ES GLOBAL, leading contractors of relocatable structures for major events and projects across the world, has released designs for its delivery of the UK Pavilion built with the His Majesty’s Government (HMG) at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka in Japan.
ES GLOBAL’s co-CEO, Olly Watts presented alongside John Munro, Chief Executive of Immersive International, as lead designers of the Pavilion’s visitor experience, the theme for which is ‘Come Build The Future’.
Following the successful delivery of six venues for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by ES GLOBAL, the UK Pavilion is based on a new product that has been developed by the team. Designed to a specification in line with what would be expected from a permanent structure, the pavilion is based on a modular, wide span (10x10 mt) grid. The fully demountable and relocatable architecture solution achieves a high structural, fire and thermal rating, will need little foundation intervention and has the advantage of being rapidly deployable compared to conventional solutions.
Working with UK design team woo architects and alongside their Japanese partners, ES GLOBAL are creating an agile space for the visitor experience, using a fully demountable and circular Global Modular System. All the main elements of the modular building – structure, floor plates and external cladding — will be relocatable with minimum transportation, plant and labour resource requirements.
This is the same approach as used with the Global Super Truss system to create venues for London 2012. These trusses became new structures for the winter Olympics in Sochi and then permanently used as a velodrome in Jakarta, built for the 2018 Asian Games. In the same way, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic shooting venue was subsequently used for a basketball arena at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and the ‘kit of parts’ will be used again in Japan.
Once built, the building is thermally efficient, requiring minimal power consumption. The flat roof has high structural-loading capacity and can accommodate large quantities of renewable energy sources, adaptable to solar or wind depending on global location. This building and materials are being designed and manufactured to have future uses following the 2025 World Expo.
“We are really excited to bring a new product to the Japanese market and see many future applications of this system in Japan, a country which has long embraced modular construction. The construction industry in Japan is going through a period of change at this very moment, and we are convinced that this Global Modular System will lead to solutions for addressing some of the infrastructure needs of the future.” Olly Watts, co-CEO, EG GLOBAL.
Design Team
wooarchitects
Momentum Engineers
Structured Environment Engineers
Max Fordham
Speirs and Major
Fira Landscaping
Immersive
Turner + Townsend
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