Olympic Delivery Authority The Big Build: Completion Milestones to 27 July 2011 pdf

Olympic Delivery Authority The Big Build: Completion Milestones to 27 July 2011 July 2010 DWT2XV2dX[S* 3^\_[TcX^] In April 2007 the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) set out 10 major milestones that it planned to achieve by the Closing Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Games. These milestones will provide the foundations for the delivery of the venues and infrastructure of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the legacy beyond. The delivery of these milestones on time and within budget will be underpinned by five priority themes: design and accessibility, equality and inclusion, health and safety, legacy and sustainability. At the end of 2007 the ODA is on track to hit its milestones. This publication sets out these 10 milestones and the progress made by the end of 2007. Over the past three years the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has set out in advance the milestones it has planned to achieve for different phases of the project. The first 10 milestones – known as ‘Demolish, Dig, Design’ – focused on preparing the site for the main construction of the venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the legacy beyond 2012. The second 10 were the first phase of construction – ‘The Big Build: Foundations’. They focused on putting in place the foundations of the main venues and infrastructure in the Olympic Park. These were followed by the next phase – ‘The Big Build: Structures’. All these milestones have now been delivered. The project remains on track and within budget. This document sets out 10 new milestones that the ODA plans to achieve by 27 July 2011 – a date one year from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The construction of the venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 Games is funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency. On the cover: a view from inside the Olympic Stadium The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 3 3^]cT]cb Foreword Page 5 Aerial view of the Olympic Park, June 2010 Page 6 Part one: Previous milestones Page 8 Milestones to the Beijing 2008 Games – Demolish, Dig, Design Milestones to 27 July 2009 – The Big Build: Foundations Milestones to 27 July 2010 – The Big Build: Structures Part two: Milestones to 27 July 2011 Page 11 Milestone 01: Construction of the Olympic Stadium will be complete and the venue ready to be handed over. Page 12 Milestone 02: Construction of the Aquatics Centre will be complete and the venue ready to be handed over. Page 14 Milestone 03: Construction of the Velodrome will be complete and the venue ready to be handed over. Page 16 Milestone 04: Construction of the International Broadcast Centre/ Main Press Centre (IBC/MPC) will be complete and ready for occupation by the Olympic Broadcasting Service and the London 2012 Organising Committee. Page 18 Milestone 05: Construction of the Handball and Basketball Arenas will be complete and the venues ready to be handed over. Page 20 Milestone 06: Construction of the Lee Valley White Water Centre will be complete and the venue handed over to Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. Page 22 Milestone 07: Construction work on Eton Manor and Royal Artillery Barracks will be underway and on track to be completed as planned in spring 2012. Page 24 Milestone 08: The external structure of the Olympic Village will be finished with the internal fit out complete in most of the blocks. Page 26 Milestone 09: Construction of all permanent bridges will be complete. All utilities will be operational. Landscaping will be well advanced across the Park. Page 28 Milestone 10: Construction work at Stratford Regional Station will be complete, with Londoners already benefiting from hundreds of millions of pounds of additional investment across London’s transport system. Page 32 Priority themes Page 36 Design and accessibility; Employment and skills; Equality and inclusion; Health, safety and security; Legacy; Sustainability Workers finish cladding the northern face of the Energy Centre The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 5 6^aTf^aS John Armitt Chairman Olympic Delivery Authority David Higgins Chief Executive Olympic Delivery Authority 27 July 2010 marks two years to go to the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Over the past 12 months, the Olympic Park has changed dramatically. With the structures of the main sporting venues complete, you can now get a real feel for the layout of the Park and the compact nature of the site. We would like to pay tribute to our world-class contractors and workforce who have, once again, helped us to hit all our milestones. There have been many challenges over the past year – not least the very difficult winter – but they have risen to them all. We are now entering our final year of the ‘big build’ – the construction of the main venues and infrastructure on the Park – and we are setting ourselves 10 challenging completion milestones for the coming year. As an organisation, the Olympic Delivery Authority said in 2006 that it would complete the main construction work by summer 2011, so the major venues are ready to be handed over. We are on track to do this, but we are not complacent: this remains the most challenging phase of the project. Health and safety must remain our highest priority. We are doing all this in what is obviously a difficult economic environment. Our programme is helping to create thousands of jobs up and down the country, as well as filling order books for UK plc. As the Games get closer, the eyes of the world will increasingly turn to London. As the venues are completed, people will see for themselves the exciting stage for the Games in 2012 and the lasting legacy for London and the UK that will be left as a result. After the ‘big build’ Although the main venues and infrastructure are on track to be completed a year before the London 2012 Games, there