The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two 50 meter Olympic Swimming pools and a 25 meter diving pool, which will be one of the main venues of the London 2012 Summer Olympics and the London 2012 Summer Paralympics.
It was designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid in 2004 before London won the bid. The centre is located in the Olympic Park at Stratford in east London. With its distinctive architecture and curved roof, it will be the first venue visitors see upon entering the Olympic Park. The design software used was Oasys, the software division of Arup. The drainage design software used was from Micro Drainage. The Project Architect was Jim Heverin. The site is 45 meters high, 160 meters long and 80 meters wide.
The Aquatics Centre contract was awarded to Balfour Beatty in April 2008. At the same time it was reported that the centre would cost about three times as was originally estimated, totaling about £242m. The cost increases were attributed to construction inflation and VAT increases, and also included the estimated cost of converting the facility for public use after the Olympics and Paralympics. The roof is stated to be 11,200 square feet, a reduction from the previously stated 35,000 square feet. Despite the cost increases, the centre should stay within the total construction budget for the event, which is an estimated £6.09bn.
Construction started in July 2008 and was completed in July 2011. The aluminum roof covering has been provided by Kalzip. The steel structure was built in cooperation with Rowe cord Engineering. The ceiling was built with 30,000 sections of Red Lauro timber. The six board dive tower is made from 462 tons of concrete. The steel roof weighs 3,200 tons. The three pools hold around 10 million liters of water. The centre will be used for the Olympic event of Olympic Swimming, diving, and synchronized Olympic Swimming, and for the Paralympics event of Olympic Swimming. During the Games it will have a capacity of 17,500, which will be reduced to 2,500 after the Games. It is expected that the centre will leave a legacy of replacing the pools at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in South London as London's leading facility for aquatic sports.
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