Hotel, Sport & Leisure Tue, Mar 22, 2016 5:02 PM
A Welsh-based specialist building systems company are celebrating a job well done as competitors start to move out of the Athletes’ Village at the London 2012 Olympic Park.
MIB Framespace Structures supplied 1,800m2 of their MetSIP infill panel for use across 12 floors between a concrete structure.
The panels were manufactured off-site at MIB's own 28,000sq.ft factory at Blaina.
Colin McKenzie, founder and chairman of the MIB Group, said: “Working closely with our client EJ Horrocks, we were able to meet the environmental standards required and strict delivery timetable thanks to the control that having your own in-house design and manufacturing set-up brings.”
The Olympic Village has residential apartments for around 17,000 athletes and officials during the Games, along with shops, restaurants, medical, media and leisure facilities, and large areas of open space.
There are 11 residential plots, each made up of five to seven blocks built around communal squares and courtyards, with water features accentuating the closeness of the River Lea.
After the Games, the Olympic Village will be a lasting legacy of essential new housing for east London. It will be transformed into 2,818 new homes, including 1,379 affordable homes and houses for sale and rent, and will create a new residential quarter to be known as East Village.
The communities that develop in the area after the Games will be supported by new parklands, open space, new transport links and community facilities. These will include Chobham Academy – a world-class new education campus with 1,800 places for students aged 3–19 – and a new health centre, which will provide medical facilities to existing local communities and the residents of the Village after 2012.
The accommodation will range from one bedroom apartments up to four- and five-bedroom townhouses. Temporary partitions needed during the Games will be removed to form the final living spaces and bedrooms. Kitchens will be installed, along with new carpets or timber floors.
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