Olympic Delivery Authority 2012 venues factfi le July 2012

Venuesguide Contents

Introduction 05 Permanent non-competition Parade 58 Setting new standards 84 facilities 32 Hyde Park 59 Accessibility 86

Olympic Park venues 06 Art in the Park 34 Lord’s Cricket Ground 60 87

Olympic Park 08 Connections 36 The Mall 61 Businesses 88

Olympic Park by numbers 10 Energy Centre 38 North Arena 62 Funding 90

Olympic Park map 12 Legacy 92 International Broadcast The Royal Artillery Aquatics Centre 14 Centre/Main Press Centre Barracks 63 Sustainability 94 (IBC/MPC) Complex 40 Basketball Arena 16 Arena 64 Workforce 96

BMX Track 18 Olympic and Wembley 65 Venue contractors 98

Copper Box 20 Paralympic Village 42 Wimbledon 66

Eton Manor 22 Parklands 44 Media contacts 103

Olympic Stadium 24 Primary Substation 46 Out of London venues 68

Riverbank Arena 26 Pumping Station 47 Map of out of

Velodrome 28 Transport 48 London venues 70

Water Polo Arena 30 Box Hill 72

London venues 50 73

Map of London venues 52 Eton Dorney 74

Earls Court 54 Regional Football stadia 76

ExCeL 55 78

Greenwich Park 56 Lee Valley White

Hampton Court Palace 57 Water Centre 80

Weymouth and Portland 82

2 3 Introduction

Everyone seems to have their Londoners or fi rst-time favourite bit of London – visitors – to the Olympic whether that is a place they Park, the centrepiece of a know well or a centuries-old transformed corner of our building they have only ever . Built on sporting seen on television. foundations, the completed Park is going to be a new We are fortunate that some experience for everyone. of these are venues for the London 2012 Olympic and This handbook will equip you Paralympic Games – whether with facts and fi gures about the splendour of The Mall, venues in London and across and the UK that will be a fantastic , or iconic stage for this summer of sport. homes of sport like Wembley, We hope it will help you, , , as you share with others the , what you see at our venues Wimbledon and this summer. Lord’s Cricket Ground.

But very few of us get the chance to introduce to the world a whole new district in one of its great cities. That is Sir John Armitt our privilege this summer: to Chairman welcome everyone – whether Olympic Delivery Authority

For more information about the London 2012 venues, including the design and build of the new venues, visit london2012.com/venues and london2012.com/paralympics/spectators/venues

4 5 The Olympic Park is where names will be made, records broken, new legends created: it is going to be centre stage during the summer of 2012 – and long after. The nine new world-class sporting venues (six of them permanent) will be a fantastic setting for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. After the Games, the Park will be transformed into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and will be the focus of the regeneration of this part of London. The new permanent venues and infrastructure will be the foundations for the continuing development of this area of east London for decades to come.

Olympic Park venues

6 7 Olympic Park

The Olympic Park is at the After the Games, the Park and broken up by rivers, elsewhere, electricity pylons heart of the London 2012 – to be renamed the Queen roads and railways. Parts were dismantled and the Olympic and Paralympic Elizabeth Olympic Park – of the area had been used rivers were dredged. Two Games. will become the largest new as a dumping ground for million tonnes of soil were urban park in the UK for industrial and domestic cleaned with 80 per cent Nine new world-class over a century, with the new waste and much of the land reused to form the new sporting venues, the Olympic sporting venues, parklands had been taken over by Park landscape. and Paralympic Village and and residential developments invasive species such as media centres, all set in becoming the focus of this Japanese knotweed, and Following the clean-up, fantastic new parklands, part of east London. polluted with contaminants the construction of the main will be a fabulous stage such as oil, tar and lead. venues and infrastructure of for the world’s athletes The area is unrecognisable the Park was achieved in less to perform at their best. from 2005, when London Work to transform the Park than three years. With the won the right to host the began in 2007. Before project completed on time 2012 Games. Seven construction could start, the and within budget, the Park years ago, the 2.5 square land had to be cleared and is a showcase for the best kilometre site was home to cleaned. Disused buildings of UK plc – great design, light industry, dominated were demolished, with engineering, construction by overhead powerlines, materials recycled or reused and project management.

8 9 Olympic Park by numbers 10,000 286,446 pages in the planning people went on free bus application for the Olympic tours of the Olympic Park 0 53m Park that was submitted by between 2007 and 2012 people lost their lives while is the height of the Olympic the ODA, one of the longest working on construction of Stadium, 3m taller than ever in Europe main venues and infrastructure Nelson’s Column for the London 2012 Games 300,000 nails were used to fi x in 46,000+ place 56km of timber to 88 people were employed form the track surface of 2.5sq km rooftop pipes bring natural on the Olympic Park and the is the size of the Olympic light into the Copper Box Olympic and Paralympic Park – the same size as arena, reducing the need Village during the 357 football pitches for artifi cial power construction of the main venues and infrastructure, 300,000+ with the workforce peaking wetland plants have brought a at 12,000 splash of colour to parklands 4 532 surrounding Olympic and skeletons were removed individual fl oodlights in Paralympic venues from a prehistoric settlement 14 towers light up the found during excavation to meet the 180,000 work on the site of the needs of high-defi nition TV tiles line the swimming and Aquatics Centre pools in the Aquatics 2,000,000 Centre, with almost 600,000 tonnes of contaminated soil in the whole building was cleaned, with more than 675 80 per cent reused on the 5 bird and bat boxes are Olympic Park jumbo jets would fi t being installed to encourage wing tip to wing tip wildlife to make their home 200,000 inside the International in the Olympic Park temporary seats are Broadcast Centre being installed in the 10,000,000 fi nal transformation of the litres of water are needed Olympic Park by the London to fi ll the pools in the 4,000 2012 Organising Committee Aquatics Centre 52 new trees were planted huge electricity pylons in the Olympic Park and were dismantled to clear the Olympic and Paralympic landscape so construction Village, the fi rst by £1,004,000,000 could begin in the Her Majesty The Queen (€1.2bn/$1.5bn) of savings were made by the ODA Olympic Park in October 2009 to ensure the project remained within budget

