12-24-2006, 09:56 AM
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#9 (permalink)
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In article <1166970379.583253.122560@n51g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
"marian.rosenberg@gmail.com" <marian.rosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> I won't go into great detail regarding why one of my friends has come
> up with the idea that what Haikou really needs is a velodrome. For
> starters, even knowing all the people involved, and knowing all the
> background involved, it's just way too complicated. Lets just say that
> it isn't quite as harebrained as it sounds at first gasp.
> Anyone have a ballpark figure idea of how much it costs to build a
> simple velodrome?
The short answer is somewhere between $0 and $15 million.
The 250m ADT Event Center in LA was recently built for the latter cost.
It is a full-on "host world championships" (which it already has done)
facility, and it's an indoor facility.
http://www.homedepotcenter.com/venue...ype=4176&icust
ompageid=6773
The Forest City velodrome in London, Ontario, Canada was recently
constructed at a cost of about $200,000:
http://bikeportland.org/2006/12/05/s...of-a-new-velod
rome/
Note that while that's an indoor facility, they cheated: the building
already existed; it's a former hockey rink. Forest City is also a
138-metre track, which makes it one of the shortest tracks in the world.
http://forestcityvelodrome.ca/trackhistory.html
The Forest City 'drome probably also sets the rough cost for an outdoor
track, too.
The Burnaby Velodrome, constructed in 1997, is an indoor facility with
an air-supported roof. If you want a gorily-detailed history of its
construction, I'll put you in contact with the club president and
archivist. He has a pretty good handle on the construction process,
which was unusually ugly for this track, but it has more or less worked
out now.
--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
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