will still be some limited work on the Olympic Park in the final year, as was always planned. For example, the Olympic Village has always had a later completion date in autumn 2011. With the main construction finished across the site, we will be able to open up and begin work on the fringes of the Park. For example, the site of the warm-up track in the south of the Park is currently the location of a logistics hub and concrete batching plant. Eton Manor in the north of the Park will be completed in spring 2012. In the final year, works will also be underway on some of the temporary facilities, including the Water Polo Arena, located next to the Aquatics Centre, the catering facilities in the International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre, and the Shooting venue in Woolwich Arsenal. An artist’s impression of the inside of the Water Polo Arena during the Games 6 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority ?[h\_XR@PaZeT]dTb 01 02 03 04 05 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 7 Key to venues An aerial view of the Olympic Park looking from south to north, June 2010. 01 Olympic Stadium 02 Energy Centre and Primary Substation 03 Handball Arena 04 International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre 05 Velodrome 06 Basketball Arena 07 Olympic Village 08 Stratford City shopping centre 09 Aquatics Centre 06 07 08 09 8 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority @aTeX^db\X[Tbc^]Tb Milestones to the Beijing 2008 Games demolish, dig, design Read more about the 10 milestones to the Beijing 2008 Games in ‘demolish, dig, design’. This can be downloaded from the London 2012 website at: www.london2012.com/milestones Milestone 01 The majority of the Olympic Park will be cleared and cleaned. Milestone 02 With the tunnels and cabling complete, the power for the Olympic Park will be set to switch underground. Milestone 03 The main temporary roads and bridges will have been built, giving access to a safe and secure construction site for the ‘big build’. Milestone 04 The installation of new water and energy systems that will serve the Olympic Park during and after the London 2012 Games will have started. Milestone 05 The regeneration of the waterways will have started, improving the environment and access for the ‘big build’. Milestone 06 The transport enhancements that will open up east London and support the London 2012 Games will have started, with many complete. Milestone 07 Construction will have started on the bridge that will take people over the Aquatics Centre to the Olympic Stadium. Building work on the Stadium will be about to begin. Milestone 08 Construction on the Olympic Village will have started. Milestone 09 Contracts will have been let and designs agreed for the ‘big four’ venues in the Olympic Park – and at venues outside London work on site will have started. Milestone 10 The development of the Legacy Masterplan Framework (LMF) for the Olympic Park will be well advanced. The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 9 Milestones to 27 July 2009 the big build: foundations Read more about the 10 milestones to 27 July 2009 in ‘the big build: foundations’. This can be downloaded from the London 2012 website at: www.london2012.com/milestones Milestone 01 Almost all of the Olympic Park will have been cleared and cleaned. The overhead pylons will have been removed and the erection of the new perimeter security fence will be underway. Milestone 02 Seven bridges will be structurally complete, 10 further bridges and underpasses will be under construction and the building of the permanent roads will have started. The refurbishment of the waterways in the Olympic Park will be complete. Milestone 03 The new Primary Substation at Kings Yard will be substantially complete, with the new equipment also in place to transmit permanent power to the Olympic Park from the wider national network. The construction of the new Energy Centre will be well underway. Milestone 04 The foundations of the Olympic Stadium will be complete. Work on the upper seating structure and roof will be underway. Milestone 05 The foundations of the Aquatics Centre will have been completed with work on the building’s structure well underway. Milestone 06 Work will have started on the foundations of the Velodrome and International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre. Milestone 07 Contracts will have been let, designs agreed and work will be about to start on the Handball Arena. The design of the Basketball Arena will have been agreed, and the process of appointing construction contractors will be underway. Milestone 08 Building work will be underway on the majority of the Olympic Village plots. Milestone 09 Significant progress will have been made on the transport projects that are increasing capacity to support the Games. Of the 25 underway, 13 will be nearing completion. Milestone 10 Outside of London the ODA works at Weymouth and Portland will have been completed and ready for use. Construction work will have also started on the Lee Valley White Water Centre. 10 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority Milestones to 27 July 2010 the big build: structures Read more about the 10 milestones to 27 July 2010 in ‘the big build: structures’. This can be downloaded from the London 2012 website at: www.london2012.com/milestones Milestone 01 The structure of the Olympic Stadium including the roof will be complete. The first seats will be fitted and work on the field of play about to start. Milestone 02 The Aquatics Centre’s permanent structure and roof will be complete and all three swimming pools will be dug out. Milestone 03 The Velodrome structure and roof will be complete, with work about to start on installing the timber track. Milestone 04 The structure of the International Broadcast Centre and multi-storey car park will be finished, with roof and wall cladding well underway. The Main Press Centre’s structure will be nearing completion. Milestone 05 The Handball