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Paul, ODA Filming Assistant
Aquatics Centre foundations
Paul, ODA Filming Assistant
With plenty of activity taking place on the Aquatics Centre we can begin to see real progress being made on the site. Cast your mind back to spring 2007 and you might recall that the 55,000 square metre Aquatics Centre site housed 11 industrial buildings.

In this recent picture you can see one of over 100 concrete piles being drilled up to 25 metres into the ground:



With industrial pollutants having been removed from around 130,000 tonnes of soil on the site, the foundations are now well underway.

Work taking place on the Aquatics Centre site

And this is what it’s all about. This artist's impression illustrates the 160m-long wave-like roof of the Aquatics Centre, showing what this part of the Olympic Park will look like when it's finished:

Aquatics Centre

Concrete piles on the Aquatics Centre site


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