BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Collaborative Working Award London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The challenge Once in a lifetime, engineers may have the chance to work on a project that excites a nation and attracts worldwide attention. For Atkins, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was that project. As an offi cial engineering design services provider over the past seven years, the company was at the heart of the delivery, not only of the physical infrastructure needed to host the Games in London, but also of the operational management of the event.
The response More than 1,000 Atkins professionals worked to plan, design and enable the Games. Working closely with the utility industry, Atkins coordinated existing infrastructure and new connection requirements, developing the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) policy on ‘utility versus temporary’, which became the strategy for budget and procurement of these services. Atkins worked collaboratively, initially
with architects on a shared IT platform to deliver the temporary facilities (known as ‘overlay’) that brought London 2012 to life.
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The results The work that Atkins undertook will have a lasting impact on the way temporary events are approached in future. Most people don’t think about utilities or building services unless something goes wrong. With the Games, there was no room for error. Atkins is proud that its engineering achievement is being talked about after – not during – the event. Mike McNicholas, Atkins’ London 2012
project director, said: ‘The award is testament to the hard work, commitment, innovation and expertise of the team.’
Procurement process
Due to the sheer scale of the London 2012 project, procurement of the correct supplies with the right capacity was key. Atkins produced tender documentation for all building services elements required, the larger packages being temporary power, water and waste and HVAC. The level of detailed information provided was way above that normally provided for procurement of commodities from the events industry. This resulted in competitive tendering and contract award
based on a design scope close to the fi nal requirement, thus reducing scope ‘creep’ and challenges to the forecast budget. Atkins provided LOCOG with forecast consumption data for electricity, gas, water and diesel, which were used for procurement of supply. For electricity, Atkins worked actively with the supplier to establish consumption load profi les to enable effi cient purchasing of electricity at the required 80/20 low carbon/ renewable mix.
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The award is testament to the hard work, commitment, innovation and expertise of the team
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