From the archive: 2001
When Manchester began to prepare for 2002’s Commonwealth Games, it had to start from scratch
From the archive: 2008
Been moaning about the heat? We may have found the job for you. Back in 2008, an intrepid team of contractors experienced summer in the snow.
From the archive: 2005
Low margins, as highlighted in our Top 150 Contractors table this week, are nothing new. Back in 2005 we reported on how difficult things were in the sector.
From the archive: 2012
We look back at how Singapore does gardening. As you would expect from the city-state, it’s not on a small scale
From the archive: 2005
This week, we interviewed James Lidgate, chief executive of Legal & General Homes, who is on a mission to produce 15,000 homes a year with the help of modular design. However, long before the 2017 government white paper called for offsite strategies, and the current rallying cry for modular, there ...
From the archive: 2008
The stand-out entries in this year’s Housing Design Awards were often developed by councils taking control of their own housing in the face of huge demand. Back in 2008, softening prices meant that nobody seemed very interested in residential.
From the archive: 2006
This week we interviewed Lib Dem leader Vince Cable. We found another political interview, in Building’s dusty archive
From the archive: 2009
All the current economic and financial challenges facing construction led us to ask which chief executives are up to the mark this week.
From the archive: 2009
Although our architecture correspondent was a big fan of Westminster Abbey’s new slinky glass-walled staircase, which has also won the popular vote, plans to overhaul the landmark haven’t always been so popular
From the archive: 1886
As we look at the Social Value Act and consider whether it will encourage firms to be more sustainable and ethical, we look back to a time where the deserving poor had to rely on the generosity of rich philanthropists
From the archive: 2008
This week we decided to see if our review of the year 2008 could really be doom and gloom from beginning to end. It was
From the archive: 2008
This week we look back at how foreign climes beckoned for Brits pre-recession
From the archive: 1894
This week we look back at a scathing review of an iconic London landmark
From the archive: 2015
This week we look back to a pressing issue back in 2015 for education construction – how to build enough schools for 25% more places by 2020
From the archive: 1947
Sometimes the things we take for granted turn out to be most revolutionary
This week in 2017
Housing: the forgotten crisis?
From the archive: 2016
The squeeze
From the archive: 2016
Prefab housing: Here’s one we made earlier
From the archive: 1968
Something in the air
This week in 2017
Something in the air