In 2008, the most striking building in the world was the National Stadium, the main venue of the Beijing Olympic Games.
At 8 o'clock on the evening of August 8, 2008, when Xiangyun was carrying the Olympic flame, it burned here; When the fireworks are lifted off, the colorful "Bird's Nest" shape is dreamily displayed in front of billions of people around the world; When/kloc-0.3 billion China people indulge in the happiness of the centennial Olympic dream, people may temporarily forget the creator of this dream-realizing stage.
However, the Bird's Nest, the landmark of the 29th Olympic Games, will stand permanently in the center of the Beijing Olympic Games. The "Bird's Nest" is also like a monument, bearing the hard work, sweat, mission and feelings of the builders. On this monument, I remember an unknown but admirable name-CITIC Construction Guohua International Engineering Company.
CITIC Construction Guohua Company is a state-owned enterprise that undertakes the mission of international project contracting. At present, it is undertaking the international highway bidding project with the largest single contract amount in the world-Algeria East-West Expressway and Brazil's largest thermal power plant-Candiota Thermal Power Plant. The former pioneered the entry of China enterprises into the high-end international engineering contracting market, while the latter allowed China's 60Hz large-scale thermal power generation products to obtain the "access certificate" in the international high-end market.
Citic Construction Guohua Company is an iron army, which is setting up monuments all over the world, symbolizing the elegance of modern enterprises in China. Like a swan flying high, Guohua spans the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, bearing the strong will and rich wisdom of the people of China. If you want to sum it up in one sentence, it is the enterprise spirit of "being the first, pioneering and innovative heroism, pursuing Excellence and endless idealism"
In 2004, CITIC Construction Guohua Company undertook the historical mission of building half of the Olympic landmark "Bird's Nest" project. Since then, CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company has formed an indissoluble bond with the Bird's Nest. With the mission of "the national interest is above all else, taking care of the overall situation", it has devoted itself to the boxing complex of "sharing the centennial Olympic dream with the people of China".
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The swan spread its wings.
Ambition is in my heart.
The National Stadium in Beijing Olympic Park is full of modern flavor, ceramic lines, charming colors, traditional hollowing-out technology and the most advanced steel structure design. Seen from a distance, it looks like a huge bird's nest. Therefore, hundreds of millions of people in China affectionately call it the "Bird's Nest".
It is such a building that surprises the world. The design scheme has just been finalized, and a construction war of the "Bird's Nest" project has been launched all over the world. Because the construction of the Bird's Nest is quite difficult and demanding, many contractors are discouraged from the Bird's Nest, but there are still some foreign contractors who show great interest and have the momentum to win.
The long-awaited CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company did not flinch. With fearless spirit and patriotic feelings, we are determined to compete with our competitors.
China CITIC Group is a large state-owned multinational group. As the flagship team of CITIC Group, CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company is not only a strong team with large-scale international project construction experience, but also shares the same dream with hundreds of millions of people in China and has deep feelings for this Olympic dream stage.
At the beginning of the project, Wang Jun, then the chairman of CITIC Group, personally approached Li Shilin, the deputy general manager of the group, to inquire about the related work of the Olympic project, and made it clear that CITIC Group should do its part for this. Yes, as China people, who wouldn't want to contribute their strength when the motherland needs it?
Through hard work, CITIC Group ranks among the project consortia led by French Wanxi Company, which ranks first in the global contractor, and French Bouygues Group, which ranks third in the global contractor. However, in April 2003, the two contractors announced that they would give up the qualification of the consortium leader and quit the consortium. This sudden change made the Chinese bidding members who had been carefully prepared for half a year and were determined to win unexpected.
CITIC people's thoughts are even more difficult to calm down, and there is a bold idea brewing in their hearts: CITIC Group, which has strong sports and cultural industry resources and capital operation ability, is fully capable of integrating domestic and foreign resources as the lead party to form a new bidding consortium and impact this world-renowned Olympic project.
Hongbo, Chairman of CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company, Yuan, then Deputy Chief Engineer of CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company, Chairman of CITIC Guoan Group Company, and team members made an implementation plan and preliminary economic calculation after 24 hours of careful calculation. The core spirit of the scheme is that CITIC Group and CITIC Guoan Group take the lead, and join hands with Beijing Urban Construction Group and Golden State Holding Group to form a consortium to form a strong implementation team with complementary advantages. With the help of the whole company, CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company will assist CITIC Guoan Group to complete the bidding and future construction tasks.
Chairman Wang Jun is very satisfied with this plan. He said: "Hosting the Olympic Games is a great event for our country and nation. CITIC Group should be duty-bound to make contributions. Enterprises must have a sense of social responsibility and have a long-term vision. "
Li Shilin assured the chairman: "Give full play to the overall advantages of CITIC Group, and we have the ability and confidence to do a good job in the National Stadium project and live up to our mission!"
