Winter Sports Arena and Large Ice Hockey Arena
The main sports arenas will be built near the shore, in the 633-acre Olympic Park. Five ice arenas and the Central Stadium are currently under construction in the Olympic Park, which will also host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2014 Olympic Games.
The construction site for the Winter Sports Arena, which will be used for figure skating and short-track competitions, is 20,670 square metres. The facility will seat 12,000, and have a total floor area of 67,830 square metres and a total structural volume of 535,496 cubic metres. The Winter Sports Arena is expected to be commissioned in late 2011.
Currently, the building's reinforced concrete foundation is under construction and all of the 2,227 piles have already been installed. The foundation is expected to be finished by the end of this year.
Site preparation began in May 2009.
The contract for the Winter Sports Arena, which will be used for figure skating and short-track competitions, was let by the state-owned corporation Olympstroi to the construction company Engeocom.
The construction site for the Large Ice Hockey Arena is 18,534 square meters. When finished, the facility will seat 12,000, have a total floor area of 54,870 square meters anda total structural a volume of 518,952 cubic meters.
The arena is being built by the Omsk-based NPO Mostovik, and is expected to be opened by May 2012.
The architectural concept for the Large Ice Arena was inspired by the shape of a frozen drop of water. The facility will house two ice rinks, a central ice rink and a training ice rink. The foundation for the training rink is built on several elevations, ranging from 0.5 to 2 meters.
The floor slab for the Large Ice Arena has already been completed, with around 38,000 cubic meters of concrete poured. The over 400 construction workers employed at the site pour 1,000 cubic meters of concrete a day.
Next on the schedule is the completion of the vertical elements up to the 0.1-meter mark, including walls, columns and core elements, as well as the assembly of the metal framework for the training rink, which will be located in the stylobate area.
The Olympic construction site has its own reinforcement steel production facilities with a daily capacity of 30 tonnes.
A scale model of the future ice complex was tested in a wind tunnel in Novosibirsk to measure the effects of wind and snow loads on the structure.
