‘Owning our own destiny has been a big part of our success…’ Reds10’s chief executive on the dos and don’ts of offsite construction

By Dave Rogers2025-03-04T06:00:00

The sector has been littered with high-profile failures of late. Matt Bennion talks to Dave Rogers about getting it right, his pride in T5 and dealing with angry bricklayers

Matt Bennion has a confession to make: “I talk about T5 so much, my kids think I built it on my own.”

He was working on the programme management at the scheme to build the new terminal at Heathrow airport, which opened in 2008, when he was at EC Harris, later bought up by Dutch consultant Arcadis. He had joined the firm from Davis Langdon – which, like EC Harris, would be snapped up by an overseas raider, this time Aecom – and spent 17 years there.

“T5 was such a fantastic thing to be part of,” he adds.

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