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≡ AECOM JOINS AS PARTNER ≡
Another sponsor has signed on with the LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Organizing Committee as Dallas-headquartered design and engineering mega-firm AECOM has joined as the “Official Venue Infrastructure Partner” for the organizing committee and Team USA.
It’s a natural upgrade from AECOM’s work in planning and development for LA28, which began during the bid phase for the 2024 Games and continued when Los Angeles was awarded the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad and XVIII Paralympic Games in 2017.
Having AECOM’s expertise saves the hiring of a bespoke architecture and design staff for LA28, and takes advantage of its decades of experience in stadium design and construction, most recently as the lead design, construction management and engineering firm for the state-of-the-art Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, home of the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. It will be the site for basketball for the LA28 Games.
AECOM’s expertise, with more than 2,000 professionals in the Southern California area, will be turned toward maximizing the usefulness of the temporary infrastructure that will be used in 2028, with no permanent venues to be built. The firm was already involved in Olympic architectural and engineering support at the London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games.
Moreover, AECOM, which reported revenues of $16.1 billion for its 2024 fiscal year, has been deeply involved already in the design efforts for 2028, as the architectural design arm of the organizing committee.
There will also be significant financial benefits for LA28 as well, as the AECOM agreement is a cash–and-services program. In the first six years of operations, LA28 has continuously retained AECOM for design services with fees through 2023 of $11,624,039:
● 2018: $1,229,127
● 2019: $1,210,000
● 2020: $1,310,000
● 2021: $1,146,100
● 2022: $1,609,839
● 2023: $5,118,973 (last year reported)
This is only a fraction of the work that will be required going forward. Happily, the AECOM main office in downtown Los Angeles will be only about 10 blocks north of the eventual LA28 headquarters on South Olive Street, to be occupied later this year.
AECOM is classified as an “Official Partner,” in the second tier of LA28 sponsors, with Cisco, Fanatics, Lilly, Nike and Polo Ralph Lauren. Comcast-NBC and Delta are listed as “Founding Partners,” and there are seven “Official Supporters,” for 15 LA28 corporate sponsors so far.
The LA28 budget calls for $2.514 billion in domestic corporate partnership revenue, with more than $1.5 billion committed so far and a goal of $2 billion by the end of 2025.
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