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Venue facts Olympic Games The Centre contains a 50m More than 180,000 tiles Diving, Swimming, competition pool, 25m line the pools; Paralympic Synchronised Swimming, competition diving pool swimmer Liz Johnson laid Modern Pentathlon and 50m warm-up pool. the last tile in April 2011. (swimming element) Its 3,000-tonne wave-like Archaeological investigations Paralympic Games steel roof is 160m long before construction discovered Swimming and up to 80m wide. an Iron Age settlement, including an ancient burial After the Games The roof rests on just two site with four skeletons. Pools open for use by the concrete supports at one community, schools and end of the building and After the Games, a créche, elite athletes; reopens in a supporting wall at the family-friendly training spring 2014 other – a longer single span facilities, cafe and new than . public plaza will be Capacity added, and the venue’s 17,500 (reduced to 2,500 To reduce the amount of two temporary seating after the Games) mains water used, pool wings removed. water will be used to fl ush Construction the venue’s toilets. July 2008 – July 2011

14 15 Basketball Arena Venue facts Olympic sports The Arena is one of the It is 35m tall – the same Basketball (early rounds), largest temporary venues height as a 10-storey building. Handball (fi nals) ever built for any Olympic It was one of the quickest and Paralympic Games. Paralympic Games Olympic Park venues to Wheelchair Basketball, The 1,000-tonne steel be constructed, with its Wheelchair Rugby frame is covered in 20,000 giant frame erected in less square metres of recyclable than three months during After the Games PVC fabric. spring 2010. Dismantled with elements reused elsewhere It will be one of the most The seating of the arena heavily-used venues within is black and orange to Capacity the Olympic Park, with represent the colours of 12,000 (Olympics) competition events taking a basketball. 10,000 (Paralympics) place almost every day. Construction To comfortably accommodate October 2009 – July 2011 the basketball players, all the venue’s doorways are an above average 2.4m high.

16 17 BMX Track

Venue facts Olympic Games The new BMX Track Construction was completed Cycling – BMX is located next to the in time for the third round Velodrome in the north of the UCI BMX Supercross After the Games of the Olympic Park. World Cup, a test event Temporary seating will for the London 2012 be removed and the track The fast and challenging BMX competition. reconfi gured to make it course starts with an suitable for riders of all 8m-high ramp. After the Games, it will ages and abilities form part of the Lee Valley Around 14,000 cubic metres VeloPark, along with Capacity of soil were used to build the the Velodrome and a new 6,000 Track, enough to fi ll three one-mile road cycle circuit 50m swimming pools. Construction and mountain bike courses March 2011 – This soil was excavated – to be owned and managed September 2011 from elsewhere on the by Lee Valley Regional Olympic Park site, Park Authority. cleaned, then reused to create the fi nal track.

18 19 Copper Box Venue facts Olympic Games The Copper Box is 115,000 The top half of the venue is Handball (early rounds), cubic metres in size – larger clad in 3,000sq m of copper Modern Pentathlon than the with a high recycled content, (fencing element) on London’s South Bank. which will develop a rich natural colour as it ages. Paralympic Games Retractable seating can Goalball change the size of the fi eld ‘RUN’, a gigantic sculpture of play to suit different sports by artist Monica Bonvicini – After the Games during and after the Games. part of the London 2012 ‘Art Multi-use arena for in the Park’ programme – has community use, athlete It is the fi rst UK sports venue been built outside the venue. training and events; to be naturally lit – 88 rooftop reopening summer 2013 light pipes will achieve annual energy savings of Capacity up to 40 per cent. 6,500 (7,500 for events using the fi eld of play after the Games) Construction July 2009 – May 2011

20 21 Eton Manor

Venue facts Olympic Games Eton Manor is the only After the site had been Aquatics training new permanent London cleared, it was used as 2012 Paralympic venue. the temporary home for Paralympic Games a ‘digger school’, at which Wheelchair , It features four indoor people were trained in Aquatics training and six outdoor striking operating construction blue competition courts After the Games machinery with many of for Wheelchair Tennis. Transformed into facilities for them going on to get jobs the local community, including During the Games, there on the Olympic Park. a tennis centre with four indoor will be three 50m temporary Eton Manor is the site of two and six outdoor courts, hockey training swimming pools, memorials to members of the centre that will host 2015 and smaller pools for Old Boys’ Club who died in European Championships, synchronised swimmers the two World Wars. These and space for 10 fi ve-a-side and Water Polo players. memorials – used by the football pitches Eton Manor is built on the Club every Remembrance Capacity site of the Eton Manor Old Day – were stored safely 6,500 Boys’ Club, a local sports during building work, club established in the and will be restored and Construction early 1900s. returned after the Games. July 2009 – May 2011 22 23 Olympic Stadium Venue facts Olympic Games The Olympic Stadium is There are more than 700 Opening and Closing located on an ‘island’ site, rooms within the Stadium, Ceremonies, Athletics (except surrounded by waterways with a 60m warm-up track, Marathons and Race Walks) on three sides. eight changing rooms and four prayer rooms. Paralympic Games Spectators will reach the Opening and Closing venue using fi ve bridges The top ring of the Stadium Ceremonies, Athletics that link the site to the was built using surplus gas (except Marathons) surrounding area. supply pipes – an example of London 2012’s efforts to After the Games Its innovative fl exible design ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’. Becomes a multi-use venue, has a lower tier with a hosting sport, cultural and capacity of 25,000, and an To meet high-defi nition TV community events, including upper tier holding a further standards, the Stadium is lit being the new national 55,000 spectators. After the by 532 individual fl oodlights centre for athletics and the Games the Olympic Stadium housed in 14 towers, each venue for the 2017 IAAF will have a capacity of 28m high. World Championships 60,000 for legacy use. Capacity 80,000 Construction March 2008 – March 2011

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Venue facts Olympic Games London 2012 is the fi rst There are temporary seating Hockey Olympic Games where stands on three sides of the Hockey pitches are not the competition pitch; the Paralympic Games green. Pink is used for the fourth side is open, offering 5-a-side Football, area surrounding the pitch spectators a view across the 7-a-side Football and blue for the fi eld of play. Olympic Park and London. After the Games The blue pitches will provide The Riverbank Arena Temporary seating high levels of contrast with will also be used to host stands dismantled the white ball and white both Paralympic Football lines for players, offi cials, Capacity competitions. The warm-up spectators, photographers 16,000 pitch will host the 5-a-side and broadcasters. The pitch event, the main pitch the run-off areas will be pink, 7-a-side competition. providing a striking and dynamic look to the venue. The complex includes two pitches, one for competition and one for warm-up.

