Latest Subcontractors Podcast Episodes
Inside the Mind of a Subcontractor: What Happens when they receive a Main Contract Tender (EP 113)
Own The Build - April 17, 2023 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Mike Wharton, Chief Executive Officer at Complete Roofing Systems, Allied Roofing and Roof Analytics. Mike is passionate about quality and standards in the delivery of construction and has had an exciting journey from Equity Analyst and Fund Manager to CEO at a roofi...
How to navigate the choppy waters between material supplier and customer, as a subcontractor. (EP 112)
Own The Build - April 10, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Nicola Barden, Managing Director at BSF Solid Surfaces, a specialist subcontractor specialising in 3D Thermoforming and producing bespoke centrepiece designs since 1998. During today’s show, we talk about inflation and how this has affected Nicola’s business in the ...
How to Work Smarter, Not Harder: Balancing Work and Life in Construction. (EP 111)
Own The Build - April 03, 2023 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Parag Prasad, a Business Coach, focusing heavily on construction. Managing Director at The Business Growth Agency. Parag was awarded London Business Coach of the Year 2019, 2020 and 2021 and focuses heavily on architecture and knows our sector well. The episode was ...
Beyond the Headlines: The Impact of Value Engineering on the Grenfell Disaster. (EP 110)
Own The Build - March 27, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Samantha Mepham, Partner - National Head of Health and Safety Services at Rider Levett Bucknall, a global Quantity Surveying and Construction consultancy. In this thought-provoking and informative episode, Samantha first explains how the Building Safety Act will imp...
Why Subcontractors need to be better at saying no (EP 109)
Own The Build - March 20, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by his close friend and QS, Chris Barber. Chris is a Co-Founder at Prosper, a platform helping subcontractors to scale their business and also a passionate advocate for subcontractors on his YouTube channel, School of Sub. In today’s conversation, Chris talks about ho...
How a kit-of-parts will impact construction in the future (EP 108)
Own The Build - March 13, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Dale Sinclair, the Head of Digital Innovation at WSP. Many of you will know WSP, but if you don’t, WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering professional services firms, with 42000 employees across 40+ countries. In today’s conversation, Dale explains the term ‘...
How to ACTUALLY manage risk on construction projects (EP 107)
Own The Build - March 06, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Chris Ritson, Senior Risk & Uncertainty Consultant at Safran, a software company building a unified project management solution to help organisations confidently tackle complex capital projects. Chris is an out-and-out risk expert, and Paul wanted to interview him t...
Project Alliancing vs. Fixed Price Contracts - A New Dawn (EP 106)
Own The Build - February 27, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Ian Hepstinall, an Associate Professor in Project Management at the University of Birmingham, a coach, an advisor, and the Author of the Executive Guide to Breakthrough Project Management. Ian is a firm believer in changing the industry. In this conversation, he sha...
Why construction finds a home in the circular economy (EP 105)
Own The Build - February 20, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Tim Danson, Technical Director of Sustainability at WSP in the UK. Many of you will know WSP, but if you don’t, WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering professional services firms, with over 60,000 employees across 40+ countries. In today’s conversation, Tim t...
Could we do a 4-day week in construction? (EP 104)
Own The Build - February 13, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Joe Ryle, Director of the 4 Day Week Campaign, Media and Comms Lead for the think tank Autonomy and former advisor to the Shadow Chancellor. Joe is leading the campaign for a four-day, 32-hour working week with no loss of pay, which he argues would benefit workers a...
How main contractors collaborate: a subcontractor's story (EP 103)
Own The Build - February 06, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Angela Mansell, Managing Director at Mansell Build, one of the UK’s longest-established and most experienced sub-contractors in the field of SFS, plastering, partitioning, dry-lining and rendering. In today’s conversation, Angela describes her experiences of how mai...
The top 10 things to look out for in a contract (EP 102)
Own The Build - January 30, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Simon Robinson, a Quantity Surveyor and the Director at Subport, an Award Winning Quantity Surveying Consultancy Supporting Subcontractors to secure their profits. In today’s conversation, Simon and Paul debate how to improve the relationship between Main Contractor...
How do you get your contract right? (EP 101)
Own The Build - January 23, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Patricia Haywood, the Director and Commercial Lead at Haywood Consulting, a construction consultancy leveraging contracts to drive profits. Patricia is a lawyer, QS, adjudicator, mediator, and much more. In this highly insightful episode, Patricia and Paul debate wh...
How one woman’s attempt to save her family business is saving UK construction (EP 100)
Own The Build - January 16, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this landmark episode, Own the Build has a first in having three special guests in the studio. Paul is joined by Katie Hathaway (Head of Business Engagement and Communications), Natalie King (Operations Director) and Nicola Bird (Managing Director) at AccXel, the UK’s first industry-led, co-f...
5 Own the Build moments you need to listen to! (EP 99)
Own The Build - January 09, 2023 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we’re doing something a little different. As we approach a century of episodes, Paul reflects on five moments from the Own the Build catalogue to date, which he feels he personally extracted the most from, and thanks all the Own the Build listeners for their ongoing support - without...
