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Primary Electrical Substation

Designs for a primary electrical substation to be built in the west of the Olympic Park have been unveiled.

Sustainability is at the heart of the design, which will be built using recycled and reused materials from the site.

The architectural designs include a ‘brown roof’ allowing species to colonise naturally. The roof will help increase the ecological value and biodiversity of the Olympic Park site by attracting local wildlife including black redstarts, a rare bird that thrives on brownfield land.

Planning permission has been secured for the building, which will supply electricity to the 2.5sq km Olympic Park as well as the Stratford City development during and after the Games. The substation will distribute electricity across the two sites through new utilities networks consisting of more than 100km of electrical cabling.

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The Olympic Green Energy Centre

A green energy centre for the Olympic Games designed by John McAslan has been unveiled by the Olympic Delivery Authority.

The centre wil be built in the west of the Olympic Park and will provide onsite power, heating and cooling during Games-time and in legacy period.

It will use sustainable biomass fuels to generate heat and will have biomass boilers and a CCHP plant to recapture heat generated by the electric generator.

Simon Wright, ODA director of infrastructure and utilities, said: “Sustainability runs right through this project and our energy centre plans will ensure the Games deliver the lasting legacy of a sustainable energy supply for this part of east London.”

The centre will be built by SUEZ Group and has been designed by John McAslan Architects. The consultant engineer is Adams Kara Taylor.

A planning application will be submitted in March, with an anticipated start onsite during the summer.

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Foot Bridge

Dublin-based architect Heneghan Peng, working with engineer Adams Kara Taylor, has beaten a field of 46 entrants in the competition to design a footbridge at the centre of the 2012 Olympic park.

The bridge will span 26m over Carpenter’s Lock on the River Lea waterway, and will form part of the central pedestrian concourse linking the Olympic stadium, aquatics centre and basketball arena.

A key requirement of the design is that its surface area has to be reduced significantly after the games are over.

The winning scheme is designed to be visually continuous with the concourse, and incorporates a sacrificial area comprising a surface composed of multiple coloured lights. These can be programmed to give a confetti-like appearance, to reveal the Olympic rings embedded within the pattern, or to present the colours of a victorious country’s flag.

Removing the surface after the games will reveal a grass amphitheatre that relates to the language of the surrounding park, and which will allow access between the elevated concourse and the waterway.


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« Reply #1 on Mar 13, 2008, 2:22pm »

from the Olympic Delivery Authority

13 March 2008

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today announced a world-class shortlist of contractors bidding to manage the landscaping of the northern section of the London 2012 Olympic Park, which will be one of the largest new urban parks in Europe for 150 years.

The four shortlisted following a competitive procurement process are:

Fitzpatrick Contractors Ltd
Edmond Nuttall
Skanska McNicholas
Balfour Beatty
The ODA expects to appoint a landscape and public realm contractor for the north of the Park in the summer ready to pre-order trees and other plants, and for work to start on site in 2009. It’s expected that the appointed contractor will select and manage a number of specialist subcontractors.

ODA Parklands and Public Realm project sponsor John Hopkins said: 'We have had an encouraging response from industry keen to be involved in transforming former industrial land into a living and breathing Olympic Park. We have an impressive shortlist and we look forward to appointing a world-class contractor to manage the creation of a park fit for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and local people in legacy.'

The landscape and public realm contractor will be responsible for managing the transformation of 40 hectares of former industrial land and landfill currently being cleared and cleaned, into new open spaces, parklands and waterways fit for the Games and legacy.

This will include hard and soft landscape works including tree planting and the construction of the Olympic Concourse which will link all the venues, entrances and parklands. The contract will also include creating new wetland and other wildlife habitats, installing new allotments and permanent park furniture, lighting, irrigation and drainage. A contract for the landscaping of the south of the Park will be issued later in 2008.

After the Games the contractor will manage the transformation of the Olympic Park ready for legacy development, which will include removing the temporary Olympic Concourse to create meadows and lawns.


