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Games metres

by Mark Rowe

Organisers of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in summer 2014 handed almost £4m of contracts to the perimeter fence company Zaun to design, make, install and decommission a range of temporary fencing across the Games sites, including Tier One venues.

The Games procurers ordered several thousand metres of two of Zaun’s main temporary fencing products, hundreds of vehicle and pedestrian gates to suit each system and bespoke above ground and system-mounted CCTV columns incorporated into the fencing lines (pictured: Hampden Stadium).

Zaun’s first involvement came in 2008, shortly after Glasgow was named as the winning city. After many months of informal discussions with the games’ interested partners, Chris Plimley, Zaun’s High Security Systems Sales Manager, worked with the bid teams of the potential delivery partners who answered the ITT (invitation to tender). Selex ES, the Finmeccanica subsidiary, was awarded the contract in 2013 as the Protective Perimeter Security provider for the Glasgow 2014 Games and shortly thereafter appointed Zaun.

Selex ES provided physical security measures to secure over 20 Games venues at Glasgow, including the ‘Village’ for athletes. Zaun supplied several thousand metres of its MultiFence and RDS systems at heights of 3m and 2.4m, with sections fitted with Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) additions. Zaun says that it developed its PAS 68 MultiFence especially to resist hostile vehicle and mob attacks for the London 2012 Olympics. MultiFence has been granted a patent by the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Plimley said: “MultiFence was chosen because of the very cramped footprint around most Games venues and the ultra tight timescales for installation and post-Games removal. Also, we have gathered vast amounts of experience in delivering time critical projects, and MultiFence can be upgraded with a temporary HVM measure without the need for foundations.”

Zaun delivered almost 5km of HVM fencing to secure temporary 2012 Olympics venues including the beach volleyball at Horse Guards Parade, Wembley Stadium and Arena, Greenwich Park, the O2 Arena, the Royal Artillery Barracks, St James’s Park Newcastle, Coventry’s Ricoh Arena and the Weymouth sailing village. Zaun also worked with Olympic Park contractor Skanska and stadium contractor BAM Nuttall to secure the 20km boundary of the main Olympic Park, with a further 1.5km of Zaun fencing providing a ‘ring-within-a-ring’ around the Olympic Stadium. Zaun has supplied The English Football Association’s training centre at St George’s Park, Meydan Racecourse in Dubai and the 2013 G8 Summit in Northern Ireland. And Zaun installed 13km of fencing for the two-day NATO Conference at Newport’s Celtic Manor and key sites in Cardiff in September 2014.

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