2. Work and involvement in the games
• Atkins as a company has played a large part
in making the London 2012 Olympic Games
happen
• The first official engineering design services
provider to an Olympic Games
• Work includes the design of structures,
bridges and highways
• Planning of temporary venues
3. Work and involvement in the games
Enabling works including -
•Site investigation
•Demolition and clearance
•Soil washing
•Groundwater treatment
•Bulk earthworks
•River wall repair and replacement
•Temporary construction of roads and bridges
•Archaeology
•Eradication and treatment of invasive weeds
4. Work and involvement in the games
Utilities infrastructure including –
• Electrical substation and distribution
network
• Water networks
• Gas networks
• Telecommunications network
• Energy centre and associated heating and
cooling networks
.
5. Work and involvement in the games
Atkins are the planning agent for the London
2012 enabling works on:
•Olympic Park site-wide project comprising
large-scale earthworks
•Land remediation
•River walls
•Planning for Olympic venues
Planning
6. Work and involvement in the games
Environment and Ecology
•Retaining and managing the existing ecology
•Relocating species where needed
•Treating and eradicating invasive species
•Creating habitats within and outside of the
London 2012 Park
7. Work and involvement in the games
Temporary Venues
•Up to 15 venues along the Thames and in
central London
•Beach Volleyball – Horse Guards Parade
•Equestrian Venue – Greenwich Park
•Basketball Venue – Olympic Park
8. Venues outside London
Up to 13 venues used outside London
including
•Manchester
•Glasgow
•Newcastle
•Coventry
•Cardiff
•Headleigh Farm
•Eaton Dorney
9. 2012 - top countries medal totals
2012 Medal Table Achievements From 2012
• Great Britain won 29 gold medals in 2012
• Great Britain’s highest medal count since
1908
• Michael Phelps became the greatest
Olympian in history with 22 medals
• Great Britain’s Nicola Adams won the first
ever female Boxing medal
10. Great Britain’s Top Medal Holders
Athlete Sport Years
Summer /
Winter Male / Female Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. Chris Hoy Cycling 2000–2012 Summer M 6 1 0 7
2.
Steve
Redgrave Rowing 1984–2000 Summer M 5 0 1 6
3.
Bradley
Wiggins Cycling 2000–2012 Summer M 4 1 2 7
4. Ben Ainslie Sailing 1996–2012 Summer M 4 1 0 5
5.
Matthew
Pinsent Rowing 1992–2004 Summer M 4 0 0 4
6.
Paulo
Radmilovic
Water polo,
Swimming 1908–1920 Summer M 4 0 0 4
7. Jack Beresford Rowing 1920–1936 Summer M 3 2 0 5
8. Jason Kenny Cycling 2008–2012 Summer M 3 1 0 4
9. Henry Taylor Swimming 1908–1920 Summer M 3 0 2 5
10.
Reginald
Doherty Tennis 1900–1908 Summer M 3 0 1 4
11 Richard Meade Equestrian 1968–1972 Summer M 3 0 0 3
12
Charles
Sydney Smith Water polo 1908–1920 Summer M 3 0 0 3
13
George
Wilkinson Water polo 1900–1912 Summer M 3 0 0 3
11. Summary
• Atkins completed all work on target
• Most Successful games ever
• Sebastian Coe’s 50 favourite moments of the games
• My favourite moments were watching the UK winning gold medals in athletics
12. Sources
Sources used in this presentation are from Atkins website
Images used with permission from Akins and taken from company website
http://www.atkinsglobal.co.uk/projects/london-2012 temporary-venues
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9486911/Sebastian-Coes-50-favourite-moments-of-the-
London-2012-Olympic-Games.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics_medal_table
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_medalists_at_a_single_Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics
Editor's Notes
The medal results are the highest the UK have won since 1908 Lowest won was in 1904 where they won only 2 medals – 1 gold & 1 silver
Seb Coe’s greatest moments cover the opening ceremony to winning gold medals to the closing ceremony to the final medal count and realising the UK had won 29 gold medals - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9486911/Sebastian-Coes-50-favourite-moments-of-the-London-2012-Olympic-Games.html
