We have to deliver a project twice the size of Heathrow Terminal Five in half the time.
 
We are on track to deliver and have been planning the Games venues and their long-term legacy use hand-in-hand. 

We have completed stage one - the planning and set up for the Olympic Park. This included agreeing the site plan and our timetable for delivery, and submitting one of the largest planning applications in European history.

We have also completed stage two - what we called ‘demolish, dig, design’. This means we have been getting the site ready for construction work. The 2.5 sq km site is contaminated land, so we have been undertaking significant work to clean it up. We also also been demolishing more than 220 buildings.

The first construction project - the underground tunnels for the powerlines - has been completed on time and to budget.

At the same time we have been preparing the designs for the sporting venues that, alongside the Olympic Village, will be the centrepiece of the new Olympic Park.

Stage three - the 'big build' - was due to start in summer 2008. In fact it began three months early, when construction started on the Olympic Stadium in May 2008.

Building work has also begun on the Aquatics Centre, Olympic Village and VeloPark. Construction will continue to accelerate over the next year when building work begins on the last of the 'big five' venues: the International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre (IBC/MPC).