Construction Work Under Way on Olympic Park Venues

Building work started over a month early on the foundations of the huge International Broadcast Centre for the London 2012 Games with construction now underway on the ‘big five’ Olympic Park venues.
The Olympic Park ‘big build: foundations’ is on track with the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre and Olympic Village already taking shape and the foundations of the Velodrome well underway.

Work has started sinking 2,100 concrete piles up to 24m into the ground to form the foundations of the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Main Press Centre (MPC) for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games which will create just under 900,000 sq ft of business space in legacy with the potential to generate thousands of new jobs.

The IBC/MPC will support around 20,000 broadcasters, photographers and journalists communicating the Games to an audience of four billion people worldwide.

ODA Chief Executive David Higgins said: "The ‘big build’ is right on track as we make steady progress on the venues and infrastructure needed both for the London 2012 Games and the regeneration of this part of east London."