Building (magazine)

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Building is a UK business-to-business magazine for the construction industry. It started in 1843 as The Builder, founded by architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom. The magazine was renamed Building in 1966 and remains the only UK title to cover the entire building sector. The early editors included Hansom and Alfred Bartholomew; George Godwin led the paper from 1844 to 1883 and helped make it influential. Henry Heathcote Statham edited from 1883 to 1908. The British Architect and Northern Engineer merged with The Builder in 1919, bringing new contributors.

Over the years, many prominent architects and other writers contributed to The Builder. The magazine won awards for its editing, being named the best-edited weekly business magazine in 1999 and 2001, and the business magazine of the year in 2002.

In ownership changes, Aprovia UK bought it from Vivendi Universal in 2002 and then sold Building to UBM plc in 2003 for about £79 million. Circulation peaked around 2006 at about 25,000, but declined to 21,271 in 2009/2010 and 15,474 in 2011.

The Building website provides industry news, jobs, and an archive of more than 80,000 articles. Building4jobs.co.uk was launched in 2006 to focus on industry jobs.

In January 2018, UBM sold Building, along with Building Design and related assets, to Assemble Media Group, led by former editor Tom Broughton.