On July 31, 2015, Beijing won the right for hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2022. In order to stage a "spectacular, extraordinary, and excellent" Games, the Beijing Municipal Government consigns the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning to sponsor the International Competition of Architectural Conceptual Designs for the National Speed Skating Oval, and welcomes highly skilled and experienced sports venue design institutes around the globe to participate in the competition.

This event plans to select through prequalification approximately 12 competition applicants as contestants.

I. Project Profile

1. Project name: National Speed Skating Oval.

2. Project location: The National Speed Skating Oval is located within the planned scope of the Beijing Olympic Park in China. The designated land for the project is the original site of the temporary venues (the Hockey Ground and Archery Range) of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

3. Building Programs: The National Speed Skating Oval shall be the landmark venue for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, and an important component of China's ice sports center. During the 2022 Winter Games, it shall host the Speed Skating events and training sessions; after the Games, it shall serve as a multifunctional venue for international ice sports events such as skating, ice hockey, and curling, and for the general public.

4. Size: The National Speed Skating Oval project shall occupy a planned land area of 20 hectares, with a construction floor area of approximately 80,000 square meters, at a height of no more than 55 meters, of 12,000 seats in the venue.

5. Competition theme: Architectural conceptual designs for the National Speed Skating Oval.

II. Sponsor

Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning

III. Competition Agency and Contact Information

Beijing Sci-Tech Park Auction & Tender Company Limited

Address (Temporary): 2 Yuqing Street, Building No. 9, South Wing, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Liaison Persons: Ms. JIANG Yu; Ms WEN Bingling

Tel: 86-10-82575543;

86-10-82575731/5125/5831 Ext. 811/810

Mobile: 86-13911618179, 13911091955

Fax: 86-10-82575350

E-mail: olybj2022@bjghw.gov.cn

IV. Qualifications for Competition Applicants

1. Competition applicants must be legally registered corporate entities.

2. Design institutes within the People's Republic of China must have construction industry (construction engineering) design qualifications class-A, or above, issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development; design institutes outside the People's Republic of China must have design licenses issued by competent government departments or industry organizations of the host countries.

3. Competition applicants shall have engineering design experience for sports venues.

4. This project does not accept joint ventures as competition applicants.