The interview
Reflected
glory
A kind of poacher turned gamekeeper, Eddie Myles has gone
from hardman contractor to accommodating facilities manager
at Skanska. He tells Ewen Rose how being soft can be crucial to
a builder, and why private finance deals are important
T
he move towards a ‘softer’ approach to
construction has been a dramatic but welcome
change for Eddie Myles, who has spent most of
his career in the cut and thrust of contracting.
“It is a lot more pleasant than waking up in the
morning and thinking, Who have I got to fight with
today?” he muses.
As head of contractor Skanska’s facilities
management division in Scotland, FM is all that Myles
now does. “It is a whole new discipline for construction
companies,” he reflects. “In Scotland we have
transformed ourselves from a traditional contracting
business to providing facilities services only.
“You can’t afford to think like an old-fashioned
builder because you have a long-term commitment to
the facility and your profit is on the line for 30 years. It
is not the same as having an end product in traditional
engineering terms – there is no ‘widget’ that you can
look at and say ‘I did that’ – it is about providing a
customer service.” >
Photography
McAteer
www.cibsejournal.com April 2009 CIBSE Journal 23
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