GE’s Olympic Feat: At the National Stadium, also called the “Bird’s Nest,” GE is providing its ZeeWeed UF membrane rainwater recycling technologies. The system recycles rainwater for the stadium, which is six times the size of a football pitch, using underground pools that can process up to 119 m3/hour of rainwater, two-thirds of which can be re-used to lower the stadium’s water consumption.
Click here to enlarge imageGeneral Electric is supplying multiple technologies for China’s first rainwater recycling system to be located at Beijing’s National Stadium, the setting of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games. To date, GE is involved in over 335 projects related to the Beijing Games in the transportation, security, energy, water, healthcare and lighting sectors.
The stadium’s new rainwater recycling system will use underground pools that process up to 119 cubic meters (m3) of rainwater per hour via GE ZeeWeed nanofiltration (NF) membranes, 80 m3 – or 67% – of which can be re-used for landscaping, firefighting and cleaning – a direct way to lower the stadium’s water consumption. GE’s technology is chemical-free and meets stringent environmental standards for indoor air quality and noise control.
“These advanced water treatment technologies are part of a larger effort to help Beijing implement an environmentally sustainable water management solution during the Games and beyond,” said Steve Bertamini, chairman & CEO of GE in Northeast Asia and China. “Active in China for more than 100 years, we are extremely proud to continue supporting both the Games and China in its effort to adopt solutions that are more green.”
Accelerated Commitment
GE is working closely with the Games’ organizers to provide energy and water treatment technologies conceived as part of ecomagination, a company-wide initiative to develop and market technologies that help customers address pressing environmental challenges. Since the initiative’s inception in 2005, GE has 45 ecomagination-certified products in its portfolio with revenues reaching $12 billion.