London 2012 Ceremonies team appointed
17/6/ 2010
World leading British directors and producers appointed to
World leading British names, including Oscar-winning Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry, will direct and produce the London 2012 Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
Four award-winning, experienced creatives will form a team of Executive Producers to oversee the Ceremonies.
• Stephen Daldry, Oscar winning film and theatre director
• Mark Fisher, concert, theatre and Beijing 2008 Games designer
• Hamish Hamilton, Grammy and BAFTA award nominated TV director
• Catherine Ugwu, Producer for the 15th Asian Games in Doha in 2006, the XVII Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002
• Danny Boyle, Oscar winning British filmmaker and producer, will be the Artistic Director for the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
The London 2012 Ceremonies Production Centre will be based at 3 Mills Studio in East London
London 2012 Main Press Centre on track
16/6/ 2010
The Main Press Centre (MPC) is on its way to be finished in summer 2011 as the structure is complete and windows in place on three sides.
The International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre will be a 24-hour media hub for around 20,000 broadcasters, photographers and journalists - bringing the Games to an estimated four billion people worldwide.
A catering village will serve around 50,000 meals every 24 hours and a 200m high street will have a hairdressing salon, post office, general store and bank.
London 2012 to be the most sustainable Games
10/6/ 2010
Nearly two million tonnes of contaminated soil have been cleaned to be reused on the Olympic Park in the UK’s largest ever soil-washing operation. Five soil-washing machines have cleaned most of the one million cubic metres of soil that was contaminated with oil, petrol, tar, cyanide, arsenic and lead. More than 80 per cent of this soil has been cleaned so it can be reused on the Olympic Park and 98 per cent of demolition materials on site has been recycled.
Watch a video about the soil washing operation
Olympic Park wind turbine not to be installed
3/6/2010
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has announced that following an extensive process of research and industry engagement, the decision has been taken not to deliver a wind turbine on the Olympic Park site.
A wind turbine had been proposed for Eton Manor in the north of the site as part of the ODA’s target to deliver 20% of the Olympic Park’s legacy energy requirements from renewable sources from 2014 onwards when the site is fully operational.
Amongs other issues mainly the new safety legislation changed the feasibility of the turbine and resulted in limited commercial interest in the project and led to the ODA’s decision that it is no longer feasible for the turbine to move ahead.
A significant proportion of the ODA’s 20% renewable energy target will be met by the state-of-the-art new Energy Centre being built on the Olympic Park site. Identification of additional options is currently done for renewable energy infrastructure across the Olympic Park to help meet the shortfall in the 20% target. The possible options include Photo Volatic (PV) panels and Biomass Gasification unit
UK and London at Shanghai Expo
2/6/2010
Sebastian Coe, Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), visited Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China to celebrate the promotion of UK and London at the world’s biggest Expo event. The UK Pavilion, run by public diplomacy partners the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UKTI, VisitBritain and the British Council, incorporates a London 2012 legacy area in its futuristic display – including a large ‘green map’ of the 2.5-square-kilometre Olympic Park in East London