. They speak to Dave Rogers in their new home
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Features‘It was never dying.’ Canary Wharf’s development director on the resurgence of the Docklands estate
A few years ago, it was supposed to be on its last legs as tenants downsized and moved out. Now it’s going to be home to the biggest office building in London. ‘It was all rubbish,’ Tom Venner tells Dave Rogers
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Features‘We’ll be the size the market needs us to be…’ Kilnbridge’s chief executive on what’s next
Owen Dannatt talks Liverpool Street, planning hold-ups and turnover. Just don’t call the firm a concrete contractor, he tells Dave Rogers
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FeaturesFrom Grenfell Inquiry to interim chief construction adviser: Thouria Istephan on why competence cuts across everything
As interim chief construction adviser, Thouria Istephan is using her short tenure to push for deep, systemic change – from professional standards to products reform and the future of the advisory role for her successor. In her first interview in the role she talks to Chloe McCulloch about why she ...
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Features‘I wouldn’t be in the party if it wasn’t pro-development’: Reform UK’s new housing spokesperson on its plans for the sector
With an eye to the prospect of taking the reins of power, Reform UK has called on former Homes England chair Simon Dudley to help develop its answer to Britain’s housing crisis. He spoke to Daniel Gayne about navigating nimbyism, getting pension funds to invest in affordable housing and reassessing ...
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FeaturesArada bought the dip in the UAE and reaped the rewards. But will it work in London?
Its purchase of developer Regal London last year might have been the first most in the UK had heard of Arada. But in the UAE it has been building up a reputation for green, wellbeing-led development for the better part of a decade. Daniel Gayne finds out what it plans ...
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Features‘You’ve got to be really on your game…’ Keltbray’s new chief executive on finding his feet in building
Karl Goose has spent a lifetime in civil engineering. He talks to Dave Rogers about learning curves, working in London and his background in rugby league
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FeaturesGetting back to growth: Arcadis’ new boss on honing in, getting agile and over-investing on HS2
After years of impressive growth, the global engineering practice saw its revenue drop in 2025 and its UK business was hit hard by the cuts to the high-speed rail vision. Daniel Gayne sat down with Heather Polinsky, the firm’s new CEO nominee, to find out how she plans to get ...
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Features‘We’re in growth mode…’ The Dutch developer taking on London
Edge came over to the UK five years ago and now has three office schemes underway in the capital. But it wants more, the firm tells Dave Rogers