Today is the anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001. It was a horrific tragedy, but also represented a tremendous challenge to be responded to by the world’s construction industry. Initially, engineers had to analyse the integrity of other tall buildings, plan the clearance of the Ground Zero site and then designers, builders and planners determined what would take the place of the Twin Towers.

Three new towers are planned to be opened before 2020 and one has been completed since work began in 2006. And since the process started Marcus Robinson has been filming, photographing and painting at the World Trade Centre.

Channel 4 is now running a series that tells the story he has captured, to view click here. It does something that anyone in our industry will appreciate and want to share – it does more than just tell an epic tale about architecture and engineering, the film gives a voice to the construction workers, from the site managers to those who dug the foundations and the legendary iron workers who assemble the steel frame of the buildings, walking across open girders hundreds of feet in the air. For me, it is an example of what makes the global construction industry great.

Welsh construction plays an important part in that story too – we just need to place it in context and be willing to share the stories of our own site workers, managers and engineers.