AECOM tapped as Los Angeles Olympics infrastructure partner

AECOM will function the venue infrastructure partner for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Video games and Crew USA, the Dallas-based contractor introduced final week. 

The agency will assist ship the venue infrastructure program for the 2028 Summer time Video games, which can characteristic greater than 50 Olympic and Paralympic sports activities, about 800 occasions and over 15,000 athletes, per the discharge. It should mark the third time — following 1932 and 1984 — that Los Angeles has hosted the Olympic Video games.

Infrastructure for the occasion will entail momentary venues and momentary overlays on current everlasting venues, in accordance with the organizers’ objectives of constructing the video games sustainable and cost-effective. The occasions will happen throughout a number of clusters and venue websites across the metropolis, AECOM stated.

AECOM’s scope of labor consists of infrastructure structure, engineering, planning, program administration and building administration companies, in line with the discharge. Its AECOM Hunt enterprise will oversee the procurement course of, value estimating, scheduling and building administration of venue infrastructure.

The agency additionally supplied technical and design help, value estimation and sustainability and vitality consulting for the LA 2024/LA28 Exploratory Committee, which assessed the viability of town’s bid as a number for the Video games.

“The Olympic and Paralympic Video games unite the world by way of sport, and we’re honored to contribute our experience to assist deliver LA28’s imaginative and prescient to life,” stated AECOM CEO Troy Rudd within the launch.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has pledged to make the 2028 Olympics a “no-car” event, in line with The Guardian. Nonetheless, the plan will not require the construction of any extra transportation infrastructure past what the area is already constructing, in line with AECOM’s mission web page.

This isn’t the primary time the agency has helped execute an enormous international sporting occasion. AECOM labored on the Olympics Video games in London in 2012, Rio in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021, in line with the discharge.