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fukushima plant are battling to stop radioactive water leaking into the pacific in conditions activists blame human contaminated sea water in the area household radiation levels four thousand times the legal limit. for organizers of the two thousand and twelve olympic games in london promising eco friendly event simon wright tells all about the british experience could be useful for russia when it hosts the winter olympics spotlight coming up next. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show marty i always love and

today my guest in the studio is simon right. coverage here is promising to be the greatest in history but the summer games in london are promising to be the breeders to contractors are using in u.s. high tech methods to reduce carbon dioxide emissions they even say ninety per cent of demolition materials are going to be recycled and we use 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 delivery authority simon right. 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 public 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 underway and the sochi olympics organizers surely don't want to lose but you know beijing breaks. home as a writer and welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us mr wright 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. who. i work of the government organization who were charged with this is zion 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 itself. the question that i had to you as soon as london won the bid was this deal with public transport london public transport it was partly there of 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 that what's wrong with the system from the point of view of olympics of course with the london transportation system and what's being done i think it's going to work extremely well stratford olympic park which is in east london is one of the best connected parts of london has many railway lines that are rather we are developing new capacity on existing lines so the underground railway system is being improved the overground surface

road systems also being heavily invested in and the docklands light railway system which is a new system is going in fairly recently again has significant investment so that's going to be capacity increases but the 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 well is it possible simplest way people to settle there what they did in moscow in one nine hundred eighty during the olympics they just persuaded the normal commuters to get out of the city in our let's put it period of the earth this is i think the only way to keep people off the streets and out of their business is a rather well proven way of doing things so through up campaign which is already started working with employers we're saying change your patterns of commuting come in later come in earlier but don't come in at the present time we're trying to get the games to go home i don't think select private cars or not private better but olympic the close to bustling well there are the olympic network which is our

separate lanes the olympic fleets will be using those lanes not the bus lanes as a driver london ah i've been lucky. the bus lanes are different a little different. so the bus lane is going to keep other does it for buses will be for buses ok now how much of the plant were it has already been done because i've heard that your head of schedule was. actually eighty percent of all the construction workers has completed the low greater percent was slightly ahead of schedule we've already handed over the first of a new to local that was the velodrome which was last month the main stadium will be completed the spring spring summer and all the venues will be completed by july of this year and that is within one still one year to go to the twenty four games when we finish the last venue so we are on the last leg which going to be the law of the swing. what about wembley how big is one going to be for the olympics

wembley is already completed so nobody knows what it is 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 would be heavily used to it when the leaders i thought will have only four foot of for her and the opening ceremony you know that's in the main stadium on the olympic park with eighty thousand seats so it's bigger than wembley no when it is ninety. but why why not use an unbelievable if you know a good bad thing but it's in the wrong part of the cities and we wanted a stadium that was close to graphic footage of course as you understand the athletes you know don't want to be spending lots of energy travelling a long distance just that crucial moment before be before the sports start so there's a new stadium being built very closely i think spillage they can get to read slowly and they can get back home and see how often surfaces speaking about travelling how wide are the olympic facilities spread around the the u.k.

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 the xcel center which is on the on the doctrines in east london. we have the ode to dome which is well well used when you know the old millennium dome and it's become zero two 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 in winds and heathrow and then the football stadium. and the matter of fact what about wimbledon i go as you would guess that would be used when will it exactly it will be used for the tennis it is tennis the grass tennis will be in gross olympic tennis is going to be on ground i believe so i'm not going to my particular responsibility but it's fun to look at craig you lation to have a hard court and the country can choose is there i believe the right person lono was on play right like a lot of expert on a limb. it seems so yes otherwise i presume we wouldn't have got the mission 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 is a limply pluck that runs that was launched inaccurate and then it starts after a couple of hours what happened is you have to do anything to go out afraid and not . beat the clock was it didn't work it's now being fixed yes i don't that there was a problem with it i don't know what it was so so so but but but but it's being clarke is done by the olympic timekeeper by the fisheries and keeper so this is a scandal i mean it's kind of a time for the olympics even standard it's a mine of good in that you know it was a it was a clock that's a countdown clock it's not use for a live picture stop it's been fixed it'll be fine ok so if the clarke time p.d. 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 we. yes well the weather we cannot predict life like any other country but we've been we've been very fortunate. keeping to our shows will so far we've set a program of two years for planning for your school for construction and one year for commissioning and testing and we're 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 a static works into operational function and work so i.t. is always an interesting problem digital systems and then of course going to all the people. all the support staff and the operational staff trained into place and working effectively so i guess turning what are fixed venues into operational venues that's the key challenge and the one you have to do that for 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 you can't predict

whether you can say it's going to be bad for you and this is what you always say but but the weather in london all in around london one of the thing europe as a matter of fact which i always think is because we like to complain about this one of those national. you know what farmers are the never never the weather is never perfect never said what is the i think you'll be ok i think it can tell you how to plan for every eventuality so you know we're doing or. how did the experience of beijing and did it influence because struction evelyn picked the news inland not so much the construction i mean in two thousand and eight we went to beijing and some of the 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 and back of house support but our venues were pretty well designed by them 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 very low. in carbon intensity and we want to make things that were sustainable in it's going it's why the sport of science 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. were present at the beijing games i was there before the olympics i was part of the olympics journalist team but people say it was one of the best probably the best to live yes it was felt in the world and you say you know that he has the experience but still you're going to be better i think i'm going to be there you know you're not losing that's pretty you know i mean it's a fair comment i think the child is in a fantastic job i think anybody's you saw about opening and closing ceremonies nazri 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 in a london way and it will be different i think the brits have to change the trend because because these opening ceremonies they became to expect something something different to change the trend because spending another and another billion more than the child it is not the point exactly and so we're not trying to do that now low carb responsible for those certainly is not the only 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 couldn't put more smoke it looks very british. says simon wright the director of infrastructure utilities and probably had the lead in two thousand and twelve olympic village. spotlight will be back shortly right after the break so stay with us we'll continue this interview in less than a minute. as

