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A water recycling plant at the Millennium Dome

The water recycling treatment plant at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich is the largest of its kind in Europe and a showcase for water treatment processes of the future. It is designed to provide 500 m3/day to flush all the toilets and urinals in the Dome. The water is ‘reclaimed’ from three sources—rain water from the Dome roof, greywater from the handbasins in the Dome and groundwater from a borehole on the site. This paper describes the development from the design stage through to construction of this unusual engineering project, and details the water treatment processes in use in the plant.

Construction of the Millennium Dome on the Greenwich peninsula, London

Though not technically complex, the Millennium Dome in Greenwich was a vast structure to be erected in just 12 months. It required an unprecedented level of collaboration between all those involved in its construction, a process which was encouraged by providing a single large office for the architects, engineers and construction managers.Talking was favoured over writing and the ‘kiss’ principle—‘keep it simple, stupid’—was extensively used to ensure everyone knew what they had to do and when.The end result, an awe-inspiring building of outstanding quality delivered to a tight time-scale and budget, is a testament to the benefits of co-operation in construction.

“n01se: transforming sensation” at the Wellcome Trust's Two 01 Gallery

The self consciously 21st century title of this exhibition puts it into that bracket of corporate sponsored contemporary art occupied by Saatchi's proteges and the contents of London's Millennium Dome. The blurb contained abstruse phrases alluding to the “sounds of colours and the shape of taste.” What's more, it promised to connect art and science. Few exhibitions have managed to meld what is essentially art with the essence of science without …

Engineering design of the Millennium Dome

The initial idea for a national millennium event was the subject of an ideas competition in December 1995. In spring 1996, the government of the day took the decision to stage the millennium exhibition on the tip of the Greenwich peninsula in east London, using the exhibition as a motivator for the redevelopment of the whole peninsula. This paper describes the engineering design of the roof now known as the Millennium Dome, including the site constraints and civil and geotechnical aspects of the design. It also describes the principles behind the servicing of the Dome, and the environmental strategy that was adopted to suit the unique circumstances of the millennium exhibition.

A water recycling plant at the Millennium Dome

A water recycling plant at the Millennium Dome

Engineering design of the Millennium Dome

The initial idea for a national millennium event was the subject of an ideas competition in December 1995. In spring 1996, the government of the day took the decision to stage the millennium exhibition on the tip of the Greenwich peninsula in east London, using the exhibition as a motivator for the redevelopment of the whole peninsula. This paper describes the engineering design of the roof now known as the Millennium Dome, including the site constraints and civil and geotechnical aspects of the design. It also describes the principles behind the servicing of the Dome, and the environmental strategy that was adopted to suit the unique circumstances of the millennium exhibition.

New technology and innovation at Greenwich Millennium Village

Greenwich Millennium Village next to the Millennium Dome in London is a showcase for innovations in sustainable and efficient construction. The £250 million development of nearly 1400 homes and commercial units features its own web site, a combined heat and power plant, modular bathrooms and plant rooms, water saving devices and low embodied energy materials. It is being procured over a five-year programme through sophisticated partnering arrangements and the first residents move in later this year. This paper describes the technical aspects of the innovations introduced on the project.

Construction of the Millennium Dome on the Greenwich peninsula, London

Though not technically complex, the Millennium Dome in Greenwich was a vast structure to be erected in just 12 months. It required an unprecedented level of collaboration between all those involved in its construction, a process which was encouraged by providing a single large office for the architects, engineers and construction managers.Talking was favoured over writing and the ‘kiss’ principle—‘keep it simple, stupid’—was extensively used to ensure everyone knew what they had to do and when.The end result, an awe-inspiring building of outstanding quality delivered to a tight time-scale and budget, is a testament to the benefits of co-operation in construction.

Greenwich peninsula—transport planning for the third millennium

Development of North Sea gas led to a rundown of the massive gasworks which occupied the greater part of the 300 acre Greenwich peninsula in east London. Initial regeneration proposals were constrained by poor transport connections—but then along came the new Jubilee Line extension. Regeneration plans then blossomed based on an integrated transport network of pedestrian and cyclist routes, rail, Underground and bus services, and improved links to the A102(M) cross-river road. It was too good an opportunity for the promoters of the Millennium Dome to miss, which in turn led to accelerated investment in transport infrastructure and provision of the perfect springboard for future regeneration.

Remediation of contaminated land at Greenwich peninsula

The £21·5 million project to clean up the massive former gasworks site on the Greenwich peninsula was one of the most extensive and integrated ground contamination remediation exercises ever carried out in the UK. It included removing a 7 Ml litre tar well at the site of the Millennium Dome, washing 30 000 m3 of soil, treating 66 000 m3 of contaminated groundwater and effluent and recycling 245 000 m3 natural and engineering materials for backfill. This paper describes the various engineering and environmental techniques that were used in both the statutory clean-up operation and the subsequent remediation required for redevelopment

Design and Analysis of the Quantum Cloud, UK

Quantum Cloud is a 30-m-high, 16-m-wide and 10-m-deep elliptical cloud sculpture that stands on four cast iron caissons in the River Thames adjacent to the Millennium Dome in London. It is the latest work of “Angel of the North” sculptor Antony Gormley, and is formed from 1.5-m-long lengths of randomly oriented steel sections which diffuse at the edges and condense into a 20-m-high form of a human body at the center.The use of innovative engineering ideas and custom-made software to model and prove the structural integrity of the sculpture ensured that the design and analysis of a complex structure was completed to the sculptor’s satisfaction in a very tight time scale.

