Feltech, G20 London Summit

We are proud to announce that we were awarded the contract for staging the G20 London Summit

Working with our event partner WRG we had only 34 working days, to organise one of the largest and prestigious events to take place in the UK, with the outcome on view for the world to see and hear.

The excel centre had been chosen as the location for such a high profile event,  logistically this seemed to cover all the areas needed, location, wide open exhibition halls, internal infrastructures, transport links, and so on.

However there were two major obstacles to overcome, flight path of aircraft to and from London City Airport dictated the satellite earth station location for the world’s media. This had to be located on the opposite side of the docks from excel, which required multiple runs of 2km of fibre linking to and from the main site.

The bridge over the dock linking the two sites would be closed on the day of the summit, requiring boats to ferry crews, and journalists between the north and south sides of the dock, fortunately it was a calm day!

The crew had 60 hours to rig the total event

Media Centre/Host Broadcasting

150 Edit Suites

50 Radio Booths

82 Live Camera Positions

8 ENG Crews

32 International Satellite Uplinks

800 Seat Press Conference Facilities

200 Seat Press Conference Facilities

5 x 100 Seat Press Conference Facilities

Translation Facilities for the Media and Delegates

18 Camera Outside Broadcast Unit for International Pool Coverage

MCR Facilities for International Signal Switching

Multi Format Standards Conversions

Multi Format Tape Copying

300 Screen Bespoke Digital Message System for Various applications and Live Images

1000 Journalist and Media Work Stations

1200 Crew

Total Event Summary

34 working days from award of contract to organise

60 hours to rig, and build total event

27 hours of live international broadcasting

24 hours to de-rig