Olympic Delivery Authority

David Higgins: 2006-2011 Chief Executive of the Olympic Authority Beginning July 22, 2005 David Higgins accepted the position of Chief Executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) ("David Higgins Appointed Head of Olympic Delivery Authority," 2005, para. 2). The ODA was in charge of building key Olympic venues, facilities and infrastructures for the 2012 London Olympics. Higgins was directly involved with the construction of the Olympic Park, the Athletes Village as well as other site related to the 2012 Olympics ("London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012," 2011, p. 2). The 2012 London Olympics was not Higgins first run at building Olympic venues. Higgins was chief executive of Lend Lease, an Australian developer, and was in charge of delivering the Olympic Village, the Aquatics center, and the Athletics center for
Below is a copy of the scope of works undertaken by the ODA to build Olympic Park:
− Formation of the Olympic Park development platform, including construction of utility tunnels, ducts, service diversions, demolition, earthworks, site remediation, and new road networks comprising of structures, bridges and highways.
− Construction of Venues (Olympic Park and non-Olympic Park).
− Construction of International Broadcast and Main Press Centres.
− Provision of Programme Site Establishment and Logistics facility to support delivery of Olympic Park Development platform and Venues construction.
− Olympic Park Landscaping & Public Realm works.
− General Projects and other items such as Masterplan, Section 106 constructions, Project insurances and Security associated with the construction phase
− Transport projects including capital projects, capital contributions to Network Rail, DLR, etc and operational projects for Games time operation.
− Transformation works after the Games, to establish the platform for future legacy