IBC steel frame complete

John Nicholson, ODA Project Sponsor: Welcome to the IBC/MPC site, that stands for the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre. I'm John the Project Manager responsible for delivering these facilities for the London 2012 Games.

Effectively this is going to be the home of 20,000 journalists, who will be here to cover the Olympic Games for the various broadcasting services around the world.

As you can imagine on a building of this scale, it takes an awful lot of steel to put this structural frame together. We've got four and a half thousand tonnes of steel, which has come through from the north east of England, Yorkshire and Teeside, has been delivered to site and assembled in a fantastic time. Only approximately nine weeks it has taken from the start of the structural frame to the finish.

So the roof covering is now progressing and the structural floors are going in place, and that will continue through the full 260 metre length of the building over the next few months.

As you can see behind me the building has two floors where we've built in significant amount of extra space to allow the broadcasters themselves to fit in their own equipment. Huge lighting gantries that are required to broadcast the pictures of the London 2012 Games, so people like the BBC, NBC and all of the various world news agencies will be broadcasting television pictures to around four billion people around the world.