The facts
Location: East London
Clients: Olympic Delivery Authority
Start / completion dates: 2009
Services provided: facility review, site
assessment, facility specification, cost management
The project
Capita Symonds, in association with S&P Architects,
was appointed by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to undertake
a review of the 2012 Games-time Training Venues - the
facilities utilised by athletes for training purposes during the
2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
As part of its legacy commitment, London has pledged to use
existing school and community leisure facilities within a 30-minute
drive of the Olympic Park as training venues. All of them require a
degree of upgrading to enable them to meet the relevant
international federations’ and athletes’ requirements.
The team’s work involved reviewing the ODA’s initial shortlist
of facilities and the registrations of interest submitted for each.
Following this, visits were made to all sites in order to assess
the extent to which each met the international federation standards
and the upgrades required to address any shortfall in provision. A
specification for the upgrades required at each facility was then
developed (by S&P Architects), followed by a cost estimate and
programme for
implementation.
At the completion of the work, the ODA had a full understanding
of the scope, specification, cost and timescales for the delivery
of the required works for each of the Games-time Training
Venues.