Transcript Commision for a Sustainable London 2012

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2009 Annual Review
Shaun McCarthy, Chair
May 2010
Shaun McCarthy
2012 Olympics
2012 Olympics
2012 Olympics
The Olympic Games is the world’s largest sporting event
Over 200 competing nations
17,000 Athletes and team officials
38 Sports
From 27th July 2012 for 16 Days
The Paralympic Games is the world’s second largest sporting event
Over 160 competing nations
4000 Athletes and team officials
23 Sports
From the 29th August for 12 Days
55,000 Olympic Family members (athletes, officials, media representatives,
VIPs, sponsors)
500,000 ticketed spectators each day, 6 FA cup finals per day
7.9 Million spectators in total
120,000 workforce and volunteers
2012 Olympics
Complex
2012 Olympics
“Like building 2 Heathrow Terminal 5s in half the time” Alison Nimmo ODA Director
Venues
Transport infrastructure
Olympic Village
Catering
Logistics
Media centre
Legacy
Many partners “Everybody wants a piece of this”
ODA – facilities
LOCOG – staging the event
BOA – Elite sport
LDA – skills, employment, regeneration, legacy
GLA – policy and governance for London
HMG – National policy requirements
NHS – Health issues
5 Host Boroughs
Nations & Regions Group
Sport UK – Participative sport
90+ other stakeholders
2012 Olympics
Sustainable..?
Sustainable…?
“ We want our One Planet Olympics to
be the most complete and sophisticated
expression of sustainable development
ever delivered on a city-wide scale. We
want it to benefit not just London and
the UK, but to be a credit to the
Olympic Movement as a whole.”
Lord Coe, Environment Forum, 7 March
2005
Sustainable…?
Former Mayor Ken
Livingstone
15 May 2007
'We have set ourselves two very challenging
aims - to stage not only the greatest
Games ever but, as importantly, those
Games in 2012 must be the most
sustainable in the history of the modern
Olympics. This overriding principle has
been built into our plans from the word go
and I am confident that with Shaun
McCarthy’s expert leadership and this
team he has recruited we will set the
sustainability standards that will become
the benchmark for the hosting of all future
Olympic and Paralympic Games.'
Sustainable…?
“My team and I are fully focussed
on guaranteeing that London hosts
a spectacular sporting event for
athletes and spectators alike in
2012. Of equal importance is
ensuring that the Olympic Park has
a sustainable legacy and becomes
a landmark district of 21st century
London, which Londoners and
visitors to our city can use and
prosper from.” Boris Johnson
Mayor Boris Johnson
CSL’s Purpose…
To provide independent assurance and
commentary in order to enable the sustainability
objectives of the London 2012 programme to be
achieved and to support a sustainable legacy.
What sustainability means to us…
A better standard of living for people in the host boroughs
New and affordable housing
An increase in the skills base for UK citizens
A culturally diverse society
People adapting to healthier ways of living
Long term job prospects
Access for people with all disabilities
Sites ready for sustainable, low impact development
Good environmental practice for the long term
Minimal impact on climate change and environment
Accessible public space over the long term
How we operate…
Olympic Board
UK SDC
LSDC
ODA
Gov. Depts.
LOCOG
Host
Boroughs
GLA Group
GOE / DCMS
Statutory
Bodies
Professional
Bodies
BOA / BPA
Chair
NGOs
Core Commission
Co-opted experts
Officers
Features & Benefits…
Unprecedented,
to our knowledge, this has not been done before,
Objective evidence,
addresses the “instant experts”,
Enabler for delivery bodies,
allows them to get on with their job,
Sustainability sells,
Helps to attract responsible sponsors,
Towards a sustainable future?
a model for future Games…?
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Busy…
What we did in 2008
2009/10 Annual review
70 People interviewed
150 external meetings
60 Stakeholders consulted from
44 organisations
12 recommendations
No salmon
Governance
Policy
Performance
CSL review
And now…
Overall governance…
“…we remain confident that the
leadership is committed to setting
new standards of sustainability…”
“It is not currently clear
how partners such as
broadcasters will be
engaged around
sustainability, who is
responsible for doing
this, and what
standards will apply.”
“…we are concerned
that there is little
evidence of a coordinated programme
of work to achieve (a
legacy of knowledge)”
“We have seen good work by the
ODA this year to integrate
sustainability (and other) standards
for the Olympic Village”
“Last year we were pleased to report that we have seen no evidence of cost reductions impeding
the published sustainability objectives. We have seen no such evidence this year either.”
