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my guest in the studio is simon right. every olympiad is promising to be the greatest in history but the summer games in london are promising to be the greenest industry contractors are using then us high tech methods to reduce carbon dioxide emissions they even say ninety per cent of demolition materials are going to be recycled and reuse this is involved in the massive construction campaigns that will deliver roads new buildings and stadiums for the games but do the brits have anything to share with the russians to make the next games in sochi even greener and maybe even greater here's the director of infrastructure utilities and public real at the london two thousand and twelve olympic deliberate authority simon wright. run an olympics delivery authority designed its work plan to be one of the

most high tech and progressive they're going to china under developed area of the city into a twenty first century benchmark of the urban environment roads bridges waterways buildings transport and environment are going to see a new standard of quality and comfort thousands of miles away from london another big construction project is on the way to the sochi olympics organizers surely don't want to lose that univision race. mr writer welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us this right well first of all what is the olympic delivery authority in a few ways and how different are the responsibilities from the london organizing committee the. who. i work of the government organization who are charged with fish design and construction and implementation of the venues most of the venues the new venues on the olympic park along with the olympic village were publicly funded were a government agency

a local london organizing committee of the olympic games is is the private organization who are charged with actually running the games in south. the question that i had to you as soon as i learned then run the bit was this deal with public transport in london public transport it was hard to believe they have the olympic bid and it was rated pretty poorly which was a surprise to me because i love london the transcript and for example saatchi as far as i know has no public transport it at all so what's wrong with the system from the point of view of the impacts of course with the london transportation system and what's being done i think it's going to work extremely well the stratford olympic park which is in east london is one of the best connected parts of london and has many railway lines that arrive there we are developing new capacity on existing lines so the underground railway system is being improved the

overground sufis road systems are also being heavily invested in the docklands light railway system which is a new system that's gone in fairly recently again as significant investment so it's going to be capacity increases will be measures to keep vehicles off the roads in the days of the games by persuading normal commuters to stay at home and i think it's going to work really well is it possible to persuade people to settle there what they did in moscow in one thousand nine hundred eighty during the olympics they just persuaded the normal commuters to get out of the city in our public area this is i think the only way to keep people off the streets and there was a lot of well proven way of doing things so through up company which is already started working with employers were saying change your patterns of commuting coming later coming earlier but don't come in at the peak time when we're trying to get the games to get a whole gang to let private cars not private bed but olympic the calls on to bustling there are the network bridges are separate lanes the fleet will

be using those lanes not because things as a driver london are i been. the bus lanes were closed for the limit. so the buses will keep what it was before but still before gas is ok now how much of the plan would it has already be done because i've heard that your head of schedule as we are we're actually eighty percent of all think construction work is is from the over eighty percent we're slightly ahead of schedule we've already handed over the first venue to local that was the velodrome which was last month the main stadium will be completed early spring spring summer and all the venues will be completed by july of this year that is within one still one year to go to the twenty games when we finish the last venue so we are the last two which going to be the last of the swing as a swimming aquatics what about wembley how big is one going to be for the olympics

wembley is already completed so i know there's no work so you don't have to do anything i think is very minimal what we're not involved we were really local to some overlay just to make it look like an olympic venue but there's no other construction it will be heavily used during the. will have only four foot before her and the opening ceremony now that's in the main stadium on the olympic park will be eighty thousand seats so it's bigger than one politico when he's ninety or four hundred but why why not use wembley religion the legendary thing but it's in the wrong part of the city we wanted a stadium that was close to the athletes' village of course as you understand the athletes you know don't want to be spending lots of energy traveling a long distance just back crucial moment before the world for the sport starts so there's a new stadium being built very close to the athletes' village they can get to easily and they can get back home easy after the service i was speaking about traveling how wide are the olympic facilities spread around the the u.k.

world most many of them are in east london so we have the olympic park at stratford which is where we're most involved we have xcel center which is only on the docklands in islam. we have the oats you don't which is well the world used by noon our millennium dome as it's become. and so many venues are in that part of east london and the only other venues really are weymouth which is for the sailing on the south coast dorney which is the rowing and winds and heathrow and then the football stadium. and the microphone what about wimbledon i'm going to as you would guess that would be used wimbledon exactly will be used for the tennis so it is today is going to be on grass and this will be in growth a league of tennis is going to be a ground i believe so not one of my particular responsibility but it's going to look to craig you lation to have a hard court and the country can choose is there i believe my personal owner was i'm playing right and i love expert on olympic tennis and it seemed so yes otherwise i presume we wouldn't have got permission ok now i want to ask you i

