{"id":38709,"date":"2024-01-09T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38709"},"modified":"2024-01-07T18:35:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T18:35:15","slug":"ihbc-history-signpost-those-were-the-days-building-editors-look-back-at-how-construction-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38709","title":{"rendered":"IHBC History Signpost: Those were the days\u2026 Building editors look back at how construction has changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-38710\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/reading-icon-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>As we come to the end of our 180th year, our current editor invited four of her predecessors to pick out the memorable stories they covered spanning over 30 years of Building\u2019s history.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Building<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>For this last edition of the magazine in the year of its 180th anniversary, I invited four previous editors to look back collectively at their work on the title over a period spanning four decades, from the 1980s up to very recent history. A remarkable amount has changed in that time, for construction as well as for publishing.<\/p>\n<p>In a podcast episode out this month, our former Building editors \u2013 Peter Bill, Adrian Barrick, Denise Chevin and Sarah Richardson \u2013 have shared their personal memories of the biggest projects of their day, the larger-than-life characters as well as the scandals and sagas that became front-page stories for our readers\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026. The place we find ourselves now on that journey feels very different indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Construction always has its ups and downs, being \u2013 as we are all too well aware \u2013 so dependent on economic cycles. Still, when you hear Adrian talk about his era under the Tony Blair government you realise what a high point that was for the industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/our-history-180-years-of-building\/those-were-the-days-building-editors-look-back-at-how-construction-has-changed\/5126662.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we come to the end of our 180th year, our current editor invited four of her predecessors to pick out the memorable stories they covered spanning over 30 years of Building\u2019s history. image for illustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38711,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709\/revisions\/38711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}