The Building Podcast
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, vice-chair at Constructing Excellence Midlands and a Governor at Construction College, Moulton College. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide CPD on the go. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast
Mark talks to Maria Coulter
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Construction businesses are generally small and micro businesses; 98% of companies employ ten or fewer staff and 95% employ five or less. These businesses for the backbone of the sector, providing the skills required for project delivery. Businesses however have to provide accounts and other statutory returns and they have to meet their customers’ demands, regardless of size. These businesses can struggle to find the bandwidth to tackle all these challenges and provide a competent service. This is where business support, in the form of advisers and trade bodies, comes in.
Maria Coulter is the owner and principal of Construction Coach and provides coaching, mentoring and general support to small businesses. As a trained and experienced quantity surveyor and with over a decade supporting businesses of all shapes and sizes, Maria meets all kinds of challenges. Of particular note at the moment is the IT challenge, where small companies struggle to identify what software they might need to assist in problems that they may not have fully understood.
Listen to hear what pressures our small construction businesses face and the simple techniques that allow their customers to gain the best from them. Listen to hear how Maria goes about a commission and the sort of support that she is able to provide.
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