Arena and Basketball Arena structures will be in place with internal works underway. Building work will have begun on the new Eton Manor sporting facilities. Milestone 06 The majority of the Olympic Village homes will be structurally finished and internal works will have started. All the major infrastructure needed to support the development will be complete. Milestone 07 All works will be complete at the Eton Dorney Rowing venue. The new lake and competition courses at Lee Valley White Water Centre will be finished with the facilities building almost complete. A planning application will have been submitted for the Shooting facilities at the Royal Artillery Barracks. Milestone 08 More than half of the new bridges and underpasses will be complete and parts of the Olympic Park Loop Road in operation. Planting will have begun across the Park. Milestone 09 The Energy Centre, Primary Substation, main sewer and deep sewer pumping station will all be operational. The Energy Centre will now be operational in autumn 2010, and will be commissioned in line with requirements for heating across the Olympic Park. Milestone 10 All major transport improvements will be in progress or complete, and the next level of detailed planning for transport operations during the Games will have been completed. [...].. .The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 11 Milestone 01 By 27 July 2011: Construction of the Olympic Stadium will be complete and the venue ready to be handed over On the evening of 27 July 2012, the Olympic Stadium will be a burst of sound, light and energy, when the Opening Ceremony marks the start of the London 2012 Games Throughout the Games, the Stadium will be at the heart of the. .. landscaped area after the Games new tennis courts for use by the local community at Eton Manor after the Games An aerial view (from east to west, with the A12 running down the left) showing Eton Manor at the start of construction The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 25 Milestone 08 By 27 July 2011: The external structure of the Olympic Village will be finished with the internal fit out... Delivery Authority accuracy to which the running track will be laid size of the two Panasonic TV screens inside the Olympic Stadium The Olympic Stadium’s first seats were installed in June 2010 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 13 Milestone 02 By 27 July 2011: Construction of the Aquatics Centre will be complete and the venue ready to be handed over Swimmers Rebecca Adlington and... spring 2011 An aerial view of construction on Chobham Academy (bottom right), the new educational facilities being built within the Olympic Village 26 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority blocks across the 11 residential plots affordable homes in the Olympic Village after the Games, to be managed by Triathlon Homes An aerial view of the construction on the Olympic Village The Big Build:. .. development of the area different species in the London 2012 Garden wetland plants in the Olympic Park The first trees have been planted in the wet woodlands in the north of the Olympic Park – view looking south to the Aquatics Centre The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 29 Milestone 09 continued A new Energy Centre in the west of the Park is ready to be operational in autumn 2010 and will... Building of the Year’ in May 2010 30 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority reduction in the use of potable water that the Olympic Delivery Authority is aiming to achieve on the Olympic Park The new Pumping Station (pictured) and sewer network within the Olympic Park is operational It will collect, convey and remove waste-water from the main venues and buildings within the Park during... in the Aquatics Centre The three Aquatics Centre pools were lined and filled with water to test them, before tiling begins in summer 2010 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 15 Milestone 03 By 27 July 2011: Construction of the Velodrome will be complete and the venue ready to be handed over Following the success of Britain’s cyclists at the Beijing 2008 Games, there will be high expectations... construction contractor will be appointed by the end of 2010 to start on site early in 2011 An artist’s impression of the new facilities at Eton Manor, where the Wheelchair Tennis will take place during the London 2012 Paralympic Games 24 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority war memorials at Eton Manor that will be stored off site during construction, then returned to the newly landscaped... Water Centre, showing the facilities building (centre) and, in blue, the starting points of the intermediate and Olympic courses The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 23 Milestone 07 By 27 July 2011: Construction work on Eton Manor and Royal Artillery Barracks will be underway and on track to be completed as planned in spring 2012 Eton Manor Work began in June 2010 on the final permanent... Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 27 Milestone 09 By 27 July 2011: Construction of all permanent bridges will be complete All utilities will be operational Landscaping will be well advanced across the Park New green spaces The new parklands in the Olympic Park will be a venue in themselves for tens of thousands of spectators at the London 2012 Games Visitors will be able to soak up the atmosphere . Milestones to 27 July 2009 – The Big Build: Foundations Milestones to 27 July 2010 – The Big Build: Structures Part two: Milestones to 27 July 2011 Page 11 Milestone 01: Construction of the Olympic. advanced. The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority 9 Milestones to 27 July 2009 the big build: foundations Read more about the 10 milestones to 27 July 2009 in the big build: foundations’ Centre. 10 The Big Build: Completion – Olympic Delivery Authority Milestones to 27 July 2010 the big build: structures Read more about the 10 milestones to 27 July 2010 in the big build: structures’.