Perivale update - the new home of the archive

I had a walk around our Perivale project yesterday and thought you would be interested to see pictures. Thanks to Tony Rogers from our project managers Capita Symonds and John MacLeod from our contractors Mansell for showing me round.

It's a remarkable project which will provide a new home for the BBC's precious stock of archive material - when it's fully operational the total area of shelving will be equal in size to almost five football pitches!

Some of the archive has already moved and is now securely stored in modern film vaults that will ensure future generations can access the events of the last 70+ years.

It's a very complicated job requiring not only lots of construction work but the installation of six vaults over two levels which will provide nearly 85,000 shelves - if they were placed end to end they would stretch for almost 100 km, or in old money, 61 miles! Overall we're in good shape in terms of progress with thanks to James O'Brien for effectively steering the ship.