All Hansom articles
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Construction industry gossip: Alert but not alarmed
This week’s mix of unexploded bombs, books from beyond the grave and a lucky person benefiting from lockdown
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Construction industry gossip: The slow train home
Crossrail? Don’t worry, another delay will be along just after this one. Plus, one company stays under the news radar
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Construction industry gossip: Playing all the right notes but…
This week, a slanted take on tall towers, the tale of a Thatcher comeback, and light at the end of the Crossrail tunnel
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Construction industry gossip: Space race
Tension is astronomical at the Building Awards, certain housebuilders come in for some flak, and Homes England gets lost in translation
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Construction industry gossip: Baby steps
A young housing secretary is questioned for the first time and thrill seekers are prevented from setting foot on a series of nerve-wracking bridges
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Construction industry gossip: Thank U, next
The latest housing secretary – I forget his name – struggles to convince the industry he’ll be around long enough to be taken seriously
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Construction industry gossip: Bish-bash-bosh
Climate-change protesters get aggressive, Esther McVey opens a portal to more criticism, it does rain in the Antipodes
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Construction industry gossip: Love in a land down under
There’s a perfect match in Australia and the housing secretary advocates avocados for all
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Construction industry gossip: Concrete facts, please
Accusations of a blame culture (it wasn’t me!), fake news – and now they’re even dragging Harrison Ford into it
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Construction industry gossip: They think it’s all over
Geoff Hurst scores but doesn’t quite repeat the magic and in the battle for London’s tallest tower, it’s game over
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Construction industry gossip: Grave consequences
An Oscar-winner leaves Croydon, shopkeepers are angry as Crossrail eats into their profits – while a skeleton crew unearth bodies at an HS2 site
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Construction industry gossip: The day Santa Claus came to town
The rise of the ‘slimby’ ushers in a more positive era, while one firm attempts to mitigate the effects of a no-deal Brexit
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Construction industry gossip: Hindsight is a wonderful thing
There were a few regrets this week – a football fan bemoaned deserting the beautiful game and an awkward conversation was conducted
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Construction industry gossip: Gathering speed
Comedian John Bishop has made a pretty penny out of HS2, a construction stalwart gallops into a new field, and my hack spies a jet-powered marvel
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Construction industry gossip: Racing ahead
My hack chats to a record-breaking cyclist, Esther McVey has a rousing call and a dogged campaigner is taking many, many steps to try to prevent HS2
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Construction industry gossip: On the source
French steeplejacks hack off journos at Tintagel, chief execs claim being boring is best, and we get Crossrail info by tucking into a full English…
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Construction industry gossip: Dreams can come true
Housing minister Esther McVey makes a bold promise, the heat is on at home and abroad and some climate change activists may have got it wrong
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Construction industry gossip: Cry freedom!
T T chief couldn’t face helping himself at a Tom Jones concert, our newsdesk receives a strange cold call, and a zoo wants bears to live alongside wolves
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Construction industry gossip: Ratted out
A Scottish tower fails to make an appearance and a developer that says it wants to include a giant rodent in its new hotel
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Construction industry gossip: Epic journeys
Nobody could stay still this week – from flying visits to noble endeavours in the Shropshire hills and Spiderman-like feats of dexterity