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Workplace, culture & leadership stream
The stream will cover topics such as diversity & inclusion in the workforce, environmental, social and governance issues, and post covid working patterns and rethinking office space
Working towards wellbeing in office design
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
My route into construction … Milind Page, surveyor at Rund
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
My route into construction … Astrid Dazin, senior estimator at Legendre UK
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
My route into construction … India Cormack, management trainee at Willmott Dixon
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
My route into construction … Damilola Ola, assistant site manager at Mount Anvil
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
Building the Future Commission: why recruitment is industry’s top priority
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
Let’s make 2024 the year we really start improving workplace culture
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
London’s old problems require new solutions
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
My route into construction … Nasrin Sadeghi, structural engineer at Symmetrys
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
My route into construction … Sean O’Regan, assistant quantity surveyor, McLaren
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
My route into construction … Thomas Edgcumbe, managing director, Aggregate Industries
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
My route into construction … Sean van Buiten, assistant building manager, Willmott Dixon
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
My route into construction … Kate Sadler, assistant quantity surveyor, McLaren
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
My route into construction … Richard Wilson, cost manager, Turner & Townsend Alinea
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
My route into construction … Camilla Fletcher, senior acoustic engineer, Max Fordham
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
My route into construction … Paul Devlin, chief operating officer at Causeway Technologies
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
My route into construction … James Preston, site manager, McLaren
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
My route into construction … Parissa Kokabi, assistant cost consultant, Currie & Brown
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
My route into construction … Michelle Zompi, head of RLB Digital
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
Active collaboration is the key to progress in the built environment
There are so many vibrant, young, energetic new practices and individuals shaping the narrative of what is good in our profession. We must protect and nurture them, writes Sadie Morgan
‘I came back from maternity leave and didn’t have a desk’ How one CEO is using her experiences to help others
The boss of M&E consultant FHP believes opportunities for women are, finally, looking up – just don’t make them wear a pink hard hat
Time for ministers to enforce boardroom diversity? Meet Lara Oyedele
Have we reached the point where diversity needs to be enforced through regulation? The CIH president thinks so
What does ‘fit for purpose’ mean for today’s world?
The scandal at the CBI is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we treat each other in the workplace, writes Sadie Morgan
How can we tackle the skills crisis? The next generation reports
The Building the Future Commission young persons’ advisory panel has made a series of recommendations to help the industry attract a better and more diverse range of recruits
We need go back to the root causes of construction’s mental health challenge
We focus too much on reactive solutions that can only catch people when they fall, says Seddon’s Nicola Hodkinson
The men speaking up about gender equality in construction
A discussion about gender with the twist that it featured an all-male panel is just what we need right now. Here’s why.
Construction should adopt a coaching style of management to make every person count
Construction still suffers from a culture more likely to turn workers away than encourage new recruits. Dave Stitt says this has to change.
Why women are over mentored and under promoted
Research shows men and women’s experience of mentoring is very different – this is what has been missing
Marginal gains: Why contractors need help to make a bigger profit
For years, margins have barely shifted much beyond 3% and, to some, talk of 5% and above seems fanciful. But others believe that mandating a figure like that would turn the industry on its head
We’re not lazy, we just need more investment
We are one of the largest employers in the UK with the potential to shape our nation’s future. The government must help us make the most of that opportunity, writes Richard Steer of Gleeds
How Sir Robert McAlpine introduced flexible working to construction sites
The firm was determined to show the offer was not limited to office-based staff and those working from home. Dave Rogers reports
Building the Future Commission: introducing the workplace, culture and leadership stream
This stream will seek solutions to construction’s skills crisis along with new models to improve culture and leadership in a post-covid environment
Upcoming in the Building the Future Think Tank
26 September: Building the Future Think Tank Midlands roundtable (invite only)
23 October: Building the Future Think Tank Wales roundtable (invite only)
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