Clive Docwra is representative cross-section of much of what makes up McBains.

While he spent much of his career as a QS in the field - in Clive's case, fields in South East Asia - and, in fairness, the cities that grew from them - Clive is drawn to wheels when he's not project managing.

Motorcycles and 1980s German cars all figure on Clive's mechanical engineering hands-on list, but he's also a keen cyclist. He keeps the blood pumping playing football, although with a range of allegiances across the McBains management team it's the one area of the business where collaboration doesn't always figure.

However, the way McBains works collaboratively with both internal teams and clients, and how he first experienced it in action on a prospective site purchase, he says was his defining moment in realising that McBains was the consultancy for him.