Business Start-ups & the Construction Sector

In this episode of the CMG Podcast, Tony Cantwell sits down with Paul Mitchell, co-founder and director of Mitchell McDermott.

Paul's career has spanned over 20 years, he was the Director at Davis Langdon, before moving on to becoming head of Program, Cost & Consultancy with AECOM. In 2015 he co-founded Mitchell McDermott with colleague with Anthony McDermott, and in that short space of time the company is already one of the leading construction consultancy operations in the Irish construction industry today.

Tony chats with Paul about the challenges he faced starting a new company, how the company has grown and developed and interestingly, why they turned down business in their first year. Paul also talks about their approach to recruitment, management, training, the construction sector in general and why it was so important to them to get the ethos of the company right from the very start.