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Network Rail Completes the London Bridge Station Redevelopment
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE8.4 years agoNetwork Rail's[3] own history page states London Bridge station was officially reopened by the Duke of Cambridge on Wednesday 9 May 2018.Network Rail finished its five-year, roughly £1 billion rebuild of London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme, and Prince William officially reopened the unified station on 9 May 2018. The project gave the station a single new concourse and step-free access to every platform.0.68Palace of Westminster Restoration Phase One
Palace of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
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ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the chimes of Big Ben returned to regular service for the first time since August 2017" on Remembrance Sunday, 13 November 2022.After a five-year, £80M restoration, the bells of Big Ben return to regular service in London’s Elizabeth Tower for the first time since 2017.£80M0.61Transforming London’s Broadgate: 100 Liverpool Street
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE6.1 years agoMultiple independent sources (Hopkins[2] Architects’ own project page and New London Architecture) give the completion as September 2020, after this 2019 video was filmed mid-construction. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "an outstanding new benchmark for low-carbon commercial office redevelopment".British Land completed a stripped-back rebuild of an aging 1980s Broadgate office block into 100 Liverpool Street, a low-carbon commercial tower beside Liverpool Street station.0.61Construction Starts on the New Hillingdon Hospital
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ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsThe council's update says Hillingdon[1] proceeds as a wave 1 scheme "with construction expected to start in 2027/28" and lists "Construction 2028 - 2032", a year rather than a date.The only London scheme in wave one of the New Hospital Programme puts a net-zero replacement hospital on the western edge of the Uxbridge site, with 327 homes alongside it, inside a capital envelope of GBP 1-1.5bn. Laing O'Rourke signed the delivery contract on 30 July 2026; the trust's milestones run construction to 2032 with the hospital available to patients in early 2033.0.61LaGuardia Airport's $8BN Redevelopment Fully Wraps Up
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Circus West Village, Battersea Power Station, Electric Boulevard, Nine Elms, London SW11 8DD, United Kingdom
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DELAYED68% CONFIDENCE5.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The hospital was officially opened on 23 March 2021".Edinburgh's £150M Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, designed by HLM Architects and built by Brookfield Multiplex, opened to patients after ventilation and drainage faults forced repeated delays.£150M0.60New Wharf Completed at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: London Gatwick "has just completed (Sept 2022) an innovative plan to resurface its main runway".Gatwick Airport finished an overnight resurfacing of its main runway's busiest sections in September 2022, using a leaner method that cut the job to half the usual time and cost, using 70% less asphalt.0.59
