[ Project focus: Olympic Stadium ]
It is a first, a unique building in the sense of what we’re trying to achieve, but I think it’s also unique in the way we’re achieving it
coordination. T Clarke has worked closely with the project’s main contractor, Team Stadium, to ensure the smooth running of the work. Bryan believes that the project exemplifies industry
best practice and demonstrates how companies can work together to their mutual advantage. ‘The companies involved in the Olympic Stadium project have created a highly productive and pleasant working atmosphere,’ he says. ‘There is no blame culture; everyone works towards a common objective and it has been very well run from top to bottom.’
Sustainability
Sustainability has been firmly on the agenda for the 2012 Games Olympic Park from the planning stage and a number of innovative ways have been developed to reduce its impact on the environment. The site features a primary substation, designed, constructed, owned and operated by EDF Energy through Lea Valley Utilities. This permanent substation will distribute electricity efficiently from the wider network of more than 100km of electrical cabling to the venues across the park. The substation is part of a wider utilities network of gas, water, electricity, telecommunications and sewage that provides a ‘backbone’ for the long-term development of the area. In October 2009, the primary substation became the first building to be completed on the Park. It now
the usual branding that you see on electrical products. Therefore, we had to ask manufacturers to remould their products without logos in order to use them. That said, all the companies we have dealt with have been happy to do this in order to have their products used.’
Lighting up time
In March 2010, the Olympic Stadium project overcame one of its toughest challenges when the first of its lighting towers was successfully lifted into place, taking the venue to its full height at 60m above the field of play. A 650-tonne crane was assembled in the middle of the stadium to lift the 28-metre-high lighting towers on to the top of the inner ring of the cable-net roof. The lighting towers will illuminate the action and are necessary for high-definition footage. They are located high above the stadium roof to ensure optimum lighting angles that will avoid dazzling spectators, photographers and competitors. They have been specially designed for this project and give the stadium its unique appearance. Bryan says: ‘The lifting of the lighting towers was a significant engineering and construction challenge, and took a huge amount of work and planning. There are 14 towers altogether and we were able to complete the necessary electrical work on them while they were still on the ground.’
Best practice
Due to the very nature of the task at hand, the Olympic Stadium development requires excellent planning and
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