26 27 Velodrome Venue facts Olympic Games Olympic gold medal-winning The Velodrome won the Cycling – Track cyclist Sir joined Architecture Award at the venue’s design panel to the Design Museum’s Paralympic Games help ensure the best possible 2012 Awards. Cycling – Track conditions for participants The track is made from After the Games in the events at the venue. 56km of sustainably sourced Along with a reconfi gured During the Games, the Siberian pine, and was fi xed BMX Track and new temperature at track level in place using more than facilities for road cycling will be 28ºC to optimise 300,000 nails. and mountain biking, forms athletes’ performances. the new Lee Valley VeloPark The venue’s outer for use by community and It is naturally ventilated, cladding uses 5,000sq m elite athletes eliminating the need for of sustainably sourced air conditioning. western red cedar. Capacity 6,000 The roof collects rainwater that will help to reduce mains Construction water usage by more than March 2009 – February 2011 70 per cent.

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Venue facts Olympic Games The Arena, which has a Its silver skin is made from Water Polo 37m competition pool and environmentally-friendly a smaller training pool, is PVC that can be recycled. After the Games the fi rst dedicated Water Taken down after the Games The Arena’s infl atable Polo venue to be built for with elements of the venue sloping roof is designed an Olympic Games. expected to be reused to provide extra insulation or relocated elsewhere The venue’s sloping design and reduce condensation. means the referee’s raised Capacity table does not obscure the 5,000 view of spectators, who Construction sit on the opposite side January 2011 – May 2012 of the pool. Many parts of the venue, such as the temporary seating, have been hired so they can easily be returned and reused after the Games.

30 31 In addition to the sporting venues constructed in the Olympic Park, new permanent non-sporting facilities and infrastructure – from energy networks to art installations – are also located across the Park. Along with improvements to transport infrastructure throughout London they will support and enhance the running of the Games, then be the catalyst for developing the Olympic Park into a new community for east London after the Games.

Permanent non-competition facilities

32 33 Art in the Park

Arts and culture has been Integrating arts and culture ‘RUN’: Designed by on which a former sports incorporated into the heart into the public spaces in and internationally-renowned club was established over of the Olympic Park from the around the Park will help to artist Monica Bonvicini and 100 years ago. start, creating a benchmark give existing local communities located outside the Copper ‘Fast, Faster, Fastest’: An for future Games. a sense of ownership, attract Box, three 9m-tall letters – installation by Jason Bruges new businesses and residents, inspired by the music of Twenty-six art commissions that will celebrate the winners and help make east London a , Neil Young have been integrated into of several running events world-class visitor destination. and The Velvet Underground, the architecture, construction at the Games; visitors after and made of glass and and engineering of the Park. 2012 will be able to race stainless steel – act as a mirror The diverse artworks include Artworks 100m across a bridge and in daylight, then glow with those incorporated into measure their speed against ‘History Trees’: British artists internal LED lighting at night. underpasses, security fences the pace of the winning Ackroyd & Harvey have and planting schemes, as ‘Winning Words’: A series Olympic and Paralympic planted a semi-mature tree at well as large-scale sculptures. of specially commissioned athletes to get a sense of each of the Olympic Park’s There have also been poems across the Olympic how quickly the athletes 10 entrances, each with a artist-led community projects Park, including one by the really run. metal ring suspended from its in areas near the Park. UK’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann branches and engraved with Duffy that commemorates the words about the history of its history of the Eton Manor site, specifi c location. 34 35 Connections Facts London 2012 Games More than 30 bridges Five footbridges link the New bridges and and underpasses have been Olympic Stadium ‘island’ underpasses form new links built for use during and after site with the rest of the Park. across the Olympic Park, the Games. over the numerous rivers, A huge bridge spanning roads and railway lines that The majority of new a railway line, the River previously divided the site links will remain after the Lea and the Olympic Park Games to connect the Loop Road forms part of After the Games communities around and the Aquatics Centre roof The new connections will within the Olympic Park and is the main ‘gateway transform the area into one with the new parklands to the Games’ for spectators of the best connected areas and sporting venues. arriving from Stratford station. of London, creating links between the previously Many of the bridges have The structures, bridges and disconnected communities been designed and built so highways project is the single living close to the Park that a temporary section to biggest construction project carry increased numbers of delivered by the ODA. spectators during the Games can be taken away after the Games.

36 37 Energy Centre

Facts London 2012 Games Designed to be a community The Centre has a fl exible Provides effi cient low-carbon landmark in the tradition modular design, so that extra heating and cooling to the of London’s Battersea and capacity and new technology venues and buildings across Bankside power stations. can be added when demand the Olympic Park, and heating increases once the area Innovative biomass boilers and hot water to the Olympic is further developed after use sustainable fuels such and Paralympic Village the Games. as woodchip to generate After the Games heat and deliver The Energy Centre, which Continues to operate low-carbon energy. was delivered through and power the permanent a private sector partner, Part of the Energy Centre venues, as well as the new provides hot and chilled is housed in a renovated buildings and communities water to venues around Edwardian sweets factory that will be developed in the Olympic Park and the – the only original building the area – removing the Olympic and Paralympic retained from the Olympic need for individual boilers Village, and makes a major Park site as it was prior in new homes contribution to the ODA’s to construction. commitment to reduce Construction carbon emissions by August 2008 – October 2010 50 per cent.

38 39 IBC/MPC Facts London 2012 Games The International Broadcast The MPC has 29,000sq m Used by more than 20,000 Centre/Main Press Centre of offi ce space over four broadcasters, photographers (IBC/MPC) Complex is a storeys for journalists and and print journalists 24-hour hub for the media, photographers. who will bring the Games After the Games The MPC has a ‘brown roof’, to an estimated four billion The London Legacy which uses seeds and logs people worldwide. Development Corporation reclaimed from the Olympic is committed to creating a The IBC has 52,000sq m of Park construction site to new commercial district, studio space for broadcasters create new wildlife habitats, bringing 3,500 jobs and and 8,000sq m of offi ces. as well as solar panels to training opportunities to the generate ‘green’ electricity. The steel frame of the IBC area. A short-list of potential is big enough to house fi ve A temporary Catering Village long-term tenants was jumbo jets placed wing tip in the Complex will serve announced in January 2012 to wing tip. an estimated 50,000 meals and a decision is expected a day during the Games. this summer A temporary 200m-long ‘high street’ runs between the MPC Construction and IBC, with shops including April 2009 – July 2011 banks, newsagents, travel agents and a post offi ce.

