As the only "double Olympic city" in Olympic history, Beijing will once again bring an unparalleled Olympic feast to the world audience with a new look. Hosting a flawless Olympics has never been easy. In particular, for the Winter Olympic Games, which has extremely high requirements for weather conditions and environmental conditions, in addition to the preparation of the event itself, venues, snow areas, ice storage, cold and other links are indispensable. Since the 2008 Summer Olympics have been held before, after 14 years, the preparations for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are also proceeding in an orderly manner. Among the many preparations, the construction and transformation of Olympic competition venues is the biggest problem of previous Olympic Games, and it is also the most concerned issue for everyone.
Previously, some people joked that the focus of the Olympic Games is not only the fierce competition duels in each major competition, but also the names of the venues and venues of each Olympic Games, which are also worth looking forward to. Sometimes, some ingenious and ingenious Olympic venues can even become the biggest highlight of the Olympic Games. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be arranged in beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, and a total of 25 venues will be officially put into use in this Winter Olympics. According to statistics, there are a total of 12 competition venues and 13 non-competition venues, which will provide all personnel with event competition and logistics support services during the Beijing Winter Olympics. Located in the south of the central area of beijing Olympic Park, the National Gymnasium is one of the landmark buildings in the area, with a total construction area of 80,890 square meters.
The national stadium with a very modern design looks like a folding fan, and the venue adopts a wavy shape from south to north, which visually gives people a sense of lightness and beauty, but also brings a sense of movement. It is adjacent to the two classics of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, "Bird's Nest" and "Water Cube", and the three creative Olympic venues have also become a beautiful landscape outside the stadium.
As one of the three main venues of the Beijing Olympic Games, in recent years, the National Gymnasium has always played a pivotal role in the process of holding domestic sports events. Construction of the National Stadium began in May 2006 and was completed at the end of November 2007 after a year and a half. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, this venue hosted a number of events, advanced equipment conditions, good lighting, convenient viewing services, etc., which left a deep impression on the hearts of audiences around the world.
After Beijing won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the National Stadium began renovation at the end of 2018, with 18,000 fixed seats and 2,000 temporary seats in the venue. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the National Gymnasium will host all the matches of the men's ice hockey event and the women's ice hockey final. In terms of venue facilities, the National Stadium also incorporates the most advanced scientific and technological elements, and strives to use 100% of the event in the hosting of the event. According to the relevant person in charge, in order to meet the conditions for the Winter Olympic Games, the National Stadium has transformed some of the original glass curtain walls into imitation ice glass tiles, which can maximize the role of natural light, and increase the external and internal intelligent light blocking system, reasonably adjust the lighting effect in the venue, and reduce energy consumption.
The use of this technology is in line with the green environmental protection concept advocated by the Winter Olympic Games. In terms of energy supply of the venue, the venue uses the water source heat pump technology, which mainly uses groundwater as the source of cold and heat, and maintains the room temperature regulation and energy transmission of the air conditioner of the venue by releasing or absorbing the corresponding heat to the water body. The use of this technology ensures that water resources are not consumed without polluting the environment. Due to the large number of spectators, in order to alleviate the pressure of air purification in the stadium, during the Beijing Winter Olympics, nearly 90% of the space of the venue was equipped with automation technology, which can help the venue automatically adjust the fresh air. The investment and use of several advanced technologies has made the National Stadium the "strongest brain" in the venues of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Oh, and it has a nice name — Ice Sail.
(Luo Treasurer)