The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is probably one of the most impressive feats of engineering ever accomplished by man: At 828 meters tall and using an absolute shed load of glass and steel, it's awe inspiring, and is certainly a building I would love to visit. However, the Burj isn't going to remain the world's [...]
As you may have seen, I am currently running a guest column by @MarkMcLean41. You can see his section here: https://www.doubleglazingblogger.com/category/mark-mclean/ but there was something in one of his posts that caught my eye whilst reading. He mentions in his column of a recent trip to Scandinavia and one of the observations that was brought up [...]
We probably all recognise this... Yes, it's the original Crystal Palace building in London. It was first built in 1851 to house the Great Exhibition which had a staggering 14,000 exhibitors. FiT Show has a way to go then ;-) It held dozens of FA Cup finals before they moved to Wembley and it [...]
Tuesday morning saw the release of the latest construction and GDP figures. There is good news and some very bad news. The good news is that it is looking more and more likely that Britain wasn't actually in a double-dip recession after all. Some closer inspection of the data from that time shows that the [...]
Sunday night TV. It doesn't make for the best watching in the world does it. The schedules get filled up with the stuff channels can't show at prime time or during the day, which usually means there's nothing worth watching. However, a programme called Built In Britain which was shown on BBC 2 Sunday night [...]
On Thursday the CLG (Communities and Local Government) published the latest set of housing figures. And they do not make for happy reading. In the second quarter of this year, new starts stood at just a measly 21,540! That is a full 10% down on the previous quarter! The construction industry really is putting it's [...]
>Construction levels haven't been this low since the 1980's. I wouldn't know this personally as I was born in 1988, so really wouldn't have taken this information in. But when you look at the graphs and numbers, it's easy to see that the recovery is as anemic as a pigment-less person.Construction is one of the most important sectors in [...]
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