40 41 Olympic and Paralympic Village

Facts London 2012 Games The Village is located in the ranging from one-bedroom Accommodation for up to Olympic Park, within walking apartments to four- and 16,000 athletes and offi cials distance of the venues – fi ve-bedroom houses. during the Olympic Games enhancing the experience The Village includes and over 7,000 during the of athletes and offi cials Chobham Academy, a Paralympic Games who will stay there during new world-class education the Games. After the Games campus with 1,800 places Transformed into 2,818 Along with 67 blocks of for students aged 4–19 and new homes, including apartments for its residents learning facilities for adults, 1,379 affordable homes during the Games, the opening in September 2013. and houses for sale and Village has shops, A new health centre in the rent, providing a lasting restaurants, and medical Village provides medical legacy of essential new and leisure facilities. facilities for athletes during housing for east London After the Games, the the Games, then after 2012 Construction Village will become a becomes a new health May 2008 – January 2012 new residential quarter facility for residents of known as East Village, the Village and existing with accommodation local communities.

42 43 Parklands Facts London 2012 Games The parklands were inspired North America, Southern Acres of new parkland, by the original Victorian Hemisphere and Asia. providing a colourful festival public parks of London. There are more than atmosphere for the Games 4,000 semi-mature trees 300,000 wetland plants After the Games have been planted across the in the Olympic Park. Further integrated with the Olympic Park and Olympic The Park’s wetland and local area and communities and Paralympic Village. wet woodlands in the north of surrounding the Park A specially designed gold the Park will help to manage riverbank meadow of fl oodwater, protecting the rest cornfl owers, marigolds, of the Park and 4,000 existing Californian poppies and homes around the Park from prairie fl owers was sown extreme weather conditions. so they bloom just in time The Park has 250 benches for the Olympic Games and more than 3,300 seats Opening Ceremony. so that people are never more Around 250 different species than a 50m walk from a seat. have been planted in the 2012 Gardens in world zones representing Europe,

44 45 Primary Substation Pumping Station

Facts The substation distributes electricity through 100km of new electrical cabling – the same length as 250 laps of the Olympic Stadium. It has a ‘brown roof’ made London 2012 Games with reused crushed materials, Distributes electricity which will encourage local effi ciently from the wider wildlife to make it their home. Facts national network to the The circular building venues around the Olympic More than 130,000 bricks was designed to refl ect Park and the Stratford City were used in the construction the Pumping Station’s development of the substation. sewer shafts. After the Games Where possible, material A 16m-deep underground Along with the Energy from the demolition of shaft connects the station Centre, will help to power buildings in the nearby Kings London 2012 Games with 1.8km of new sewer the local area and support Yard has been reused in the Collects, conveys and tunnels that run under the future developments substation’s construction. removes waste water Olympic Park. Construction The building won the 2010 from the main venues The outside of the building December 2007 – Royal Institute of British and buildings on the features drawings depicting October 2009 Architects ‘Commercial Olympic Park and Industrial Building the history and Victorian After the Games of the Year’. origins of London’s sewer Continues serving network. the local area A blue light at the top of the Construction 12m-high ventilation tower June 2008 – January 2010 creates a ‘beacon’ in the south of the Park. Construction workers nicknamed the two pink tanks Pinky and Perky, after two children’s TV characters.

46 47 Transport Facts London 2012 Games Fifty-fi ve new railcars for the An accessible mezzanine- £6.5 billion investment in Docklands Light Railway (DLR) level entrance has been infrastructure improvements enable it to run three-carriage opened at Stratford station, before the Games, increasing trains on most of its network, easing crowding at the capacity and improving increasing the capacity of existing entrance and taking accessibility to help realise this important east London passengers directly to the London 2012’s aim for light-rail network. westbound Central line 100 per cent of spectators and DLR services. to travel to the Games The capacity and frequency using public transport, of services have been More than 100 improvement or by walking or cycling. increased on the London schemes have been delivered Overground’s on eight walking and cycling After the Games Line, which connects south-west routes across London, Improvements transforming London to Stratford station, including some that link the the Olympic Park area into via north London. Olympic Park, as well as one of the best connected paths linking to outer parts of London – served Nine new lifts and eight new London venues. by 10 different rail routes – staircases have been installed benefi t Londoners and and subways extended or The DLR has been extended commuters for decades reopened at Stratford station under the River Thames to to improve passenger fl ow Arsenal, and from and accessibility. to Stratford.

48 49 Venues in London beyond the Olympic Park include existing world-famous sports venues such as and Wimbledon, and historic locations, including The Mall and , which will be dramatically transformed for the Games. These London landmarks will serve as unforgettable venues and backdrops for sport and cultural events. This will create a magical atmosphere and an electrifying experience for competitors and spectators.

Other London venues

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52 53 Earls Court ExCeL

Venue facts Earls Court holds hundreds of events every year, from exhibitions and conferences to concerts by stars including , , and . The current building was opened in 1937 Venue facts with an unprecedented ExCeL is the largest 40,000sq m of space. Olympic Games competition venue at Volleyball The venue already has an the Games and houses Olympic history – it hosted fi ve different arenas, Capacity parts of the Boxing, each of which will host 15,000 Gymnastics, Weightlifting a different sport. and Wrestling competitions It was opened in 2001 as at the London 1948 Games. an international conference An empty swimming pool and exhibition centre in is located under the venue’s London’s Docklands. concrete exhibition fl oor. Seven test events were held at the venue in 2011 to ensure the venue was ready to stage the Games: Boxing, Table Tennis, Fencing, Judo, Olympic Games Taekwondo, Weightlifting Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, and Wrestling. Taekwondo, Weightlifting, Table Tennis, Fencing Paralympic Games Boccia, Table Tennis, Judo, Powerlifting, Wheelchair Fencing, Sitting Volleyball Capacity 10,000

54 55 Greenwich Park Hampton Court Palace

Venue facts Hampton Court Palace boasts a rich sporting history: it is home to the oldest surviving real tennis court in – one of fewer than 50 real tennis courts in the world. The palace that exists today Venue facts was largely built in the 16th and 17th centuries. Greenwich Park is London’s Olympic Games It has housed many famous oldest Royal Park, dating Road Cycling Time Trial – kings and queens over the back to 1433. It is part of the start and fi nish years, most notably Henry VIII. Greenwich World Heritage Site and home to the Prime William Shakespeare and his Meridian Line and the company once performed at . Hampton Court Palace for King James I. Covering 74 hectares and located just 20 minutes from , the park offers sweeping views across the River Thames to St Paul’s Cathedral and beyond. Olympic Games The temporary arena features Equestrian, an innovative platform held Modern Pentathlon above the ground by more (riding, combined element) than 2,000 pillars to ensure Paralympic Games there are no vibrations to Equestrian upset the horses. Capacity The 5.7km cross-country 23,000 course features more than 40 jumps.

