‘Sometimes you pinch yourself.’ The boy from the Chester semi running €4bn Arcadis

By Dave Rogers2023-06-26T06:00:00

Alan Brookes tells Dave Rogers more consolidation in the sector is inevitable, why we should just get on and build HS2 and singing for his supper

“I lived with my granddad. It was his house we were in. My granddad, my mum and dad and me. A semi down by the river in Chester.

“I’m not saying we were poor, but I remember going to college and my dad saying, ‘Well, we can’t afford anything to pay for it’. So I was fully grant aided. Then you come to this and you think, ‘Oh my god’. You’re running 36,000 people and four billion and sometimes you have to pinch yourself.”

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