Greenwich peninsula—transport planning for the third millennium

Development of North Sea gas led to a rundown of the massive gasworks which occupied the greater part of the 300 acre Greenwich peninsula in east London. Initial regeneration proposals were constrained by poor transport connections—but then along came the new Jubilee Line extension. Regeneration plans then blossomed based on an integrated transport network of pedestrian and cyclist routes, rail, Underground and bus services, and improved links to the A102(M) cross-river road. It was too good an opportunity for the promoters of the Millennium Dome to miss, which in turn led to accelerated investment in transport infrastructure and provision of the perfect springboard for future regeneration.

NEW TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION AT GREENWICH MILLENNIUM VILLAGE.

Greenwich Millennium Village next to the Millennium Dome in London is a showcase for innovations in sustainable and efficient construction. The £250 million development of nearly 1400 homes and commercial units features its own web site, a combined heat and power plant, modular bathrooms and plant rooms, water saving devices and low embodied energy materials. It is being procured over a five-year programme through sophisticated partnering arrangements and the first residents move in later this year. This paper describes the technical aspects of the innovations introduced on the project.

Water reuse at the UK's Millennium Dome

This article describes a plant, installed at the UK's Millennium Dome, which can supply around 500 m 3 per day of reclaimed water to flush all of the toilets and urinals on the site. Water is reclaimed from grey-water, which is produced by the hand wash-basins, rainwater from the dome's roof, and groundwater from the chalk aquifer which is located below the site.

Down-gazing Dome

Daedalus reckons London's Millennium Dome is the ultimate triumph of style over content. But with some modification, it could be put to much better use as an aerial for transmitting and receiving radar signals that penetrate the Earth.

``Greenwich, 1 January 2000'': De-inventing the Law of Britain in a Tent

This is an essay on what happened during January 2000 on Greenwich peninsula, London. The Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London, is read here as a site of the nomadic law of the labyrinth. At the Dome, a law of hyper-nomadics is emerging. In the Dome – a nomadic home, a temporary home quickly pitched of/for/by nomads – Britishness, I argue, is being seriously played as perpetual de-invention in a labyrinthine space, somewhere in-between the Law of Lures and the Law of Commands, in-between the Law of the Desert, the Law of the Game and the Law of Orderings. The Dome is being read here as an image/space through which New Britishness forces/forges itself to the fore, as well as an image/space that forces/forges New Britishness to force/forge itself to the fore. In this essay, ``Law'', as well as ``Semiotics'', are being used in a very broad sense. The ``Law of Britain'', i.e. that which keeps ``Britain'' apart/together, or, in other words, ``Britishness'', so I will argue, not only elusively occupies a labyrinthine space in-between said Laws (of Lures, of Commands, as well as those of the Desert, of the Game, and of Orderings), which it articulates while it nevertheless also weakens them, dissolves them. ``It'', the Law of Britain, Britishness, I will argue, also roams nomadically in-between ``spaces of belonging'' and ``spaces of becoming''. In and through the Dome, an interstitial, meridional space, ``it'' surfaced – it shaped surfaces – forming a labyrinth that articulates various nomadics, while not allowing any of these to fully emerge. This is ``its'' newness, this could be read as the Law of ``New Britain'' or ``New Britishness'': an ever-elusive labyrinthine mes(s)(h) of surfaces in-between belonging and becoming. This essay is part of an attempt at ``reading the figural'', to use Rodowick's words here. Rodowick reads Deleuze who reads Foucault – theorist of spatialization – who reads figures, such as Magritte('s). Figures are clusters of ``visibles'' and ``expressibles''. Their light and sound – ``light, sounds and shapes'', says the Millennium Dome leaflet – form imaginary spaces – ``spatial images'' – that allow for specific ``statements'' to be produced and to be read in them; which, in turn, allows for the (re)production of specific ``visibles'' and ``expressibles''. The specificity of the Dome, the spatial image of New Britain, of New Britishness, is that the Law of Britain whirls in there, in labyrinthine windings, on surfaces, somewhere in-between belonging and becoming, roaming elusively in-between statements, allowing and (re)producing myriads of specific statements, though none specifically.

E? I? Adio - what's in a name?

The author describes the Get into project, the aim of which is to motivate 100 teenage girls and then put them through 18 engineering projects in three two hour sessions, on each of two days. The project is split into three sections: engineering, security, and communications. These events can enthuse young people and get them to discover their natural engineering ability, their ingenuity. That's where the title comes in.'E! I! Adio-what's in a name?' Why are we selling engineering! Why aren't we selling them the chance to use their natural ingenuity, to engineer their lives by giving reign to their hidden genius? If 'be ingenious' was what we sold to the young from the start, while they are still hooked on Lego and jigsaws and construction kits, then the university engineering faculties would have all the students they required and our companies would have a far richer choice of graduates with which to take Britain's economy forward into the next generation. The author goes on to discuss the Campaign to Promote Engineering and the role of the Millennium Dome in encouraging the young to open their minds to the possibilities for the future.

Interview: Christopher Frayling talks to Deborah Cameron and Colin MacCabe about the Millennium Dome

<i>Interview</i>: Christopher Frayling talks to Deborah Cameron and Colin MacCabe about the Millennium Dome

Body takes centre stage in UK's Millennium Dome

Some of the main attractions inside the Millennium Dome — the centrepiece of the British government's year 2000 celebrations — were unveiled last week. The Body Zone (pictured) is designed to give visitors an insight into their bodies and the discoveries, technologies and new ideas that will affect health and well-being in the future.