London Olympic Stadium 2014 : England

August 21, 2009 By: risdianto Category: sport building

The London Olympic Stadium located at Marshgate Lane in Stratford in the Lower Lea Valley, London. The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics. It will have a capacity for the Games of approximately 80,000 making it temporarily the third-largest stadium in Britain behind Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium. Land preparation for the stadium began in mid-2007, with the official construction start date on 22 May, 2008, although piling works for the foundation unofficially began 4 weeks ahead of that date.

The stadium design was launched on 7 November 2007. As a “unique 80,000 seat stadium, it will be the centrepiece for the 2012 Games, hosting the opening and closing ceremonies and the athletics events, converting down to a 25,000 seat permanent stadium after the Games, when it will become a new home for athletics, combined with other sporting, community and educational uses.

As of June 2009, the stadium’s track-and-field arena has been excavated out of the soft clay found on the site, around which permanent seating for 25,000 has been assembled, using concrete “rakers”. The natural slope of the land is incorporated into the design, with warm-up and changing areas being dug into a semi-basement position at the lower end. A demountable lightweight steel and concrete upper tier has been built up from this “bowl” to accommodate a further 55,000 spectators, and is nearing completion.

London Olympic Stadium

The Team Stadium Consortium:

Construction Contractor – Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd
Architect – HOK Sport Ltd
Sports Venue Designer – HOK Sport Ltd
Structural Engineer – Buro Happold Ltd
Building services engineer – Buro Happold
Landscape architect HED
Planning Consultant – Savills Hepher Dixon via