Ready, Steady, Tokyo: An Update on Construction and Development

By on Jan 29, 2020 1:00 pm -

We are eagerly anticipating this year’s Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the city has been hard at work constructing what has been labeled the most sustainable Olympic Games in history. Thanks to the donations of Japanese citizens, the Olympic medals this year will be uniquely constructed from recycled mobile phone parts, and it was recently announced that the traditional Olympic torch will be fueled by hydrogen for the first time in an effort to leave as small of an environmental footprint as possible.

Of course, putting on an event of this magnitude is a massive undertaking. But leave it to the Japanese to leave no stone unturned as they ready new complexes for the Olympic athletes that will descend on the city in August. On Twitter, the Tokyo 2020 page posted a first look at the newly constructed, energy efficient Athletes’ Village. Take a peek:

One of the eternal questions surrounding the Games and their ongoing impact on host cities is that of the fate of the new construction, often hastily built and left empty in the wake of the Olympiad. This year, the Athletes’ Village was constructed from 40,000 pieces of timber donated by various Japanese municipalities. After the conclusion of the Games, these buildings will be deconstructed and the timber returned to the donating municipalities for re-use.

You can view the entire outline for Japan’s sustainability plans for Tokyo here. Take a look at some of the other latest developments from #Tokyo2020:

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