As the 2024 Olympics wind down in Paris, a mad dash has already begun to accommodate the medal-seeking athletes and 15 million fans slated to visit Southern California for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics (LA28). To help achieve critical sustainability goals and streamline construction LA28 has partnered with Autodesk, the software company.
Today, Autodesk was named the Official Design and Make Platform of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. As partner, Autodesk will help retrofit existing buildings to host games and ceremonies, as opposed to constructing new ones.
Under LA28’s No New Permanent Venues Plan, more than 40 competition and non-competition venues will be retrofitted to host events, including the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. A similar approach was taken for this year’s games: The Paris Olympics did build a new aquatics center, but largely reused existing facilities and built temporary stands and sports venues at emblematic sites across the city.
Over $1 billion has been set aside for LA28’s temporary overlay and construction plan. The blog website Torched tracks the progress California is making when it comes to hosting the games—think venues, transit needs, and urbanism upgrades.
As one can imagine, to realize this, LA28 must stick to an air tight delivery schedule. Toward that end, Autodesk’s BIM tools will help the Los Angeles Olympics implement its ambitious, multi-site plan on time. Overall, Autodesk’s BIM and Construction Cloud systems will facilitate complex transactions between thousands of critical stakeholders.
Autodesk shared in a statement that its Construction Cloud software—among other technologies—will be used to help shorten timelines, cut costs, and incorporate sustainable, carbon-reducing design principles across Los Angeles. “Design firms will have access to critical data and insights from Autodesk software to precisely model existing buildings and simulate various retrofit and adaptive reuse scenarios,” a spokesperson for Autodesk told AN.
“This lets teams evaluate and balance trade-offs related to energy and material use and ultimately helps them to reduce carbon emissions,” Autodesk continued. “Architects who will work on LA28 projects across their more than $1 [billion] temporary overlay and construction plan will use our platform, and we’ll work with them like we do any other customer.”
