Opening our minds to more adventurous engineering

摘要

Having just spent a couple of days at the Arabian World Construction Summit in Abu Dhabi, Boris Johnson's plan to move Heathrow Airport to a new man-made island in the Thames Estuary doesn't seem so mad. It won't happen, of course. But forget that similar ideas have been regularly floated and dismissed over the last 40 years - the real truth is that nobody politically in the UK has the balls to do something that radical.