On February 6, news on the BOCOG official website detailed plans from the project management department regarding construction of the National Stadium in Beijing. According to planners, by the end of the month, the piling work of the first 100 columns establishing the foundation of the National Stadium will have been completed.

According to reports, the National Stadium will require a total of 1,800 pillars for its foundation. The first 100 of these are scheduled to be completely set up between the 20th to the 25th of the month. The remaining pillars to be used in the construction are pending quality assurance results from technical testing.

In December of last year, an additional 41 of these pillars underwent intensive tests to ensure technical precision before they were used in the construction of the National Stadium. The results from the testing will be presented around the 15th of this month. From March on, it is expected that the National Stadium will begin to keep a store of quality-assured pillars.