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The London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today released new aerial photographs of the Olympic Park, showing progress made to clear the area for construction three months early.
The site of the Olympic Stadium will this week be handed over to Team Stadium, the Sir Robert McAlpine-led consortium appointed to design and build the flagship venue, to prepare the area for the start of construction at the end of May, three months ahead of schedule.
The images show the progress that has been made to dig the Stadium bowl which will contain the field of play and lower tiers of seating.
ODA Chief Executive David Higgins said progress has been “huge” with hundreds of buildings demolished and thousands of tonnes of contaminated soil cleaned.
Team Stadium will now begin the preparatory works and mobilisation that is needed before construction can begin. This includes creating access roads for construction vehicles, final investigations for the start of piling work and moving the team to the site.
The site offices for the Olympic Stadium workers have been constructed ready for numbers to dramatically increase. At the peak of the construction of the Olympic Stadium, there will be well over 1,000 staff based in the site offices, ranging from engineers and architects to foremen and digger drivers. The first 50 are expected to be moved to the offices next month.
Ground levels have had to be lowered by nine metres to create the sunken area for the track and permanent lower tiers of seating. This means that over 800,000 tonnes of soil – enough to fill the Royal Albert Hall nine times over – has had to be been taken away from the Stadium area over the last three months to be reused elsewhere on the site.
Before construction begins, work will continue to create the podium level and form the Stadium construction platforms. Approximately 6,500 cubic metres of concrete will be recycled from other parts of the site and crushed to form a solid platform to support construction works.
The ODA aims to clear and clean the majority of the 2.5 square kilometres Olympic Park by Beijing 2008, which includes demolishing over 220 buildings and cleaning 1.3 million tonnes of contaminated soil with over 90 per cent of waste materials being reused or recycled.
The site offices for the Olympic Stadium workers have also been constructed ready for numbers to dramatically increase. At the peak of the construction of the Stadium, there will be well over 1,000 staff based in the site offices, ranging from engineers and architects to foremen and digger drivers. The first 50 are expected to be move to the offices this month.
The Olympic Stadium is largely an island site surrounded by waterways and is contaminated from many years of previous industrial use. Monitoring has been carried out on the site during the earthworks programme and this has detected small amount of low level radiological finds. This soil, with mild radioactive properties present due to the past industrial activity over the last 100 years or so, is being managed so that it presents no risk to public or workers.
It has been stockpiled separately on site and will be taken away to be disposed of in the next few weeks. The ODA has been cooperating with the relevant authorities, the Environment Agency and Health and Safety Executive, throughout this process.
Team Stadium Consortium consists of:
Construction Contractor - Sir Robert McAlpine
Architect - HOK Sport
Sports Venue Designer - HOK Sport
Structural Engineer - Buro Happold
Building services engineer - Buro Happold
Landscape architect: HED
Planning Consultant - Savills Hepher Dixon
Projects they have worked on include:
The 60,000 seat Arsenal Stadium (Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, HOK Sport, Buro Happold).
Telstra Stadium, formerly Stadium Australia (HOK Sport) the main Stadium for the Sydney Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2000. The Stadium held 110,000 spectators during the Games and was reconfigured to 80,000 seats after the Games.
ExCeL Exhibition Centre (Sir Robert McAlpine, Buro Happold). A 65,000m 2 exhibition space in London Docklands that will be used as a venue for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
The Eden Project (Sir Robert McAlpine, Buro Happold). Award-winning sustainable and innovative visitor attraction in Cornwall
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