56 57 Horse Guards Parade Hyde Park

Venue facts Horse Guards Parade is located behind the Prime Minister’s offi cial residence at . It lies at the heart of London’s ceremonial life and hosts the ceremonial event on Venue facts Her Majesty The Queen’s One of London’s eight Royal offi cial birthday. Olympic Games Parks, Hyde Park has been Beach Volleyball The ‘beach’ is being created open to the public since 1637. with 5,000 tonnes of sand. Capacity The 10km Marathon 15,000 London 2012 donated the Swimming and swimming sand used in the August element of the Triathlon 2011 test event to create will take place in the park’s new courts at three famous Serpentine lake. different sports centres. The park is home to a number Olympic Games of grassroots sports clubs, 10km Marathon Swimming, including the Serpentine Triathlon (swimming element) Swimming Club, and regularly hosts major sports events – including the London stage of the annual World Triathlon Series. Every Christmas morning since 1864, the Serpentine lake has hosted a 100-yard (91.4m) race, known as the Peter Pan Cup, open only to members of the Serpentine Swimming Club. Hyde Park is also hosting a range of music and cultural events this summer, including and Bruce Springsteen. 58 59 Lord’s Cricket Ground The Mall

Venue facts The Mall runs from at its western end to Admiralty and on to at its eastern end. Designed to welcome the royal family and visiting heads of state to Buckingham Venue facts Palace, The Mall’s iconic red Archers will shoot from road will also give the effect Olympic Games the front of the ground’s of a giant red carpet for Marathons, Race Walks 19th-century Pavilion athletes participating in and Cycling Road Races towards the award-winning the road events. Media Centre, which was Paralympic Games The temporary structures commissioned for the 1999 Marathons required for the Games – Cricket World Cup. including spectator seating Lord’s staged its fi rst Test and scoreboards – were (international) match (England erected in 36 days following v Australia) in 1884 and celebrations to mark Olympic Games this summer is hosting Test Her Majesty The Queen’s Archery matches against the West Diamond Jubilee and birthday in June. Capacity Indies and South Africa. 6,500 Lord’s is home of the Marylebone Cricket Club, cricket’s original governing body, which drafted the fi rst Laws of the sport in 1788. Lord’s Cricket Ground has been a venue for top-class sport since the 19th century. Named after its original founder, Thomas Lord, the ground, at St John’s Wood in north-west London, opened in 1814.

60 61 North Greenwich Arena The Royal Artillery Barracks Venue facts The Arena was originally built for the Millennium celebrations, and was known as the Millennium Dome. It has since been transformed into a world-renowned entertainment venue, featuring a 20,000-seat, multi-use arena, an 11-screen cinema, bars Venue facts and restaurants. Three temporary indoor The Arena stages the men’s ranges for Pistol and Rifl e ATP World Tennis Finals and Shooting events have been was the venue for the 2009 built, along with outdoor Olympic Games World Artistic Gymnastics shotgun ranges for Trap Basketball, Gymnastics – Championships, as well and Skeet events. Artistic/Trampoline as NBA Basketball and The location provides a fi tting Paralympic Games NHL Ice Hockey matches. location for Shooting: in 1716 Wheelchair Basketball The venue is located on the a Royal Warrant authorised on the the formation of two artillery Capacity Olympic Games banks of the River Thames. companies on the site. 20,000 Shooting Spectators will enter the Paralympic Games venue with views of the Shooting, Archery world-famous military base After the Games – the longest continuous Temporary facilities removed Georgian building façade and the venue restored to in the UK. its pre-Games condition The unique outer structures and handed back to the have been innovatively Ministry of Defence, which designed with 18,000sq m owns the land of recyclable PVC membrane. Capacity 7, 5 0 0 Construction March 2011 – January 2012

62 63 Wembley Arena Wembley Stadium

Venue facts Flooring, lighting and other competition requirements have been installed for the Games, along with temporary training, warm-up halls and an operations compound. It was built for the 1934 Venue facts British Empire Games (now known as the The original Wembley Stadium Olympic Games ) was built in 1923 as part of Badminton, and originally had a the British Empire Exhibition. Gymnastics – Rhythmic swimming pool that was At the London 1948 Olympic After the Games last used at the London Games, Wembley Stadium Returns to being a world-class 1948 Olympic Games. hosted Athletics, parts of the live music and sports venue Although famous for music Equestrian, Football and Capacity concerts, it is also one of Hockey competitions and a 6,000 London’s most iconic sporting lacrosse demonstration event. venues, recently hosting The re-built Wembley opened snooker, darts, hockey Olympic Games in 2007, with the famous twin and wrestling. Football towers replaced by an iconic Madonna, , After the Games arch with the largest single Stevie Wonder and Venue returns to being span (315m) roof structure are some of the England’s national in the world. stars that have performed football stadium Wembley’s biggest moment at Wembley Arena. Capacity came in 1966, when England 90,000 won the football World Cup, beating West Germany – as the crowd invaded the pitch with England about to score their fourth goal, the BBC commentator spoke some of the most famous words in sports broadcasting: ‘They think it’s all over ... it is now.’

6464 65 Wimbledon

Venue facts Wimbledon is home to the world’s most famous tennis championships, fi rst held on the lawns of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in 1877 – the oldest Grand Slam event. Wimbledon’s Centre Court was opened in 1922. The ground has been updated Olympic Games in recent years, with the Tennis addition of improved stands Capacity and a retractable roof, which 30,000 was completed in 2009. The venue staged the outdoor Lawn Tennis events at the London 1908 Olympic Games, but the sport missed out on being a venue for the London 1948 Games, as Tennis was not on the Olympic programme.

66 67 The sporting action is taking place across the whole UK. The 11 sporting venues outside London include improved facilities for Sailing at Weymouth and Portland on the south coast of England and the new Lee Valley White Water Centre for Canoe Slalom. Six of the UK’s world-famous stadia will host the Olympic Football Tournament, including Hampden Park in , Scotland; Old Trafford, home of United FC; and the Millennium Stadium in , Wales.

Out of London venues

68 69 Out of London venues

The Mountain Bike competition will be held at Hadleigh Farm, , while the brand new Lee Valley White Water Centre in will be the venue for Canoe Slalom. Eton Dorney, near Windsor in Berkshire, is an existing international-standard rowing venue that has been enhanced to stage Rowing and Canoe Sprint at the Games. Sailing will be held at Weymouth and Portland in Dorset. Road cycling events will take place at Box Hill, , and Brands Hatch, Kent.

The Football competition will be staged at existing world-class in co-Host Cities around the UK: Hampden Park, Glasgow; Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; Old Trafford, Manchester; St James’ Park, Newcastle; and City of Coventry Stadium, Coventry.

