1. 1.8 million tonnes of waste material was cleared from the clay pit to make way for Eden.
2. There are 2,480 tonnes of concrete in the foundation.
3. The largest biome - the humid tropics - is big enough to house the Tower of London and wide enough to house 24 buses end to end.
4. 85,000 tonnes of soil is being made for the site.
5. EFTE weighs less than one per cent of the equivalent sized pane of glass, needs less steel to hold it up and lets more light through.
6. A London taxi could fit into one of the larger ETFE pillows.
7. Eden is in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest and largest mass-by-volume freestanding scaffolding structure in the world, taking over from the Millennium Dome in Greenwich.