think there it's five hundred days before the opening of the games and everybody's been talking about islam quickly that was that was launched inaccurate and then it starts after a couple of hours worked out and. you have to do anything to do it for. the clock was it didn't work it's been fixed so yes i don't know there was a problem with what it was so so so but but but but it's being here the clock is done by the olympic timekeeper very efficient and people are so so so that this is a scandal and it's kind of thank you for the olympics even it's a minor thing in that you know it was a it was a clock that's a countdown clock it's not used for limping timing stopped it's been fixed it'll be fine ok so if the clarke timekeeping at least today is not a problem what's the major what's the key challenge for for for you are going as

a should right now i think whether you're world or whether we cannot predict life like any other country but we've been we've been very fortune. in keeping to our show jewel so far we've set a program of two years for planning four years can for construction and one year for commissioning and testing and we're now into that last year of construction we will finish on time this year so the key challenges are really in turning what is sort of static works into operational functioning work so i could see is always an interesting problem digital systems and then of course getting all the people all the support staff and the operational start trained into place and working effectively so i guess turning water off explain who's into operational venues that's the key challenge and the one you have to do that well you said you said like any other country can't predict the way i think i think i think the brits have the advantage and not like any other country can predict whether you can say

it's going to be bad for you and this is if you only say but with the weapon in the general and around london one of the think europe as a matter of fact but you always say it's because we like to complain about it it's one of those national. you know it's like farmers or the never never the weather is never perfect never said it is b. i think you'll be ok i think you can tell me how to plan for everybody so you know we're doing that but how did the experience of beijing and did it influence the construction of olympic venues inland not so much the construction i mean in two thousand and eight we went to beijing and some of the such team went to beijing i met them and so we chose city turns to go and learn and talk to the previous city so we certainly learn things from from the chinese interesting useful things about technology in back of her support but our venues were pretty well designed by that and as we didn't really affect the design we were set on a path of trying to do things in our own way i mean there is a there is

a british way and there are other nationals have their own views but we want to make things very lightweight fareed. low in carbon intensity and we wanted to make things that were sustainable in its in its widest broader sense and where venues for instance do not have a legacy and use a permanent and use we made them temporary and so we're going to take them down at the end of the game so we've used a lot more temporary facilities and i think most of the games so far but people that. were present at the beijing games i was there before the olympics i was not part of the olympic. team but people say it was one of the best probably the best to live yes it was fantastic in the world and you say you know good here is the experience but it's still going to be better so i think i'm going to be better do you not think that's pretty you know i mean it's a fair comment i think the chinese have a fantastic job i think anybody's you saw about opening and closing certainly was not something marvelous you know just incredible i mean you can't compete with that

so i don't think the point is to try and compete with the previous city we will do it in our own way we will do it and along the way and it will be different i think the brits have to change the trend because because these opening ceremonies they become toots you should do something something different to change the trend because spending enough and enough the billion more than the child it is not the point exactly and so we're not trying to do that now local governments will forego sermon is not the only game so. you know what is being planned i am not sure but i can tell you it will definitely be interesting exciting but it will certainly be very different from china that's for sure more couldn't put more smoke it looks very british. says simon ride the director of infrastructure utilities and public real mad the lead in two thousand and twelve olympic gold and rick spotlight will be back shortly right after a break so stay with us we'll continue the friendship here in less than a minute. some

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welcome back to the spotlight i'm al good loving just reminded of my guest in the studio today is simon right the director of infrastructure of these of publicly on mad the london two thousand and twelve olympic delivery authority well we've already talked. about about connections with the with the be genial olympics about using we're not using some of the expertize expertise there that you've learned from the chinese know how bo the russians who are getting ready for island here in two years r.t. after years and saatchi this will be winter but but anyhow are they interested in hearing some of you or. know how some of your expertise are you ready to share.

one of the reasons to be here this week to do precisely the delegation from sochi have already been to london we've hosted a number of those from senior officials from the organizing committee in london and we've heard long and detailed discussions with them and they lost a lot of questions we try to give them pointers and to tell them exactly what we're doing and to let them choose whether they elect to make use of any of that so we're very willing to share i think each city ought to be prepared to share learning and we're absolutely willing to do that and i think you in many ways the more cities can get together and actually make use of each other's knowledge the better off we will be because the end of the day we want this olympics to work efficiently and well and to make it more cost effective. let's know take a look at the preparation for the two thousand and fourteen winter games in russia

with three years left before the such a winter games the newly built menus there are starting to host major international events but now it's you know the media has more. in two thousand and fourteen. small will see i'm a wimp a champ and they send in it but it's already a chance to capture the feeling of the big event the largest venue for the winter games rosa khutor has begun host in international competitions the first serious examination was the european cup in alpine skiing last month after which foreign disciplines shared their impressions around the hold over the whole world in here and really you got a beautiful area here beautiful mountains and the organizing committee great job. get this load ready seventy more bands will use the facility within the next three

