Gleeds has set up a 10-strong team of senior staff dedicated to preparing for the London Olympics. Neil Webster, director of management consultancy, will lead the team. He has been appointed “Olympic champion”.
The core of the team is composed of six people who have been working on Thames Gateway projects for Gleeds for the past three years.
Gleeds bid unsuccessfully for the role of programme manager for the 2012 project, but it is waiting to hear about two other Olympics projects it has tendered for.
Webster stressed the need for the Olympic project to be integrated into the wider regeneration of Thames Gateway and said he was particularly interested in ensuring that the Olympics left a legacy appropriate for the surrounding area. Gleeds’ experience in the area includes overseeing the bidding process for Newham Council on a PFI project to build more than 1,000 housing units at Canning Town.
The London team will get support from the managing director of Gleeds Australia, David Kelly, who worked on the Sydney Olympics.
The Olympic Delivery Authority will oversee much of the building work associated with the 2012 Games, but its members will not be finalised until Spring 2006.
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