All Building 2012 articles – Page 40
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NewsWest End to get pre-Olympic facelift
Revamp for London's theatreland to boost international tourism.
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‘Revolutionary’ Olympic skills database launched
Groundbreaking computer model will analyse number of skilled workers needed to build the 2012 Games
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CommentLet the games end
More and more decent contractors are opting out of tricky public projects. If the government wants us back to build its Olympics, it’ll just have to outlaw retentions
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NewsOlympic staging body formally established
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, or LOCOG, was officially set up yesterday at the first meeting of its transition board, chaired by Sebastian Coe.
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NewsDavid Higgins frontrunner for Olympic job
The man who organised Sydney 2000 is the government's preferred choice as head of the Olympic Delivery Agency, according to The Observer.
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NewsTreasury asks Whitehall to fund £1bn Olympic shortfall
Treasury asks spending departments to search their budgets for contributions to £3.7bn cost of Games.
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Archive TitlesGoing for gold
Seventeen days. A 500-acre site. £8.3bn worth of construction. The 2012 Olympics will make over a corner of east London with sports arenas, an athletes’ village and all the other buildings needed to host a major international sporting event. In the process, speculators from Hackney homeowners to large-scale landowners stand ...
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NewsArup draws up anti-terrorism plans for 2012 Olympics
In wake of 7/7 bombings, consultant’s security division examines how to prevent similar attacks at London Games
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Denis Oswald appointed to key Olympic role
Ex-Olympic rower and member of the IOC executive board named chairman of 2012 Co-ordination Commission.
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How to build an Olympic Games
If London is to host an Olympics without white elephants or black holes, the procurement routes must be chosen with great care. These are the contenders
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English Partnerships boss still hot tip for Olympic job
David Higgins, the chief executive of English Partnerships, is understood to be considering whether to apply for the job of delivering the London 2012 Olympics.
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NewsLivingstone demands T5-style deal for Olympics
Mayor in talks with T&G and UCATT over plan to force Olympics firms to offer generous pay and conditions.
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Olympic threat to Thames
Bid ambassador warns that Olympics could divert funds away from other projects.
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Pressure on to keep Olympic bids best practice promises
Industry urges government to make Games a showcase for best practice in procurement and sustainability.
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CommentSpirit of the games
Over the next seven years, can the construction industry finally ditch its adversarial reputation and embrace the ideals of the Olympic movement?
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RIBA lobbies for 2012 urban design body
The RIBA is lobbying the government to set up a body to champion urban design in the Olympic zone.
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2012 team starts search for velopark designer
The London Development Agency has begun its search for an architect to design the Olympic velopark, it was announced this week.