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Anurag Gautam

Anurag Gautam

London, GB

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OLYMPIC STADIUM TRANSFORMATION - Rugby World Cup/West Ham Football - London April 2013 - August 2015

- Stage D+ > Post-Planning > Pre-Construction 

- New External Cladding Enclosure design and co-ordination for Public Realm retail units and the New Entrance to the West Stand Hospitality Building Extension, 

- Designing the External Wall System design for new West Stand Accommodation Building using a Modular system while incorporating the manufacturers details. 

- New Ticket Office Building Design and co-ordination with remaining new external cladding for the Existing Stadium, 

- Games Announcement Booth facing the Community Track Re-Planning and detail design development. 

- Planning Submission for Stage D+ with new External Facade development and new Halo and Service Pods Option surrounding the Stadium Perimeter, 

- Large Scale Elevations Development from the 4 sides of the Stadium, which utilised 3D Schematic Models in Microstation, 

- Stage E development of the retractable Tier design, including SPS Detailing of the Seating Tiers and Wheelchair Platform Design development at the top of the tiers facing the pitch, 

- New Stadium Roof Design Development following a value engineered solution to cut down Construction cost induced by geometric and constructional complexity, 

- Photo Finish Booth design development including construction solution to incorporate the diamond profile Main Roof Structural Ge-ometry, 

- Main Roof Polycarbonate Cladding development, including construction detail development for connection joints within the roof and to the main stadium compression truss. 

- Liasing with Structural Engineers to assess the Main roof construction details and sequence of erection and assembly on site, 

- Developing physical scale model for the Main roof details for client and consultant meetings, 

- Developing the 3D model for co-ordination of the Roof Prototype prior to construction of Main Roof on Site, 

- West Stand Hospitality building IFC Development to include interior fit-out packages along with external facade design from stage D+ to construction on site, 

- 1.5 years spent on-site for development of the construction packages while liasing with the design team of 20 + External design consultant co-ordination, 

- Liasing in the design team meetings to assess the program development and how the packages require to be delivered to prevent any delays in the construction program, 

- Initiating Design Change Requests to allow optimised schemes to be executed during the construction works, which required complete co-ordination between the internal and external design teams while maintaining the delivery of all related construction packages on time according to the Construction Program, 

- Construction Package development includes : 

- Drylining: 4 levels of the stadium, including public realm to hospitality, which includes an entire new storey on level 4, 

- External Facade: Glazing and Aluminium Louvre and Panels development for the Main entrance to the West Stand Hospitality Building, - Internal glazing: Developing Glazing scheme for the internal spaces to separate the hospitality Spaces from the circulation Spaces, 

- Incorporating the new glazing onto the existing internal parapet, and further developing the parapet details to modernise the entire composition, hence enhancing the existing condition from the original stadium,

- External Soffit: Aluminium Soffit development outside the Podium Concourse level and at high level above the new Extension storey oin level 4. Co-ordination with lighting designers and M & E Engineers to incorporate the service elements to facilitate the Fire Protection Strategy, 

- Internal Ceilings: Developing new internal Ceilings while removing many ceilings as a result of new layouts and associated construction elements including drylining and lighting designs, 

- Room Data Sheets: Development for the entire stadium while maintaining the existing features to allow the finalised finished to be applied and verified on site prior to opening of the games, 

- Finishes Schedule: Finished schedule development includes Floor, Walls, Ceilings, Sanitaryware, Special Fittings/Fixings. 

- Record Set Documentations for Contract Closeout and final verification of design delivery,

 
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Status: Built
Location: Lonodn
My Role: Architectural Designer
Additional Credits: Populous