OPIS - Olympiados Performance & Infrastructure Standards
Standards & Performance Advisory (OPIS)
OPIS defines how sports infrastructure is expected to perform beyond design approval and construction handover. It benchmarks facilities against measurable performance outcomes across design, construction, and long-term operations—addressing gaps where conventional standards and certifications stop.
What Standards & Performance Mean in Practice
In sports infrastructure, standards and performance extend far beyond compliance checklists or certification approvals. They define how a facility is expected to behave under real conditions—how it performs during use, how it responds to environmental stress, and how reliably it sustains that performance over its operational life.
OPIS establishes measurable, context-specific benchmarks to evaluate.
• Infrastructure behaviour under real-world usage, not ideal conditions
•Response to environmental and climatic stress, specific to location
•Safety, playability, and durability thresholds, over time
•Maintenance intensity, degradation patterns, and lifecycle risk
This advisory focuses on clarity before construction, not correction after execution.
Performance Domains Covered Under OPIS
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Why Sports Infrastructure Performance Fails
Most performance failures in sports infrastructure are not caused by lack of intent or budget—but by how standards are defined, applied, and enforced.
• Absence of clear, sport-specific infrastructure standards
•Contractor-led design decisions driven by convenience or cost
•Generic specifications applied across different soil and climate conditions
•Undefined tolerances for slope, drainage, surface behaviour, and lighting
•No independent benchmark to evaluate “good enough”
Once built, these issues are expensive — or impossible — to correct.
OPIS addresses performance risk before it becomes physical infrastructure
This advisory focuses on clarity before construction, not correction after execution.
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How OPIS is Applied
OPIS can be engaged in two structure ways
1. Standalone Standards & Performance Advisory
Applied independently for projects seeking:
•Clear infrastructure benchmarks
•Owner-side performance protection
•Neutral evaluation of design intent
2. Integrated Advisory for Large Projects
Deployed alongside:
•Strategic Feasibility Advisory
•DPR & Financial Feasibility
In these cases, OPIS acts as the standards backbone that aligns feasibility, design, and long-term performance
What This Advisory Delivers
Who This Advisory Is For
- Clearly defined, sport-specific performance benchmarks
- Reduced dependence on contractor-led design decisions
- Lower risk of premature failure, rework, and lifecycle cost escalation
- Objective for design review, procurement, and execution alignment
- Infrastructure that performs predictably, not accidentally
Standards turn intent into measurable outcomes.
- Sports facility owners and developers
- Public-sector and PPP-led infrastructure projects
- Sports academies and high-performance centres
- Stadiums, arenas, and multi-sport complexes
- Institutions responsible for long-term asset reliability
This advisory is relevant where performance matters beyond day one.
Why Olympiados
Olympiados brings a rare combination of deep expertise in the sports infrastructure domain and a strong understanding of ground-level execution.
•Experience across public, private, and PPP-led sports infrastructure projects
•Direct exposure to construction realities, operational failures, and lifecycle risk
•Independence from contractor, supplier, and execution-driven incentives
•Ability to define standards based on performance outcomes—not drawings or certifications
We think in standards and performance—because that is what determines whether infrastructure succeeds or fails.
That is what OPIS represents.
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