At the 2025 ICEAA Professional Development & Training Workshop, our teams were challenged with estimating the cost of relocating the 2028 Olympics from Los Angeles to Atlanta…and in 2027! What will it take to fast-track preparations and successfully move the LA Olympics to a city with its own unique challenges and opportunities? What infrastructure from the 1996 Olympics can be repurposed, what other Atlanta area venues can be utilized, and how can innovative technologies like AI and digital twins transform Olympic logistics and reduce costs? Which creative strategies can maximize sustainability while minimizing community disruption?
Our rising estimators defined their ground rules and assumptions, the context of their estimate, and presented in current fiscal year US dollars. Teams presented their solutions for a panel of judges at the 2025 ICEAA Professional Development & Training Workshop in Atlanta.
Join us Thursday, July 31, 2025 to hear from Team Augur, one of the participants in this year’s Cost Challenge, on what it would take to relocate and fast-track the Olympics: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/j5hPWEf-RZ6lOtgOs_onrA
Check out this encore presentation of the estimate from Team Technomics, our 2025 Cost Challenge Winners!
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2023 Cost Challenge Presentations
The teams competing in the 2023 ICEAA Cost Challenge faced a ponderous question: how much does our cycle through life cost? How will the cost curves change from milestone to milestone, from birth to death? What risks or uncertainty need to be considered? What outliers or other unexpected elements will impact the project we call being alive, and what external societal costs or circumstantial benefits should we consider when looking at, well, everything?
Our rising estimators defined their ground rules and assumptions, the context of their estimate, and presented in current fiscal year US dollars. Items that may have been taken into consideration are government assistance, taxes, US population, life expectancy, and elements surrounding education, health, occupation, lifestyle, or other statistics. Our teams presented their solutions for a panel of judges at the 2023 ICEAA Professional Development & Training Workshop, and encore presentations from three of our teams are below:
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Team Augur
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Team Technomics:
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