Sir Robert McAlpine

This year we’ve featured Mark Thurston’s first full interview as HS2 boss, touched upon mental health with Trad chief Des Moore, and gone behind the scenes at the notoriously secretive McAlpine with its CEO Paul Hamer – here’s our top 5 interviews.

More than a decade after plans first emerged to transform Woking town centre, Sir Robert McAlpine is now through the first 12 months of a project involving countless considerations.

Sir Robert McAlpine will be 150 years old next year, but the famously media-shy family continues to shun the limelight.

Sir Robert McAlpine’s chief executive Paul Hamer speaks exclusively to CN on working with the notoriously secretive family firm and drawing up plans for the next 150 years.

Sir Robert McAlpine has been busy demolishing 100 Liverpool Street for British Land. The issue? It’s right above the heads of thousands of City workers. 

Sir Robert McAlpine is British Land’s sole contractor on the £1bn upgrade of London’s Broadgate Campus. So just what is SRM doing to instil so much faith in its client?