Impressive Engineering!

Not all sports venues are permanent structures at the Olympic Games. Temporary grandstands were built in some cases. In the case of Beach Volleyball the temporary structure is not just a grandstand, it’s a full-on stadium…and it’s massive! It seats approximately 15,000 people, which is 3 times the capacity of GWU’s [permanent] Charles E. Smith Athletic Center. The structure itself, as you can see below, is a complex network of scaffolding. Spectators walk up stairways within the scaffolding to get to the different tiers of the stadium. I commend the engineers behind the design and construction of this amazing structure!

-KimM

Beach Volleyball Stadium at Horse Guards Parade.

Posted by olympian on August 3, 2012 | Filed under: Olympics.

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A key engineer who worked on this is local to DC. He’s my husband, Paul Baglin.

Comment by Chris Baglin — August 9, 2012 @ 3:16 pm

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