All Hansom articles – Page 5
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Construction industry gossip: Happy days
Summer sizzles to the sound of ribs on the grill, willow on leather and the zip of the Serpentine pavilion being cordoned off
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Construction industry gossip: Comfort zone
While British Land’s workers get to feel fabulous on a special sofa, the poor old design team have Heathrow sandwiches inflicted on them
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Construction industry gossip: Subversive elements
So-called troublemakers speak shocking words at a contractor’s breakfast event
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Construction industry gossip: Show me the money
Kier’s outgoing finance director displays uncanny vision in his purchasing restraint and Sisk’s chief exec offers a fair excuse for at least one late payment
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Construction industry gossip: Strait is the gate
A cities of the future event prompts a dodgy way to travel and a council aiming for decor neutrality ends up rather off-colour
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Construction industry gossip: Look, darling, it's twins!
Doppelgangers, parallel versions of Shoreditch and a man of God speaks doom and gloom
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Construction industry gossip: Facing up to Crossrail
Crossrail’s Mark Wild is a study in silent self-expression, while HS2 brags about a big day out for football fans
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Construction industry gossip: 22 Bishopsgate topping-out ceremony
The great and good flock to 22 Bishopsgate’s topping-out ceremony – although one developer is conspicuously absent
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Construction industry gossip: Stop, look and listen
People wonder why a well-known Australian has taken charge of the Crown’s jewels, and the London Assembly is losing several blame games
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Construction industry gossip: In your own words
People wonder why a well-known Australian has taken charge of the Crown’s jewels, and the London Assembly is losing several blame games
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Construction industry gossip: Who's counting?
Interserve bosses may or may not be quids in, while further down the food chain, workers tell the bean counters how to bring happiness to the workplace
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Construction industry gossip: That's the way to live
While the new Spurs stadium ups the culinary ante with chilli jam and craft beer-battered tofu, Quintain plants an olive tree that may well be worth its weight in gold
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Construction industry gossip: Bowled over
ISG finds its US owners fail to appreciate a cricket win, and the Danes give the City of London a lesson in how to be cool
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Construction industry gossip: Prize fights
The Ministry of Defence has a territorial dispute with Lendlease, Spurs has grounds for hope, and we go in search of accolades
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Construction industry gossip: Die hard
Why Interserve’s shareholders voted to bury the company is something of a mystery, but at least the coffee was good
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Construction industry gossip: Tough at the top
Costain boss Andrew Wyllie on the possibly delayed Bond Street station and an ex-Crossrail boss suffers the humiliation of a Chris Graying endorsementÂ
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Construction industry gossip: Manners maketh the man
An Osborne director demonstrates the benefits of an expensive education, while City planners practise the art of tight-lipped diplomacy
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Construction industry gossip: Let's make myself clear
Industry experts fail to explain why Northern Powerhouse Rail is nothing like Crossrail, and a housebuilder is less than a builder of homes
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Construction industry gossip: Off the rails
While Crossrail apparently files its accounts by halves, HS2 veers between flooding stakeholder meetings with its staff and charging them to attend at allÂ
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Construction industry gossip: Sites for sore eyes
This week, graffiti-watch from hipster Shoreditch, Redrow’s Steve Morgan is forever blowing bubbles, and ferry-loving Chris Grayling sinks yet further in public esteem