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Contract awarded for London 2012 Basketball Arena
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has awarded the contract to build the main structure of the Basketball Arena for the London 2012 Olympic Games to Barr Construction, a company based in Glasgow, Scotland. The ODA is awarding separate contracts for other elements of the venue’s construction, such as the mechanical and electrical work, seating and foundations.
During the Games the temporary arena will have 12,000 seats for the basketball preliminaries and quarter-finals, as well as the handball semi-finals and finals. During the Paralympic Games it will have a capacity of 10,000 seats for wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. It will also house the athletes before the opening and closing ceremonies.
“The Basketball Arena is a significant venue for us as it will be the third largest venue on the park, and will be the largest temporary structure ever built for an Olympic and Paralympic Games,” said ODA chairman John Armitt.
There is no legacy requirement for the Basketball Arena as the Handball Arena will be turned into a multipurpose sports centre. The contractor will therefore own the Basketball Arena structure, and the ODA will ‘rent’ it from them for the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Afterwards, the contractor will dismantle it and remove it from site.
The ODA appointed the multidisciplinary design team for the Basketball Arena – made up of Sinclair Knight Merz, Wilkinson Eyre and KSS Design Group – in November 2007. Detailed designs will be completed by October 2009 and construction will start in early 2010.
Image: ODA
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