Hot seat

May 1, 2002
<b><b>Trainee pilot Robert Weston, managing director and chairman of Weston Homes, swaps the cockpit for the Hot Seat to reveal a taste for high buildings and an interesting view of Europe</b></b><br><b><b>Family?</b></b><br> Married for 26 years and two children - a daughter aged 15 and a son aged 12<p></p><p><b><b>First job ever? </b></b><br> I was a computer operator at the University of Essex where they had the earliest mainframe computers within a computer suite and it required dedicated operators to run these machines 24/7</p><p><b><b>First job in the industry? </b></b><br> I was a carpenter and worked for a formwork and groundwork company - TG Hughes - on shuttering and engineering set-out and was then approached by the main contractor to work directly for them as a foreman </p><p><b><b>Favourite project &amp;&amp; why? </b></b><br> 41 Millharbour - high at 15 storeys</p><p><b><b>Your biggest mistake?</b></b><br> Missing out on a &amp;£27 million land deal at the last minute</p><p><b><b>Your big prediction?</b></b><br> The European Union will break up in the next 15 years because it is far too wide with too many self interests for it to survive</p><p><b><b>Your last extravagance?</b></b><br> Playing golf in Dubai. I went for a week with seven others, played the best courses and stayed in the …

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