Market Sector: Leisure
Client: ODA
Location: Stratford
Country: England
Project Partners: Carillion
Architect: Carillion
Engineer: RPS
Project Key Stats: Total
Tonnage: 5,500 tonnes
Site Programme: 12 weeks
Completion Date: October 2009
Project Overview:
The International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Main
Press Centre (MPC) for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic
Games creates just under 8,400 square metres of business space to
support around 20,000 broadcasters, photographers and
journalists communicating the Games to an audience of four billion
people worldwide. The steel frame is 275m long, 104m wide, 21m
tall and big enough to house five jumbo jets.
5,500 tonnes of steel with trusses up to 24m long are
utilised in the construction, of which 810 tonnes are
Fabsec beam and 3,100 tonnes coated in a intumescent 60 minute
fire protection paint. Within the steel
package Severfield-Reeve also integrated the supply and fixing
of metal decking, edge protection and stairs.