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« Reply #2 on Mar 13, 2008, 9:11pm »

One of the existing mill buildings of historical interest at Kings Yard will be renovated and reused as part of the Energy Centre project.
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« Reply #3 on Mar 15, 2008, 11:13am »

Public access site for ODA planning applications

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« Reply #4 on Mar 16, 2008, 11:23am »

Two six kilometre tunnels have been dug beneath the Olympic Park, enabling the power needed for the Games and the legacy communities after 2012 to be carried underground and the overhead powerlines which run across 52 pylons in the Park to be removed. The tunnels were finished 2007 on time and on budget, marking the first Olympic Park construction project to be completed.
More than 200km of electrical cables will be installed in the tunnels – enough to stretch from London to Nottingham. Cable installation work in the first tunnel has now been completed and cabling works are also now well underway in the second tunnel. Around 150km of cabling has now been laid in total bringing the project up to the three-quarter mark stage.

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« Reply #5 on Mar 17, 2008, 7:33pm »

Hargreaves Associates has been selected to design the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympic


The ODA announced that world leading landscape architects LDA Design • Hargreaves Associates has been selected to design the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which will become a new kind of park promoting sustainable and active living.

The designers will develop detailed proposals for the open spaces in the Olympic Park for the Games and legacy using their combined experience designing groundbreaking parks in London, the UK and across the world, including the Sydney 2000 Olympic Park.

The 2.5 kilometre square Olympic Park is currently being been cleared and cleaned ready for construction to start in the summer. In 2009 work will start creating the parklands and public spaces that will enhance the experience of the London 2012 Games and form the largest new urban park in London since the great Victorian era of park building.

Early plans for the legacy Olympic Park envisage nine character areas that enhance the ecology and biodiversity of the park, and create a vibrant mix of leisure and recreational activities. These will potentially include:
allotments and other food growing areas;
meadows, wetlands, wooded valleys, orchards and viewing hills;
new wildlife habitats;
areas and facilities for a range of sports such as canoeing, mountain biking, climbing and cricket;
revitalised waterways, towpaths and river walks;
natural amphitheatres and lawns for events and festivals; and
new cycle and footpaths connecting the Lower Lea Valley with the Thames for the first time.
The ODA and LDA Design • Hargreaves Associates will be consulting the public further on the detailed legacy plans in partnership with the London Development Agency ahead of a planning application later this year.

ODA Chief Executive David Higgins said: 'We want to create an Olympic Park that enhances the experience of the London 2012 Games for spectators, athletes and the global audience and then becomes a living, breathing new urban park in legacy. Our world leading design team will help develop our plans to transform this former industrial area into a thriving park that boosts sustainable and active living, creates new wildlife habitats and anchors the regeneration of a neglected part of east London.'

ODA Head of Parklands and Public Realm John Hopkins said: 'The Olympic Park will be the centrepiece of the London 2012 Games and its legacy. It is an opportunity to create a landmark park for the 21st century. We will be working with our design team to create a groundbreaking park that provides high quality open and green space to encourage a range of sporting, leisure, social and educational activities for existing and new communities.'

ODA Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism Ricky Burdett said: 'LDA Design • Hargreaves Associates team will bring a level of imagination and skill to the Olympic Park that will create an exciting and dynamic natural environment in this fast-changing part of East London. The design team has already created some of the most elegant, modern and sculpted designs for parks across the world. The team will bring a fresh design approach to the Olympic Park that will make the most of the site's existing natural features and water courses with confident and robust solutions for the Games and after.'

LDA Design • Hargreaves Associates Managing Partner Andrew Harland said: 'The Olympic Park is the UK’s most significant landscape project in years, and is likely to be so for many years to come. It is the centrepiece of Europe’s largest regeneration programme and will have a positive economic and social impact on the area while also demonstrating exemplar sustainability.'

Design Director George Hargreaves said: 'The close collaboration with LDA Design, and the great team we’ve put together, means we can help give Britain a unique and fabulous park that will be just as wonderful for people to use after the event as it will be during 2012.'
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« Reply #6 on Mar 20, 2008, 1:29pm »

Wind Turbine

The opportunity to create a ‘green beacon’ for London was showcased to the construction industry today as the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) held an industry day for the contract to design and construct a wind turbine on the Olympic Park site.

The turbine, to be located at Eton Manor in the north of the Olympic Park, will play a key role in delivering renewable energy to the Olympic Park and be a visible symbol of London 2012’s commitment to deliver a truly sustainable Games.

Companies at today’s industry briefing were given details of the contract currently out to tender to design, construct and operate a 130 metre high turbine structure (an 83m turbine with 47m high blades). The proposed turbine will produce around 4 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) per annum, the energy equivalent to supplying 1,000 homes over an average year.

