Act now

Simon Woodroffe, the Yo! Sushi founder, says: 'You cannot really be successful without putting in an enormous amount of work. And you can’t do that just from the desire to get richer. You need to have an idea that you want to change your world.' As an entrepreneur, Woodroffe is an ardent believer in self-appraisal, and prefers giving individual employees money to develop an idea on a hunch, both to encourage creativity and to speed up the process. He continues: 'As soon as you start a debate, it becomes a committee. Committees have a rather clever way of stopping anything happening'. This is unthinkable in Woodroffe’s world, where the whole idea is to make things happen; to confront fear of failure and move past it. Whatever the issue faced by a business or individual, he is adamant that the best time to act is now. Source: The Times; Power in Partnership.

Constructive ideas

The plan to demolish and rebuild each of the four stacks of London's Battersea Power Station seems straightforward enough: To duplicate exactly the original design and construction of the chimneys. But the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of the 103-metre tall stacks have called for fresh ideas. First, the southwest chimney will be scanned, with the resulting 3D model used to rebuild all four chimneys. Then the stacks will be destroyed by a self-climbing rig which will start at the top and work its way down using four concrete crushers to demolish the structure by breaking off six-inch sections and sending the debris down a funnel inside the chimney. Finally, the rebuild of the chimneys will use a rig carrying a reconfigurable mould to cast the new chimneys' 1.22m-tall sections in situ.