A completely new ski jumping facility with two jumps and three training jumps has been built in the village of Pragelato. The man responsible for all alpine construction work was Vittorio Salusso. The architects Giorgio Marè and Stefano Seita won the tender for the ski jump facility, and the head construction engineer was Wolfgang Happle.

The in-runs are made of steel and ceramics, the out-run area of concrete and a plastic cast. A cable crane, normally used for building dams, was required to position the enormous construction precisely. As the ski jumping facility was built on the grounds of a natural park, particular attention had to be paid to special environmental requirements.

Without flying aids, athletes can jump further than 100m from a ski jump. They thereby reach take-off speeds of more than 100kmph (62mph). To ensure safe jumps from the ramp the so-called K-point has to be precisely calculated. The engineers were assisted here by one of the biggest names in ski jumping: Janne 'Petteri' Ahonen. During his training programme at the Helsinki ski tunnel, he simulated the conditions for the construction of the jump.

Also built were the judges' tower, the warm-up rooms for the athletes, the lift, the snowmaking system, a complex lighting system as many events will be floodlit, and the three-storey stand for 2,500 spectators.

The system was tested by the Austrian ski jumper Thomas Morgenstern, who went on to win two gold medals at the Games.