ODA Director of Infrastructure Simon Wright said:

'Sustainability runs through all we are doing and the use of renewable energy is key part of our plans to provide a whole new backbone of services, fuelling not just six weeks of world class sporting action, but also the lasting regeneration of the area for many years to come.

'As one of the first large scale wind turbines so close to Central London, this contract is chance for companies to deliver a ‘green beacon’ for the Capital and a striking symbol of the sustainability principles behind the Games.'

Detailed planning permission for the turbine was granted in September 2007, and the design and construction of the turbine is expected to start later this year. The turbine is expected to be fully operational by 2010, providing new renewable energy nearly two years before the Games. The turbine will stay on the site after the Games and will be linked into local networks providing power to the emerging legacy development including local amenities and housing over its lifespan of 20 years.

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« Reply #7 on Jul 7, 2008, 7:53pm »

New track railway sidings at Orient Way to the north-west of the Olympic Park have been completed and are now in use, freeing up a key area for construction work on site.

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Trains were previously parked at Thornton’s Field sidings, an area in the heart of the Park between the Aquatics Centre and Olympic Stadium. This track is now being dismantled and removed.

The new twelve-track railway sidings act like a car park for trains not being used outside of rush hours. They cover an area equivalent to three full-size football pitches. The project was completed ahead of schedule and on budget.

Ninety-nine per cent of the demolition materials and waste from the Orient Way project has been recycled, including 4,000 tonnes of crushed concrete, of which 1,000 tonnes was reused on site, and 620 tonnes of tarmac.

During the Games the Thornton’s Field area will be used as a major walkway into the Park leading up to the Stadium.

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New central line platform & upper level ticket hall construction.

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« Reply #9 on Aug 19, 2008, 5:27am »

From TimeOut 2012 special.

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2012 Olympics site map
Andrew Shields. Illustration by Christian Tate
Posted: Tue Aug 12 2008
Will London’s Olympic site be ready in time? Will it stay within its current £9.3 billion budget? Both pertinent questions – but the one we all really want answered is: What will it look like? Andrew Shields explains all

1 Olympic Stadium
Construction began in May on the 80,000-seat main stadium, which will be converted into a 25,000-seat venue after the Games. The design comes from Team Stadium, a consortium that includes the builders of the Emirates Stadium.

2 Basketball Arena
A temporary venue that will hold 12,000 seats for basketball and handball, and 10,000 for wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby.

3 Energy Centre
Instead of having individual systems in each building, the Energy Centre will generate hot water, heating and electricity for buildings throughout the Park, using biomass boilers and a combined cooling, heat and power plant.

4 International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre
A 24-hour media hub for around 20,000 broadcasters, photographers and journalists.

5 Handball Arena
The venue for handball, modern pentathlon and the Paralympic sport of goalball, with a design to be chosen this year. After the Games, the arena will become a multi-sport centre for community use, training and small-scale events.

6 Hockey Centre
A temporary building with two separate pitches seating 15,000 and 5,000. Designs are due to be completed next year. After the Games, the centre will move to Eton Manor and will have 5,000 permanent seats.

7 Eton Manor
Named after the sports centre that formerly stood on this site, it will be the venue for Paralympic archery (with 3,000 seats) and wheelchair tennis (10,500 seats). Part of a new group of community and training facilities after the Games, including five-a-side football.

8 BMX Circuit
Part of the VeloPark, an outdoor venue with 6,000 temporary seats.

9 Velodrome
Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Chris Hoy was among the team that selected the design for the 6,000-seat arena. After the Games, a road cycle circuit and mountain bike course will be added to create a VeloPark for community and elite sport use.

10 Sponsors’ Village
A hub for London 2012’s key partners at the heart of the Olympic Park.

11 Olympic Village
Beds for 17,320 athletes during the Olympic Games and 8,756 during the Paralympics, plus shops, restaurants and an ‘International Zone’ in which to meet friends and family. Afterwards, the village will become part of the overall Stratford City regeneration scheme.

12 Aquatics Centre
A 50m main pool and 25m diving pool with 17,500 seats and a 50m training pool, plus a temporary water polo venue. Designed by Zaha Hadid, the centre will be turned over to both community and elite use after the Games.

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London 2012 unveils brand new type of park .November 2008

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today unveiled plans for the London 2012 Olympic Park that will combine centuries of British park design with ground-breaking green technology to create a new type of park for the 21st Century.

The ODA is transforming former industrial land, much of it contaminated through years of industrial neglect, to create 100 hectares of parklands that will provide a colourful setting and festival atmosphere for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond.

