The London Olympics - Making It Happen

misterarticle.com     May 17, 2008            

Building an Olympic Games is no mean feat. And a lot of the London Olympics site is on contaminated land which has first to be cleaned up before any building work can begin. The task for the 2012 London Olympics is so massive that the Construction Skills Network currently believes that the... [read full story]                    

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Mayor Johnson poised to make Olympic debut

guardian.co.uk     May 15, 2008          

Boris Johnson will today attempt to assert his Olympic credentials at the start of a week that will offer the first clues as to how the new London mayor intends to tackle the highest-profile project of his tenure. The mayor will attend his first meeting of the Olympic board this afternoon, the...                    

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Boris Johnson cracks-down on Olympic budget

telegraph.co.uk     May 15, 2008          

By Toby Helm, Public Policy Editor. Boris Johnson is to demand more rigorous controls of the £9.3 billion London Olympics budget amid fresh signs that the project is heading for financial difficulties due to the global credit crisis. The new Mayor of London is to call in a team of private sector...                    

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London Olympics

bbc.co.uk     May 15, 2008          

Leap for London Olympics advert The International Olympic Committee visit London to meet the new Mayor, Boris Johnson on 20-22 May, 2008. We investigate the hand-over between the out-going and incoming Majors, and the implications for the London Olympics. Johnson's first term will come to an end...                    

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Olympic chiefs knew pool bust budget

guardian.co.uk     May 17, 2008          

Designs for the London 2012 Olympic aquatic centre broke its original budget of £73m more than three years before games organisers admitted that the true cost had tripled to £242m. The Department for Culture Media and Sport and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) admitted last night that...                    

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Olympic bosses knew pool bust budget three years ago

guardian.co.uk     May 17, 2008          

Designs for the London 2012 Olympic aquatic centre broke its original budget of £73m more than three years before games organisers admitted that the true cost had tripled to £242m. The Department for Culture Media and Sport and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) admitted last night that...                    

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Anatomy of an Olympic-size overspend

guardian.co.uk     May 17, 2008          

Cost of aquatics centre more than trebled to £242m after plan for 'over-designed' building came in too large for site Designed by the avant-garde architect Zaha Hadid and with a wave-shaped roof rising just higher than the main stadium, London's Olympic aquatics centre is the ambitious design...                    

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Officials knew 2012 pool bust budget

guardian.co.uk     May 17, 2008          

Designs for the London 2012 Olympic aquatic centre broke its original budget of £73m more than three years before games organisers admitted that the true cost had tripled to £242m. The Department for Culture Media and Sport and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) admitted last night that...                    

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