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My route into construction … Rob Willden, cost manager at Linesight

26 March 2025

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Jack Norkett, senior project manager at RED Construction

28 January 2025

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Parm Bhangal, founder and CEO of Bhangals Construction Consultants

9 January 2025

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Shreya Aneja, architectural designer at White Arkitekter

18 December 2024

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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Being deaf has not held me back from becoming a surveyor

17 December 2024By Helen Booker-Hunt

We need to work harder at being inclusive and value the skills people with disabilities bring to the workplace, says Helen Booker-Hunt at Acivico Group

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My route into construction … Amy Laycock, construction manager at BW: Workplace Experts

3 December 2024

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Amaia Harries, design manager at Legendre UK

30 October 2024

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Dan Lewis, construction director at Momentum

4 October 2024

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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Working towards wellbeing in office design

31 July 2024By Sam Carey-Smith

The way that office spaces are planned is changing significantly as the needs of occupiers evolve. Get it right and happiness and productivity improves, says Sam Carey-Smith

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My route into construction … Milind Page, surveyor at Rund

24 May 2024

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Astrid Dazin, senior estimator at Legendre UK

30 April 2024

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this  series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

India Cormack

My route into construction … India Cormack, management trainee at Willmott Dixon

4 March 2024

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Damilola Ola, assistant site manager at Mount Anvil

27 February 2024

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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Building the Future Commission: why recruitment is industry’s top priority

8 February 2024By

After a year of consultation and careful consideration, the Building the Future Commission has published its final report. In this final chapter, Dave Rogers considers the challenge of building a skilled workforce to do increasingly complex jobs – and then keeping them happy

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Let’s make 2024 the year we really start improving workplace culture

19 January 2024By Ceri Moyers

Construction still lags behind in terms of gender diversity. Improving the balance requires more than establishing a DEI group and a decent maternity policy, says Ceri Moyers

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London’s old problems require new solutions

13 December 2023By

The capital is congested, polluted and expensive but, thanks to the insight and ingenuity that its people possess, the way it functions can be mended, writes Sadie Morgan

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My route into construction … Nasrin Sadeghi, structural engineer at Symmetrys

4 December 2023

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Sean O’Regan, assistant quantity surveyor, McLaren

27 November 2023

The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series,  we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

Thomas Edgcumbe

My route into construction … Thomas Edgcumbe, managing director, Aggregate Industries

20 November 2023

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

Sean Van Buiten

My route into construction … Sean van Buiten, assistant building manager, Willmott Dixon

31 October 2023

The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Kate Sadler, assistant quantity surveyor, McLaren

24 October 2023

The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series,  we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Richard Wilson, cost manager, Turner & Townsend Alinea

16 October 2023

The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series,  we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Camilla Fletcher, senior acoustic engineer, Max Fordham

4 October 2023

The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series,  we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Paul Devlin, chief operating officer at Causeway Technologies

27 September 2023

The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series,  we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … James Preston, site manager, McLaren

20 September 2023

The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series,  we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Parissa Kokabi, assistant cost consultant, Currie & Brown

13 September 2023

The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series,  we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns

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My route into construction … Michelle Zompi, head of RLB Digital

4 September 2023

The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but it can be hard to know how to break in. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their career twists and turns

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