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) [ |
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