The new Red Star Line museum opened on the site last month, after a €20m programme of renovation.
I would then announce a nationwide programme of renovation to Britain's housing stock, using unemployed construction workers to insulate every home in the country, while at the same time investing in low-carbon energy sources.
Since then the school's results have improved, its drop-out rates have fallen to less than 1% and the atmosphere in the wider neighbourhood has been "transformed", according to Joachim Barloschky, a local official who oversaw a programme of renovation and regeneration in the area.
However, during his time as Dean the college benefited from a continued programme of renovation with internal changes that provided more student accommodation.
Recently, a programme of renovation and refurbishment of the buildings and rehabilitation of the roads on the research station had been started, and was expected to be completed soon.
Ambitious though it is, Energiesprong says its programme of building renovations should be seen as a means to a low-carbon transformation of the building sector, rather than an end in itself.
The £36bn programme of rebuilding and renovation in schools and colleges over the next four years may be eye-catching, but it is not new.
Brazil has spent a fortune on a lavish, if somewhat leisurely, programme of stadium construction and renovation.
In 2006, a NIS 5.5 million renovation programme of Eilat Airport's terminal and runway was undertaken, designed to sustain the airport until it is replaced in the near future.
Mayor Boris Johnson will open the square tomorrow night, launching a five-day programme of events to celebrate the renovation.