Designed by LDA Design.Hargreaves Associates and inspired by the Victorian and post-war pleasure and festival gardens, visitors to the park during the Games will enjoy broad sweeping lawns and footpaths leading down to riverbanks, ample seating and public spaces throughout the park with live screens showing the sporting action.

In legacy the Olympic Park will be a new green space for people and wildlife and will host the London 2012 legacy sports facilities including the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre, Velopark, multi-sports arena and Eton Manor outdoor sports complex.

The southern part of the Park will focus on retaining the festival atmosphere from the Games, with riverside gardens, markets, events, cafes and bars. The northern area will use the latest green techniques to manage flood and rain water while providing quieter public space and habitats for hundreds of existing and rare species from kingfishers to otters.

The ODA is working with the London Development Agency (LDA) to ensure the parklands fit into the Legacy Masterplan Framework - a spatial plan for the development of the Olympic Park site after the 2012 Games.

The Olympic Park will also feature:

A ‘mini-Kew gardens’: the London 2012 Gardens, stretching for half a mile sitting between the Aquatics Centre and Olympic Stadium, will celebrate centuries of British passion for gardens and plants. They will trace the journey of the UK’s plant collectors around the world through over 250 species of plants, trees, meadows and herbs from four climatic zones: Western Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia Minor; The Temperate Americas; The Southern Hemisphere, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand; Temperate Asia, including Montane China, Japan and the Himalayas.

An ecological park: nearly half of the park is new habitats for wildlife including wetlands, meadows and ponds. There will be over 700 artificial habitats installed including bat and bird boxes, banks for sand martins and otter holts.

A river park: Over three kilometres of restored and previously inaccessible rivers and waterways, creating sloping riverbanks and new wetlands and five ponds so that visitors will connect the northern and southern parts of the park. Most of the waterways will be lined with reedbeds and newly created slopes down to the river in the northern part of the park will have lawns for spectators with large screen displays.

A smart park: cutting-edge green techniques to ‘future-proof’ the park and surrounding built-up areas against climate change and flooding and a 1:100 year storm. Rain water will be captured through paving and cleansed through a network of ditches, ponds and reedbeds and wet woodlands before being released into the river. Planting designed to create a ‘cool island’ on hot days and over 2000 large trees and other plants to protect people from strong sun and winds. Community allotments, growing and composting will support sustainable living.

A regeneration park: new high-quality green space, open and accessible to all, for social, community and leisure uses in legacy. Footpaths, cycleways and avenues of trees linking the park with existing and future communities during and after the Games which will promote healthy lifestyles.

ODA Chief Executive David Higgins said: 'We will be creating a brand new park, the first in London for many years. It will be a park for the 21st century, setting high standards which combine the best of British park heritage with sustainable living. It will be a fantastic backdrop for the Games and the heart of the new community in the area post-2012.

'During the Games the Olympic Park will create a festival atmosphere space for spectators and provide a fantastic green backdrop for the four billion people watching around the world on TV.

'In legacy the Park will provide new green space for people and wildlife. It will also be designed to protect the area from floods, capture and clean rainwater and create vital and rare habitats for hundreds of species.'

Paul Deighton CEO for LOCOG said: 'We are creating a stunning urban park for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games that will come alive as the centrepiece of our plans in just over three and a half year’s time. The range of settings created within the Olympic Park will enable more people to be part of the celebrations and the action in the summer of 2012 and mean we will leave a wonderful legacy for the residents of East London and the rest of the capital.'

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell said: 'London 2012 will create the largest new urban park in Europe for 150 years and we are determined to ensure that it is one of the most spectacular.

'These designs represent the very best in urban landscape and will not only make the Olympic Park a destination in itself - creating a fantastic atmosphere during the Games - but also leave a beautiful landscape for millions to enjoy for generations to come.'

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: As a direct result of hosting the 2012 Games, London gets this fantastic green space in the heart of east London - Europe's first new public park for more than 150 years. Not only will this provide a great facility for athletes and spectators to relax in during the Games, I can see this becoming a highly popular attraction with Londoners and tourists alike on a par with the capital's other world famous parks in the centre of the city.'

