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were commonplace on the site. Working alongside Fletcher Priest and Lend Lease, the Olympics Delivery Authority (ODA) was overseeing the project, and they were, as a group, responsible for the bases and the piling for each of the buildings. Paul Hartmann, the ODA’s project sponsor, is on hand to
explain what was required: “We had a reconstituted crushed aggregate concrete specially designed for the project by the con- crete provider to meet sustainability targets, and we had our own rail head developed in the Village to bring in the concrete.” Due to the size and speed of the project, the precast concrete
façades were sourced simultaneously from various locations throughout Europe. “We couldn’t just go to one manufacturer,” Hartmann tells me. “We just didn’t have the time, and we needed to minimise risk in procurement.” All façades are high-performance, with an energy efficiency
rating of 80 per cent. The project directors became so expert in the Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4, they helped the government to rewrite some of the regulations. A rigorous benchmarking process was in place for each stage of the build.
“For each material, we developed a prototype and a bench-
mark in the factory and signed that off. Everyone knew what to strive for. It was a vanguard in sustainability,” says Hartmann. Note the use of the past tense. When I spoke to Jonathan
Kendall and Paul Hartmann on one of 2011’s unseasonably warm winter days, the project is almost complete. They are in a due diligence phase, and concentrating on the finishing touches such as railings, just one of Hartmann’s nods to London’s typical architecture. “We borrowed from London: we have almost tra- ditional park gardens and squares. Importantly for London, the town houses, at the base of each block, have their own front doors, and private gardens. ” Hartmann is enthusiastic about the London-style features of
the Athletes’ Village, but it is the other aesthetic features of the buildings that have drawn most attention. He explains: “We created a site-wide palette of textures, colours, and of materials.” During the bidding process, the constraints of the design brief offered to the 12 successful architectural firms were well-publi- cised, but according to Hartmann, those firms selected have responded well to the challenge: “What we’ve ended up with is
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