The Story Behind aspexx.build — Evolving with Purpose
Over the past 12 months, Peter and I have made it our mission to build something meaningful, not just a recruitment business, but a partner-led consultancy driven by long-term relationships and high-impact results. As those partnerships have grown, so too has the shape of our business.
What started in the digital and creative industries has evolved significantly. While we continue to support clients in brand, experience design, and digital innovation, we’ve seen a clear shift in where our work is adding the most value, and it’s led us somewhere unexpected, but exciting.
A Shift in Focus
As the influence of AI continues to disrupt the advertising and creative industries, we’ve naturally begun to focus more on where our experience and network can deliver lasting impact. That’s led us into fascinating new territory, digital delivery and design for the built environment.
At first, we were brought in by brand and experience agencies working on immersive and architectural projects. That quickly expanded to working with architects, digital twin consultancies, and design-led construction firms, areas where our knowledge of digital and creative talent still applied, but in entirely new contexts.
Supporting clients in building out their BIM, digital twin, and design coordination teams gave us a front-row seat to the changing face of the built environment. What we saw was a sector hungry for innovation, and in real need of smart, reliable talent solutions.
Stepping Further Into Construction
Soon, those same clients began to trust us with more than digital roles and we found ourselves recruiting for broader construction and infrastructure positions, project managers, cost consultants, site teams, and even commissioning leads for mission-critical projects like data centres and airports.
It wasn’t part of the original plan. But it made sense.
The construction industry is changing fast. Projects are becoming more technical, faster-paced, and more integrated than ever before and our ability to move at speed and understand complex hiring needs meant we could add real value.
Launching aspexx.build
After much thought (and a lot of conversations), we made the decision to officially launch a dedicated arm of the business, aspexx.build.
This new division will focus purely on architecture, the built environment, and mission-critical infrastructure covering everything from data centres and hyperscale campuses to mega-scale real estate, energy, and transport projects.
To lead this exciting chapter, we’re thrilled to have Iwan Burgwin heading up aspexx.build. Iwan brings deep knowledge of the construction world, especially in mission-critical delivery, and we’re already seeing the impact of his experience in the work we’re doing across Europe and the Middle East.
Looking Ahead
aspexx.build isn’t just about expanding into a new sector, it’s about building on what we’ve always believed in, strong partnerships, quality service, and finding the right people for the projects shaping the future.
Whether it’s a digital twin consultancy in Dubai or a hyperscale data centre in Frankfurt, we’re proud to be supporting the teams making it happen.
This is just the beginning, and we’re excited for what’s next.