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Olympic Stadium facts and figures
• Over 1,000 construction workers will be
based on the Stadium site.
• 33 buildings on the Olympic Stadium
site have been demolished.
• Over 800,000 tonnes of soil has been
taken away to help create the
construction platform for the Stadium -
enough to fill the Royal Albert Hall nine
times over.
• The Stadium is highly sustainable,
containing around 10,000 tonnes of steel
the lightest Olympic Stadium to date.
• The total Stadium island site covers an
area of 40 acres – five times the size of
the Houses of Parliament.
• The Stadium is 53m high - taller than
Nelson’s Column (50m).
• The Stadium roof covers an area of
24,500 sq metres - the equivalent to
three and a half football pitches.
and economic change in East London.”
ODA Chairman John Armitt said: ‘Over the
next year the Olympic Stadium structure will
begin to emerge from the ground.
“People will be able to see with their own
eyes a stadium which is designed to be
different, an innovative and sustainable design
which uses temporary elements to meet a
complex brief, a stadium built for both Games
and legacy.
‘It is great news that we can make an early
start but this is a project with an immovable
deadline so we know there are big
challenges ahead.”
Chairman of the London Organising
Committee, Sebastian Coe, said: “The Olympic
Stadium will be the jewel in the crown of the
Olympic Park. It will be a fantastic centrepiece
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