“You don’t seriously think I’m letting you loose among people looking like that?” Antonia said to me after breakfast, just as I was about to leave our anthill. “No? Why not?” I was about to reply. Then I looked down the front of my blue overalls and, okay, there were half a dozen or so oil stains and cement splashes. But that’s normal if you work as a foreman on a construction site like I do.

“Well, that’s all very well on the construction site,” said Antonia, raising a warning finger, “but you’re off to the museum today.” I pulled a bit of a face and answered that it wasn’t a museum, just the Senate Administration offices, but I already knew there was nothing for it but to go and get changed! Half an hour later, I finally stepped outside the front door in a new pair of blue overalls and with my feelers smartly groomed.

I arrived just in time for the opening of our new exhibition, Airport BBI – The New Airport for Berlin and Brandenburg, that will be on view Mondays to Saturdays until 3 November in the Lichthof room of the Senate Administration for Urban Development building at Köllnischer Park 3 in Berlin’s Mitte district. Once again, Europe’s largest airport project opens up to the general public. In our exhibition, we are concentrating on the current stage of development on site, now that the shell construction, the initial stage in the building of the BBI station, has been completed. In addition, we show all that is still to be done by 2011, and we also want to give all of our visitors an insight into the positive effects the largest infrastructural project in Berlin and Brandenburg will have on the economy and the employment market in our region.

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