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The year everything changed

Although our review of the year summarises that this has been a slightly disappointing time for construction, at least we haven鈥檛 taken to our beds like Ebenezer Scrooge of Charles Dickens鈥� A Christmas Carol, who was pictured in our review of the year 2007.

A year that started out frantically busy came to a devastating end as the credit crunch hit and house prices fell. 鈥淭he fear is that the ghost of Christmas future might just be a lean solicitor with a pocket full of writs, small change and P45s,鈥� we wrote.

A prime minister who had been a friend to construction left the building. 鈥淭ony Blair deserves a raised glass,鈥� said Tony Bingham, who had never voted for him. 

Our readers were not impressed with the design for the Olympic stadium, nicknaming it 鈥渢he Vol-au-vent鈥�.

And some people apparently partied too hard at the RICS young surveyors鈥� ball. Whatever happened seems to have been lost in the mists of time, but it led one chief executive to say: 鈥淭he kids at the event drank too much and went a bit OTT. That鈥檚 it.鈥� If you attended this momentous event, feel free to share your memories with us 鈥�

To read the full article from 14 December 2007, click on the pdf below.

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