Beijing National Stadium

station” project since 1982. Through this modern management method, numerous of project resource had been saved, and the project planning become more accurate. Nowadays, it has been used into numerous complex megaprojects. The national stadium is an eye-catching project in 2008 Beijing Olympics portfolio. However, it has several vital project management issues occurred. This report will analyze the several issue if a project from the project management perspective, which focus on project objective definition

Selection of the National Stadium had been modified and second thought over and over. In the 1950th, Chinese government officials assigned Wukesong area to be the future site for National Stadium. While the Asian Games Village and other stadiums were constructed, that area was saved for National Stadium for China was planning to bid for the 2000 Olympic Games. On March 1999, an Olympic venue location selection

1.0 Project Description The Beijing National Stadium, better known as the Birds Nest Stadium is a sporting facility which was purposefully built for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. This stadium is known for using tonnes of steel (up to 42,000 tonnes) to produce a stadium that resembles a Birds Nest as shown in the figure below (Bell,2017). Figure 1- Birds Nest Stadium (Bell,2017) The stadium could fit up to 91,000 people inside and clever design by the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron

Ai Weiwei, a Chinese contemporary artist as well as a political activist was born in Beijing on May 18, 1957. When Ai was only one year old him and his family were sent to a labor camp. It was not for sixteen years later at the end of the Cultural Revolution until his family moved back to Beijing. He studied animation at the Beijing Film Academy in 1978. After his studies he spent about twelve years in the United States and studied at the Parsons School of Design where he soon dropped out. For income

an arena or stadium full of fans awaiting the final play of an intense matchup of the league’s best teams. The rush of adrenaline that you get as your team celebrates after making the game winning shot or play is exhilarating and being there live to enjoy it is unforgettable. Aside from the performances of the athletes, the sportscape or “physical environment in which a service is delivered”, plays a significant factor in the overall sporting event experience. Beijing’s National Stadium (“Birds Nest”)

an artist and activist, who is heavily influenced by his father’s political thinking about China. He is well known for his combination of art and society. Ai Weiwei began as a self-taught artist and worked as a painter and cartoon designer in the Beijing Film Academy. In 1981, Ai went to America because he could not express freely in China. In the United States, he studied at the Parsons School of Design and Art Student League. When Ai flew back to China, he brought back different ideas from the American

1. Analyze the reasons why the Chinese government hired a Western public relations firm to work on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Chinese government felt it was necessary to hire a Western public relations firm for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in an effort to create a positive country image. Creating this positive image also included reducing human rights concerns that were being addressed by groups such as Darfur and Tibet. The public image of China could have negatively influenced international

Environmental Issues Before/After Beijing 2008 Olympics “Beijing organized the 2008 Olympic Games with the slogan, “Green Olympics, Hi-tech Olympics and People’s Olympics”. This slogan illustrates the determination of the Chinese government to offer an environmentally friendly yet impressive Olympic event.The 2008 Olympics “helped shape and foster a greater environmental awareness among the public and was an opportunity to showcase China’s commitment to growing in an environmentally sustainable

dynamics as well as keeping in mind the social, cultural and political roles that music falls into. The song “Beijing Welcomes You” is a chinese song composed by Ke Zhaolei for the 2008 Beijing olympics and features many different artists from Asia. This recorded piece of music is a representation of modern day chinese music as well as the incorporation of the Beijing culture. In the song “Beijing Welcomes You”, there is a clear distinction that the song is sung by both female and male artists based on

light rail, roads and other preparations such as security and the environmental clean up (“The cost of the Beijing Olympics”). Almost every city that hosts the Olympics promises to use the new stadiums that are built well beyond when the Games end, but almost none actually do. Beijing is no different.