The ambitious project is beingbuilt on three and half square miles of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to provide accommodation for 250, 000 people and employment opportunities for a further 150, 000.
Saltaire World Heritage Site is best known for being a Victorian project in urban regeneration: a neoclassical village on the edges of Bradford, built by industrialist Titus Salt to improve the living conditions for his textile mill employees.
Combining the two resources in a single project allows for the more efficient use of transmission lines like the multibillion-dollar one beingbuilt to carry 4, 500 megawatts of renewable energy from the Tehachapi to coastal metropolises.
Protestors opposed to a chicken waste incinerator beingbuilt on the shores of Lough Neagh have called on the Stormont Executive not to award grant money to the project until a legal challenge over planning permission ends.
Another Cardiff firm, Bluebay Building Products supplied reinforced concrete for the bridges and highways beingbuilt on the Olympic Park, while Rhino Doors from Port Talbot won a contract at the start of the project for entrance doors for the power lines tunnelling project.