Two more blocks structurally complete on Olympic Village

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Two more blocks structurally complete on Olympic Village

03 Feb 2010

Progress continues on the build of the Olympic Village with three of the 11 residential plots now structurally complete.

Olympic Village blocks structurally complete

Two more blocks of the Olympic Village are structurally complete

The Village will accommodate athletes and officials during the London 2012 Games, and will provide 2,800 new homes for east London after 2012. Construction work began on site in summer 2008 with the first residential plot completed in October 2009. Two further residential plots, comprising nearly 600 new homes, are also now structurally complete.

Work will now begin on the external cladding of the structurally completed buildings, with work inside the buildings due to start later in 2010. Construction work is also well underway on the remaining eight residential plots with more than 2,800 people now working on the Village site.

Olympic Delivery Authority Chief Executive David Higgins said: ‘The sheer scale of the Olympic Village development means this will become one of the busiest parts of our construction programme in 2010 and the completion of a further two residential plots keeps us firmly on track.’

The 11 residential plots in the Olympic Village are each made up of six to eight buildings, each built in a rectangular layout around a traditional courtyard area.

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