Aquatics roof halfway transcript

Hi! I'm John from the ODA here at the Aquatics Centre, where you can see that progress is going really well just now.

We're approximately half way through the construction of the roof structure and as you can imagine with something as complex as this we have bought in a specialist company to help deliver this vital section of the project. At this point I'll hand over to Craig who will explain this in a bit more detail.

My name's Craig Leonard, I work for Rowecord Engineering on the Aquatics Centre. The team we've bought from Wales are myself; leading as Project Manager on site, I've got my Site Manager, we have a few supervisors on site and a number of erectors and painters which we've bought with us which form our team.

We're based in Newport in Wales. At the moment due to the size of these trusses, they're coming down with our site trailers. They are being sub-assembled at the north area of the site, and then they're lifted with the three cranes.

Constantly we're monitoring the structure due to the thermal movement, especially hot days like today it expands and then cools during the night. Yeah I think everyone's delighted in the progress that we have made on site. It's a hard fabrication of getting everything right, making sure that we've got good fit up on site that doesn't leave us with a problem when erecting these trusses and infilled steel work.

We leave the family life back in Newport to come and work away Monday to Friday and sometimes on the weekends. There is a degree of homesickness. I've got a couple of young ones myself and I do miss them but we've got to work and I'm just excited to be here.