This month’s construction industry gossip: Sparkles and stars

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2025-12-16T07:00:00

The latest chatter around the industry

We’ve got the power

Battersea Power Station kicked off this year’s festive spirit recently by calling on mega-star Kylie Minogue to press the button to light up a giant Christmas tree and thousands of twinkling lights along Electric Boulevard. Unfortunately she couldn’t attend the press trip some days later to the Chimney Lift Experience. Named LIFT 109, this glass elevator took two of my colleagues up inside the north-west chimney to the 109m-high viewing point. The sudden reveal of the 360º view momentarily silenced the chatty group of journos, all except for a “woo-ahh” from the Building contingent – ever the wordsmiths.

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