The ISES Melbourne chapter hosted a breakfast for RSVP with guest speaker Nick Eltis.  Nick is one of Australia’s leading Technical Directors and he spoke about the challenges involved in the Melbourne Commonwealth Games – like flying a tram into the MCG.  Play the MP3 to listen to an edited version of the presentation. Nick refers to the images below.  At the end of the presentation Nick refers to a time lapse video of the construction in the MCG which can be viewed at the bottom of this page.
Peter Jones and Nick Eltis	The tram - 1.3 tonnes
Site inspection February 2005	A tonne of equipment to go into the head of each light tower in four sections
The structure fitted into the head of tower 5	installing the lighter cables
installing thte rigging cables The main rigging gets fitted A very cute photo - looking straight up
View from above the centre of the MCG	Positioning the rig 45m above the centre of the MCG