Technical Series Course 4:

B U I L D I N G S T A D I A From the start to finishing line!

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Technical Course Series 4 – Building StadiaFrom the start to finishing line!

New theme: we are going to build a series of sporting and eventing stadia from inception, siting/planning, ground preparation, base build, sub and superstructure erection, topping out, fitting out, comms, snagging and completion, then once built do it all again in 4 years somewhere else in the world!

Run for it spaces are limited!

We are going to build a series of sporting and eventing stadia from inception, siting/planning, ground preparation, base

build, sub and superstructure erection, topping out, fitting out, comms, snagging and completion, then once built do it all again

in 4 years somewhere else in the world!

TIMEMay 2009 - July 2009

&September 2009 - March 2010

VENUEHosted by TeCSA committee firms in London

BREAKFASTLight breakfast included

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THE AGENDA

1. Design Issues for a sport stadium1 – The sine qua nons 28 May 2009

2. Planning, Compulsory Purchase, Eviction from the site and the new Planning Act 25 June 2009

3. The Olympic Stadium – The epicentre: icon or carbuncle2? 23 July 2009

4. Site visit to Stratford Olympic site September 2009 Date to be confirmed soon

5. Transportation to/from the Venue – Ingress3 and egress4

29 October 2009

6. Aquatic Centre – Fish or foul! 26 November 2009

7. Velodomes5 – On your bike! 17 December 2009

8. Legacy issues – Inheritance versus millstone 28 January 2010

9. Whole life cost models – Cheap as chips versus longevity and adaptability 25 February 2010

10. Sustainability – Issues special to Stadia6 - the third dimension of Olympism 25 March 2010

11. Power and energy needs – Can it supply its needs to light7, heat, comms? 29 April 2010

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1 After the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and the following Taylor report only seats were allowed in the stadia and many other safety improvements had to be made. From then on the stadia in Britain were quickly renovated and many new stadia were developed. The old, but charming, stadia were turned into large multifunctional arena’s.

3 Do you know what a vomitary is? Well you will!

4 Learn about delay waves, stochastic arrival/service, pulses and clusters, arrival and departure rates.

2 To quote HRH Prince Charles in his infamous 30 May 2004 address to the RIBA when referring to the proposed National gallery extension, “…is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.”

5 Banking in the turns, called superelevation, allows riders to keep their bikes relatively perpendicular to the surface while riding at speed. When traveling through the turns at racing speed, which may exceed 60 kmh (about 37 mph), the banking attempts to match the natural lean of a bicycle moving through that curve. Therefore, the centripetal acceleration of the combined inertia of bicycle and rider moving in the curved path balances the tangential acceleration pulling them outwards. There is no centrifugal force ‘trying’ to tilt the bicycle outward, a net normal force is acting on the tires through the riding surface.

6 Of the largest global sporting organisations, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was thecfirst to respond to the global concern on environmental concern. This was done by the Local Organising Committee (LOC) who incorporated environmental practices in the implementation ofcthe Lillehammer 1994 Winter Games. Subsequent LOCs followed this example including the Nagano 1998, Sydney 2000, Salt lake City 2002, Athens 2004 and Torino 2006 (IOC, 2007).

7 Lighting can be one of the most complex areas of the design, including light pollution and the impact of outdoor lighting on the surrounding area. This tends not to be such a problem with big venues because the light generally remains within the confines of the stadium.

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Lets avoid the puns, the Long Run, Taste of Victory, Rules of the Game, Perfect Pitch, Game Plans, Team Effort save possibly for one, Olympic Glory, that is what Series 4 will concentrate on in 2009/10, the building of grand Stadia, no time more appropriate than with our own games on our doorstep.

In the history of architecture, sports and mass entertainment began 3,000 years ago with the games at Olympia sometime around the 11th century BC, then as a mere as a local festival. Over the next two hundred years, it would be attended by the states from the rest of the Greek world. The Greek tradition was that all participating states would cease fighting, lay down their arms during the period of the games. The Roman’s had a crack at it too and developed the theme all over Europe. Today’s Olympic Games allow countries that are still participating in wars to send their athletes to the games! However, enough of politics we are not concerned with that here.

What we are about in series 4 is the world of planning and building stadia. Running shoes that adapt to the way your feet move, a football that can stand up to the toughest players and still bounce consistently, artificial turf that feels and acts like the real thing. Such ‘smart’ sports equipment aren’t just products of the imagination - they are in use today and are designed, built and tested using computer aided engineering software in the same way stadia are designed to be fit for the dynamics of their own purpose.

Sports facilities are now considered part of the urban fabric that has to be integrated into the existing and future city context.

Even in this world credit crunch there are hundreds of new sports facilities being constructed across the world to host a range of events from The Olympics Games and Premier Division Football to motor racing, tennis, gymnastics and swimming. These multi-purpose venues enhance national, local and community sports activities. Sport, recreation and design mix to lift the nation’s spirit.

Stadia are all unique and they always incorporate complex geometry. Coordinating their design, planning and construction involves making many changes and updates throughout the projects lifecycle and we will be unpicking that process for you so you can learn what makes the process tick. We aim to have speakers from HOK Sport, ArupSport, Herzog & de Meuron etc all leading practices to say their piece about how it is done.

Planning is of very high value in the development, construction and lifecycle operation of such sports facilities. Buildings must have flexible usage and, since their life may be more than 100 years, the needs of its users and other stakeholders will inevitably change.

The way modern buildings are designed has changed to accommodate ideas about how usage will alter over time. Consequently, spaces are much more flexible and non-specific. This means that the mechanical services of a building will change along with its usage, so adaptable intelligent buildings are required and efficient ones at that.

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