●A Lee Valley White Water Centre, Hertfordshire Canoe Slalom

●B Eton Dorney, Berkshire Rowing, Canoe Sprint ●C Hampden Park, Glasgow Football ●D Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Football ●E Hadleigh Farm, Essex Cycling – Mountain Bike ●F Old Trafford, Manchester Football ●G St James’ Park, Newcastle Football ●H Weymouth and Portland, Dorset Sailing ●I City of Coventry Stadium, Coventry Football ●J Brands Hatch, Kent Paralympic Road Cycling ●K Box Hill, Surrey Road Cycling Time Trial

70 71 Box Hill Brands Hatch

Venue facts Box Hill, in the North Downs in Surrey, around 30km south-west of London, is famous for its sweeping panoramic views of the south of England and has been popular with visitors since Victorian times. The area will feature Venue facts prominently in the Cycling The choice of Brands Hatch Olympic Games Road Races, with the men pays homage to the history Road Cycling Time Trial completing nine laps of of the venue, which was fi rst the Box Hill circuit and developed in the 1920s for the women two laps. grass track cycle racing. The viewing areas within The former Formula 1 Grand the venue have been Prix circuit will be used for selected in cooperation around half the course, with the National Trust and including the start and fi nish, Natural England to minimise with the remaining race taking the impact on the rare and Paralympic Games place on local roads nearby. beautiful plants and animals Road Cycling that live on the slopes of Requirements for Paralympic Box Hill. Road Cycling are very precise as the course has to be suitable and challenging for a wide variety of disability groups: approximately 25 per cent of the course is uphill sections of not more than six per cent gradient. Brands Hatch has hosted motor racing’s British Grand Prix 12 times between 1964 and 1986, the fi rst won by Jim Clark, the last by Nigel Mansell.

72 73 Eton Dorney

Venue facts Olympic Games Set in a 400-acre park within An additional cut-through has Rowing, Canoe Sprint a nature conservation area, been created at the 1,400m Eton Dorney Rowing Centre mark to allow competitors to Paralympic Games at is acclaimed get from the return lane to the Rowing as one of the fi nest rowing competition course. Previously After the Games venues in the world. the only cut-through was at Continues as a the 600m mark. It hosted the Rowing World world-class training and Championships in 2006 and Two bridges have also been competition facility the FISA World Rowing Junior installed: the fi rst spans Capacity Championships in 2011. the new cut-through, while 30,000 (including 10,000 the other has replaced the The venue has a 2,200m, along the bank) existing fi nish line bridge eight-lane rowing course, with a wider one. Construction warm-up lanes and Improvements to venue competition facilities. facilities, September 2009 – Each competition lane in March 2010 the lake is 13.5m wide.

74 75 Regional Football stadia

City of Coventry Stadium It is home to Queen’s Park, Old Trafford, Manchester Capacity: 32,000 the oldest club in Scotland, Capacity: 76,000 now playing in the Scottish League’s Third Division. Olympic Games Football For the Glasgow , After the Games Hampden Park will be Return to being some transformed into an of the UK’s most famous international standard sporting venues athletics venue. Home to League One The ‘Theatre of Dreams’ has football club Coventry City been the home of Manchester Millennium Stadium, Cardiff since it opened in 2005, St James’ Park, Newcastle United since the ground Capacity: 74,60 0 the Stadium is part of a Capacity: 52,000 opened in 1910. multi-purpose complex that hosts sports, business and It was recently expanded entertainment events. to 76,000 seats, making it the second largest football It will be one of the venues stadium in the UK and the for the World third largest London 2012 Cup when it is staged in venue, after Wembley England in 2015. Stadium and the new Olympic Stadium. Wales’s national stadium Football has been played at for rugby union was the fi rst Hampden Park, Glasgow St James’ Park since 1880 It will be one of the venues sports venue in the UK to Capacity: 52,000 and the stadium has been the for the Rugby Union World have a fully retractable roof. home of Newcastle United, Cup when it is staged in one of English football’s most England in 2015. It will host the very fi rst event passionately-followed clubs, of the London 2012 Olympic since 1892. Games, with women’s Football matches starting It will be one of the venues on 25 July, two days before for the Rugby Union World the Opening Ceremony. Cup when it is staged in England in 2015. Scotland’s national stadium opened in 1903, with attendances as high as 149,000 for a football international against England in 1937. 76 77 Hadleigh Farm Venue facts Olympic Games The 550-acre site is The course has been Cycling – Mountain Bike located in Hadleigh specially designed to Country Park and on provide a physical and After the Games land owned by the technical challenge for Essex County Council and Salvation Army. the world’s leading riders, the Salvation Army are with plenty of demanding committed to delivering a It was created with climbs and descents. lasting legacy at Hadleigh 500 tonnes of rock Farm following the London and 3,500 tonnes of Gradients on the course 2012 Games crushed stone. measure 70m from top to bottom. Capacity 20,000 Construction July 2010 – March 2011

78 79 Lee Valley White Water Centre

Venue facts Olympic Games The centre is located 30km The 300m competition Canoe Slalom north of the Olympic Park, course drops 5.5m from on the edge of the start to fi nish. After the Games 1,000-acre River Lee Centre returns to being a Enough water fl ows into Country Park – part of the world-class canoeing and the Olympic course to fi ll Lee Valley Regional Park. kayaking facility for use by a 50m-sized swimming pool the community and elite The centre has two in just over three minutes. athletes, as well as a major new courses: a 300m The 2015 Canoe Slalom leisure attraction for white Olympic-standard World Championships will water rafting – owned and competition course with a be held at the Lee Valley managed by Lee Valley 5.5m descent, and a 160m White Water Centre. Regional Park Authority; intermediate/training course reopening September 2012 with a 1.6m descent. Capacity More than 33,000 people 12,000 have rafted and 7,000 canoed or kayaked at the Construction centre since it opened to July 2009 – December 2010 the public in April 2011.

80 81 Weymouth and Portland Venue facts Olympic Games Located in Dorset on the Around 50,000 tonnes Sailing south coast of England, of local Portland stone Weymouth and Portland was used to construct the Paralympic Games provides some of the best slipway at the venue. Paralympic Sailing natural sailing waters in After the Games the UK. The sailing community was Returns to being a benefi ting from the improved state-of-the-art sailing The enhancements to the facilities at WPNSA long facility for elite training, Weymouth and Portland before the Games: the competition and National Sailing Academy Windsurfi ng and Sailing community use, alongside (WPNSA) included a new World Championships were a commercial marina slipway, 70 moorings, boat held there in August 2009. parking and crane piers Capacity 4,800 Alongside the Academy, a new commercial marina Construction provides moorings for 300 Improvements to venue boats and commercial facilities at Academy, March facilities. 2008 – November 2008; commercial marina, March 2007 – April 2009

82 83 The construction of the venues and staging of the London 2012 Games have raised the bar in areas from diversity and health and safety, to sustainability and employment and skills. London 2012 has set new standards for future Games and industry to follow.