Why are we struggling so much with labour in UK construction? (EP 98)
Own The Build - December 19, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by David Nash, the Director of Strategy and Policy at The ECITB, a non-departmental public body supporting training and skills development across the engineering construction industry in England, Scotland and Wales. At the show’s beginning, Paul shares a story about a ...
How to manage pre-construction: a digital QS’ perspective (EP 97)
Own The Build - December 12, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Ross Griffin, the Founder & Chief Commercial Specialist at KOSMOS, which provides specialist commercial management advice to the Nordic & Irish construction industries. Paul and Ross talk about their experiences working as Quantity Surveyors outside the UK and Irela...
Do main contractors realise how fragile their supply chain is? (EP 96)
Own The Build - December 05, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Jo Lucas, Director of Co.Cre8, a consultancy enabling thriving project eco-systems through knowledge, networks, and behaviours and also by Gareth Evans, the CEO at Smart Procurement Solutions, a consultancy that positively disrupts the status quo of construction proc...
How do you best procure an M & E package? (EP 95)
Own The Build - November 28, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by James Major, the Founder of Hubb.pro. HubbPro is an AI-Powered Platform Revolutionising The Design Of Low Carbon, Net-Zero Homes. James is a genuine M & E expert, and he is here to tell us how to procure and manage M & E packages. M & E packages are often the most c...
How will bitcoin and blockchain technology affect construction? (EP 94)
Own The Build - November 21, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Charlene Colas, the Founding Managing Partner from Bespok Construction Consultants. Charlene is an Advisor in the Built Environment and a genuine enthusiast on AI, Blockchain and the Crypto-Economy. Charlene tells us how Blockchain technology will change the future...
Why only 15% of contractors have valid insurance (EP 93)
Own The Build - November 14, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Mark Herbert who is a Construction Insurance expert from Construction Insure. Mark takes great pride in educating clients on their needs and why they need certain policies to cover their builds and companies. In this highly insightful episode, Mark provides thoughtf...
How a lawyer suggests you manage the final account process (EP 92)
Own The Build - November 07, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Michael Downes, a Solicitor/Construction Expert at Gordons LLP, a law firm from Yorkshire. In this highly insightful episode, Michael provides thoughtful advice on managing the Final Account Process, given his many years of supporting construction companies through ...
Why you should use mediation to solve disputes (EP 91)
Own The Build - October 31, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Neil Boothroyd, an Adjudicator, Mediator, Arbitrator and Quantum Expert Witness at Gateley Vinden, which is a multi-disciplinary quantity surveying consultancy. In this fascinating chat, Neil explains how more and more disputes are being resolved by Mediation and w...
How to save Quantity Surveying from extinction (EP 90)
Own The Build - October 24, 2022 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Heather Evans, a Partner and the National Head of Sustainability at Rider Levett Bucknall, a Global Construction and Property Consultancy. In this entertaining conversation, Heather explains how Quantity Surveying can survive the upcoming AI revolution in construct...
The skyscraper of the future (EP 89)
Own The Build - October 17, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Diego Padilla-Phillips, Technical Director and Net-Zero and Decarbonisation Lead for WSP in the UK. Many of you will know WSP, but if you don’t, WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering professional services firms, with 37000 employees across 40 countries. In t...
Is Quantity Surveying on the verge of extinction? (EP 88)
Own The Build - October 10, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, Paul is joined by Martin Paver, CEO and Founder of Projecting Success, a passionate team of visionaries, project managers and data scientists on a mission to change how we deliver projects. In our conversation, Martin explains that we’re at an inflexion point in construction and AI/...
A secret about Building Regs you need to know (EP 87)
Own The Build - October 03, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Paul is joined by Dr Mark Key, a Chartered Construction Manager, Building Engineer, Author and Researcher. Mark has just written a book on behalf of the Institute of Civil Engineers titled “Building Regulations, Codes and Standards”. In this thought-provoking episode, Mark explains w...
How to avoid disputes in construction? (EP 86)
Own The Build - September 26, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Paul is joined by Tom Hawkins from FTI consulting, a Global Consulting firm. Tom is a Quantity Surveyor and Quantum Expert Witness for Construction and Engineering Industry Matters. In this conversation, Paul and Tom discuss a recent report highlighting the primary reasons construction...
A guide to patent defects, latent defects and structural warranties (EP 85)
Own The Build - September 20, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Paul is joined by Joe Gooden, Head of Broking (Structural Warranties) at Build-Zone. They are one of the UK & Ireland’s leading providers of Structural Housing Warranties & Latent Defects Insurance. In our conversation, Joe explains the difference between patent and latent defects, t...
How smaller main contractors can spot timewasters at tender stage (EP 84)
Own The Build - September 12, 2022 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Paul is joined by Linden Dover, Co-Founder and COO at Weaver – an expert in the construction tender space for homeowners – to investigate how main contractors can better manage the tender process and, moreover, how they can spot clients who are timewasters. Weaver is a mobile ...
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