The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 607 World No. [-]
After three years of intensive construction work, the London Olympic Stadium, Stratford Stadium, or the current official name, Stratford Stadium, is finally officially completed!
After receiving this news, everyone in London felt relieved. All the previous worries and worries were temporarily over, and for a while, almost all the media and reporters from all over the world flocked to Sri Lanka. Stratford Stadium, because on October 29 there will be a simple completion ceremony at Stratford Stadium.

The completion of the project is actually just the end of the construction project. There are quite a lot of other things that are still going on, such as the seats in the stands and the facilities of the venues. A lot of things have just begun, but in time for the Olympic Games No difficulty.

After all, compared with Ye Qiu's previous life, the [-] million euro construction payment that Tottenham Hotspur paid in the past three years has increased. Go out and shoot.

Ye Qiu was still dissatisfied with the completion of the Stratford Stadium four months earlier than in his previous life, because it was too late. If it was done according to his standards, the stadium should have been completely completed by now. It was even put into use, but the Olympic Organizing Committee is still arguing about whether it can hold the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games as scheduled, it's too much.

Many people were dispatched to the completion ceremony, including London Mayor Boris Johnson, the chairman of the London Olympic Organizing Committee Sebastian Coe, and some important figures in London. Under the leadership of the team, they arrived at Stratford Stadium on the team bus.

Under the arrangement of the on-site staff, they seemed to have come to their home stadium and got off directly from the inner passage of the stadium.

If it was broadcast live on TV, this should be the entrance to the players' tunnel, leading directly to the locker room.

There is no parking lot underground at Stratford Stadium. All the parking lots are under the Zhenhua Building opposite Stratford. There is the largest underground parking lot in Europe, which can accommodate [-] vehicles. At the same time, there is an above-ground parking lot outside the hotel that can park more than [-] tourist buses.

And from Zhenhua Building to Stratford Stadium, it is only a few steps away.

The traffic near the Olympic Park is very convenient. The exit of the subway is in the north of the park. When you come out, you will find the largest comprehensive shopping center in Europe. It is also the earliest property sold by the London Olympic Organizing Committee. It is not far from Stratford Stadium. The bus is also very convenient. If you drive by yourself, it may be a bit congested if you encounter a game day.

In order to solve this problem, when designing the roads of the Olympic Park, we directly introduced the traffic flow from the main road through the overpass to the underground parking lot, and the underground parking lot has two entrances and two exits. The purpose of the management is to solve the congestion caused by the excessive traffic flow on the race day.

At this moment, the Tottenham Hotspur team got off the bus at the entrance of the inner passage of the Stratford Stadium. Looking at the past, there are overpasses extending in all directions around the stadium, and they are already standing in Stratford Stadium. Inside Ratford Stadium.

In Ye Qiu's previous life, one of the most important reasons why Stratford Stadium was called the London Bowl was that it was like a bowl, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, a bit like the structure of the Bird's Nest stadium. The original design of the Ratford Stadium was not like this. It was just that the London Olympic Organizing Committee reduced the design plan five times in a row due to financial budget constraints, and finally made the London Bowl.

The most well-known is the roof. The rectification plan proposed by the London Olympic Organizing Committee for the fifth time was to completely abandon the roof. A decision was made to reduce the area of ​​the roof, and in the end the roof only covered about 60% of the stands.

At that time, there was a saying that in order to reflect fairness, the stands with low ticket prices had one more enjoyment than the stands with high ticket prices, that is, watching the Olympic Games in the rain was chic and poetic.

Ye Qiu paid [-] million euros, and he also had the right to speak about the design of the Stratford Stadium, so the first decision he made was that there must be no roof, so he immediately made a final decision on the design side's first proposal. A design scheme, one with a movable and retractable roof, once it encounters rain or snow, the stadium can be covered with a roof to become a closed space, and the game can continue inside.

Maybe many people don't realize it, and think that it's just an extra roof, which doesn't seem to add much money, but it's not.

It’s as if the entire Tottenham Hotspur team is walking into the stadium along the internal passage. Even if they are in the internal passage of the stadium, they will not feel the slightest depression and depression. This is because the stadium is designed When designing, the air circulation in the entire large area and details, even the wind speed, is taken into account.

Not to mention that there are fewer people now, even if the stadium is full by then, with 9 fans, even if the third floor is added in the future, the number of fans on site will reach more than [-], or even [-]. Because of the large number of people, there is a feeling of depression. This is because at the beginning of the design of the stadium, a wind tunnel experiment must be carried out first. The purpose is to test the ventilation effect and air circulation quality, and to reduce the wind speed in the stadium to the greatest extent. The game went smoothly.

Especially for some Olympic events, if the internal ventilation effect is too poor, causing the athletes to be in a headwind state, it will definitely not work, and they will definitely be criticized and accused, or even suspended.

In fact, the current internal passage is a section of downhill and then a section of uphill, which is because of the consideration of the future renovation of the stadium.

