The construction of the venues and staging of the London 2012 Games have raised the bar in areas from diversity and health and safety, to sustainability and employment and skills. London 2012 has set new standards for future Games and industry to follow. Setting new standards for construction 84 85 Accessibility Diversity Facts Facts Accessibility has been The London 2012 Women improved at railway stations into Construction project was and public transport established to help women facilities, with £200 million get work placements in invested in Stratford Station construction, an industry in alone, providing new lifts, which they are traditionally Inclusive and accessible clearer platforms and The opportunity provided underrepresented. Since the design has been at the heart enhanced services. by the Games and the large project began in 2008, 270 women were recruited and of the Games. The parklands have been investment in this part of east placed directly into jobs on designed with shallow London is helping to reduce London 2012 wanted to set the Olympic Park through gradients and seating at historic and long-standing an excellent standard of this project, exceeding its regular intervals so that they inequalities. accessibility for disabled original target of 50. people, older people and are accessible to everyone, London 2012 developed families with children, which including older people, employment and training 1,713 women worked on would set a benchmark disabled people and those programmes with partner the major construction phase and act as an inspiration with pushchairs. organisations and of the Olympic Park and Olympic and Paralympic to others. A new network of accessible contractors to encourage women, black, Asian and Village and 5,092 of the The Olympic and Paralympic transport was devised and minority ethnic (BAME) Park and Village workers Village, sporting venues, publicised to encourage people, disabled people, declared that they were from new transport services, people with accessibility and those who were a BAME background. supporting facilities and the needs to use public transport previously unemployed to Park itself will be accessible – often for the fi rst time. More than 1,000 community improve their skills and apply events and meetings to people with a wide range Local community for jobs in construction and have taken place with of disabilities both during organisations have been other areas where they different faith, age, gender, and after the Games. consulted and London 2012’s have traditionally been disability, sexual orientation strategy has been infl uenced underrepresented. and ethnicity groups to by the experiences of encourage them to get multi-faith groups, parents Away from construction, involved in the Games. and disabled people. programmes were also established to reduce discrimination experienced by disabled people, older people and BAME people. 86 87 Businesses Facts The Games have given The Games have also had a A total £6.9 billion of By June 2012, 11,700 London companies across the UK wider impact on UK business contracts have been 2012 and other supply chain a boost during what have and industry. awarded by the ODA. opportunities had been been extremely challenging made available to businesses In winning contracts and Through the comprehensive economic times. through CompeteFor, a working on the Games, many licensing and merchandise free brokerage service They have generated businesses and their supply programme, the Games are that enables businesses billions of pounds of chains have had to change expected to drive around to compete for contract contracts, with businesses their working practices, from £1 billion worth of sales opportunities linked to creating tens of thousands improving their equality and to the UK high street. the Games and other major of new jobs that would not inclusion or health and safety Companies from every public and private sector have otherwise existed. policies to developing new region in the UK have buying organisations. approaches to sustainable won business contracts. or accessible design that More than 160,000 suppliers will help them win work More than 240 businesses, nationwide had registered in the future. from throughout the UK won on the CompeteFor system contracts on the construction by the end of June 2012. of the Olympic Stadium. 