Olympic venue on schedule and on budget?
WITH just under three years to go until the flame is lit at the Olympic Stadium, organisers face a year of significant challenges.
During the next 12 months the project will enter its most crucial period with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) moving from planning into operational mode as it makes crucial decisions about how to spend its £2bn budget.
Meanwhile, the Olympic Delivery Authority that is responsible for constructing the venues, will enter the busiest phase of the “big build” as the workforce doubles to 10,000.
Hopes that the ODA will be able to deliver the project within its £8.1bn budget, despite the recession, have been raised by good recent progress. The steel struts of the £538m stadium now dominate the skyline while the
Prosecution for discharge!
EA officials looking at washwater containing detergents
wavy roof of the £244m Aquatics Centre, the signature architectural statement amid a sea of otherwise functional designs, is beginning to take shape.
The ODA say that, by next July, the structure of the stadium will be finished, the two 50 metre swimming pools dug out and the velodrome roof complete.
The economic slump meant the ODA had to dip into its contingency budget to fund the £1.1bn athletes village and the £355m media centre after private investment dried up, but has also enabled it to cut costs elsewhere.
Yet, there remain fears about the ability of sub-contractors to weather the economic storm and ODA chairman John Armitt promised to guard against complacency. “The big challenge is the sheer scale of activity and the logistical challenge of managing the
workflow,” he said.
There remain question marks over some of the venues. Locog is determined to hold the equestrian events in Greenwich Park, arguing that it will thrust the sport into the spotlight and provide a spectacular venue. But Nogoe, the local group set up to oppose the move, claims it will disrupt local residents and businesses, and will contest planning permission.
Question marks also surround whether or not Locog will be able to dispense with a £40m temporary venue originally planned for the Greenwich peninsula by moving boxing to Wembley Arena and also the site of the shooting events.
Paul Deighton, Locog’s CEO, said all the outstanding issues would be “absolutely crystallised by the end of the year”.
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