Towards a Climate-Positive Olympics: Evolving Approaches to Staging the Games
摘要
This chapter explores the potential of OlympicOlympics sports buildings to be climate-positiveClimate-positive by documenting evolving approaches to staging the Olympic Games, assisted by the emergence of technologies exploring Human-Building InteractionHuman-building interaction (HBI) potential. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have pledged to halve emissions by 2030, aligning with the Paris Agreement. The organisers of future Olympics are aiming to deliver climate-positive Games which emphasise reducing carbonCarbon followed by offsetting beyond residual emissions. The meaning of ‘climate-positive’ is explored through a review of literature focussed on decarbonising Olympic venues and how HBI is being leveraged to enhance this model. The research shows how a new low carbon, circular economy-focused model is emerging to meet the IOC’s mandates and where HBI is being used to accelerate towards net zeroNet-zero. The chapter follows to discuss challenges confronted in practice with this prototype, drawing from in-depth interviews with leading Olympic venue designers. Findings reveal the changing interplay between users and buildings within the emerging Olympic model. Conclusions offer possible new decarbonisationDecarbonisation concepts arising in response to the IOC’s climate-positiveClimate-positive mandate and identify several gaps in research. The importance of this unique study is demonstrated through the exploration of low carbonCarbon design for OlympicOlympics stadia catalysed using HBI analytics.