West Ham United’s first Premier League match at the Olympic Stadium was on Sunday, August 21 against Bournemouth. That match heralds potentially the final leg of Wolverhampton steel fencing manufacturer Zaun‘s work at the stadium.
That has been made possible by the latest reincarnation of the London 2012 Olympic Stadium as a permanent home for the football club and a national competition centre for British Athletics.
Balfour Beatty was appointed to transform the former Olympic Stadium into a year-round multi-use venue to deliver a sporting, cultural and community legacy in east London. The work included installing the largest roof if its kind in the world, a community track, retractable seating, spectator and hospitality facilities and external landscaping.
Zaun was the principal 2012 Olympics fencing company and has returned to the Olympic Stadium on several occasions, first decommissioning after the 2012 Paralympics, then reconfiguring and removing security fencing for last autumn’s Rugby World Cup.
Last month, the London Stadium hosted the Muller Anniversary Games and the likes of Golden Olympian Brits Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt before the Rio Olympics.
Zaun has supplied 5m-high security-rated Duo8 SR1 fencing, with gates and spectator railings for this latest revamp, installed by group company Binns Fencing.
