Because of the high quality of the fischer products and of the on-site services the Brazilian fischer subsidiary won a series of contracts to deliver a variety of fixing systems for several new buildings erected in the Olympic Park in the Barra district, located in the south of the city. Most of the arenas are built with supporting prefabricated concrete slabs or supporting steel constructions which are quite demanding in terms of fixing technology.

The tennis arena, offering 10,000 seats, is covered by a metal roof that had to be fixed on concrete pillars. For this purpose, threaded rods were used in combination with fischer injection mortar. Not far from there the three Carioca-Arenas are under construction. They will host the basketball games as well as the wrestling, judo, fencing and Taekwondo competitions. In each Carioca arena there are 6,500 seats that were fixed into the concrete substructure with the help of anchors and injection mortar.

Another architectural highlight of the Olympic Park is the Future Arena. In this nordic looking building the handball teams will play their matches. The railings and wave breakers which prevent the audience from uncontrollably pushing towards the field were fixed with steel bolt anchors into the concrete base.

Olympic Games are always a global media event for which a temporary media centre has to be built. The “International Broadcast Centre“ (IBC) is designed to serve for both TV and radio broadcasts. The two buildings are also located in the Olympic Park Barra and were the first venues at all to be handed over to the Olympic Committee at the end of last year. The main building hosts twelve studios each comprising 5,000 square meters. fischer Brazil was responsible for the fixing and cladding of the electric equipment and cable routes.

306 competitions in 28 sports will be staged in various Olympic sites. The larger part of them are new edifices. All venues are located in four districts within the municipal area of Rio de Janeiro: Maracanã, Barra, Deodoro and Copacabana. The opening and closing ceremonies are planned to take place in the legendary Maracanã arena, wheres the track and field athletics will be staged in the Olympic Stadium “João Havelange“.

Being satisfied with fischer Brazil delivering fixing systems for all arenas of the last football world championship, the persons responsible for the Olympic venues also trusted in the know-how, quality and safety of the fischer fixing products.