Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Glasgow deserves share of London Olympic cash, says SNP candidate
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Olympics Jobs London Recrutiers
Huntress, warren partners, better placed, Harvey Nash and Capita Resourcing are the companies who deals with the recruting of Olympcs jobs.
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Handball Arena (2012 Olympics)
London's Olympic bid proposed that there would be four arenas in the Olympic Park, but the revised masterplan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball being moved to Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The fencing arena was also cancelled, and the fencing will now take place at ExCeL.
The Handball Arena will have 6,000 to 7,000 seats. It will be used for handball preliminaries and quarter finals and modern pentathlon fencing and shooting during the Olympic Games, and for goalball during the Paralympic Games. The handball semi finals and final will be held at the larger Basketball Arena. The Olympic Delivery Authority plans to submit a planning application in September 2008 and complete the building in 2011. Post 2012 it will be changes to become a multi-sport arena for community use, athlete training and small-to-medium scale events. It will be the only permanent indoor arena retained in the Olympic Park, as the Basketball Arena will be relocated.
Basketball Arena (2012 Olympics)
London's Olympic bid proposed that there would be four arenas in the Olympic Park, but the revised masterplan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball being moved to Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The fencing arena was also cancelled, and the fencing will now take place at ExCeL.
The Basketball Arena will have 12,000 seats for Olympic basketball and the semi-finals and finals of the Olympic handball, and 10,000 for Paralympic wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. Concept designs were agreed in June 2008 and a planning application is due to be submitted in November 2008. It will be a temporary venue, and it is hoped that it will be reassembled elsewhere in the UK after the games.
In early October 2008 it was speculated that Wembley Arena could be used as a replacement venue for the preliminary rounds of the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament instead of the Basketball Arena, thus saving up to £90 million but in March 2009 it was confirmed that a new arena will be built in Stratford as originally proposed.
Olympic Hockey Centre (London) 2012
Olympic London - Velopark
The financial support for the Velopark was confirmed in February 2005 and the project was planned to go further whether or not London's proposal for the 2012 Summer Olympics was successful.
The capacity of spectator of 6000 rather than 1500 seats in Velopark, which will be used for the Olympics is the outdoor BMX.
In addition to the two Olympic venues the London Velopark will feature a 1.6 km road racing circuit, and a cross-country mountain bike course. The Velopark is planned to be finished in 2011. In 2004, during London's Olympic bid, the estimated cost was £37 million, including £20 million for the velodrome.Since London won the games, the planned size of the velopark has been compact from 34 hectares to 10 hectares. The road and mountain bike circuits will be far smaller than originally proposed, and the promised cycle speedway track will not be built.
Aquatics Centre London, Olympics
The centre will be for the Olympic action of swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo final. During the Games it will have a capacity of 17,500, which will be reduced to 2,500 after the Games. It is accepted that the centre will leave a legacy of replacing the pools at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in South London as the UK's most important facility for aquatic sports.
Presently the only Olympic sized swimming pools in the UK are in Sheffield, Leeds, Sunderland, Cardiff and Glasgow, although in addition to London a pool is being constructed in Plymouth. There are however many more 50m pools that do not meet all the criterion to be labelled 'Olympic-sized'.
Construction
Construction started on the 17 July 2008, 2 months ahead of plan and is due to be completed in 2011 by construction firm Balfour Beatty.
Cost
On 8 April 2008 it was accepted that the centre will cost about three times as was originally calculated, totalling about £242m.
Olympic Stadium London - Construction Process
As of June 2009, the stadium's track-and-field arena has been dig out of the soft clay found on the site, around where possible seating or 25k, 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 viewers, and is nearing conclusion
Olympic Stadium - London
The London Olympic Stadium will be the focus of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The stadium will be situated at Marshgate Lane in Stratford in the Lower Lea Valley and will have a capacity for the Games of just about 80,000 making it for the moment the third-largest stadium in Britain behind Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium. Land preparation for the stadium started in mid-2007, with the official construction start date on 22 May 2008, although support works for the foundation unofficially began 4 weeks ahead of that date.
Location | Stratford, London, Great Britain |
Broke ground | 2007 |
Built | (Expected completion 2011) |
Operator | Olympic Delivery Authority |
Surface | Track & Field (Grass) |
Construction cost | £469 Million ($808 million) |
Architect | Populous and Sir Peter Cook |
Structural engineer | Buro Happold |
Services engineer | Buro Happold |
Main contractors | Sir Robert McAlpine |
Capacity | 80,000 (25,000 Post Olympics) [ |