The TAIPED included within the upkeep of exterior areas of the Olympic amenities the previous Wall of Nations which not exists…
Competitors for the renovation of exterior areas of the Olympic amenities OAKA introduced the TAIPED on behalf of the Athens Olympic Sports activities Heart SA. This tender consists of the upkeep – restore – substitute of elements of the metallic constructions of the 2 entrances, the market and the Wall of Nations of the Athens Olympic Sports activities Heart. The finances of the challenge quantities to the quantity together with VAT of 6.13 million euros. The challenge is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU throughout the framework of the Nationwide Restoration and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0”.
Twenty years of rusting
The cut-off date of the competitors is July 16 and the period of the tasks is about at six months from the signing of the contract. All good, somebody will say, however is it so? Not precisely. Why can the 2 entrances and the market have past their significance and their aesthetics, however nobody can perceive why this quantity must also be given cash for the upkeep of the Wall of Nations, whose usefulness resulted in 2004 along with the Olympic Video games. At the moment, on this explicit work, varied photos had been depicted and because of the mechanical undulation of the iron strips, you may see flags waving. Nevertheless, from then till at the moment, the challenge, along with not being helpful for something, stays a corpse that doesn’t resemble the Olympic Video games in any means, it has nothing to remind of why it was constructed and simply each citizen who passes by sees an enormous rusty white iron construction, paying homage to the massive billboards we see on foremost streets, empty of content material. Documento’s post-mortem proves the story to be true.
The Wall of Nations is a sculpture manufactured from metallic hole beams. Designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, it was mechanically moved in a wave movement and is 250m lengthy and 20m excessive. Briefly, it was designed to perform as an enormous projection display and now it resembles a monstrosity, it doesn’t have the slightest utility, however however the administration of OAKA and TAIPED determined to waste thousands and thousands to take care of it. Nobody is aware of why. Clearly as a result of there’s cash. Furthermore, because the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the previous Deputy Minister of Sports activities Lefteris Avgenakis have repeatedly acknowledged, there are 58 million euros put aside for the upkeep and renovation of the OAKA.
Nevertheless, as an alternative of this cash going to pressing upkeep wants, such because the Olympic swimming pool which has critical moisture issues on the outer partitions of the pool or its roof which within the first heavy downpour opened and created a waterfall (on Might 21 it was introduced by the previous Minister of Sports activities Yannis Vroutsis that the roof of the swimming pool might be waterproofed) or to cope with the issue that the chlorine within the pool is usually far above the permissible limits, because of which the swimmers in addition to these sitting on the platforms inhale it, the cash goes primarily in direct commissions for portray and beautification. And because it appears, now additionally they go to upkeep tasks that don’t have any utility or symbolism.
The competitors
Subsequently, in response to the tender “…the Contractor ought to perform upkeep, restore and restoration of development defects, which embody, for the Wall of Nations, the execution of inspections with non-destructive assessments of vital parts of the construction, restore of problematic welds, making certain the supporting the hole beam system, making certain the tightness of the primary beam and repainting the metallic surfaces”.
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