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London 2012 Main Press Centre takes shape on Olympic Park
Published: 30-Nov-2009
The London 2012 Main Press Centre (MPC), designed as a sustainable business space in legacy, is taking shape alongside the huge International Broadcast Centre (IBC).
The IBC/MPC will have facilities for around 20,000 broadcasters, photographers and journalists during the games. After 2012, the facilities will create a sustainable business space with the potential to generate thousands of new jobs.
The venue is being built by a team of companies from across the UK. Wolverhampton-based Carillion is building the IBC/MPC. The concrete foundations were built by a company from 2012 Host Borough Greenwich. The 4,500 tons of steel required for the huge IBC frame was fabricated in North Yorkshire and produced in Scunthorpe and Teesside.
Around 15,000 square meter of wall and 26,000 square meter of roof covering for the IBC were installed by a north-east based firm using cladding manufactured in Wales. A Teddington company is currently pouring over 30,000 tons of concrete to create the frame of the MPC and lifting 30,000 square meter of concrete slabs and 300 concrete columns to create the multi-storey car park.
Tessa Jowell, Minister for the Olympics, said, These state-of-the-art media facilities will ensure the games reach an audience of four billion people worldwide and, as the largest venue on the Olympic Park, they will provide a significant legacy to the growing digital sector.
Andrew Altman, chief executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, says, “The media center will become a major employment site after the games. The buildings have been designed with flexibility in mind and can meet the needs of tenants by being split into different configurations depending on the requirements of market demand.”
The IBC/MPC combines an innovative mixture of permanent and temporary elements during the Games and has been designed to be as flexible as possible to accommodate a range of potential legacy tenants and uses.
The MPC includes: 29,000 square meter of green office space by the River Lea Navigation, providing four stories of workspace for journalists and photographers during the games; innovatively designed flexibility that enables the building to be adapted in legacy for either a single tenant in the whole building or on each floor, as well as multiple tenants on each floor; a connected single strip of single story buildings facing the canal that can be separated into ‘mews’ accommodation in legacy offering another type of quality business space in legacy.
The facility also includes new utilities, power and digital connectivity during the games and in legacy; and innovations designed to meet demanding green building standards in legacy including a 2,500 square meter ‘brown roof’ of gravel and moss to encourage invertebrates.
The Government Olympic Executive announced in January 2008 that the total public funding for the IBC/MPC will be GBP355 million ($588 million) which will be met from the existing ODA budget.
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