This week offered a fantastic shop window for construction. First there was the glamour surrounding the Queen's opening of St Pancras and the high-speed rail link. This has given us a wonderfully restored Victorian icon and the first new rail line in a century. Both were completed on time and to budget, as we reported at length in our 19 October issue. Then there was the eagerly anticipated design for the Olympic stadium and, on a slightly more sober note, a whole raft of measures in the Queen's speech (see pages 13 and 23). These place construction at the heart of the political agenda. We're talking here about plans to build 3 million homes, Crossrail and a generation of nuclear power stations, and cut carbon dioxide emissions 60 by 2050. In other words, what we do has never been so exciting or so essential as it is now.
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