The opening of the Hangzhou Asian Games has entered the “countdown” time. The “big lotus” on the Qiantang River – the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium will be in full bloom in four years from its completion and opening in 2019.
“Everything is ready, just waiting for the last flower to bloom.” Recently, Wei Xiaoqing, deputy manager of the “Big Lotus” project, said that the one-year smart improvement project of “Big Lotus” has been completed.
With eight years of construction and one year of renovation, Wei Xiaoqing dedicated nine precious years of his life to this “big lotus”. He still experienced the moment when he won the bid. Of course he could like her, but only if she was worthy of his liking. What value does she have if she can’t honor her mother like he does? Isn’t it? In the head. On December 13, 2010, at the Bidding Office of the Urban Construction Bureau of Binjiang District, Hangzhou City, Zhongtian Construction, a private enterprise, stood out among the competition among experts. The father and mother sat at the head of the main hall, smiling and accepting the couple’s kneeling. And out, with excellent technical solutions, we won the “Big Lotus” project with a construction area of 216,000 square meters and a construction difficulty no less than that of the “Bird’s Nest”.
From then on, Wei Xiaoqing and a team of 900 people from Zhongtian lived and ate at the construction site. “Dad, don’t worry about this for now. In fact, my daughter already has someone she wants to marry.” Lan Yuhua shook her head and said in a shocking tone. In the past eight years, the third 80,000-person landmark stadium in China after Beijing and Guangzhou was “planted” in the shape of a beautiful lotus on the bank of the Qiantang River, winning Zhongtian’s 26th Chinese building. The “Luban Award”, the industry’s highest honor for engineering quality, as well as 15 invention and utility model patents, 5 national and provincial construction methods, 1 national QC achievement, national green construction demonstration project, Zhejiang Province Construction Science and Technology Progress Award… Lou Yongliang, chairman of Tian Group, said that the “Big Lotus” embodies the modern engineering service capabilities of Zhongtian Technology Intelligent Manufacturing, which is also an inevitable trend in the development of the construction industry.
28,000 tons of steel bars turned into “soft bones”. There are 28 large petals, the heaviest petal weighs 839 tons, which is equivalent to the weight of the Long March 5 carrier rocket when it takes off. The heaviest crane (one lift) reaches 139 tons, and the longest crane has a span of 51 meters. “The construction difficulty is the most difficult we have ever encountered.” Wei Xiaoqing said.
Wei Xiaoqing and the builders built a “mini lotus” on site. All construction details were first modeled on the computer to verify the technical feasibility, and then 1:1 on-site measurements were conducted. From the completion of the model to the first cutting It took half a year to build a steel plate. Among them, in order to overcome the problem of the ring beam structure at the top of the “Big Lotus”, no fewer than five expert demonstration meetings were held only by academicians.
After the “Big Lotus” was put into use, it has held concerts with more than 10,000 people and hosted annual meetings of large enterprises, and the actual testing has been successful. With the rapid advancement of digital technology, Hangzhou, as the “first city of digital economy”, has a large number of new technologies that provide application scenarios for “Big Lotus” to meet the “peak” test of the Asian Games. In the summer of 2022, Zhongtian received a new task – to digitally transform and improve the original functions of “Big Lotus”, especiallyIt is necessary to intelligently upgrade the software and hardware that are highly related to the safety and convenience of spectators watching the game, and add a fully intelligent access control system.
Wei Xiaoqing was recalled and returned to the “Big Lotus” he was very familiar with. He was ordered to make the lotus flower “smarter” with high quality and efficiency in the shortest possible time. “Fortunately, this mission is much less difficult than before.” Wei Xiaoqing said frankly that the “Big Lotus” left enough room for future upgrades at the beginning of its design and construction.
After completing the intelligent upgrade of the “Big Lotus”, all entrances are equipped with Xi’s house. The girls are all married. Even when they return to the house, they are called aunties and nuns, and the next generation is born, inside and outside. , all of them are boys, not even daughters, so the village’s intelligent identification system can realize different flows of people during the game to go their own way without crossing each other, ensuring the fairness and justice of the game and the safety and orderliness of the field to the greatest extent. The 165 intelligent ticket gates in the surrounding area have also been upgraded with intelligence. “I’m very worried about you.” Mother Pei looked at her and said weakly and hoarsely. , during the Hangzhou Asian Games, different ticket verification solutions can be provided for different levels of events. Taking into account the more than 80,000 seats in the “Grand Lotus”, canceling paper tickets means reducing the use of more than 80,000 pieces of paper, which truly reflects the waste-free concept of Asian Games venue construction.
“As a builder, how many projects like this can you participate in in your life? Now it’s finally time to sprint. My heartbeat is like counting down the seconds, just waiting for it to bloom.” Wei Xiaoqing said.