The Olympic Stadium in London has been designed with seating in an elliptical bowl form so that it can be reconfigured after the Games into a smaller stadium for soccer
As members of the construction
industry in the developed world, we feel particularly responsible for the environment, and as designers of major sports and entertainment buildings, we continually look for sustainable ways to approach their construction. In 2007, the Populous sustainable stadia team was formed to examine and research this issue and together with engineers Buro Happold and Faber Maunsell and construction financial managers Franklin and Andrew we looked at how we might change attitudes towards our buildings and develop a blueprint for sustainability moving forward. The key principal is that sports stadia
are huge pieces of infrastructure and when it comes to sustainable design, their use of energy is a major issue. The industry must learn to reduce the energy
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use in their initial construction – the so-called 'embodied energy' and to reuse the building materials in future projects.
LESSONS LEARNED FOR 2012 The organisers of London Games began to examine these issues immediately after it won the right to stage the Olympic Games for 2012. The host city already had Wembley Stadium, so it didn’t need a second national stadium and lesson has already been learned from Sydney that it can take 10 years to turn a dedicated Olympics stadium into a truly useful community resource – so legacy had to be considered early into the design process. The debate on the future of the
stadium was held at the beginning of the design process and the government established a legacy company to plan for all the Olympic venues after the Games.
A clear plan was mapped out for
the main stadium by four interested parties: West Ham United Football Club, the London Borough of Newham, the operator Live Nation and the University of East London. The London Olympics demonstrates how a successful event can be blended with the long-term needs of a community and the stadium is embedded in the largest urban park built in the UK for many years.
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