FEATURE — LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS
LONDON
W ith less than two and a half years to go
until the opening ceremony of the XXX Olympiad in
London, the past year has been the most important yet
for the two organisations set up to deliver the games:
the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and the London
Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG).
Background and Site Preparation
London was awarded the 2012 Olympic Games in Sin-
gapore on 6th July 2005, and work on preparing the
site for the main Olympic Park in Stratford, East Lon-
don began in 2006. Initial work focused on re-routing
power lines and other utilities across the site, along
with extensive demolition and land remediation works.
With the Olympic Park covering 500 acres the scale
of this task was immense, as ODA Director of DesignFeature-writer Paul Haines examines the
and Regeneration Alison Nimmo explained: “At theprogress of the new builds, renovation
Olympic Park the ground has quite literally been
scraped clean.projects and temporary venues for London’s
We’ve cleaned up all the vestiges of industry andhosting of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
had a major programme of cleaning up all the water-
ways and rivers. We’ve had some challenging times
there, but the project management team at Atkins and
all the contractors have done a brilliant job on the
enabling works and moving a lot of the utilities and
the networks underground. There has been a huge
amount of investment, energy and effort in the
ground, and now the focus has moved on to the won-
derful buildings that are taking shape.”
Role of the ODA
With land remediation and enabling works now com-
plete, the focus for the Olympic planners has shifted to
the construction phase, with building work on the
London 2012 Olympic Games: Map of the venues that will host many of the twenty-six Olympic
Olympic Park and, pictured top of the page, and twenty Paralympic sports now well underway.
its centrepiece — the Olympic Stadium.
Of the two London 2012 organisations set up to
deliver the Games, it is the ODA that is responsible for
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