88 89 Funding London 2012 Costs of individual venues and facilities The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is responsible for the for which the ODA is responsible: construction of the venues and infrastructure for the Games Olympic and Paralympic Village: £1.1 billion and their use after 2012. Olympic Stadium: £428 million The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd (LOCOG) is responsible for IBC/MPC Complex: £295 million preparing and staging the London 2012 Games. Aquatics Centre: £251 million The ODA is publicly funded through national and London VeloPark (including the Velodrome and BMX Track): taxes, as well as contributions from the National Lottery. £87 million In 2007, the Government announced a public sector funding package of £9.3 billion, of which the ODA could spend Eton Manor: £55 million a maximum of £8.1 billion. Copper Box: £41 million Every quarter, the Government publishes a fi nancial Basketball Arena: £40 million report outlining current and anticipated fi nal costs for the ODA’s activities. The latest version (June 2012) gave Water Polo Arena: £19 million the anticipated fi nal cost as £6.761 billion, including: The Royal Artillery Barracks: £33 million Site preparation and infrastructure: £1.822 billion Lee Valley White Water Centre: £22 million Venues: £1.051 billion Improvements to facilities at Eton Dorney: £9 million Transport capital projects: £429 million Improvements to facilities at Weymouth and Portland: Full details of all spending can be found at £8 million www.culture.gov.uk/publications/9134.aspx Funding for LOCOG comes mainly from the private sector. A total of £2 billion will be raised from sources including sponsorship, broadcasting rights, income from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and selling merchandise and tickets. 90 91 Legacy Facts The Olympic and Paralympic The new Park will open in Of every £1 the ODA has Eventually, fi ve new Games have been the phases from 27 July 2013, spent, 75 pence has gone neighbourhoods will be catalyst for the physical one year after the Opening towards the long-term established on the site; in transformation of a huge Ceremony of the London regeneration of the area. time, there will be almost area of east London. 2012 Olympic Games. 11,000 new homes on and The new transport around the Olympic Park. After the Games the Olympic As well as its collection connections and networks Park will be transformed of iconic sporting venues, of energy, water and It has already been agreed into the Queen Elizabeth the Park will combine the telecommunications that who will manage six of the Olympic Park, a brand new parklands and waterways were built for the Games will eight permanent venues and piece of the city connecting of the river valley in the provide the backbone for the attractions on the Park in the the communities surrounding north with a 50-acre urban area’s future development. long-term after the Games. the Park and bringing jobs playground in the south. The Olympic and Paralympic The Park will be managed and homes to the area. Village will be converted by the London Legacy The Queen Elizabeth into 2,818 new homes – to Development Corporation. Olympic Park will be be known as East Village 100 hectares of new an exciting new visitor – with housing for sale and open space will be destination and community rent, half of which will be created – equal in size park, unlike any other affordable housing. to St James’s Park in in the UK. central London. 92 93 Sustainability Facts Sustainability was central The venues have been The ODA is on track to More than 675 bird and bat to London’s bid to host designed to be as exceed by 10 per cent a boxes using off-cut drainage the Games and has been sustainable as possible, challenging target to reduce pipes (pictured) are being a key priority throughout using innovative techniques the carbon emissions of the installed across the Park the construction of venues to reuse or recycle materials, Olympic Park by 50 per cent. to encourage new homes and infrastructure, and the encourage new wildlife for wildlife. Two million tonnes of soil staging of the Games. habitats, and reduce energy were excavated and cleaned, The UK’s largest waste water use and water consumption. Where there was a long-term with more than 80 per cent recycling facility is helping need for a new venue, we To reduce the use of materials, reused on the site – one of to reduce the consumption have built new permanent existing venues have been the UK’s largest clean-ups of non-drinking water on facilities; where there was used where possible. of contaminated land. the Park by 60 per cent. not, we have built temporary London 2012 is the fi rst ever More than 98 per cent of venues with materials that summer Games to measure materials generated from the can be recycled and hired its carbon footprint over the demolition works on the Park parts that can be reused. entire project; the carbon were reused or recycled. footprint of staging the London 2012’s target is Games is expected to be for no waste to be sent to 20 per cent lower than landfi ll during the Games. originally projected. 94 95 Workforce The Games have provided Health and safety has been More than 46,000 people More than a quarter of the thousands of people with one of the major successes were employed on the Park workforce on the Olympic jobs and training during a of the project: the accident and Village during the Park at the peak of diffi cult time for the economy, frequency rate during the construction of the main construction was from six leaving long-term social and construction of the main venues and infrastructure, of the London boroughs economic benefi ts for London London 2012 venues and with the workforce peaking nearest the Park.