London Olympic bid team will heed Athens' lessons_2
7 September 2012
Purchasers for a 2012 London Olympics will need excellent commercial skills and the ability to set up good partnerships.
James Bulley, director of infrastructure at London 2012, the company set up to make the Olympic bid, said lessons had been learned from Athens, site of next year's games.
"Athens has different contractors working on different sites for the same material, such as concrete and steel supplies," he said. "UK purchasers focused on the one site around Stratford will...