years dylan countdown is speeding up the venues are now more than two thirds ready but there's still a lot of work to be done it's not only about building new tracks and stadiums but also a massive make over of the whole area the legacy of the two thousand and fourteen games is meant to be a unique year round then you combine in the possibilities for alpine skiing and sunny seaside relaxation and while it's definitely a positive transformation for the region's economy to reason among the big winners environmentalist in their concerns they gave the green light to the project in two thousand and seven just to keep an eye on construction works for any possible damage. well. one of the main problem for russians was not the climate but the environmentalist did you i'm sure you did have problems with with environment quite well with environmentalists how

did you deal how did you cope well it's a good question i mean we set out very early on to make sure that we damage the environment so the absolute minimum extent weird we're talking about it in a city site so we have a very challenging environment. post-industrial environment so there wasn't much ecology on our site but that which we had we certainly treated very carefully and we worked very closely with the n.g.o.s from from day one so we're very transparent we tell everybody that you what's going on and we work with stakeholders very carefully do you feel that you or your environmentalist are happy or are they never happy well i think their job is to be slightly are slightly unhappy because they are trying to put pressure on people to do better and we you know appreciate that and we expect that but i think by and large i think if you spoke to them you'll say that actually we've done pretty well and we've met most if not all of our targets in terms of sustainability fifty percent carbon reduction overall against current

regulations renewable energy biodiversity reuse of waste as you said in your introduction all these things we've achieved. do you have a figure well maybe it's a question to the to the organizing committee but still how much will be learned dillon fixed cost our budget is just over nine billion million or one billion houses in the pounds of which our budget o.d.o.'s is seven point one billion pounds at one point one so you mentioned that most certainly many facilities will be pulled down after the olympics yeah so will it play back these normally with plans will allow you well at least thinking of getting it back together well i think the economic benefit has to be looked at in the what in the widest sense so of course the local local budget is separate to ours lots of different budgets private sector so ticket sales the revenue goes to local not to us but in terms of london and u.k.

and british industry and in our economy we feel it is a good investment it is a broader payback it is a longer payback and so to say you know that you all the money will be earned by. in revenue i think one has to look at the wider economy and the tourism in london we believe will be improved over a longer period exposure no. exposure of pretty much under two minutes here is the old ready set you want world over a longer period. why am i asking about paying back is there is there for example countries like china that hosting and paying billions for this if this will improve our image countries like russia like saatchi say will build a whole new industry structure and all the stadiums will new hotels roads will improve the city of saatchi and turn it into a great resource are. a good level for london no

use of proving the image probably there most of the facilities will be will be. liquidated after the games so how's it going to pay back tickets tickets not i don't know where let me correct you but not most of the venues will be removed a few venues and even the main stadium is now saying a word pose host west football club velodrome is a permanent venue in the quite expensive one of two venues are being removed but the investment in this part of east london which was a very deprived area had very little investment for many years will kick start the whole regeneration of that part of the east of the city so this is part of a long term regeneration plan this is against the british culture and the whole point about calling the west bank west-end is being is being an different. it's not going to be worse than getting more if you're going to. gain some benefit as well

that was the. government's plan was to kickstart regeneration so this is a great way of ok where's the money coming from or from taxpayers i mean your money your drug money is from two sources one is tax payers one is from the lottery. refunds that fifty fifty or are you giving was about twenty percent from the lottery some twenty from the lottery and eighty percent from the south other to ask you something i think you'll find the taxpayers are pretty happy we do a lot of surveys the government do surveys and something over seventy percent public approval for the games is and it's going up. is the word in london mostly a valid reconstruction were your main concern is the new facilities you have to your our concern has been new facilities is we have i think one of two areas where we are improving existing facilities at the rowing eton dorney we've made some improvements there and on the infrastructure on the transport then we're investing

in in improving the facilities rather than a whole new facilities but the limpy park is all new ok i've mentioned as you already noticed some. things in the introduction to the pin you can. see couple of words about there's an eerie. because because there's been lots of talk of them you know we wanted to do things slightly differently so as well as having a very large construction program which had to be completed on time of course and within budget we also set out to make some meet some other objectives sustainability being one so as i said reducing carbon emissions overall by heart of my fifty percent was a massive reduction using renewable energy. for instance training so we have a problem in britain over the construction industry not attracting enough bright young school leavers and graduates so we want to change that and introduce an interest more prone to ships back into construction better training better health

and safety we have a very good record on i'm pleased to say we're not there yet so we don't want to be complacent but on health and safety really trying to improve so that we make the construction industry a safer and better place to work longer i think you're using. london waterways. during construction i'm going to use the one. to some extent it's. pretty capacity is you can get a lot of people out of rivers and canals but there will be some use of the thames and then to come out with that lead up through the site but most of the customers big ticket holders will come by rail rather than buy water and we've used a lot in construction so more than half of all on the tiriel so how many in and out of the site by by rail and by water thank you thank you very much and just a reminder that my guest on the show today was some director of infrastructure you're really utilities and public thrilled at the london two thousand and twelve

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