foreigneRS

No, not a typo

After the fuck up with Wembley, and now Heathrow T5, what are the chances of anything being done on time for 2012? Very slim I reckon, so look out for the Olympics in 2013 instead of 2012

dojj

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don't worry, they'll still eb trying to sort out the peole who wanted to go the china this year

Cossiep

Being involved in Construction programming on similar sized projects for many years this country and it's management have never had realistic timescales when it comes to major projects, Millenium dome, wembley, T5 etc, they are all over budget and programme because management who have never worked at the business end believe that Rome was built in a day

When you actually look at what has been acheived with some of these projects in the particulat construction time we are way ahead of the rest of the world.

Kelv

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and see how many extra immigrants manage to creep into the country amoungst the thousands of people that come here for the olympics

Porkie

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I'm not in construction so mine is not a professional opinion but I think you are talking complete bollocks mate...

Bejing Airport has made our efforts with Terminal 5 look micky mouse!!!

Twice as big
Half the cost
built in one third of the time.

Any comments?

Cossiep

It appears on face value that it's so great but I'd hardly call T5 mickey mouse, especially when you take into account the geography of site it had to be constructed within. I don't know much about Beijing airport but suspect that space wasn't a major concern to them. The cost of labour would have a direct impact on the build time if you're comparing costs like for like in sterling.

Also China is experiencing large growth in it's steel industry so materials costs/ logistics will be cheap.

Rossco

The 2012 Olympics is going to be a major bollock drop, IMO!

Also on the news this moring they were giving out a help line number for the problems at Terminal 5 but they said they where also having problems with that to. PMSL

GARETH T

i know the medals wont be done in time LOL LOL

indycos

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bit unfair to compare the two, think about the cheaper labour, and materials etc in china.

must have been twice or three times as much the people working on it too!!!

p.s. china construction work is awesome they use bamboo instead of scaffolding poles

Rossco

"well done winning young man, your medal is in the post!"

foreigneRS

it's all relative. the cost in real terms will probably be similar.

Rhys

Bit unfair to compare imo.

As In China they threw labour at it which was cheap as chips, they dont have the back breaking legislations that construction has to adhear to over here. It did not have to build in a confined space while still keep very close and very major infrastructure open etc.

Cossiep

Did nobody read my reply about 4 hours ago

All this repetition

dojj

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that's because they gave out the wrong number

GARETH T

just too show that the uk can do things right, the stadium in cardiff came in on time, and under budget!