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Demolition complete on deadline at troubled Ukraine stadium
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 15 - 10 - 2008

Ukrainian engineers on Wednesday completed demolition
work adjacent to a stadium critical for the Euro 2012 football
tournament, within a tough deadline set by the UEFA, according to dpa.
UEFA officials had made removal in three months of a
partially-built shopping centre next to Kiev's Olympic Stadium a key
condition for allowing Ukraine to remain a co-host for the
tournament.
Poland and Ukraine were named UEFA 2012 host nations by the UEFA
in 2007.
Ukrainian demolition teams using cranes, excavators, and
bulldozers worked without a break over 100 days to flatten the
reinforced framework concrete of the massive shopping centre, which
UEFA said had to go in order to make the adjacent stadium safe to
evacuate in an emergency.
Little remained of the centre but piles of rubble. Work already
was in progress clearing debris and renovating the stadium itself,
with crews replacing Soviet-era bleachers with modern seats,
eyewitnesses said.
The 84,000-seat Olympic Stadium in the Ukrainian capital is set to
be a game venue for dozens of international ties, including the Euro
2012 final.
Disputes over land ownership in Kiev, and subsequent lawsuits,
delayed removal of the shopping centre for months, and threatened to
put the UEFA's decision to make Ukraine a Euro 2012 host in jeopordy.
The Olympic Stadium project remains legally troubled, with
Taiwan's Archasia construction company still in court alleging the
Ukrainian government reneged on a construction contract to hire
German Gerkan, Marg und Partner (GMP) to do the job instead.
The work order with GMP calls for three phases to modernize the
stadium, starting with a 60-day planning period, followed by a 180-
day design period, and concluding with blueprint production and
ground-breaking, and actual construction.
Ukrainian sports officials - most of whom support GMP's nomination
as general contractor - have argued Archasia signed a contract with
the wrong Ukrainian government ministry, an allegation rejected by
Archasia's lawyers.


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