Beijing Olympic Stadium - Bird's Nest
Name: Beijing Olympic Stadium,
Scheduled inauguration: 2008
Building costs: $500 million ,
Capacity: 80,000 seats (100,000 during the Olympic games)
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Not only is Beijing's "Bird's Nest" aesthetically pleasing,
the sports venue was also designed with high-tech internal gear designed to keep
in line with the concept of a "Green Olympics."
Engineer Liu Peng explained that behind the "Bird's Nest" is a comprehensive
world-class rainwater recycling system that operates on a 24-hour schedule which
can collect rainwater from the National Stadium and its surrounding areas,
purify it, and then recycle it for use in the venue.
The recycled water has many uses, including irrigating the approximately 80,000
square meters of green ground surrounding the "Bird's Nest," cleaning cars and
roads, cooling air conditioners, etc.

The immense water recycling system measures out to about the
size of 6 football fields. An average of 67 thousand cubic meters of water can
be recycled through the system each year. A maximum of 12,000 cubic meters of
water may be stored in the 6 containers located underground.

The system's blueprint came from Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Worldwide Partner GE. Three levels of filters, including sand filtration, "ultrafiltration"
and sodium filtration are used to process and clean out the water, removing dirt
and bacteria.
Jim Fisher, president of GE Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Solutions, expressed his
company's feeling of honor at being able to be so deeply involved with the
capital city's environmentally-friendly approaches to hosting the Olympics.

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