It’s off to the home stretch. Competition sites, training sites, athletes’ or media villages… One year from the Paris 2024 Games, 53 Olympic structures are still under construction. With a few exceptions, all must be delivered by December 31, 2023. Update on the major works carried out in Île-de-France.
The Arena, door of the Chapel (Paris 18th century)
Boulevard Ney (18th), July 2023. At the end of the summer, the Arena will be out of water and out of air, completely sealed.
The only site built within the walls, the Adidas Arena, the hall with 8,000 seats built at the entrance to Paris, will be, at the end of the summer, out of water and out of air. “Completely waterproof,” rejoices Christophe Rosa, Deputy General Delegate for the Olympic and Paralympic Games at the City of Paris. The cover is at the end of installation while the equipment largely wears its final finery. Steps that mark the end of the structural work.
Inside, where the badminton, rhythmic gymnastics and then para-badminton and para-weightlifting events will take place during the Games, the bleachers are being fixed. “We have deployed many technical networks. Everything related to electrical network, air conditioning, ventilation, heating. Things are progressing well,” continues Christophe Rosa.
“We are really in the home straight, with the prospect of completion of the works at the end of December and delivery a month later, the time needed for the tests, for the safety commission. The site teams thus succeeded in overcoming the supply difficulties linked to the conflict in Ukraine.
As for its forecourt, it is 70-80% complete. “The coatings are well advanced, the networks have been laid, the planting and green space areas are delimited”, resumes Christophe Rosa. The cost of the Arena is estimated, after correction for inflation, at 130 million euros.
The Olympic aquatic center, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), June 2023. The future Olympic aquatic center (CAO), located opposite the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis. LP/Arnaud Journois
The works of the future Olympic aquatic center (CAO) are “perfectly on time”, assures Yann Krysinski, director of operations at Solideo, the delivery company for the Olympic works. The structural work is complete: its spectacular wooden frame, concave in shape, is in place, as are the facades. “We are very confident, because the complex works are behind us”, announces the director.
By the end of the summer, the 3,000 recycled plastic seats will be installed in the stands. The roofs will also be topped with photovoltaic panels. On the pool side, the installation of the liner, an impermeable layer at the bottom of the pool, will also take place by the end of August, before sealing tests at the start of the school year. “The only thing left to do then is lay the tiles, the paint, the fans, the technical machines…” announces Yann Krysinski.
Unlike most Olympic works, the delivery of the CAO will take place in April 2024, but it will be “turnkey” for the organizers of the Olympic Games, explains Solideo.
The athletes’ village, between Saint-Ouen, Saint-Denis and L’Île-Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), June 2023. A building under construction in the athletes’ village for the Paris 2024 Games. LP / Matthieu Turel
As the last crane on the site is being dismantled, the structural work is being completed in the future district of the Olympic Village, located on the banks of the Seine, in Seine-Saint-Denis. It will welcome 14,000 athletes, followed by 9,000 para-athletes and their companions in 2024 then, as a legacy, around 6,000 inhabitants and as many employees.
All the facades and partitions of the future buildings have already been completed. The burial, by RTE (Electricity transport network) of the high voltage line which crosses the district is also completed. The dismantling of the last pylons will take place in September. Also delivered, the geothermal power plant which will provide heat or coolness – depending on the season – in the apartments of the village, is being tested throughout the summer.
If a few buildings have already been opened, such as the university residence on the Saint-Ouen side (which already hosts engineering students from Supmeca), almost all deliveries “will be spread out from October to December”, according to Solideo.
The media village, between Dugny, Le Bourget and La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Dugny (Seine-Saint-Denis), June 2023. The future media village, currently under construction for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. LP / Claire Guédon
The major work will be completed in August in the future media village which, on the Dugny side, will accommodate just over 1,500 journalists and technicians during the Games. 700 other apartments will then be built during the inheritance phase.
On the Bourget side, a school, sports and urban park is being developed. The ground of honor is completed, as well as the stands. The climbing training gymnasium is still under construction. Its wooden frame was laid in May and the facades are under construction this summer. Delivery is expected in February 2024. The competition wall, which will be temporary, is being assembled outside the district and will be installed by the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Cojo) in the spring of 2024.
On the La Courneuve side, the depollution and renaturation of the Essences site, which was to host the shooting events (finally moved to Châteauroux), are still in progress. The site will host the start of the paramarathon.
An important event has just begun in the sector, with the laying of the wooden footbridge over the A1 motorway. This crossing, also carried out outside the district, will be laid over several consecutive nights. It will be the first equipment that visitors from all over the world will see when arriving from Roissy airport.
The Yves-du-Manoir departmental stadium, in Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine)
Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), July 2023. The construction site of the Yves-du-Manoir departmental stadium, which will host the field hockey events, must be completed at the end of 2023. LP / Olivier Bureau
“We are on time! The home stretch is looming for Jérôme Michaud, director of works on behalf of the Léon Grosse company and representative of the group of companies at work on the site of the Yves-du-Manoir departmental stadium, in Colombes. The former Sky and Blue headquarters of Racing 92 will host the field hockey events, a sport still confidential in France… but third TV audience in the world.
The operation at 94 million euros, including 80 provided by the Hauts-de-Seine department, provides for nine plots and two new buildings totaling 4,000 m2. All built according to drastic environmental standards of course. 200 m long, building B, which will house the clubs of the various disciplines after the Games (football, rugby, athletics, etc.) is almost finished and should be delivered in September. A, the other future showcase for the League and the Hockey Federation, will be in December.
The last phase concerns the Olympic ground at the foot of the centenary stand which must be rehabilitated. After colorimetry studies, it has just been repainted in the original blue, that of the Olympic Games in… Paris 1924.
Finally, by September, several lighting masts, the main ones culminating at 35 m from the ground, will have been installed. In total, 130 companies are at work on this site, which also provides 58,000 hours of integration.
2023-07-24 04:05:00
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