In an article I stumbled across regarding the London 2012 Olympic, they are using this world-wide event as an opportunity to inspire change towards a low-carbon econoomy. As a glimpse of what the stadiums are being made out of:
"The stadium is the lightest Olympic stadium, using a quarter of the concrete used for the Beijing games, and features a lighting system suspended from a compression wheel made fromre-purposed gas pipes left over from a different construction project.McCarthy singled out the velodrome as an especially good example of sustainable design, with its ultra-lightweight roof and natural lighting and ventilation."
"The stadium is the lightest Olympic stadium, using a quarter of the concrete used for the Beijing games, and features a lighting system suspended from a compression wheel made fromre-purposed gas pipes left over from a different construction project.McCarthy singled out the velodrome as an especially good example of sustainable design, with its ultra-lightweight roof and natural lighting and ventilation."
The overall goal of the project was to embed the original sustainability practices and ideas to the actual sites of the host country.
To read more on the article, visit:http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/02/london-olympics-2012-green-chance-danger
To read more on the article, visit:http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/02/london-olympics-2012-green-chance-danger
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