LDA Design. Hargreaves Associates Managing Partner Andrew Harland said: 'This park will be a wonderful setting for the celebration of the London 2012 Games with a distinct British quality that also meets the ODA’s objectives for sustainability. Throughout the design process we are considering the future so that the park will work for both the Games and legacy. It will operate on so many levels and it’s very exciting to be part of the team responsible for its design, knowing that we will leave London another excellent green space.'

Tom Russell, Group Director for Olympic Legacy at the LDA, said: 'The parkland is a core part of the physical legacy from the 2012 Games and will connect to the Lea River Park to the north and the south of the Olympic site. Our legacy masterplan will enhance what is left after 2012 to ensure it complements the new homes, workspaces and other developments on the Olympic Park site as well as the existing communities living around it. This will help safeguard a lasting legacy for generations to come.'

George Hargreaves, Founder and Design Director of Hargreaves Associates, said: 'We have created two distinct parks through reclamation for the East End. One in the north is highly ecological with biodiversity and sustainability as major goals. In the south we have sought to create a park that is a contemporary cultural expression of the British love of plants from around the world.

'At the end of the day these parks will be considered a success by not only how they celebrate the games but also how they extend a green Olympic Legacy into the future for existing inhabitants and those who live and visit here in the decades to come.'

Janet Paraskeva, Chair of the Olympic Lottery Distributor, said: 'The National Lottery has breathed new life into many great parks across the UK and this fantastic brand new park will help us deliver on our promise to regenerate east London.

'We are all looking forward to the 2012 Games and we are now beginning to see how investing Lottery money in the Olympic Park will bring benefits for generations to come.'

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The Olympic Park will include [NB 1 hectare= 0.65 football pitch]:
3 km of restored and accessible previously neglected and inaccessible rivers;

Over 2000 large trees on the concourse and in woodland, including willows, poplars, planes, oaks and limes;

At least 250 species of plants will make up the London 2012 Gardens;
5 frog ponds;

Almost 10 hectares of species rich meadows and lawns;

Over six hectares of woodlands, hedgerows and scrub;

2.1 hectares of allotments in legacy;

Two hectares of reed beds;

Over 700 (nesting boxes and holes for birds and 150 (50 by 2012 and a further 100 post-Games) for bats;

New habitats for species including: otter; kingfisher; grey heron; bee; house sparrow; bat; song thrush; starling; toadflax brocade moth; lizard; black redstart; flower and fungus beetle; frogs, newts and toads; eel; water vole; slow worm; grass snake; linnet; sand martin; swift; invertebrates; and
Two hectares of scrub and brownfield type land for wildlife previously living in the Olympic Park;

102 hectares of open land in legacy, 45 hectares of habitats;

130,000 spectators in the park per day at peak, 11,000 in the spectator lawns and hills.

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http://www.hortweek.com/channel/Landscap....nning-approval/

Plans for 2012 Olympic Park given planning approval

The Olympic Delivery Authority Planning Committee has approved plans for the parklands that will host the London 2012 Games.

The largest new urban park to be created in the UK in the past 150 years moved a step closer today after the parklands plan was approved last night (24 February).

Contractors are currently being selected to start creating the 100ha park this spring.

The Olympic Park will include broad sweeping lawns and footpaths leading down to riverbanks, seating and public spaces throughout the park with live screens showing the sporting action.

Olympic Delivery Authority project sponsor for parklands and public realm John Hopkins said: "This gives the green light to a great new park that will be both a fantastic backdrop for the Games and the heart of the regeneration of east London. We have almost finished cleaning the Olympic Park site, much of it contaminated through decades of industrial use, and this spring we will start the process of transforming the area into a new green space for people and wildlife."

The ODA is procuring contractors to start creating the parklands this spring:

Bam Nuttall was appointed last year to manage the delivery of the northern section of parklands and procure packages for the whole of the park, including 2,000 mature and semi-mature trees and plants for the wetlands and river edges, with suppliers due to be appointed for both packages in the coming months.
In the next few months the contractor will begin procuring soft landscaping, hard landscaping and ground works contracts.

A contract to manage the delivery of the south of the park will be issued at the end of this year.
This spring a contractor will be appointed to deliver the regeneration of the Greenway, a 3km walking and cycling route which runs from Victoria Park to West Ham.

A team comprising LDA Design and Hargreaves Associates was selected to design the Olympic Park. The team also includes: Buro Four, LDA Design Ecology, the University of Sheffield, Field GB, TEP, Sarah Price Landscapes, Sutton Vane, Fulcrum Consulting and Centre for Accessible Environments.

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