Every host city tries to use the Olympics to power a transformative project. Paris 2024 wants to make sustainability, not monumental construction, its legacy.
Already a subscriber?There’s something highly unusual about the new Olympic Aquatics Centre on the outskirts of Paris. It’s not just the building’s striking form, with its massive, Pringle-shaped solar roof. It’s not solely that the 5000-seat venue, constructed mainly from wood, was pieced together like a Lego set.
This make-do-and-mend approach could, organisers hope, help provide a springboard for a green transformation of France’s construction industry. This push has already powered some growth. The wood construction market reached €4.6 billion last year, an increase of 14 per cent since 2020, according to a July report from timber and forestry industry group France Bois Forêt.
That can in turn give wooden buildings an extra sensual charm, according to Cécilia Gross, partner at VenhoevenCS. “We don’t have to paint it,” she says. “It has warmth, it has colour and it has a scent. You can smell it when you’re in the pool.” So streamlined and effective is the process, says Frank Mathis, the company’s president, that during its work on the office building being used as the Paris 2024 headquarters, the wood yard prepared enough components to build a tennis court-sized part of the structure every day.
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