One of the largest wrecking machines in Europe started demolishing the tallest building on the Olympic Park site today as the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced it is nearly half way through its massive demolition programme, with over 100 buildings already cleared.
The first edition of the Transport Plan for the 2012 Games was published by the Olympic Delivery Authority today, marking a year of progress towards the goal of delivering a legacy of transformed transport links for London and beyond.
The Olympic Delivery Authority today announced that Heneghan Peng Architects, with Adams Kara Taylor Engineers, has won the competition to design one of the key footbridges in the centre of the Olympic Park.
A 10cm gauge dial face painted with radium-based luminous paint has been found in the north of the Olympic Park site alongside other very low-level readings in small isolated areas.
The green clean-up of the Olympic Park has been boosted a new 35-tonne recycling machine that is sifting and sorting 70,000 cubic metres of rubbish from a 100-year-old tip under the VeloPark and Olympic Village sites.
The Olympic Delivery Authority today announced that, due to the risks of contamination issues at the planned Spitalbrook site in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, an alternative site nearby, also in Broxbourne, is now being considered as the potential replacement venue for the Canoe Slalom events.
Progress on the site of the Olympic Stadium accelerated this week with nearly half the buildings demolished, temporary bridges being installed and work starting to create the correct ground levels by removing thousands of tonnes of soil.
Planning permission for the Olympic Park has been granted, giving the Olympic Delivery Authority the green light for the construction of venues for the London 2012 Games and the creation of a significant new urban park.
