London Stadium Seating relocation revealed
The video shows seven rows of seats removed from the East stand before the West stand is pushed back section by section on air skates. The north and south lower stands are lifted and moved in modules by
The north and south lower stands are lifted and moved in modules by crane with the video proudly claiming 500 unique crane lift movements are required for the operation.
Possibly the most shocking fact of the whole video is the boast that it takes 32,000 man hours to achieve the full move.
On 1st February 2017 Stadium owners E20 signed a five-year contract with PHD Modular Access Services Ltd of which Project 7 construction is part of their group. Seating transition costs were previously said to £8m per year for football to music concert mode, music concert mode to athletics mode then Athletics mode to football mode.
Costs of the new contract have not been revealed but the quoted 32,000 hours at London Living Wage of £9.75 per hour would cost £312,000 per move so manpower would cost close to a million without the cost crane hire and associated costs factored in.
