The centre piece of both the Olympics and Paralympics 2012 will be the London Olympic Stadium, located in Stratford. This has an 80.000 capacity that comprises 25.000 permanent seats plus accommodation for a further 55.000 people in a temporary lightweight steel and concrete upper tier. Construction has been simplified by having no food outlets within the arena and providing toilet facilities in pods that can be removed after the Games.
The Olympic Village is to provide 17.000 beds for athletes and officials. Once the Games are over, it will be converted to 3.500 homes, 30% of which will be affordable housing, with open spaces, parks and transport links. Added to these two main developments are the Aquatics Centre, Velodrome, BMX Track, Handball, Basketball Arena, ArenaWhite Water Centre, International Broadcast Centre, Main Press Centre, improvements to Stratford Regional Station and other developments.
Public investment for the work of the Olympic Development Authority was agreed in spring 2008 and the Authority maintains that the project remains within the original budget. Progress has been controlled through a series of milestones that have been set for each of the four years that followed.
Olympics 2012
The initial set of ten milestones was known as ' experts say, Dig, Design ' and carried the project through to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. These focused on preparing the site for construction for the main venues and infrastructure for the Games as well as the legacy after 2012.
London 2012 Olympic Progress Report
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