Britco to Build Accommodations for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games
Britco Structures has been awarded a contract by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) to design and build accommodations for the Whistler Athletes' Centre, a significant component of the Whistler Olympic and Paralympic Village and home to athletes competing in events at Whistler Olympic Park, The Whistler Sliding Centre and Whistler Creekside. It will also be a legacy training facility for Canadian athletes long after the 2010 Winter Games.
The lodge and townhouse complex are both scheduled for completion one year in advance of the opening of the 2010 Winter Games. After the Games, the lodge and the townhouse complex will be an accommodation legacy for athletes in training.
The contract's estimated value is approximately $32 million and the projects will provide upwards of 200,000 labour hours of work for Britco's employees at our two BC plants in Agassiz and Penticton along with Britco's workers in the Whistler Olympic and Paralympic Village.
Britco Becomes Official Supplier of the 2010 Winter Games and
the Canadian Olympic Team
In addition to the Whistler Athletes' Centre contract, Britco has also joined the VANOC sponsor family as an Official Supplier of modular structures products and services for the 2010 Winter Games. This agreement provides Britco with the sponsorship rights for the Canadian Olympic teams participating at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, the 2010 Winter Games and London 2012.
The XXI Olympic Winter Games and the X Paralympic Winter Games in 2010 will be staged in Vancouver and Whistler from February 12 to 28, 2010. Vancouver and Whistler will host the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games from March 12 to 21, 2010.
Britco's Executive Vice-President, Mike Ridley, is interviewed on Shell Busey's HouseSmart radio show "The Home Discovery Show", January 19, 2008
To listen to the audio of this interview, click below.
