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Mace's Stephen Pycroft: 'I don't do interviews'

2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

Thirty years in construction, 16 at Mace – more than four of them as chief executive – but Stephen Pycroft has never given an interview… until now. Emily Wright talks to him about sale rumours and why he’s not sunning himself in the Bahamas

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Sweett smell of success: Cyril Sweett interview

2008-07-25T00:00:00Z

Dean Webster and Francis Ives were the men who took Cyril Sweett public. Now they have their first set of results, and they make happy reading. Portrait by Wilde Fry

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Meet the boss of Bouygues UK – Madani Sow

2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

As the new boss of Bouygues UK, Madani Sow is in charge of feeding the company’s voracious appetite for acquisitions. But, as he tells Tom Bill, it demands an awful lot from those it buys

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Bernard Ainsworth interview: Shard man

2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

‘Ultimate project manager’ Bernard Ainsworth is ready to perform his next miracle on the Shard at London Bridge, and he’ll rip up the plans and start from scratch if it gets the controversial scheme completed. Roxane McMeeken went to meet him

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Meet the new nanny

2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

Lance Taylor is chief executive of Rider Levett Bucknall, a global QS that, according to him, resembles a ‘65-year-old toddler’. Here the rugby-playing hard man tells Karolin Schaps how he plans to nurture it through its teething problems.

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Phil Redmond

2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

He’s known by many as the father of the modern soap opera. Others see him as the man who’ll deliver Liverpool’s year in the sun. But for some he’ll always be the QS who tackled Orton village hall …

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David Langdon & Everest's Rob Smith

2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

Davis Langdon & Everest’s new boss tells us about his plans for the QS in the chilly days to come. Nothing drastic – just a complete change of culture and business strategy …