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Olympic Aquatic Centre - 5/24/2010 Dew Piling Ltd secures four London 2012 Aquatics Centre contracts Companies across the Northwest are benefiting from the construction phase of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, including work being carried out on the Aquatics Centre. Oldham-based piling company Dew Piling won a contract to provide a sheet pile cut-off wall for the venue which, once completed, will house two 50m swimming pools, a diving pool and dry diving area. Dew Piling business development manager Ian Hood said: “We received an invitation to tender from the tier one contractor on the Aquatics Centre, to price for the sheet pile cut-off wall for the perimeter of the site, which stops water entering the site during the excavation works.” The wall is now in place and the Dew Piling team are due back in the spring to remove the piles, once the excavation work is complete. Since winning the contract, Dew Piling – which employs 27 people, 25 of which are based at its Oldham head office – has successfully bid for three other jobs on the Aquatics Centre. The company won contracts to provide three temporary cofferdams, another cofferdam for a river bridge structure, and the installation of steel tubes for the supports to the temporary grandstand. All three projects have now been completed. Hood said: “The four projects are worth a total of £1.6 million. The work hasn’t created any new jobs at Dew Piling, but it has safeguarded the ones of those currently employed at the company.” Dew Piling has now registered on CompeteFor – the dedicated web portal and brokerage service for London 2012 business opportunities – and the company is hoping to secure more construction contracts for the Olympic Park.  “We’ve filled in the opportunities forms and received information about potential work, but are yet to hear whether or not we’ll be invited to tender on these opportunities,” Hood added.

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