All Hansom articles – Page 22
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Hansom: Here, there and everywhere
Ecobuild was hectic from the get-go - what with having to make sure none of the Lego pandas escaped and soothing hurt feelings from a damning tweet - some didn’t even let up in their leisure time
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Hansom: Use your assets
This week, a high-vis clothing firm enlists the help of a former Ecuador president, an architecture boss hopes animal behaviour will help her win The Apprentice, and the Energy Saving Trust generates heat
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Hansom: When in Cannes
Eurostar travellers arrived at this year’s Mipim event - after an extended journey - hungry and peeved
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Hansom: We happy few
It’s a good news week with tales of a chuffed chief exec, punctual projects, a royal baking challenge and a party for the lucky teams that made it onto the exclusive ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards shortlist
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Hansom: Tech savvy
Isn’t technology incredible? We can heat swimming pools with crematoriums, build lifts that go into space … and yet there’s still no way to recall an inadvertently sent email, as two architects found out
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Hansom:Â Peace breaks out
This week we witness the calm streets of Bogotá after the colourful student protests, while Balfour Beatty Engineering Services pulls back from the brink to negotiate with picketing electricians
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Hansom: Trouble at the top
As the two-way (un)popularity contest continues in the Cabinet, construction’s main man pats the industry on the head and a sustainability expert calls for the chancellor to get his cheque book out
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Hansom: It's tough at the top
Power comes at a price, and this week Whitehall bosses fall out of favour with officials, a council leader is driven to delivering an insulting speech and Prince Charles’ PR machine has a mind of its own
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Hansom: Bothered & bewildered
It’s been a confusing week with a Twitter campaign being hijacked by teenagers, a secretive networking club publishing the names of its own members and listening to Kirstie Allsopp’s deep thoughts
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Hansom: Alternative lifestyle
Imagine a world where Olympic athletes excelled at board games, Britain considered surviving on a diet of ants and huge dogs rode around on top of cars … no, it’s not a bad trip, it’s this week in construction
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Hansom: There are limits
This week the elusive Ray O’Rourke breaks cover but not on the internet, the NHBC discovers that housebuilders and X Factor winners don’t mix and the Chinese push boundaries with speedy building
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Hansom: New year's resolutions
What better way to start the year than clearing out unwanted possessions - such as a 45ft yacht? Elsewhere, one boss has a very long road ahead to get fit in 2012, and Nick pops the question to Holly
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Hansom: Choose wisely
There are lessons to be learnt as one firm backs publicly disgraced figures, a despot is credited with building monstrosities and a property tycoon may regret reaching for the shaving foam
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Experimentation
The end of the year sees some dabbling in the unknown, as ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV hacks poison themselves, rappers turn into architecture buffs and ex ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV of the World journalists turn to construction
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Hansom: Blockbuster
This week has been more like a Hollywood film than a week in construction - Arctic exploration, bombs in the desert, gratuitous nakedness and a case of mistaken identity. Popcorn, anyone?
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Hansom: Do pay attention
This week an energy minister and architects’ board make glaring slip-ups, but there’s no room for error in one firm’s ‘grand opening’. Elsewhere, employees strive towards perfectly sustainable homes
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Hansom: Poor show
Nul points all round this week as contractors fail to integrate as instructed, a government minister offends his audience and the McLaren racing team boss takes a pop at the Olympic venues
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Hansom: So off message
This week protestors fail to spread the word to their comrades, a construction boss is embroiled in the DSK scandal and a press contact for the ODA knows nothing about the Olympics
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Hansom: It's all relative
Positions are made clear this week, as a producer defends his august ancestor, doctors are sent to the bottom of the ladder, and a new book lifts the lid on architects’ romantic antics
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Hansom: hitting the big time
The lure of celebrity proves too much to resist as industry members rub shoulders with Strictly contestants, reveal their own love of performing and start morphing into famous figures themselves