Preparation
“The ODA continues to demonstrate best
practice in sustainable construction”
“…regulatory bodies such as the
Environment Agency confirm that
sustainable behaviour is fully
embedded from their daily
observations on site”
“…the rate of downsizing is steep
and this places a great deal of
responsibility on the Tier One
Contractors who may not have the
knowledge…
“the ODA’s efforts to procure material to
comply with the new (PVC) specification
are likely to lead to development of new,
more sustainable materials for the world
market”
Staging
“We have been impressed with the
public strategies we have reviewed,
many of which have the potential to
be ground-breaking if implemented
effectively”
“Everybody we interviewed was fully
aware of the need to deliver sustainable
Games and was committed to this
objective”
“Only 4 functional requirements
have been issued and we could find
evidence of implementation in only
one function”
“We are particularly keen to see more effective
management in areas where the Commercial
team are not engaged, such as the Cultural
Olympiad and Broadcasting”
“…we believe that legacy opportunities (to use
equipment) should be fully explored…”
“We welcome the role of the ODA, working with LOCOG and other partners, in
managing the park and venues through Games-time and transition to legacy”
Legacy…
“All we have seen so far is re-stating of existing
initiatives and objectives and no new work to
define what “a blueprint for sustainable living”
should look like in legacy and who should be
responsible for making it happen”
“The best example we have seen of legacy in action
is the National Sailing Academy at Weymouth”
“The challenge to increase sport
participation and to ensure that the
infrastructure and resources are
available to meet that demand is a
significant one”
“The Chair and CEO from the new
legacy company, OPLC have both
expressed personal commitment to
the sustainability agenda”
“…there is an urgent need for the wider
coordination of this (learning legacy) activity
to ensure all key legacy learning is captured
and disseminated…”
Climate change…
“The ODA’s energy strategy) represents current
best practice but it is not future-proof”
“With hindsight, more focus should have been
placed on embodied impacts…”
“We believe that
the lessons learned
from the carbon
footprint exercise
should not be lost”
We are disappointed that it has
not been possible to generate
sources of renewable fuel
The Olympic Park has been designed in accordance with best
practice in climate change adaptation
“We welcome the work in 2009 to establish a clear policy for use of HFCs”
Waste…
“The ODA continue to set new standards in
construction waste management”
“LOCOG’s approach to Games-time waste
is being thoroughly thought through”
“…we have seen little evidence of (waste
facilities to support LOCOG) happening…”
“It is not yet completely clear how City
Operations will deal with waste”
“…the opportunity to do
this in time for the Games
has been lost…”
“…de-manning after the Games could have a detrimental effect leading to greater use of landfill…”
Biodiversity…
This work (to create 45 Hectares of new
habitat and 102 Hectares of open space)
is on schedule and well managed.
“2010 will see
substantially more work
from LOCOG”
“Royal Parks Agency indicate that
LOCOG has planned its work with
great respect to the biodiversity”
“We suggest that the OPLC takes (food
growing opportunities) into consideration in
the development of the LMF”
“LOCOG has committed to perform ecological walkovers
for each venue and full surveys “if necessary”
Inclusion…
“price of public transport for people
travelling from destinations to
London could be a significant issue”
“there are currently no plans for permanent
children’s play areas…we hope that
children are made to feel welcome both
during the Games and in legacy”
“The performance in all areas is significantly better
than the averages for the construction industry but
the ambitious benchmarks set for women and
disabled people have not been achieved”
“Compete For has been a success”
“One key element of an accessible
Games will be ticket pricing. We
will follow up this issue in 2010”
“The ODA and LOCOG have given a significant profile to diversity in the workplace, in the
planning for the games and among the supply chain. This is exemplary practice and should
be considered as the standard other major projects aspire to”
Healthy living…
We have raised issues of environmental health
such as air quality in our previous reports, and the
shortage or Environmental Health Officers in the
Host Boroughs was raised in our food review
“…encouraging better standards of catering
in the construction industry and should be
replicated by other major projects”
“LOCOG’s Food Vision
has the potential to set
new standards…”
“We welcome LOCOG’s standards for vehicles but there is also a
significant impact to air quality from temporary generation”
“cycling is currently the fastest growing sport but 10 other sports are
suffering from falling numbers”
“The healthy living
theme is the least
co-ordinated”
“There are many
myths associated
with the Olympic
Route Network…”
Executive summary
“We are optimistic that the Games and
venues will deliver against the
sustainability promises..”
“..we have been pleased to
see Key Stakeholders rising
to our challenge to deal with
the controversial issues
related to PVC and HFC.”
“Broad promises (for a sustainable legacy) have
been made in official documents…. With the
exception of a few worthy initiatives, there is no
comprehensive plan to make this happen.”
“..we are concerned that the ambition to use the Games to inspire more
sustainable behaviour will not be fully realised.”
And finally…
By the time the keys to the Olympic Park are handed over to OPLC in
2013, we expect that:
The sustainability objectives delivered by the ODA will be common
practice in the construction industry and mandatory for all major public
sector construction
The UK construction industry will have adopted targets for reducing
embodied carbon impacts and will have clear guidance on how to do this
A clear definition of “blueprint for sustainable living” will be developed for
the Olympic Park, in terms of the standards expected of developers, the
way in which people will live differently and how they will be encouraged to
do so
Plans will be in place for the Olympic Park to become a zero carbon
development area by 2016
Plans will be in place for substantial development of organic waste
facilities in East London to supply renewable fuel for the Olympic Park and
other developments
There will be a step change in the major events industry that enables
measurable and assured improvements in sustainability
Athletes, officials, spectators and TV viewers will recall London 2012 as
being distinctive for its sustainability
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