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deal has been discovered. and the real story and few divers watch is a may. well come from the chelyabinsk region of. russia close up on t.v. . welcome back to spotlight i'm al goodman just reminded of my guest in the studio today is simon right the director of infrastructure utilities and publicly on the london two thousand and twelve olympic delivery authority well we've already talked . about have. connections with the with the beijing olympics about using or not using some of the expertize expertise there that you've learned from the chinese how about the russians who are getting ready for

a long period in two years after they have two years in saatchi this will be winter but but anyhow are they interested in the using their some of you or know how some of your expertise are you ready to share. one of the reasons to be here this week is to do precisely the delegations and such you 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 and they've lost a lot of questions we try to give them pointers and to tell them exactly what we're doing and for them to 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 going to develop 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 where three years left before the such a winter games the newly built menus there are starting to host major international events what rights you did to me as well. in two thousand and fourteen. a small c m no impact champ and descending it but world athletes already have a chance to capture the feeling of the big event the largest venue for the winter games rosa khutor this began host an international competitions the first serious examination was the european cup in l. playing sixteen last month after which foreign disciplines shared their impressions around the hold over the whole world in. really you've got a beautiful area here beautiful mountains and the organizing committee great to

get this globe ready seventy more events will use the facility within the next three years till impact 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 in sunny seaside relaxation and while it's definitely a positive transformation for the region's economy to reason among the big winners environmentalist i'm voicing their concerns they gave the green light to the project in two thousand and seven with us to keep an eye on construction work during a possible damage. well. one of the main problem for russians was not the climate but the environmentalists they

view i'm sure you did have problems with with environment quite well with environmentalists how did you deal how did you cut the well it's a question i mean we set out very early on to make sure that we damage the environment so the absolute minimum extent where we're talking about an inner city site so we have a very challenging environment very. 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 ngos from from day one so we're very transparent we tell everybody flatly what's going on and we work with stakeholders very carefully do you feel that you or your environmentalist are happy or or they're not 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 going to 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 and zones 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 let maybe it's a question to the to the organising for me but still how much will the lyndal in fixed cost our budget is just over nine billion no billion or he'll one billion house in the pounds of which our budget is seven point one billion pounds seven point one so you mentioned that most certainly many facilities will be pulled down after the lympics yeah so will it play back these no new one pounds will how you. at least thinking of getting it back together well i think the economic benefit has to be looked at in the war in

a wider sense so of course the local local budget is separate to ours lots of different budgets private sector so ticket sales or 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 tourism in london we believe will be improved over a longer period expose. the exposure of pretty much of it to many tourists unlike the old ready set your whole world over a longer period listen to what i am asking about paying back is there is there for example countries like china hosting and paying billions for this this will improve our image countries like russia like saatchi to say will build a whole new industry structure and all the stadiums will have new hotels roads well

it would prove the city of saatchi and turn it into a great resource. good level for london no use of proving the image probably. most of the facilities will be will be. liquidated after the games so how's it going to pay back tickets tickets i don't know where you'll be creative but not most of the venues will be removed a few vineyard haven the main stadium is now staying and will host the western football club velodrome is a clone of venue and the question is a. want to burn is 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 underfunded. it's not

going to be your stand anymore if you're going to. gain support of it as well as the. government's plan was to was to kickstart regeneration so this is a great way of ok where's the money coming from all all from taxpayers i mean your money you're going to our money is from two sources one is taxpayers' dollars from the lottery. funds that fifty fifty or are you giving was about twenty percent from the lottery some twenty from the lottery and eighty percent from its other task i think you'll find the typos 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 los lee valley it's reconstruction who are your main concern is the new facilities you have your are concerned is the 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 only infrastructure on the transport then we're investing in improving the facilities rather than whole new facilities to dilute the park is all new here i've mentioned as you already know to some pioneering things in the introduction to go when you can you say couple of words about this pioneering pioneer because because there's been lots of talk about well 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 half 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 wanted to change that and intrude in interest more apprenticeships 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 that so that we make the construction industry a safer and better place to work alongside the road that you're using. london waterways. during construction i'm going to use the waterways for the guests of the olympics to some extent. but pretty capacity is you can get a lot of people up rivers and canals but there will be some use of the times i'm going to come out was that lead up through the site yeah but most of the customers be taken holders will come by rail rather than by war so we've used a lot in construction so more than half of all on materials come in and in and out of the site by by rail and by water thank you thank you very much and just to remind you that my guest on the show today was director of infrastructure utilities

and of the field at the london two thousand and twelve olympic village and that's it for now for all of us if you want to have yourself spotlight or have someone in mind who you think i said to be next time to drop me a line algorithm at how to teach our year and let's keep spotlight interact we'll be back with more first comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay and party and take it thank you thank you. wealthy british scientists like. dr spock.

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