Construction industry gossip: Looney tunes

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2021-10-18T05:00:00

From a moon-obsessed cladding talk to a council publishing some “proper whack” planning decisions, it’s been an interesting month

Dark side of the moon

One of my hacks went along to the launch of a new cladding panel at the Gherkin in the City of London recently. Apparently, it has been inspired by the surface of the moon – which might explain the 25-minute presentation from a moon expert which covered everything from lunar eclipses to how it (the moon, that is) is linked to the word “lunacy”. My confused hack says he barely learnt anything at all about the cladding or its epic five-year development process. Lunacy.

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