Your brief
The Olympic Development Authority (ODA) wants to ‘showcase’ its practice to the construction industry.
They are setting a new benchmark for the industry – and they want to encourage the many elements of the construction industry to follow these practices.
To this end, they are creating a series of events (road shows) for those involved in the construction industry. Those invited will be able to ‘pick and mix’ from a selection of talks and presentations. They will also be able to have informal chats with people who are familiar with what the ODA has achieved, or pick up leaflets and brochures that are relevant to their particular area of the industry.
You have been asked to prepare materials for these road shows. The event should cover different phases of construction to ensure that as many people as possible from the industry will feel included. Your materials for the road show should cover:
Pre-construction:
- Design – what sustainable design elements have been included, measures to ensure optimum performance of building, source and type of materials used (sustainable or not).
- Logistics planning – how the materials are getting on and off site, what account has been taken of nearby residents/schools/facilities, health and safety planning.
Construction
- Site preparation – including demolition, site clearance, dealing with contamination, complying with environmental requirements (EIA).
- Ground works – including laying foundations, roadways, drainage (rainwater harvesting and foul drainage) and utilities.
- Superstructure – this includes everything above ground, including power delivery and regeneration, and measures taken to reduce power consumption.
What you need to do
Work in small teams to plan a one day event that can be repeated throughout the country. The aim of the day is to use the London 2012 Games to ‘showcase’ best practice in terms of sustainability for each of the stages of pre-construction and construction outlined above.
The ODA has provided you with many resources for each phase of construction.
You may wish to focus on one ‘phase’ or explore several. Make this decision with your teacher/lecturer. Ideally, each of the seven stages of construction outlined above should be included in the road show so that as many people as possible attend.
For the road show to be interesting, you will need to produce a variety of materials for delegates to pick up and read, listen to or simply take away with them. The following list gives examples of the sort of ‘materials’ you may wish to produce:
- Reports.
- Displays.
- Posters, leaflets, brochures, information packs.
- PowerPoint presentations with notes.
- Rolling PowerPoint presentation that could be providing ongoing information.
- Web pages.
- Notes for question and answer sessions.
- Handouts/information sheets/briefing documents.
Extension activities
- Investigate the Codes of Practice and regulatory requirements with which the ODA is obliged to comply.
- Give examples of any other sites where you have seen or heard of similar levels of good practice.
- Give examples of where best practice has not been followed and outline the consequences of these poor practices.
