Dennis Hone is the first to admit he's never tackled anything on such a, well, Olympic scale. But then again, who has? As the chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), Hone must deliver one of the biggest construction projects in Europe on a highly contaminated site with a deadline that, for obvious reasons, allows for no slippage. "This is the pinnacle," he says, with some slightly nervous lip-licking. "As soon as we won the bid it was the project I wanted to work on. But when I came to the project I thought: 'This is a high-risk project -if we're not on budget in two years we'll all be fired.'
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