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| Amec, Balfour Beatty and Jacobs Join Forces for Olympic Bid Amec, Balfour Beatty and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. have formed an alliance, G3 (the Great Games Grouping), to bid for the role of Delivery Partner to the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. The contract will be awarded this summer, with the successful partner taking responsibility for the management of the design and delivery of the Olympic infrastructure, the logistics for competitors and spectators and the subsequent conversion of the facilities to create a lasting legacy for London and the UK. Jacobs brings direct experience from the US and UK in managing Olympic delivery programmes in Atlanta and Athens as well as expertise in transport infrastructure, including the redevelopment of Stratford Station. It leads ODPM's Millennium Community project at Allerton Bywater that shares construction best practice in brownfield regeneration and, for the fourth time in five years, was recently named Fortune Magazine's Most Admired Engineering and Construction Company 2006. Balfour Beatty is one of five partners responsible for the 30-year upgrade of approximately three-quarters of the London Underground system. It was part of the design team for the 85,000-seat Olympic Stadium in Atlanta and took a lead responsibility for its subsequent conversion into the Atlanta Braves baseball park. Balfour Beatty was voted the UK's most admired company in the engineering and construction sector in the 2005 Management Today survey. Amec is the UK's largest project management company and has delivered many large and complex projects such as extending the Docklands Light Rail, managing the final fit out of Terminal 5 for BAA and delivering a multi-billion pound oil field redevelopment programme for the Kuwait Oil Company. AMEC has topped the Dow Jones Sustainability Index in its sector for the last two years. Amec and Balfour Beatty have extensive experience of working together in partnership, including on the Jubilee Line extension's most challenging segment between Green Park and Waterloo, the Limehouse Link Road connecting the City to London's Docklands and the new University College London Hospital on Euston Road. Amec and Jacobs are partners in the ONEgas contract to support Shell's assets in the North Sea. Amec and Balfour Beatty were part of a team which won the top prize for Management and Process Innovation at this year's Quality in Construction Awards. The G3 bid team is being led by Rod Hoare. He led Metronet's successful bid for the London tube PPP awarded in 2003 and was responsible for the creation of the Heathrow Express in the 1990s. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |