Olympic Stadium
Robert McAlpine who is the project manager. He says this is being done through the use of fast-track design, procurement and
SINCE construction began on 7th May 2008, the Olympic Park’s largest venue, the athletics stadium, is also its furthest advanced. To date, a circle of tower cranes has been erected and about 3,500 of the 4,000 permanent piles have been sunk. The Olympic Delivery Authority’s (ODA)
“Team Stadium” is made up of contractor Sir Robert McAlpine, architect HOK Sport and structural engineer Buro Happold, who delivered Arsenal’s 60,000 seat Emirates Stadium on time, and to budget, in 2006. The same team (without HOK Sport) put together the Millennium Dome in 2000, and converted it to the O2 (with HOK Sport) in 2006. It took over the Olympic Stadium on 7th April and, since then, all 200 members of staff have been housed together on the site. Team Stadium will be meeting the deadline. So says Tony Aikenhead of Sir
construction techniques, much of it borrowed from the Emirates Stadium. “That means that we standardise the design with an established grid and a lot of repetitive components and then prefabricate as much as we can,” he says. Fast-track construction is evident on the
site. In the seven months since Team Stadium took over, the piles have been driven into the ground up to 20m deep, more than 100 cylindrical concrete columns have been cast in situ to make up the semi- basement changing rooms and much of the first-floor slab has been cast on top. To one side of the site, a precasting plant is busy turning out standardised raking beams. Simultaneously, out in Somerset and Peterborough, Tarmac is precasting terrace units, while in Bolton, Watson Steel is prefabricating the steelwork for the upper tier and roof canopy. The South West Stand is taking shape with
the first obvious signs above ground that an Olympic Stadium is on its way. It will hold 80,000 during the games, but capacity will be reduced when 55,000 demountable seats are removed. When completed the stadium
will be three metres taller than Nelson’s column.
The plan is to complete the park – which will also include the 12,000-seater velodrome and the 17,500-seater aquatics centre, a full year before the Olympics are due to begin on the 27th July, 2012. The final phase of the project will be the
test events.
• The Olympic Park will be the size of 357 football pitches.
• By the end of 2009, 12,000 people will be employed on the site.
• 52 pylons will have been removed by Christmas and electricity re-routed along underground tunnels, including 200km of cable - the distance between Nottingham and London.
• 1.3m tonnes of soil has been cleaned, more than 619 times the weight of the London Eye.
• 7.7million tickets will be available for the 2012 games and they will be on sale from January 2011.
FOOTNOTE: Leyton Orient FC have issued an official statement on their website confirming that they have entered preliminary discussions concerning a move to the new Olympic Stadium.
is up and running ODA say Team Stadium will deliver on time
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