Network Rail Completes the London Bridge Station Redevelopment

More like this

• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Bond Street's Elizabeth Line Station Finally Opens

  Bond Street Station, Mayfair, City of Westminster, London, UKTransport for London

  

  Starts 10/24/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the first Elizabeth line services arrived at the station at 05.47" on Monday, 24th October.

  London's Bond Street station opened to Elizabeth Line services, closing out the last and most delayed piece of the Crossrail project.

  £19B

  0.74

  00
• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Four Rebuilt Red Line Stations Open on Chicago's North Side

  Lawrence to Bryn Mawr, Uptown and Edgewater, Chicago, IllinoisChicago Transit Authority

  

  Starts 07/20/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoThe CTA's announcement says "four fully reconstructed Red Line stations in Edgewater and Uptown will open on Sunday, July 20, 2025".^[1]

  The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.

  0.71

  00
• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Jubilee Line Platforms Open at Westminster Underground

  Westminster Underground Station, London, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 12/22/1999CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE26.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Jubilee line platforms were opened on 22 December 1999."

  The deep-level Jubilee line platforms at Westminster Underground opened, completing London's £3.5bn Jubilee Line Extension after engineers dug a 39-metre station box beside the Thames without disturbing Big Ben's foundations.

  £3.5B

  0.70

  00
• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Port of Melbourne Finishes Swanson Dock Rail Overhaul

  Swanson Dock, West Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3003, AustraliaPort of Melbourne

  

  Starts 02/01/2024CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE2.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "completed earlier in 2024 and took around two years".

  A two-year, AUD $125M rail overhaul at Melbourne's Swanson Dock wrapped up, adding a new terminal so more shipping containers move by train instead of truck.

  A$125M

  0.69

  00
• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Transforming London’s Broadgate: 100 Liverpool Street

  100 Liverpool Street, Broadgate, London, United KingdomBritish Land

  

  Starts 09/01/2020CONFIRMED84% 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.

  0.69

  00
• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Elizabeth Line's Tottenham Court Road Station Opens

  Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth Line Station, London, UKTransport for London

  

  Starts 05/24/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.3 years agoConfirmed against contemporary reporting on the central section's opening. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Elizabeth line opened on Tuesday 24 May 2022".

  London's £18.9BN Elizabeth Line opens through central London, bringing its new Tottenham Court Road station into service after years of Crossrail tunnelling and delay.

  £18.9B

  0.68

  00
• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Circus West Village, Phase One of Battersea Power Station, Completes

  Circus West Village, Battersea Power Station, Electric Boulevard, Nine Elms, London SW11 8DD, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 09/30/2017ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCE9.0 years agoEstimated: SimpsonHaugh's^[2] project data gives completion as September 2017 (Buro Happold^[3] gives only the year), and no day is published, so the month's last day stands in.

  Circus West Village, the first completed phase of London's Battersea Power Station regeneration designed by SimpsonHaugh and built by Carillion, wrapped up as the scheme's opening residential and retail quarter.

  0.68

  00
• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  London's Docklands Light Railway Opens

  Poplar, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 08/31/1987CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE39.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "opened on 31 August 1987 with 11 trains servicing 15 stations".

  The driverless Docklands Light Railway opens to passengers, giving London's redeveloping docklands a low-cost automated metro built largely on disused rail viaducts.

  £77M

  0.68

  00
• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Great Portland Estates Completes 18 Hanover Square

  18 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London, UKGreat Portland Estates

  

  Starts 12/31/2020ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoEstimated: the 17 September 2020 practical completion Buildington^[3] records is for the neighbouring Grade II* listed 20 Hanover Square, not 18 Hanover Square. GPE's^[2] release of 12 May 2021 says the final office letting came 'less than six months after practical completion', putting 18 Hanover Square's completion after mid-November 2020, so the pin takes the end of that quarter. No source gives the day.

  Great Portland Estates finishes its four-building Hanover Square scheme in Mayfair, built directly above the new Bond Street Elizabeth Line station's eastern ticket hall.

  0.68

  00
• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Amtrak Unveils New Design for the Penn Station Overhaul

  Penn Station, New York, NY, USAAmtrak

  

  Starts 06/08/2026CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCE107 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "unveiled the design renderings for the once-in-a-generation redevelopment of New York Penn Station."

  Amtrak and its newly chosen builders showed the public a first look at the redesigned Penn Station concourse, the latest step in a federal takeover of the long-delayed rebuild.

  0.68

  00
• Health09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Construction Starts on the New Hillingdon Hospital

  Hillingdon Hospital, Pield Heath Road, Uxbridge, London, EnglandThe Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  

  Starts 01/01/2028ESTIMATED50% 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.

  0.67

  00
• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Empire State Development Opens the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station

  Moynihan Train Hall, 421 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001, USAEmpire State Development

  

  Starts 01/01/2021CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoSOM's own project announcement states the Moynihan Train Hall "opens January 1" (2021), corroborated by New York YIMBY's coverage of the public opening that day.^[1]

  A public-private consortium led by Empire State Development opened the $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall inside the former Farley Post Office, giving Amtrak and LIRR riders a new concourse next to the cramped original Penn Station.

  0.66

  00