ODA on track to deliver

Progress to date includes submitting the planning application and acquiring the land for the Olympic Park site, starting venue design and finishing the tunnelling for powerlines.

The ODA now moves to the next stage of the project - 'demolish, dig, design' – the 10 milestones which they aim to meet by Beijing 2008 Games.

Acting ODA Chairman Sir Roy McNulty, said: This is a project without precedent – twice the size of Heathrow's T5 in half the time. It is one of the biggest business challenges in the world and one of the biggest jobs in the construction industry - a multi-billion pound delivery programme to a fixed deadline.

"Through the efforts of David Higgins and his team we are on track to deliver. The ODA has met all its major milestones to date in its first year, finishing the first major construction programme, the tunnelling needed to underground the powerlines, on time and to budget and, as was stated in the recent Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Report, also making £600m savings during the review of costs last year through improvements to the site map."

19 July 2007