The document discusses the infrastructure governance framework applied to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games and how it promotes resilience and inclusiveness. It outlines how Beijing reused venues from the 2008 Olympics to reduce costs and environmental impacts. New venues employed new construction standards for efficiency. Beijing also took measures to engage the local population and boost winter sports participation and tourism. The Games aimed to set new standards for hosting big events in a sustainable and cost-effective manner.

1. Infrastructure Governance Framework Applied to
the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games
Xinhua Sun
22 February 2022

2. Introduction
My artifact aims to:
• inform and educate policy-makers and other stakeholders about
the application of the infrastructure governance framework to
the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games and the extent to
which resilience and inclusiveness issues are appropriately
considered through each phase of the project’s lifecycle;
• promote best practices in hosting big events in a resilient,
inclusive and cost-effective way.

3. Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
• The Beijing 2022 Winter
Olympics has been hailed by the
IOC president Thomas Bach as
"truly exceptional".
• Among others, the "first carbon-
neutral Games" that Beijing has
delivered is particularly
impressive.

4. Boosting Resilience to Climate Change & Natural Disasters
• First, environmental impact assessments has been carried out, and
diverse nature conservation measures have been taken to protect the
local plant and animal species.
• As the first city in the world to host both Summer and Winter Olympic
Games (2008 and 2022), Beijing has been able to reuse many of its
iconic sporting venues.

5. Boosting Resilience to Climate Change & Natural Disasters
• Five competition venues are being reused from the Olympic Games in
2008.
• “By making full use of existing venues and equipping them with
innovative technologies, Beijing 2022 cuts emissions, reduces
environmental impacts, and the consumption of water, energy and
materials,” says Marie Sallois, IOC Director for Sustainability.

6. Boosting Resilience
• Bird's nest, retroffited
• Ice Cube, retroffited

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• Newly constructed venues
are embracing new
construction standards from
water and energy efficiency
to building insulation and
cooling technologies
Big Eye Shougang, built by utilising and renovating discarded factories

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13. Lifecycle Cost: fiscal affordability and fiscal sustainability
• As indicated in “Principle 6” of the G20 Principles, well-designed
and well-functioning infrastructure governance institutions would
allow countries to rigorously assess the financial sustainability of
individual projects and prioritise among potential infrastructure
projects, subject to available overall financing.
• Beijing has taken various measures to reduce costs to stay true to
the budget.

14. Fiscal affordability and fiscal sustainability
• Reusing Beijing 2008 venues as an
efficient way to save costs.
• Using the Games as an opportunity to
maximise social and economic
benefits for the residents of its three
competition zones, Beijing, Yanqing
District, and Zhangjiakou.
• Many of the Beijing 2022 venues are
designed with flexibility in mind to
serve the athletes as well as the local
population in a variety of ways and
throughout the whole year.”

15. Boosting Inclusiveness
• Engaging 300 million people in winter sports, accelerating the growth of
China’s winter sports industry and boosting tourism.
• Beijing 2022 is the most gender-balanced Olympic Winter Games to date,
with women accounting for 45 per cent of the athletes.
• Beijing 2022 also boasts the highest number of women’s events ever,
with the addition of women’s monobob and women’s big air skiing
and four mixed-team events. This will increase the percentage of
women’s events in the Olympic programme to 47 per cent.

16. THANKS!