Sir Michael Latham An overall site agreement for the Olympic park would help bring the project in on budget. But it's going to be up to contractors and unions to see if they can set one up. In my column on 25 January, I wrote about the need for an overall site agreement on the Olympic park. I pointed out that there were a number of significant Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) projects all within a few hundred yards of each other, and the Olympic village was also near. I was concerned that there would be leapfrog claims from different sectors of people working on the site. I also remembered an excellent lecture that a prominent Olympian gave to the Worshipful Company of Constructors at City University, London, a year ago. At discussion time, he was asked a direct question from one of the audience, all of whom were construction professionals, academics or students at the university.
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