You know, after the Olympics and Paralympics, this stadium will be transformed into a professional football stadium by Tottenham Hotspur, that is to say, the track and field track will be demolished, and the stands will be expanded. Ball experience, to ensure that fans in every position can enjoy better and clearer, without dead ends, what happens on the field. At the same time, in order to ensure the atmosphere of the game and the atmosphere of the home court to the greatest extent, the 45-degree stand slope is the most ideal.

But in order to achieve these two effects at the same time, the playing field will sink.

Walk out of the stadium passage, stand inside the stadium, and look up at the stands. Although the seats have not been installed, everyone can easily feel that the stands are very steep, which is a bit similar to the sloping stands at the Camp Nou and the Bernabéu stadium in La Liga. When designing the stands, the designers did follow Ye Qiu's suggestion and observed several other famous stadiums in the world, such as Camp Nou, Bernabéu, Allianz and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, etc. wait.

"When the Olympic and Paralympic Games are over, that is, in September 2012, we will tear down these track and field tracks, dig deep where we are standing now, and expand the stands. A whole row of VIP boxes will be built between the stands on the second floor." Ye Qiu was introducing his plans for the stadium to his players.

In his view, in order to ensure that there are no dead ends, the corners of the stadium stands are embodied in circular arcs, which are close to the stadium, so that fans can watch the game from the stands without dead ends, and even if they are sitting in the top stands In the future, the third-floor stands will seem to overlook the entire stadium from a high position, and that feeling will be great.

The seats of the fans are also very particular. If it is similar to the relatively wide seats at the Emirates Stadium, although the fans feel comfortable sitting up, on the one hand, the space is too large, and on the other hand, the voices of the fans cannot be well concentrated, which cannot be formed. A good home atmosphere, in fact, Arsenal's Emirates Stadium is also a relatively poor home atmosphere in the Premier League.

The seats in the stands of the Stratford Stadium will be relatively tight. At that time, all the seats, including VIP boxes, business stands and ordinary stands, will use the same kind of seats to ensure the best for all fans entering the stadium. It's a good feeling, and the roof design of the stands includes reflecting the fans' shouts back to the stadium to achieve the best home effect.

In addition to this series of innovative facilities, Ye Qiu intends to build Stratford Stadium into a seven-star top-level home stadium. This will not only provide fans with visible enjoyment, but also a lot of invisible enjoyment. For example, Tottenham Hotspur has cooperated with Huawei, a Chinese communications giant, and Leaf Technology. Among them, Huawei provides IP networks and wireless LANs, making the entire stadium bid farewell to the hard-wired era in the past and enter the stadium. The age of information intelligence.

Not only that, Tottenham Hotspur will conduct unified management of members in the future. Membership cards will no longer be limited to fan identification, but will also have functions such as value storage and shopping consumption. All membership cards will adopt real-name registration , Fans can even book tickets directly through mobile apps and computers, just like buying tickets in a movie theater.

And at that time, Leaf Technology's lighthouse technology base station will be set up inside the stadium to push some discounts and promotions for products and food to fans' mobile phones. Fans can also order directly through the official APP of mobile phones, and there will be staff in the shortest time. Delivered to the location where the fans are, the whole process will not affect the fans watching the game.

That is to say, in the past, fans needed to leave their seats for consumption, but now it is no longer necessary. You can order food while sitting in your seat.

Not only that, various sensors will be installed in every corner of the stadium. For example, if sensors are installed under the turf of the stadium, the field maintenance personnel can clearly understand the damage of the turf in the control room, and then provide maintenance. , and in various other places as well.

But this is not the most astonishing part of this stadium. Ye Qiu's real generosity is that he decided to invest 3000 million euros to build a basketball-like set in the mid-air of Stratford Stadium. The cubic video wall in the center of the field, this kind of cubic video wall has been used in Schalke Stadium in Germany, but it is too small.

This time, the cubic video wall that Ye Qiu decided to invest in will be suspended 30 meters in mid-air in the center of the stadium, and will consist of four full-HD 1080P display screens using the most advanced technology, two of which face the main stand. It will reach 65 inches and be as long as [-] meters, allowing fans sitting in any position between the main stand and the angle to see the TV clearly.

The display screens facing the stands on both sides are relatively small, but they have reached 1000 inches and are 31 meters long. They will surpass the display screens of many professional baseball clubs in the NFL in the United States, and can be called the world's largest.

But this huge set of record-setting high-definition displays is enough to cause headaches for all companies, including semiconductors, because there is currently no processor in the world that can handle so many pixel values. After all, the screen is too big. However, Leaf Technology contracted this project and promised to complete it on schedule.

For this company known for its high-tech research and development capabilities and innovative capabilities, everyone has no doubt that they can do it. In fact, they have developed display technology in the past few years. We are determined to promote Android to smart TVs, so Leaf Technology also has quite a lot of patents and technologies for LED display technology.

