John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, presented his lecture “Engineering the 2012 Olympics” to an audience of over 100 people on Thursday 21 May 2009 at the head office of the Institution of Structural Engineers.
Held in association with the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), the lecture proved popular and was booked out a week prior to the event.
The main topic covered was how the delivery of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games in London is dependent on the skills of engineers of all disciplines. Mr Armitt focused on their contribution from demolition and remediation, to the complex security and communications systems necessary to deliver a twenty-first century Olympic Games in a sustainable manner.
Mr Armitt was appointed Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority on 1 September 2007, having previously been Chief Executive of Network Rail from October 2002 and Chief Executive of Railtrack plc from December 2001. He has extensive experience in the building, civil engineering and industrial construction markets.
The lecture finished with a question and answer session and a three course dinner.
For more information on John Armitt or any of the Institution’s Evening Technical Meetings please contact the events team.
2012 Olympics: the big build
Kathy Stansfield reports on progress with engineering the 2012 Olympics and what it says about the Games in the future.
The 2012 Olympic Games site in East London is a hive of activity, with new structures emerging out of the reclaimed land, surrounded by huge piles of cleaned earth, snaking access roads whose routes change daily, barriers, cranes and the now gleaming rivers of the Lea Valley.
See full article in, 2012 Olympics: the big build, The Structural Engineer, 21 July 2009.