end of year review
A year in review
British Builder & Developer takes a look back at our favourite products featured during 2009.
Last year will be remembered spite the company having record and facilities in east London. Engineers in the UK, outlined the
mainly for the economic strug- sales and revenues of £36.3 billion Altman, the man responsible for idea of constructing a forest of 'arti-
gle that we all faced. However, for 2008, up 14 percent from 2007. overseeing a series of regeneration ficial trees'. According to the report,
last year also saw the release of "While 2008 was our sixth consecu- programmes in America, was constructing 100,000 such "trees"
some innovative industry prod- tive year of record sales and named as chief executive of the – each costing around $20,000 –
ucts and we want to celebrate revenues, it was an extraordinarily new 2012 legacy delivery company. would require 600 hectares of land
this by taking a look back at our challenging year," said Caterpillar Altman’s tasks will involve oversee- but would be enough to remove
favourite products of 2009. Chairman and Chief Executive ing the creation of thousands of the CO2 from the UK's homes and
Officer Jim Owens said at the time. new homes and jobs, world-class transport system. Towards the end
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efore we get to the products In March, Steve Morgan, the sporting, educational and cultural of the year a real milestone was
we thought we would take a founder of Redrow, the house- facilities, in the largest urban park reached in the construction of the
look at the news stories that builder, regained power at the created in Europe for 150 years. 2012 Olympic Park, with the first
caught our eye over the last 12 company with an audacious board- During the summer, a group of en- building on the site being complet-
months. January 2009 brought with room coup. In May ‘09 the man gineers came up with a way of ed. The Olympic Park Primary
it bad news for the start of the year responsible for the Olympic Legacy removing carbon dioxide from the Electrical Substation was completed
with Caterpillar announcing around was chosen. Andrew Altman will be atmosphere. A report published by and is already supplying electricity.
20,000 redundancies. This was de- responsible for creating jobs, homes the Institution of Mechanical The Substation is located in Kings
Yard in the west of the Park. It will
distribute electricity across the Park
site using electrical networks con-
sisting of more than 100km of
electrical cabling. Olympic Delivery
Authority Director of Utilities and
Infrastructure Simon Wright said:
“Completing the first building on
the Olympic Park site on schedule is
a major milestone. It shows that we
are making good progress not only
on the main sporting venues for
2012 but also on the backbone of
essential new utilities infrastruc-
ture.” Hopefully that whetted your
appetite to find out our favourite
products of the year. Our picks start
on the opposite page, we hope you
enjoy them. ■
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