Sydney olympic games spectators

The Park, where Accor Stadium is located, has provided a lasting legacy for Sydney and helped to regenerate an industrial area of the city, becoming an international centrepiece of a new community.

The design of the next generation in stadia included a flexible seating bowl, multi-functional revenue generating spaces and a digitally smart stadium for international TV broadcasting and major events. Contributing to the legacy of the stadium were the environmentally sustainable design and post-Olympic transformation. The distinctively-Australian building lived up to the Olympic Opening Ceremony with temporary north and south stands hosting , during the Olympic Games, and post-Games, the removal of the upper end tiers reduced the stadium to 85, for its long-term use with the retractable moving stands able to host major events, rectangle and oval sports.

Moveable seating tiers on rails were installed to enable spectators to be brought in closer to the action, and allow for a variety of sports. The design solution was the removal the upper end tiers and the addition of end roof post-Games. This was the first time that a stadium of this scale had been designed to be re-configured post event.

By harvesting energy and water from natural resources, Accor Stadium was regarded as one of the most environmentally sustainable stadia in the world. Designing and implementing the overlay of event facilities for the Sydney Olympic Games was a complicated operational task requiring a sophisticated level of understanding of overlay design. Working with the Olympic Coordination Authority OCA , Populous ensured the layouts worked together to accommodate the required furniture, fixtures and equipment and technology items, as well as ensuring that the circulation routes to and from the areas were not obstructed and always kept secure.

Integrating the master plan of Accor Stadium into the site of the Sydney Olympic Games, while simultaneously designing it to reconfigure post-Games, has been the key to its success and legacy. Located in Homebush, close to the city of Sydney, the sensitive integration of an Olympic-sized venue, where all forms of access and transport methods were studied, made the arrival and circulation within the stadium as convenient as possible for large volumes of spectators.

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No public car parking is available at Olympic Park. Strong incentives to use public transport were developed by building the cost of public transit into event ticketing. The Olympic rail loop can move 50, passengers per hour with trains leaving Olympic Park station every two minutes.

Spectators can travel directly to and from venues on 3, buses and rail-bus shuttles. A network of bicycle routes feed into Olympic Park venues. Five hundred solar and electrical buggies will transport officials, athletes and staff around the Olympic site. Ferry services will move officials and athletes between major venues via Sydney Harbor.

But Greenpeace expressed "disappointment" that the local automotive industry did not use the Games as a showcase for new, cleaner technologies in personal transportation, such as low emission fuel or hybrid fuel cars.

Much of the energy generated for the Games is from renewable sources. All competition venues will use percent renewable energy for the duration of the Games. Nearly half of all grid-connected solar photovoltaics in the state of New South Wales are installed at Olympic Park. This environmental benefit will continue after the Olympic athletes are gone as the Athletes' Village will become a residential suburb after the Games.

On the Super Dome roof, 1, solar panels provide 10 percent of its daily energy. Solar-powered lighting towers will provide lighting for Olympic Boulevard. Eight hundred solar panels will power water pumps in the Millennium Parkland. The construction workers union placed a ban on the use of imported rainforest timber, and Greenpeace said no evidence was found of timbers originating from rainforests.

Small quantities of timber from old-growth forests and forests nominated for inclusion in World Heritage Areas were used. Summary Object No. Physical Description Sydney Access Guide to the Olympic and Paralympic Games Spiral bound booklet, pages, 5 tabs divide the sections of the booklet. The front cover of the Access Guide features squares of different colours and images of athletes.

A flap in the back of the book holds 2 maps. The maps are printed on both sides. One is a rail network map and the other a map of Sydney Olympic Park. Dot Dash of Brisbane designed the maps and other navigational tools while the colour palette and graphic designs came from the Sydney Image Guidelines.