WHEN THREE INTO ONE MAKES ONE
Senior management of The Buchan Group, unified and rebranded as Buchan since May, recognised several years ago that a merger was in everyone’s best interest. But they also understood that, as a collective of creatives, there was potential for unrest. After all, ‘merger’ can be a scary word.
“Architects are creative people, so with creation comes emotion, I think they go hand in hand,” says principal Grant Withers. “Every employee probably had a similar outlook to these sorts of things. They were all thinking ‘how does this affect me?’
“We had very open communication leading up to the merger, we made sure that all staff in every