Setting new standards for construction

84 85 Accessibility Diversity

Facts Facts Accessibility has been The London 2012 Women improved at railway stations into Construction project was and public transport established to help women facilities, with £200 million get work placements in invested in Stratford Station construction, an industry in alone, providing new lifts, which they are traditionally Inclusive and accessible clearer platforms and The opportunity provided underrepresented. Since the design has been at the heart enhanced services. by the Games and the large project began in 2008, 270 women were recruited and of the Games. The parklands have been investment in this part of east placed directly into jobs on designed with shallow London is helping to reduce London 2012 wanted to set the Olympic Park through gradients and seating at historic and long-standing an excellent standard of this project, exceeding its regular intervals so that they inequalities. accessibility for disabled original target of 50. people, older people and are accessible to everyone, London 2012 developed families with children, which including older people, employment and training 1,713 women worked on would set a benchmark disabled people and those programmes with partner the major construction phase and act as an inspiration with pushchairs. organisations and of the Olympic Park and Olympic and Paralympic to others. A new network of accessible contractors to encourage women, black, Asian and Village and 5,092 of the The Olympic and Paralympic transport was devised and minority ethnic (BAME) Park and Village workers Village, sporting venues, publicised to encourage people, disabled people, declared that they were from new transport services, people with accessibility and those who were a BAME background. supporting facilities and the needs to use public transport previously unemployed to Park itself will be accessible – often for the fi rst time. More than 1,000 community improve their skills and apply events and meetings to people with a wide range Local community for jobs in construction and have taken place with of disabilities both during organisations have been other areas where they different faith, age, gender, and after the Games. consulted and London 2012’s have traditionally been disability, sexual orientation strategy has been infl uenced underrepresented. and ethnicity groups to by the experiences of encourage them to get multi-faith groups, parents Away from construction, involved in the Games. and disabled people. programmes were also established to reduce discrimination experienced by disabled people, older people and BAME people.

86 87 Businesses

Facts The Games have given The Games have also had a A total £6.9 billion of By June 2012, 11,700 London companies across the UK wider impact on UK business contracts have been 2012 and other supply chain a boost during what have and industry. awarded by the ODA. opportunities had been been extremely challenging made available to businesses In winning contracts and Through the comprehensive economic times. through CompeteFor, a working on the Games, many licensing and merchandise free brokerage service They have generated businesses and their supply programme, the Games are that enables businesses billions of pounds of chains have had to change expected to drive around to compete for contract contracts, with businesses their working practices, from £1 billion worth of sales opportunities linked to creating tens of thousands improving their equality and to the UK high street. the Games and other major of new jobs that would not inclusion or health and safety Companies from every public and private sector have otherwise existed. policies to developing new region in the UK have buying organisations. approaches to sustainable won business contracts. or accessible design that More than 160,000 suppliers will help them win work More than 240 businesses, nationwide had registered in the future. from throughout the UK won on the CompeteFor system contracts on the construction by the end of June 2012. of the Olympic Stadium.

88 89 Funding

London 2012 Costs of individual venues and facilities

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is responsible for the for which the ODA is responsible: construction of the venues and infrastructure for the Games Olympic and Paralympic Village: £1.1 billion and their use after 2012. Olympic Stadium: £428 million The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd (LOCOG) is responsible for IBC/MPC Complex: £295 million preparing and staging the London 2012 Games. Aquatics Centre: £251 million The ODA is publicly funded through national and London VeloPark (including the Velodrome and BMX Track): taxes, as well as contributions from the National Lottery. £87 million In 2007, the Government announced a public sector funding package of £9.3 billion, of which the ODA could spend Eton Manor: £55 million a maximum of £8.1 billion. Copper Box: £41 million Every quarter, the Government publishes a fi nancial Basketball Arena: £40 million report outlining current and anticipated fi nal costs for the ODA’s activities. The latest version (June 2012) gave Water Polo Arena: £19 million the anticipated fi nal cost as £6.761 billion, including: The Royal Artillery Barracks: £33 million Site preparation and infrastructure: £1.822 billion Lee Valley White Water Centre: £22 million Venues: £1.051 billion Improvements to facilities at Eton Dorney: £9 million Transport capital projects: £429 million Improvements to facilities at Weymouth and Portland: Full details of all spending can be found at £8 million www.culture.gov.uk/publications/9134.aspx Funding for LOCOG comes mainly from the private sector. A total of £2 billion will be raised from sources including sponsorship, broadcasting rights, income from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and selling merchandise and tickets.

90 91 Legacy Facts The Olympic and Paralympic The new Park will open in Of every £1 the ODA has Eventually, fi ve new Games have been the phases from 27 July 2013, spent, 75 pence has gone neighbourhoods will be catalyst for the physical one year after the Opening towards the long-term established on the site; in transformation of a huge Ceremony of the London regeneration of the area. time, there will be almost area of east London. 2012 Olympic Games. 11,000 new homes on and The new transport around the Olympic Park. After the Games the Olympic As well as its collection connections and networks Park will be transformed of iconic sporting venues, of energy, water and It has already been agreed into the Queen Elizabeth the Park will combine the telecommunications that who will manage six of the Olympic Park, a brand new parklands and waterways were built for the Games will eight permanent venues and piece of the city connecting of the river valley in the provide the backbone for the attractions on the Park in the the communities surrounding north with a 50-acre urban area’s future development. long-term after the Games. the Park and bringing jobs playground in the south. The Olympic and Paralympic The Park will be managed and homes to the area. Village will be converted by the London Legacy The Queen Elizabeth into 2,818 new homes – to Development Corporation. Olympic Park will be be known as East Village 100 hectares of new an exciting new visitor – with housing for sale and open space will be destination and community rent, half of which will be created – equal in size park, unlike any other affordable housing. to St James’s Park in in the UK. central London.

