In December of 2014 I wrote an article which was titled, ‘The Final Whistle’. This is ‘The Final Whistle - Part 2’. It isn’t uncommon when movies are made for there to be a sequel and I guess this is my sequel...

I began these articles some time ago and the theme was football and how if you think carefully, there are similarities with construction. I then went on to look at things we take for granted in everyday life and how construction has helped these things evolve.

You will recall my last article looked at mobile phones, how they have evolved from the traditional telephone and the widespread applications such as the camera can assist with record keeping on a construction project simply by taking a photo.

Mobile phones, or cell phones, or hand phones, depending on where you are from in the world, are quite frankly, a necessary and useful tool. They bring communication between friends, colleagues and businesses to a point where we are all contactable...

Roads are an essential tool for everyday life to operate; roads are actually an asset to a nation and its economy. In their most basic form, roads are simple corridors to move people and goods safely from A to B and then onto C.

We rejoiced in April 2014 when Hamad International Airport finally opened and the airport’s first flight from Bahrain landed. It is nearly one year since that occasion so I thought we should consider the impact the airport will have or has had on Qatar so far.

Last year we considered the relationship between construction projects and football and realised there are some similarities with their individual problems.

When football is on the television there are always former players who review the game, they explain what went wrong and how the game would have been so much different if they had been playing.