The CREPS Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in Dijon is certified as a preparation center for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. This Tuesday, July 5, the President of the Region Marie-Guite Dufay and the Prefect Fabien Sudry officially launched a modernization operation with a budget of 13.5 million euros.
The Paris 2024 Games are finally not very far away. In any case, the enthusiasm to celebrate them from a distance was already in place at CREPS Bourgogne-Franche-Comté this Tuesday, July 5, 2022. The Resource and Expertise Center for Sports Performance will welcome athletes from 2023 in preparation for these Olympic and Paralympic Games, and even national rugby teams which will compete in the World Cup in France at the end of 2023.
CREPS Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, on the Château Lichey site in Dijon, is certified as a preparation center for the Paris 2024 Olympics, for around ten disciplines, including two Paralympics.
This certification obtained by the National Organizing Committee of the Games is one of the two major points of the master plan of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region which defines an investment strategy intended to modernize the establishment. The second point therefore relates to long-term investments aimed at accentuating the high level that can be developed at CREPS, at making the site accessible to disabled sports and consequently to Paralympic preparation, but also at renovating or building new structures according to standards committing facilities and their managers to the energy transition.
With a view to offering facilities as well as a global framework of excellence to Olympic and Paralympic athletes who have the ambition to make Paris 2024 beautiful Games, the CREPS Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is upgrading through an operation of 13.5 million euros.
“It will be the best for top athletes”
This Tuesday, July 5, 2022, it was a question of symbolically launching the work already started on the athletic preparation and performance center, of nearly 1,400 m2 on two levels.
Pascal Bonnetain had a broad smile at the idea of welcoming many high-level sports players in the region as well as local political figures who were involved in the file. It was also a sign, according to him, that the Dijon site will count heavily “around” the world event in Paris in 2024. The director of CREPS also did not fail to appreciate the passage of the Olympic flame by the Côte-d’Or, announced the day before by the departmental council of the Côte-d’Or (read the press release).
State-of-the-art equipment, quality accommodation, widely reviewed accessibility, the overall project was hailed by Nathalie Koenders, deputy mayor of the city of Dijon and former CREPS resident, as an athlete and then a trainer. “It’s going to be the best for high-level athletes,” she said in the Land of Games that is Dijon and by measuring a large consideration of the expectations of these athletes.
“A giant step has been taken here”
Marie Guite-Dufay, president of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional council, and Fabien Sudry, prefect of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, thanked each other for their commitments to the project, also citing the Agency sports national.
For Marie-Guite Dufay, the operation undertaken is “a joint effort to breathe new life into CREPS. If we want a sport that is committed, responsible, efficient, civic-minded, ambitious for our young people, we must all continue to team up to move in the same direction. The new face of CREPS will help us do that”.
And the president insisted on all aspects of the project, such as the sustainable development component: “we must initiate disruptive policies to fight against climate change. Sport cannot ignore the efforts that are required of all”. Without forgetting the component on accessibility: “sport is the field which must be fair and equitable”.
Patrice Gergès, former disabled athlete, Paralympic medalist in swimming in 1992 in Barcelona, now director of CREPS des Hauts de France, also appreciated: “a giant step has been made here. The fact of allowing this inclusion is a complete transformation for an entire public who saw themselves excluded from public establishments”. Here is his bad memory of the CREPS of Dijon at the end of the 90s forgotten.
“The 2024 Games will not be just those of Paris”
“The CREPS shows the example”, implicitly summed up the president of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region, a local authority which took over the heritage of the CREPS on January 1, 2016 within the framework of the NOTRé law.
“The CREPS is 80 years old, we are celebrating an old lady who has always been at the service of the cause of sport and youth in our region. The state was visionary then and it continues to participate. This great adventure is renewed, it continues with great prospects and an ambitious program of works. The 2024 Games will not only be those of Paris, they will also be those of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Côte-d’Or and Dijon, ”said Fabien Sudry.
The spirit is already present at CREPS Bourgogne-Franche-Comté where sports demonstrations were concocted on Tuesday, in particular that produced at 2,000 meters high by the French parachuting team. It is moreover from this sky that the parchment arrived that Marie-Guite Dufay slipped into one of the elements of the future C2PA, whose projection is due to the work of Cathrin Trebeljahr, an architect from Paris.
Alix Berthier
Photos: Alix Berthier
Operation details:
The three construction operations are:
– athletic preparation and performance center (C2PA) with a usable area of 1345m2 on two levels to be delivered in July 2023.
– extension attached to the Gymnase Jacob of 270 m2 and grouping the changing rooms, toilets, storage of equipment and various premises which are missing in this gymnasium;
– extension of 171m2 backed by the athletic space of the apparatus gymnasium and grouping the changing rooms, toilets, storage of equipment and various premises which are missing from the neighboring rugby pitch.
The rehabilitation component includes:
– the major renovation of the three levels of accommodation is to be delivered in July 2023: thermal renovation, restructuring and redistribution of rooms with toilets and PMR showers in each room, asbestos removal and accessibility.
– various works on the rest of the building (central arch, administration, amphitheater (abandoned in the APS phase) and various premises): SSI (what?) to renovate, accessibility, exterior joinery to be replaced in part, occultations and solar protection, reconfiguration of the interior premises of certain parts of the building, conversion of the current dance hall into a meeting/conference room. The work may extend into the fall of 2023.
– the interventions to be planned on the Borée accommodation building are more limited and partial: restructuring and reconfiguration of the central toilets on the first floor, creation of new toilets on the ground floor, creation of the new CREPS reception opposite the existing car park, renovation of the floors in the distribution corridors, insulation from the outside of the entire building and replacement of old joinery, insulation of the attic, creation of an exterior emergency staircase. The work will be carried out in an occupied environment with several phases and may extend into autumn 2023.
– Work on the catering building will mainly concern the scullery and partially the laundry.
The work will be carried out in an occupied environment in several phases and may extend into autumn 2023.
The planned interventions are also part of an objective to position the CREPS of Dijon as a reference site for the reception of Paralympic athletes.
The provisional schedule:
Start of the work preparation period: February 2022
Start of works: April 2022
1st deliveries (C2PA and NOTOS hosting): July 2023
Last deliveries (rest of the NOTOS premises, Borée, Jacob changing rooms, catering): autumn 2023
Overall cost of the operation:
Total all expenses combined after award of all works contracts:
€13,500,000 including tax (excluding corporate officer compensation).
– Works: €9,058,579.72 excluding tax
– General studies: €127,000 excluding VAT
– Project management fees: €923,510 excluding tax
– Other fees (CT, CSPS, OPC, revisions, contingencies): €141,449.67 excl.
– Assurances : 50 000 €
– Miscellaneous and contractual and non-contractual contingencies: €407,636.09 excluding tax
– Provisions for work price revisions and fees: €476,692.08 excluding tax
Funding:
– Region, self-financing.
– State, Regional investment grant (recovery plan): €4,000,000.
– National Sports Agency grant: €2,500,000.
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