92 93 Sustainability

Facts Sustainability was central The venues have been The ODA is on track to More than 675 bird and bat to London’s bid to host designed to be as exceed by 10 per cent a boxes using off-cut drainage the Games and has been sustainable as possible, challenging target to reduce pipes (pictured) are being a key priority throughout using innovative techniques the carbon emissions of the installed across the Park the construction of venues to reuse or recycle materials, Olympic Park by 50 per cent. to encourage new homes and infrastructure, and the encourage new wildlife for wildlife. Two million tonnes of soil staging of the Games. habitats, and reduce energy were excavated and cleaned, The UK’s largest waste water use and water consumption. Where there was a long-term with more than 80 per cent recycling facility is helping need for a new venue, we To reduce the use of materials, reused on the site – one of to reduce the consumption have built new permanent existing venues have been the UK’s largest clean-ups of non-drinking water on facilities; where there was used where possible. of contaminated land. the Park by 60 per cent. not, we have built temporary London 2012 is the fi rst ever More than 98 per cent of venues with materials that summer Games to measure materials generated from the can be recycled and hired its carbon footprint over the demolition works on the Park parts that can be reused. entire project; the carbon were reused or recycled. footprint of staging the London 2012’s target is Games is expected to be for no waste to be sent to 20 per cent lower than landfi ll during the Games. originally projected. 94 95 Workforce

The Games have provided Health and safety has been More than 46,000 people More than a quarter of the thousands of people with one of the major successes were employed on the Park workforce on the Olympic jobs and training during a of the project: the accident and Village during the Park at the peak of diffi cult time for the economy, frequency rate during the construction of the main construction was from six leaving long-term social and construction of the main venues and infrastructure, of the London boroughs economic benefi ts for London London 2012 venues and with the workforce peaking nearest the Park. and the UK. infrastructure was well below at more than 12,000. A ‘digger school’ on the the industry average and Construction on the Park and Olympic Park gave people better than the national Facts Village saw fewer than 125 – including women and average for all workplaces reportable incidents in more disabled people – the At the peak of construction in – setting a benchmark than 80 million hours worked chance to train in operating June 2011, 13 per cent of the for the rest of the UK’s on the ODA’s construction construction machinery. workforce on the Park was construction industry. project, with no fatalities. previously unemployed. After the Games there 457 apprentices experienced will be 2,500 temporary work on the London 2012 construction jobs on the construction project, well site during the peak of above the target of 350. transformation works and up to 8,000 permanent jobs on the Park by 2030.

96 97 Venue contractors

Venue contractors Olympic Stadium: Other Park buildings Primary Substation: Architect – ; lead Architect – NORD Architecture; IBC/MPC Complex: Delivery Partner contractor – Sir Robert McAlpine; main contractor – EDF Energy Architects – IBC – Allies & structural and services engineers – Contracting; structural engineers ODA Delivery Partner: Morrison, RPS Group, MPC ; landscape architect – Andrews Associates; building CLM (CH2M HILL, – Allies & Morrison; lead – Hyland Edgar Driver. services – Applied Energy; Laing O'Rourke and Mace) contractor – Carillion; structural contractor Kier; owner and Lee Valley White Water Centre: and services engineers – Buro operator UK Power Networks. Venues Architect – FaulknerBrowns Happold; landscape – Townshend Architects; lead contractor – Landscape Architects. Pumping Station: Aquatics Centre: Morrison Construction; structural Architect – Lyall Bills & Young Olympic and Paralympic Village: Architect – ; and services engineers – Cundall; (formerly John Lyall Architects); Master planning – Fletcher Priest lead contractor – Balfour Beatty; white water course specialists, utilities contractor – Barhale; Architects; landscape design sports architect – S&P Architects; Whitewater Parks International; structural and services engineer – Vogt; civil engineers – Arup; engineering – Arup; steel roof landscape designers – Michael – Hyder Consulting; building development and construction construction – Rowecord. van Valkenburgh Associates. contractor – Hutton Construction; management – Lend Lease; owner and operator – Thames Basketball Arena: Velodrome: architects – Allford Hall Water Utilities. Architect – Wilkinson Eyre Architect – Hopkins; Monaghan Morris (academy), Architects; main contractors – lead contractor – ISG plc; CF Moller, Denton Corker Parklands: Barr Construction, Slick Seating structural engineer – Expedition Marshall, dRMM, DSDHA and Design – LDA Design and Systems, Base, Mitie, Envirowrap, Engineering; services engineer – PRP, Eric Parry Architects, Glenn Hargreaves Associates (from Volker Fitzpatrick, McAvoy; BDSP Partnership; track designer Howells Architects, Haworth Stage D), Aecom/EDAW (through sports architect – KSS; Structural – Ron Webb; landscape – Tompkins Architects, Lifschutz Stage C); Biodiversity Action Plan engineer – . Grant Associates. Davidson Sandilands, Niall – EDAW/Gary Grant, LDA, Atkins (CLM); Engineering – Atkins, Arup; Copper Box: Weymouth and Portland: McLaughlin, Panter Hudspith lead contractors – Bam Nuttall, Architect – MAKE; lead Project manager and lead Architects, Patel Taylor with Bligh Skanska; planting design – James contractor – Buckingham Group consultant – White Young Green; Voller Nield Architecture, Penoyre Hitchmough, Nigel Dunnett; Contracting; sports architect – marine engineers and advisors & Prasad Architects (health centre), University of Sheffi eld; planting PTW; detailed design – – Royal Haskoning; main Piercy and Company. design – Sarah Price Landscapes; Populous; engineers – Arup. contractor – Dean & Dyball. Infrastructure buildings soil and landscape consultancy Eton Dorney: Water Polo Arena: – Tim O’Hare Associates; trees – Design – Ramboll Whitbybird; Architect – David Morley Energy Centre: Hilliers Nurseries; wetland plants main contractor – Morrison Architects; main contractors – Architect – John McAslan + – Salix; 2012 garden plants – Construction. ES Group, Jackson Civil Partners; main contractor – Palmstead Nurseries; Eton Manor: Engineering Group Ltd, PJ Carey; structural engineer – 2012 gardens planting – Architect – Stanton Williams; Alto Seating Systems Ltd, Adams Kara Taylor; owner Willerby Landscapes. A&T/Barr & Wray, Byrne Group and operator – Cofeley, engineers – Arup; main contractors Structures, bridges and highways: plc, Balfour Beatty; structural a subsidiary of GDF Suez. – Mansell Construction Services, Engineers – Atkins, Arup, Adams engineer – Buro Happold; PJ Careys, Slick Seating Systems, Kara Taylor; architects – Allies environmental engineer Mitie Engineering, A&T, Nussli. and Morrison, Heneghan Peng – Max Fordham. Architects; contractors – Skanska, BAM Nuttall, Balfour Beatty, Lagan Construction Ltd, John Sisk and Sons

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