The next step is to form an efficient and capable bidding team and prepare a set of detailed and technically reliable Chinese and English tenders within 25 days.
Citic people with perseverance, quickly set up an excellent bidding team, working day and night. Kong Dan, then vice chairman and general manager of CITIC Group, often listened to the reports on the preparations for bidding and gave him strong support. It is with a passion of "winning glory for our country and adding color to the Olympics" that they just produced two sets of tenders that surprised many professionals within the specified time.
On August 2, 2003, CITIC Bidding Consortium officially received the bid-winning notice of the "Bird's Nest" project.
On February 24th, 2003, 65438+ officially laid the foundation stone for the "Bird's Nest" project. After several twists and turns, CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company, a group of ambitious swans, finally started the "Bird's Nest" project with full enthusiasm and the same dream.
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Modern Luban dreams of a modern "Bird's Nest"
"Bird's Nest" is recognized as the largest stadium of its kind in the world, with the most complicated structure, the highest technical difficulty and the strictest requirements on construction period and quality. Facing the blueprint and huge construction site, CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company, on the one hand, admires the designer's superb wisdom and unique creativity, on the other hand, it is also trying to think about how to solve the technical problems brought by the design ideas to the builders. Guohua people realize that they will face severe challenges in the next four years.
"High difficulty can better reflect our ability." Chairman Hongbo said so, and so did everyone involved in the construction of the "Bird's Nest" project.
With the persistence of Jingwei and the perfection of Lu Ban, we will devote ourselves to the construction of the "Bird's Nest", fill the gaps in the architectural history of China and even the world, and leave a handicraft that can be tasted for a long time for the Olympics, China and the world! Based on this belief, CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company established a clear-cut and reasonable structure work team headed by the company's vice chairman Pi.
Citic Guohua, as the contractor of Zone A of the National Stadium, has undertaken one-third of the concrete structure project, one-half of the steel structure project and all the electrical and intelligent building projects of the Bird's Nest. All the staff in the project department deeply feel that this is a great responsibility, especially to meet the requirements of "five unifications of quality, safety, construction period, function and cost" in Olympic engineering construction.
"The' Bird's Nest' project is high in science and technology, and many technologies and construction techniques are actually applied for the first time in China and even in the world. No matter how difficult it is, we must ensure that the concept of safety first and quality first cannot be shaken. " Li Shilin, deputy general manager of CITIC Group, gave a hard order to Guohua people at the swearing-in meeting.
Before the project started, CITIC Construction Investment Guohua Company proposed that the "Bird's Nest" should ensure the "Luban Award" and contribute to the quality goal of the excellent Olympic project. In the whole construction process, they have achieved various quality control measures such as construction quality pre-control, process monitoring and final acceptance control, strictly controlled the quality procedures of each construction process, established and improved the quality management system of the project, and extended the quality consciousness of striving for excellent projects from the project management to all construction teams.
In order to solve the scientific and technological problems of the national stadium project, the project department specially dispatched a group of high-tech and highly educated scientific and technological talents to tackle the technical problems in the construction of the "Bird's Nest", and successively completed more than 60 scientific research projects such as the construction technology of bored piles with long spiral rods, the construction technology of concrete filled steel tubes, and the low-temperature welding technology, and successfully solved various professional and technical problems involved in the "Bird's Nest" project. The construction quality has successively won the honors of "Gold Award for Building Steel Structure in China" and "Great Wall Cup for Beijing Structure".
The steel members of the "Bird's Nest" are mostly bending and torsion members, which need to be butted in space. The design unit requires that the space gap of butt-joint components must be controlled within 6 to 8 mm, the misalignment of joints must be controlled within 3 mm, and the closing temperature must be controlled within19 4℃. The construction difficulty can be imagined.
The project department organized and set up a quality control team to tackle key problems of joint misalignment and assembly clearance control of bending and torsion members. Members of the quality control team have lived and eaten in the construction site for more than two months, and accumulated more than 30,000 pieces of basic data, and * * * completed the welding process test 149 times. High temperature and summer heat, walking on the surface of steel structure at more than 40 degrees Celsius for high-altitude data collection, often scalded by high-temperature steel plates; In the cold winter, I went to Harbin for a welding test at MINUS 20℃, and my hands and feet were frostbitten without regrets. My high sense of responsibility and full enthusiasm for work have not been affected at all.
The quality problems such as cracks and staggered edges of steel structure were solved, and the project quality met the requirements put forward by the design unit. The research group was also awarded the title of "National Excellent Quality Management Team". The "Bird's Nest" project has been inspected and evaluated as a "safe and civilized construction site" by experts from Beijing and the Ministry of Construction for three consecutive years.
