About Building
What is Building?
Building is the UK’s best-read, most established magazine in the construction industry. It was launched in 1843 as The Builder, by Joseph Alysius Hansom architect of Birmingham Town Hall and designer of the Hansom safety cab. Building once counted Prince Albert, Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale among its readers.
Reaching over 125,000 professionals every week, Building provides an unrivalled combination of award winning editorial, news, interviews, analysis and hard industry data and leads the way in journalism for the construction industry.
Building is the only magazine covering all levels of the specification chain, reaching an audience of contractors, housebuilders, architects, clients and surveyors reflected in the high numbers of subscribers with an average circulation of 21,271*.
Building.co.uk
With a record 279,333 unique visitors in March 2009 and a string of awards including the coveted ‘PPA web site of the year’ in 2007. Relaunched with a new design in May 2010 you can be sure that Building is keeping ahead in the online community.
Conferences, events and award shows
Building hosts a broad range of events across the country and also online, alongside hosting the most prestigious awards in the construction industry – the Building Awards.
The awards honour the contractors, housebuilders and consultants who have performed best in the previous year.
Building Conferences organizes a variety of conferences and seminars, covering all areas of the construction and building industry.
View more information on upcoming awards, events or conferences.
Advertise with us
Building’s sales team has unrivalled experience and expertise in helping advertisers make the most of their budgets.
Our new client solutions team can also help you tailor a multi-channel campaign to your needs.
View our media pack and find out more about marketing opportunities with Building. Find out more about client solutions here.
For more information about advertising opportunities in Building contact Cameron Marshall, on cameron.marshall@ubm.com or call 0161 874 3809.
* ABC total average net circulation per issue, July 2009 – June 2010





