Atkins and London 2012 Partnership

Rhys MacMillan

Work and involvement in the games

• Atkins as a company has played a large part in making the London 2012 Olympic Games happen

• The first official engineering design services provider to an Olympic Games

• Work includes the design of structures, bridges and highways

• Planning of temporary venues

Work and involvement in the games

Enabling works including -

•Site investigation

•Demolition and clearance

•Soil washing

•Groundwater treatment

•Bulk earthworks

•River wall repair and replacement

•Temporary construction of roads and bridges

•Archaeology

•Eradication and treatment of invasive weeds

Work and involvement in the games

Utilities infrastructure including –

• Electrical substation and distribution

network

• Water networks

• Gas networks

• Telecommunications network

• Energy centre and associated heating and

cooling networks

.

Work and involvement in the games

Atkins are the planning agent for the London

2012 enabling works  on:

•Olympic Park site-wide project comprising

large-scale earthworks

•Land remediation

•River walls

•Planning for Olympic venues

Planning

Work and involvement in the games

Environment and Ecology

•Retaining and managing the existing ecology

•Relocating species where needed

•Treating and eradicating invasive species

•Creating habitats within and outside of the

London 2012 Park

Work and involvement in the games

Temporary Venues

•Up to 15 venues along the Thames and in

central London

•Beach Volleyball – Horse Guards Parade

•Equestrian Venue – Greenwich Park

•Basketball Venue – Olympic Park

Venues outside London

Up to 13 venues used outside London

including

•Manchester

•Glasgow

•Newcastle

•Coventry

•Cardiff

•Headleigh Farm

•Eaton Dorney

2012 - top countries medal totals

2012 Medal Table Achievements From 2012

• Great Britain won 29 gold medals in 2012

• Great Britain’s highest medal count since

1908

• Michael Phelps became the greatest

Olympian in history with 22 medals

• Great Britain’s Nicola Adams won the first

ever female Boxing medal

Great Britain’s Top Medal Holders

Athlete Sport YearsSummer / Winter Male / Female Gold Silver Bronze Total

1. Chris Hoy Cycling 2000–2012 Summer M 6 1 0 7

2.Steve Redgrave Rowing 1984–2000 Summer M 5 0 1 6

3.Bradley Wiggins Cycling 2000–2012 Summer M 4 1 2 7

4. Ben Ainslie Sailing 1996–2012 Summer M 4 1 0 5

5.Matthew Pinsent Rowing 1992–2004 Summer M 4 0 0 4

6.Paulo Radmilovic

Water polo, Swimming 1908–1920 Summer M 4 0 0 4

7. Jack Beresford Rowing 1920–1936 Summer M 3 2 0 5

8. Jason Kenny Cycling 2008–2012 Summer M 3 1 0 4

9. Henry Taylor Swimming 1908–1920 Summer M 3 0 2 5

10.Reginald Doherty Tennis 1900–1908 Summer M 3 0 1 4

11 Richard Meade Equestrian 1968–1972 Summer M 3 0 0 3

12Charles Sydney Smith Water polo 1908–1920 Summer M 3 0 0 3

13George Wilkinson Water polo 1900–1912 Summer M 3 0 0 3

Summary

• Atkins completed all work on target

• Most Successful games ever

• Sebastian Coe’s 50 favourite moments of the games

• My favourite moments were watching the UK winning gold medals in athletics

Sources

Sources used in this presentation are from Atkins website

Images used with permission from Akins and taken from company website

http://www.atkinsglobal.co.uk/projects/london-2012 temporary-venues

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9486911/Sebastian-Coes-50-favourite-moments-of-the-London-2012-Olympic-Games.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics_medal_table

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_medalists_at_a_single_Games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics