Loxam partners on Paris 2024 Olympic games

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As the Paris 2024 Olympic games kicks off, France-based rental company Loxam is partnering to ensure broadcasters experience uninterrupted power throughout the 19-day event.

As part of a joint venture with events specialist GL events, the company is supplying and installing temporary and backup power systems at more than 50 venues. 

The company said it has supplied 33 gensets collectively providing more than 40,000KVA capacity to the event, which is taking place in Paris for the first time in 100 years. 

The joint venture has also provided a range of temperature control services, including 99 chilled water cabinets, 33 water coolers, 700 air conditioning units and 84 air handling units. The units are being used to keep temporary data centres cool.

At the same time, the company has supplied and installed ‘overlay’ structures and modules on 26 sites spread all over the country, including the Château de Versailles, the stadiums and the International Broadcast Center.

The sites will be used to used to provide functional spaces at the Paris 2024 Games and includes 1,100 modules, 300 container units and 800 washrooms.

Gérard Déprez, president of Loxam Group, said, “Thanks to an unprecedentedcpartnership with other French companies, each of them leaders in their sector and complementary to one another, we offer a comprehensive and integrated service range for the infrastructure of the Paris 2024 Games.

“Together, we drew up a French bid and earned the trust of the organisers, who have thus offered a global showcase to French savoir-faire.”

Alice Hénault, corporate strategy and development director, in charge of the Olympic and Paralympic project, added, “The Paris 2024 Games constitute a source of immense pride for the company and all its people. It is a complex and ambitious project, and we are working hand in hand with our teams and partners to make it a huge success.”

Loxam said that it has mobilised its overseas businesses for the project, with its Brazilian and Estonian subsidiaries drafted in to assist.