Athletes' Village, London, Olympic 2012

The Athletes' Village development is being designed and built for the London 2012 Olympic Games as part of a two-phase development process. The first phase will include approximately 2.800 dwelling and associated support infrastructure. The second phase will convert the Village to provide an Olympic legasy with commercial, retail, residential and community space. It will provide a 'complete' environment - an opportunity to diffentiate from the typical local market offering  of small stand alone projects. Len Lease is the development and project manager for the Village and construction management services are being provided by Bovis Lend Lease.

Key features: 

• Size: approximately 2.5 square miles
• Over 10 hectares of open space including public squares and five parks
• New primary healthcare centre and academy school
• New transport facilities - bus routes, cycle lanes and pedestrian routes
• Adjacent to westfield retail centre
• Building to achive Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) level 4 and BREEAM Very Good. BREEAM Communities will lay the foundation for the assessment and certification of the completed construction against BREEAM or the Code for Susatinable Homes
• Olympic legasy facilities

The Athletes' Village and the BBC's MediaCityUK, Manchester are key pilots for the new scheme, incorporating world leading sustainability into their designs

The new BREEAM scheme for communities is being launched today to help planners and developers improve, manage and independently certify the sustainability of development proposals through the various stages of the planning process .

The initial scheme has been piloted on projects throughout the 9 English regions. Foremost amongst these is the Athletes' Village for London 2012 and MediaCityUK, the new headquarters and mixed-use development for the BBC in Manchester. Both projects are committed to maximising the sustainability potential of their specific development site and ensuring that the final product incorporates world leading sustainability.