‘Your way of delivering projects is accepted around the world’ – Why a US firm wants to buy more UK consultants

By Dave Rogers2025-02-25T08:02:00

The boss of MGAC tells Dave Rogers about the problems with partnerships, quantity surveyors, red tape and why he absolutely loves the Elizabeth line

“My parents were a little upset,” Mark Anderson recalls. “Wearing blue jeans and a hard hat was not the vision they had for their college son. I was a very good student…”

The founder and owner of MGAC, the US project manager and cost consultant that has been making waves in the UK recently with a series of acquisitions, had toyed with the idea of going into the church – his dad had been a clergyman and he, Mark, thought it might be for him.

He eventually went off the idea but it was a wedding at which his father was officiating that opened up the pathway to a career in construction.

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