Olympic Delivery Authority London 2012 venues factfi le July 2012 Venuesguide Contents Introduction 05 Permanent non-competition Horse Guards 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 Diversity 87 Olympic Park 08 Connections 36 The Mall 61 Businesses 88 Olympic Park by numbers 10 Energy Centre 38 North Greenwich 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 Wembley Arena 64 Workforce 96 BMX Track 18 Olympic and Wembley Stadium 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 Brands Hatch 73 Map of London venues 52 Eton Dorney 74 Earls Court 54 Regional Football stadia 76 ExCeL 55 Hadleigh Farm 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 capital. 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 Horse Guards Parade and the UK that will be a fantastic Greenwich Park, or iconic stage for this summer of sport. homes of sport like Wembley, We hope it will help you, Old Trafford, Hampden Park, as you share with others the Millennium Stadium, 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 Velodrome 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 Olympic Stadium to meet the 180,000 work on the site of the needs of high-defi nition TV tiles line the swimming and Aquatics Centre diving 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 10 11 Olympic Park map N metres 0 200 Wa lth a m Greenway Transport Hub F o r e s t Stratford station Westfield New ham High StreetWest Ham Stratford City station Stratford Olympic and International A12 Paralympic station Greenway Village Stratford Gate Gate Aquatics Centre S k t r a al t f o W r d Orbit y W a Water Circus w a n l e Polo k Orbit e y Arena Gr a w n BMX e e Track r Basketball G Arena The Eton Street Wetlands Manor Velodrome Market Olympic Walk d a Stadium o Park Live R Warm-up East p venue e r L e a o R i v o k L l k a l n o r W Londonon Wa yway M a River Lon nd a n o W t Lawns E Park Live A12 World a i West Britannia Square r o t Row c i V Eton Manor Ea CopperCopper r Energy stway Warm-up Box Gate Riverbank venue Box Centre Arena ute Victoria Eton Manor ss Ro Gate o Transport Hub International To wer Cr ast Broadcast E Centre H a mle t s Main Press Hac k n N Centre Hackney metres Entrance and exit Olympic sport Spectator zone Paralympic sport Entrance area Park Live Competition venues London Underground Warm-up venue National Rail Non-sports venue London Overground Back of house Docklands Light Railway © Crown Copyright and database right 2012. Ordnance Survey 100046062. You are not permitted to copy, sub-license, 12 distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in any form 13 Aquatics Centre 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.