An authoritative expert on steel structure in China commented: "It is incredible that the most technically complicated steel structure project in the world did not have a safety accident." . As we all know, the word "safety" was written by all the staff of the project department with a high sense of responsibility and meticulous and rigorous attitude.
Unloading of steel structure is the most important, difficult and exciting milestone in the construction of "Bird's Nest". The overall unloading of such a large weight, large span and complex structure is unique at home and abroad. During the unloading period, leaders and experts at all levels came to the scene to watch, and the TV station broadcasted the unloading situation to the whole world. At this critical moment, CITIC Guohua, who is shouldering the success or failure of unloading the "Bird's Nest" steel structure and bearing great psychological pressure, is full of confidence and successfully completes the unloading of the steel structure in an orderly and safe manner.
On September 17, 2006, the final step of unloading the steel structure of the National Stadium was completed, and all the supporting points were separated from the supporting tower, so the "Bird's Nest" really stood up! Countless hanging hearts calmed down, and stormy applause and cheers sounded.
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After four years of hard work, a generation of golden phoenix has been cultivated.
Building a "Bird's Nest", bringing out a high-level team and establishing a brand of CITIC Construction are the three major tasks clearly put forward by CITIC Construction Guohua Company when it established the National Stadium Project Department. Chairman Hongbo once explicitly requested: "To build a work team that can truly reflect the management level, technical research ability and mental outlook of CITIC Company and reflect the excellent level of our national team."
The conference room of the National Stadium Project Department of CITIC Construction Guohua Company was filled with honorary certificates, medals and banners. These honors also record that CITIC Guohua people paid more and gave up more for the same dream and goal in the construction of the "Bird's Nest".
In the face of meritorious service, CITIC Guohua people are particularly low-key. This is a group of quietly cultivated teams. They talk less and do more. Up to now, many people don't know that among the builders of the "Bird's Nest", there is also the name "CITIC". However, familiar faces and touching stories are still fresh in my mind.
Undertaking the construction task of the national stadium project means undertaking heavy work pressure and social responsibility; Without a strong sense of social responsibility, historical mission, patriotic enthusiasm and enterprising spirit, it is difficult to bear this pressure for a long time.
Pi, the general manager of the project department, first put forward the slogan "Building a Bird's Nest, Glorifying Life", and later changed it to "Building an Olympic Project, Glorifying Life", which was used as a standard slogan in all Olympic venues.
As an old party member, Pew Hsin thinks more about the interests of the company, the country and the people than personal honor. Since he entered the "Bird's Nest" construction site in 2004, he has led all the comrades in the project department to work hard, braving the cold wind and the heat, flying in Dai Yue, fighting day and night, completing one milestone after another and making outstanding contributions to the project construction.
Yuan, the general manager of CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company, fought side by side with Pew at the critical moment of the construction of the "Bird's Nest". He moved his office to the "Bird's Nest" and lived in the "Bird's Nest" site. He calmly and busily directed the site construction. In a short period of one week, I communicated with the heads of many subcontractors in 10, learned the production progress directly from the front-line workers, mastered a lot of first-hand information, formulated a "prescription" to speed up the project progress, and personally formulated and implemented many measures in 10, such as "80-day labor competition" and "signing responsibility letters with subcontractors".
Cross the ocean to show the true colors of heroes. The construction of the National Stadium is a moment to truly test the fighting capacity and tenacious style of CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company, and also a moment to test the perseverance and quality of CITIC people!
Wenbiao Li, deputy general manager of the project department, won the "May 4th Medal of Chinese Youth" awarded by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and all-china youth federation, becoming the only representative of the national Olympic builders who won this honor.
On the "Bird's Nest" site, the benchmark teams of Beijing Youth Commandos such as Zhu Jingming Youth Commando and Li Huan Youth Commando were born.
All employees of CITIC Jiantou Guohua Company have always felt extremely honored and proud to be able to personally participate in and implement such a great project as the National Stadium, but they are also deeply aware that behind the glory and pride, they shoulder the great trust and expectation of people in China and even the whole world.
It is because of this great trust and expectation that many of them have never taken a vacation since the project was launched in 2004. Some employees haven't been able to reunite with their families for several consecutive Spring Festival, while others have postponed their weddings and even insisted on working despite illness. It is with this dauntless and tenacious spirit that CITIC Guohua overcame one difficulty after another in construction and contributed world-renowned products to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
In the process of compiling the "Bird's Nest", touching stories full of patriotic enthusiasm and Olympic feelings emerged one after another, forming a spectrum of heroes. Over the past four years, this increasingly solid "Bird's Nest", like a melting pot, has made CITIC Guohua people experience nirvana and experience again and again, and finally a more beautiful and energetic golden phoenix has flown out of the "Bird's Nest" and a first-class team has flown out.