Managing Olympic Venues Simon Darcy & Tracy Taylor
Permanent vs Temporary venues
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Permanent vs Temporary venuesGiven the section on "white elephants" and the previous section on sustainability, it is not surprising that one of the emerging issues has been the increasing use of temporary venues to both reduce the overall cost of development to a city and reduce the likelihood of the non-use of venues after the games. Table #, shows the proportion of permanent and temporary venues over the modern Olympics has developed from a negligible base to having an increasing prominence. Of the post-World War II Olympics, the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games was the first use temporary venues for it the temporary venues were for the sports of equestrian and the modern pentathlon. The Atlanta 1996 Olympic and Paralympic games was the next to use a temporary structure, this time for the warm-up 50 m swimming pool that was used to complemented Georgia Tech’s 50 m pool. The temporary pool was mounted and deployed for reuse... London 2012 has taken the use of temporary facilities to a new level where it formed an integral part of the overall venue strategy . Yet, there are a series of challenges in having high-quality temporary venues that need to meet the rigours of sport competition and customer service while addressing sustainability, accessibility, technical and budgetary measures. Nimmo, Wright and Colson go on to discuss the decision-making process and key drivers that guided the strategic planning approach to determining the permanent and temporary mix of venues. Part of the strategic planning are the parameters around temporary venues as opposed to as opposed to venues that are reusable, demountable or relocatable. Once an overall venue strategy was determined than the execution was placed within the programming and cost decision-making processes. Designing reuse into venue considerationsAs an extension of the previous section, one of the strategies for ensuring long-term planning of Olympic city venues has been designing reuse into venue development considerations. In its fullest consideration involved in the decisions on creating reusable, demountable or relocatable venues and having these deployments built into post use options with in the host country or abroad. One of the first uses of reusable, demountable and relocatable venues was the velodrome from the Atlanta 1996 Olympic and Paralympic games, which was built of new innovations in steel construction and pine-based cycling services that created a stable permanent structure that could be easily demounted, placed in containers and relocated. The other major consideration that the venue designers are providing for venue managers has been with the design of permanent venues to have "overlays" which allow an increased capacity during games time but can be removed for permanent use. The most significant of a venue overlay was in the 110,000 seat capacity Olympic Stadium Australia, which was constructed with North and South stands seating 30,000 people for games time to capitalise on ticket demand for blue ribbon events. Upon completion of the games these temporary overlays were taken down to give the Olympic Stadium a more manageable capacity of 80,000 that more than suffices Sydney's normal stadium requirements. Other venues have been designed to incorporate venue overlay so that a base venue can have increased capacity during recognised periods of high demand such as for short-term national and international tournaments that only require temporary increases. The overlays can then be removed quickly on completion to cater for standard competition crowds. This is far more efficient operationally as it reduces ongoing maintenance for the extra areas and is substantially cheaper at construction cost time to put in the temporary overlays than to build permanent venues that rarely reach capacity. Considerations for the futureConclusionReferences
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