{{Short description|British magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} {{for|the Australian magazine|Building (Australian magazine)}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = Building magazine logo.svg | logo_size = | image_file = | image_size = <!-- (defaults to user thumbnail size if no size is stated) --> | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = Chloë McCulloch | editor_title = | previous_editor = Sarah Richardson | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Construction | frequency = Monthly | circulation = 15,474 (2011) | publisher = Assemble Media Group | founder = Joseph Hansom | founded = 1843 | firstdate = | company = | country = United Kingdom | based = | language = English | website = {{URL|http://www.building.co.uk/}} | issn = 0007-3318 | oclc = }}'''''Building''''' is one of the United Kingdom's oldest business-to-business magazines, launched as '''''The Builder''''' in 1843<ref name="cjen"/> by Joseph Aloysius Hansom – architect of Birmingham Town Hall and designer of the Hansom Cab.<ref>Harris, Penelope, ''The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803–1882), Designer of the Hansom Cab, Birmingham Town Hall, and Churches of the Catholic Revival'', The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.</ref> The journal was renamed ''Building'' in 1966 as it is still known today, and is the only UK title to cover the entire building industry.

==History== ''The Builder's'' first two editors, Hansom and Alfred Bartholomew (1801–1845), did not last long in the job. The architect George Godwin (1813–1888) was editor from 1844 to 1883, and turned ''The Builder'' "into the most important and successful professional paper of its kind with a readership well beyond the architectural and building world."<ref>G. B. Smith, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10891 ‘Godwin, George (1813–1888)’] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305020234/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10891 |date=5 March 2016 }}, rev. Ruth Richardson and Robert Thorne, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 Jan 2008</ref> Godwin apparently wrote most of the content himself, relying on a staff of just five people. His successor, Henry Heathcote Statham (1839–1924), edited the journal from 1883 to 1908.<ref>Alan Powers, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53632 ‘Statham, Henry Heathcote (1839–1924)’], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 5 Jan 2008</ref>

Rival publication ''The British Architect and Northern Engineer'', founded as ''The British Architect'' in 1874, merged with ''The Builder'' in 1919,<ref>''Architectural Journals'', British Association for Local History – http://www.balh.co.uk/lhn/article.php?file=lhn-vol1iss96-4.xml {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120720101449/http://www.balh.co.uk/lhn/article.php?file=lhn-vol1iss96-4.xml |date=20 July 2012 }}</ref> bringing contributions from architectural illustrator Thomas Raffles Davison (1853–1937).

Other contributors to ''The Builder'' over the years have included architects such as Robert Dennis Chantrell, Henry Clutton (1819–1893), Josiah Conder, James Fergusson, William Curtis Green (1875–1960), John Woody Papworth (1820–1870), Howard Morley Robertson (1888–1963) and William White.<ref name="ODNB">ODNB</ref> They have also included the novelist Hall Caine, the engineer and antiquary G. T. Clark, and the short-lived journalist Charles Chaloner Ogle. Other illustrators have included Arthur Beresford Pite and Worthington George Smith (1835–1917).<ref name="ODNB"/>

==Recent history and ''Building'' today== The magazine was named as the best-edited weekly business magazine by the British Society of Magazine Editors both in 1999 and in 2001.<ref name="cjen"/> It was the business magazine of the year in 2002.<ref name="cjen"/> Having acquired the magazine a year earlier from Vivendi Universal, in 2003 Aprovia UK sold ''Building'' to UBM plc as part of a £79m deal.<ref name="cjen">{{cite news|author=Jennifer Whitehead|title=United Business Media buys Building title in £79m deal|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/185881/united-business-media-buys-building-title-79m-deal|access-date=29 January 2017|work=Campaign|date=21 July 2003|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202044754/http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/185881/united-business-media-buys-building-title-79m-deal|url-status=live}}</ref>

According to ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations), the magazine's circulation for the year ending in June 2006, was 25,017,<ref>[http://www.abc.org.uk/Products-Services/Product-Page/?tid=2588 ABC Website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000439/http://www.abc.org.uk/Products-Services/Product-Page/?tid=2588 |date=4 March 2016}}</ref> but circulation dropped during the recession of the late 2000s to 21,271 for the year July 2009 – June 2010 (the last year the title was ABC-certified),<ref>[http://www.abc.org.uk/Products-Services/Product-Page/?tid=2588 ABC average net circulation per issue, 30 June 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000439/http://www.abc.org.uk/Products-Services/Product-Page/?tid=2588|date=4 March 2016}}, ABC. Retrieved: 3 September 2015.</ref> with the decline continuing in 2011 (the 11 November issue had a print circulation of 15,474).<ref>Audience Measurement, Building media pack, http://media.building.co.uk/PDF/Building-Media-Pack.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203022250/http://media.building.co.uk/PDF/Building-Media-Pack.pdf |date=3 December 2012 }} (Retrieved: 23 January 2013)</ref>

''Building'''s website features industry news, jobs and an archive of over 80,000 articles. In 2006 ''Building4jobs.co.uk'' was launched focusing on industry jobs and careers.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

In January 2018, UBM sold ''Building'' (plus ''Building Design'', a venue directory and various events) to a management team, Assemble Media Group, led by former editor Tom Broughton.<ref name="Withers-07Jan2018">{{cite news|last1=Withers|first1=Iain|title=End of an era as UBM sells its final title|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/07/end-era-ubm-sells-final-title/|access-date=5 February 2018|work=Telegraph|date=7 January 2018|archive-date=6 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206022541/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/07/end-era-ubm-sells-final-title/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Notes== <references/>

==Further reading== * {{cite book |first1=Ruth |last1=Richardson |first2=Robert |last2=Thorne |title=The Builder: illustrations index 1843–1883 |place=Gomshall |publisher=Builder Group |year=1994 |isbn=0907101062 }} * London Metropolitan Archives: Information Leaflet No 22 (''George Godwin and The Builder'')

== External links == * [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/pbrowse.pl?item=title&id=ILEJ.6.&title=The+Builder Scans of the first ten volumes (1843–1852)] at the Bodleian Internet Library of Early Journals *{{Official website|https://www.building.co.uk/}} – ''Building'' *[https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=builder Serial archive listings for The Builder, 1843–1906] – The Online Books Page {{Construction industry in the United Kingdom}}

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