This project is definitely a challenge for Leaf Technology, but if it is successful, it will be a demonstration to the world, and throughout the research and development process, Leaf Technology's strength in TV and display technology will be Get a huge boost and progress.

Not only on the display screen, Stratford Stadium will also build the top audio and entertainment system to provide the stadium, VIP boxes and business seats, etc. These are all projects contracted by Leaf Technology.

In addition to these three major networks and systems, Leaf Technology also contracted another major project of the stadium, wind power generation.

The theme of the London Olympics has always been environmental protection, but in London, solar energy is a very scarce clean energy source, because it is not easy to see the sun here, but the wind here is abundant, so using wind power to Power generation has become an important issue.

Leaf Technology built a data cloud between Stratford Stadium and Zhenhua Building, but at the same time, they also contracted all the street lights and stadium lighting systems in the entire Olympic Park, and all the street lights outside the stadium are With a halo mast, the wind turbines within it can generate their own electricity.

In the past few years, the engineers of Leaf Technology have spread the research projects to various fields and aspects, among which new energy has always been a part of Leaf Technology's great attention, and whether it is in solar energy or wind energy projects, Leaf Technology has No small achievement has been achieved.

For example, at the end of 2008, Leaf Technology announced that it had reached an agreement with the British government to invest in an offshore wind farm in the UK, while Leaf Technology China R&D Center announced two major achievements in 2009, one is the intelligent control of wind power generation The system can make the wind power generation equipment better adapt to the variable wind intensity, reduce the failure rate and improve the working life.

Another is the magnetic levitation power generation technology, which is regarded by the outside world as a major breakthrough in wind power generation.

Wind power is the biggest obstacle to the development of new energy including solar energy, and an important reason why new energy has always been underestimated by the outside world is the cost performance, that is to say, the input and output are not in line with the interests of investors at all.

This is the case with wind power generation. The mechanical friction of wind turbines leads to a very low conversion rate of wind energy to electrical energy. Even at low wind speeds, it may not work at all. Magnetic levitation technology provides the possibility for this and creates a new environment for high-power power generation. possible.

To put it simply, Leaf Technology engineers applied the principle of maglev trains to wind turbines to minimize mechanical friction and developed a maglev vertical wind turbine.

After entering 2010, these two major innovations have been the first to realize industrialization in China, and according to this set of plans, the entire coast of China and even some islands will achieve self-sufficiency in electricity.

Leaf Technology contracted the wind power projects for the Olympic Park and Stratford Stadium, and Theobald Training Base also carried out wind power transformation one after another. Even Leaf Technology’s headquarters and data centers in Finland and other parts of the world also It uses renewable energy such as wind and solar to generate electricity.

Leaf Technology has even begun to study the high-altitude wind turbine project, that is, to place the entire wind turbine at an altitude of about 250 meters to 600 meters, and use wind power to generate electricity. Once successful, it will definitely break the existing new energy structure.

As Ye Qiu's ambitions grew, his requirements for the renovation of the Stratford Stadium became higher and higher. In addition, Tottenham Hotspur's attendance rate was so impressive. According to Peter Kenyon According to speculation, the capacity of [-] fans still cannot meet the needs of Tottenham Hotspur fans and London fans. Therefore, the new stadium may further expand the third-tier stands in the future.

But in order to be put into use in the summer of 2013, there is no need to count on the third stand for the time being, and the application of some new technologies, as well as the research and development of the world's first TV screen, will make the Stratford Stadium The renovation cost completely exceeded 5000 million euros, and the budget was even increased to [-] million euros.

Tottenham Hotspur have made huge profits in the transfer market in the past few years. In addition, the team has basically maintained a place in the semi-finals of the Champions League. Every season, they can get tens of millions of euros from UEFA. income, so the team is well-off financially and makes profits every year, but it is still very difficult to come up with 5000 million euros.

Ye Qiu also made a statement on this, letting Peter Kenyon do it with confidence, and funding is not a problem.

Although there are currently [-] million euros of bank loans outside Tottenham Hotspur, they are all long-term low-interest loans. With the current total assets and development momentum of Tottenham Hotspur, there are still a lot of bank loans. Line up to provide long-term low-interest loans, you know, this is tantamount to line up to send money to Tottenham Hotspur.

Therefore, no matter which angle you look at, Ye Qiu and Peter Kenyon don't need to worry about funding. Even if you still see a real estate project with great potential and development prospects, Ye Qiu will continue to carry out the project. loan investment.

After all, according to the current market environment, after the Olympic Games, the value and development of London's financial district and the area around Stratford Stadium will not drop, because the entire transportation and other supporting facilities are very complete, so there is no room for price reduction.

Of course, Ye Qiu can see this kind of prospect, and so can others, so as the Olympic Games approach, it will become more and more difficult to encounter any good bottom-hunting events, and Ye Qiu is not in a hurry. Wait a minute.

(End of this chapter)