Briefing: London 2012 Olympic Park transport and environmental management schemes

Vicat, Alison; Rooney, Chris

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“…They complement three previous ICE Proceedings articles and papers on how the unprecedented transport challenge was overcome by the civil engineering profession (Gooch, 2007;Sumner, 2011;Vicat and Rooney, 2012).…”

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Grant-Muller¹

2012

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport

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Grant-Muller¹

2012

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport

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“…Urban development was evaluated in 14 studies [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73], from wide diverse angles, considering the progress that SMEs may bring to the urban centers where they take place and stressing how they may fail to deliver positive legacies, especially in developing countries. Tourism [74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83] receives special attention as a specific activity that is greatly boosted with a large number of travelers attending the events; transportation [20,[84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91], one part of urban development, is also placed under the light because SME organizers address how transportation systems can be revamped or redesigned under the boost of SMEs.…”

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Sustainability in Mega-Events: Beyond Qatar 2022

2019

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Hosting a mega-event such as the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup is a defining moment for Qatar, a country that is in transition, small in size and population, and rich in natural gas reserves. It is a unique opportunity to host a universal event and leave a sustainable positive legacy for the country. However, the preparation, execution, and after-effects of such events are challenging initiatives with significant long-term impacts on the economy, society, and environment in the hosting country and nearby region. This study addresses the intersection between mega sports events and sustainability, to systematically compare and learn from past mega-events and apply that to the case of the Qatar 2022 World Cup. The Qatari bid proposed a new FIFA Men’s World Cup (WC) spatial compact model around just one city area and the goal of achieving the first carbon-neutral WC. Herein, the challenges, opportunities, and progress in this scenario are evaluated accordingly, showing that local organizers are applying green technologies, urban development concepts, and strongly upholding the idea of legacies based on the Qatar National Vision 2030, which envisions sustainable development of the country. However, additional work is still needed to reduce environmental impacts and on several reported social issues.

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“…In the opening briefing of this issue Vicat and Rooney (2012) show how a participatory process was successful in delivering the environmental and traffic management schemes to mitigate the effects of the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The paper describes the production of the Olympic Park transport and environmental management scheme framework: another example of a holistic and integrated approach which builds in the desires and needs of multiple stakeholders in order to deliver a successful outcome.…”

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Glendinning¹

2012

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering

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In this issue there are three briefings and three full papers, covering topics from the specification of concrete to delivering the transport scheme for the London 2012 Olympics site. Nevertheless, there seem to be some broad issues that emerge which, in fact, link back to the March themed issue on futureproofing urban regeneration and point at the value and context of future planned themed issues on participatory planning and engineering education.The paper presented by Pearce et al. (2012) provides a nice framework within which to set the remaining contributions. The authors describe the development of a systems-based framework to support and enable decision-making, assessment and management of sustainable development issues. The approach breaks down the complexity of sustainability-driven options appraisal and develops sustainability criteria in collaboration with a range of stakeholders. As is increasingly recognised by practitioners and researchers in this field, it aims to ensure that sustainability, rather than being an add-on to the development process, becomes a source of added value. Leaders of practice in this area are realising that any tool that aims to support sustainable development can never be a 'one size fits all' and must capture, in a fundamental way, the unique features of any particular project. This tool (named Halstar) aims to build sustainability into projects and programmes by guiding decision-making and appraisal within the unique context of a project, working with its various stakeholders around their needs, priorities and aspirations. The authors stress that, whilst Halstar provides a common framework, it is sufficiently flexible to be tailored to the specific needs of any one project, no matter the scale of the project or its position in the development process.The paper also describes how Halstar is continuously updated and revised as it is applied to different projects and the learning from those projects is integrated. Furthermore, the authors aim to build in futures thinking, enabling solutions to be tested against multiple future scenarios in the manner described by Rogers et al. (2012).The other papers and briefings within this issue can be divided into those which deal with the sustainability issues of particular materials used in construction, and those which deal with 'whole development' aspects of sustainability. Nonetheless, in each of these papers, the necessity to approach sustainability on a site-specific scale is evident, whether this is explicitly discussed in the paper or not. Indeed, Pearce et al. (2012) show how their sustainability framework can incorporate tools such as Breeam and Ceequal. Perhaps the true value in the application of the ideas presented in the remaining briefings and papers would emerge if they could be incorporated into a sustainability framework such as this, which integrates all the various and often competing complex issues around delivering sustainability.Ciancio and Boulter (2012) present a complex interdisciplinary and context-based argum...

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