page_title: Venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
section_title: Olympic Park Zone
hierarchical_section_title: Venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics / Sporting venues / Olympic Park Zone
caption_attribution_description: Panoramic aerial view of the Olympic Park looking south. Picture taken on 16 April 2012.
context_page_description: The 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics venues were mostly located in the host city of London, though some other events required facilities located elsewhere. Between the successful bid and the Olympics and Paralympics themselves, several details and venues changed.
context_section_description: The Olympic Zone encompassed all of the facilities within the 500 acres (2 km²) Olympic Park in Stratford. This park was developed on existing waste and industrial land, and is seven minutes by Olympic Javelin train from central London. The park contained in the following below:
  1: - As part of Lee Valley VeloPark
  
  2: - Hockey facilities moved to Eton Manor
  The Olympic Village, with accommodation for all athletes and team officials (some 17,320 beds in total). After the games the village will become a district of the Stratford City development, a multibillion-pound development project on the former railway goods yard to the east of the Olympic Park. (Accredited technical officials — referees, umpires, etc. — are housed in hotel space in London Docklands).
  The Olympic Press and Broadcast Centres.
  Park Live
  The original plan called for the construction of five new indoor arenas, four in the Olympic Park, and one in the River Zone (see below). In order to save money this was reduced to two. The existing venues at Earls Court and Wembley Arena were added to the plans, and various sports were shuffled around to make this possible.
  The construction of the Olympic Park itself commenced in 2006, with Murphy Group awarded the contract to remove the powerlines which crossed the site and move these into a tunnel to be dug beneath the site. Civil engineering companies Morrisons and Nuttalls were appointed to undertake the demolition and land remediation works, under the project management of WS Atkins. The pace of this speeded up with the closure of the roads crossing the Olympic Park in June 2007. The construction phase of the Olympic Park was managed by CLM, a consortium comprising CH2M Hill, Laing O'Rourke and Mace. This consortium is officially titled Delivery Partner, ODA. The earliest construction of venues commenced in April 2008 with the start of the main build on the Olympic Stadium by McAlpine, with the nearby energy centre to be constructed by EDF Energy. Work on the Aquatics Centre began later the same year. During the construction phase the workforce on-site is expected to peak at 9,000 operatives.
  Accidents during construction of the venues resulted in no deaths - the only time this has happened in the history of Olympic construction.
caption: Aerial view of the Olympic Park in April 2012
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