This is the speed at which the "Bird's Nest" is racing against time. The National Stadium "Bird's Nest" must complete all the transformation from the opening ceremony to other functions within 84 hours. The Bird's Nest is responsible for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games and the finals of track and field and men's soccer. According to the schedule, the "Bird's Nest" will dismantle the ground equipment of the opening ceremony, install and debug the closing ceremony equipment, lay the lawn, and complete the cleaning and marking of the track and field runway from the early morning of the 9th to the noon of the opening ceremony 12.
■ It only takes 24 hours to pave the lawn.
After the opening ceremony, a large number of equipment of different sizes must be dismantled within the specified time. At the same time, the equipment needed for the closing ceremony must be installed and debugged in the "pit", and the venue that meets the requirements of IAAF competition must be handed over to the track and field operation team. Such a heavy task usually takes at least two weeks to complete. During the transition period, the whole loading and unloading capacity is as high as 1. 1 10,000 tons, of which more than 4,600 tons of lawns need to be installed, many of which are equipment for the opening and closing ceremonies. This time, the organizing committee only gave a short time of 84 hours, including 24 hours for lawn laying, and 66 hours for the same process in Athens Olympic Games. At 6:5438+02 noon on August 2nd, IAAF officials and BOCOG officials will accept qualified venues.
On the afternoon of August 10, more than ten TV monitors in the opening ceremony headquarters showed the situation of various parts of the "Bird's Nest". Three 200-ton cranes in the stadium are lifting a huge device into the "pit" in the center of the stadium, which is Center Stage's equipment for the closing ceremony. On the east side of the stadium, more than a dozen forklifts are unloading the modular lawn from the truck and sending it to the designated place according to the red flag number marked on the lawn. Two rows of lawns have been paved. On the cleared runway, a dozen workers are cleaning it line by line with a cleaning machine. At the top of the "Bird's Nest", the huge picture scroll fluttering when Li Ning lit the torch has removed the membrane plate that originally blocked the light, revealing dozens of groups of lights, and is being re-debugged.
■ It is a foregone conclusion that the transition will be completed at noon today.
On the morning of August 1 1, all the equipment required for the closing ceremony has been installed and debugged. Half of the lawn has been paved, 1 1 all paved that night; The track and field track has been cleared by half; All large machinery and equipment such as cranes have been evacuated ... all these indicate that the transformation of the "Bird's Nest" is progressing very smoothly. More than 4,000 engineers, technicians, workers' masters and PLA soldiers devoted themselves to this 84-hour nameless battle. Yu Jianping, technical director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, said that according to the current progress, it is a foregone conclusion to complete the transition task in the "Bird's Nest" before noon on 12.
■ Photo courtesy/Xinhua News Agency
News memory
It only takes 18 hours to dismantle the platform warehouse.
At 7: 00 pm on August 9th, when the last car loaded with goods quietly left the Bird's Nest, after 18 hours of fighting, the General Living Group successfully completed the task of dismantling the platform warehouse for the opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games, which won time for presetting closing ceremony equipment, laying lawns and repairing rubber runways.
It is reported that on the afternoon of the 8th 12, foreign guests and spectators attending the opening ceremony left the scene one after another. An advance team of 260 people, consisting of the General Steel Structure Company, the General Housing Construction Company, the Three-room Company and the Six-room Company, immediately passed the security check and entered the site to carry out work. Then, the general housing company organized 1, more than 200 people to rotate in batches. Organizer * * * dispatched demolition personnel 1200 people, including more than 200 armed police soldiers. The building of the warehouse will be completed within 20 days, while the demolition will be completed within 18 hours.