2012 Olympic Park Remediation Works – Tier 1 (South) Verification Team

Background

Temple provided interim-management support to the Halcrow Olympics Site Verification Team, to assist them with the Olympic South Site remediation and verification works. 

Temple played a key role in managing the remediation of Construction Zone 1a and 1b of the Olympic South Site i.e. Aquatics Centre and Services Corridor respectively.

Sustainable remediation technologies, which included soil washing and bioremediation were employed on-site to treat significant volumes of contaminated soils.  Temple also provided oversight of on-site laboratory support and sampling teams, responsible for remediation system performance management and the verification and validation of soils.

This was a very demanding role, working to a very tight Construction Programme, ensuring the correct, efficient and safe handling, storage, treatment or re-use of materials on-site.  

In addition, site remediation specifications were modified on occasions by the remediation design team, presenting significant challenges to the verification team to ensure impacts to the construction programme were minimised.

Temple drew on their in-depth experience in the management of large scale contaminated land projects including site investigations, remediation system design and installation, contractor oversight and occupational health experience thereby providing a significant contribution to the Olympic 2012 South Site remediation team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Streamlining the on-site laboratory chemical scheduling system to facilitate high-volume sample analysis, ensuring the efficient re-use of soils on-site;
• Verification/validation data management, including reporting and interpretation of high-volumes of chemical data;
• Ability to quickly assess large volumes of technical data to ensure soils are appropriately managed, with minimal impacts to the construction programme;
• Responsibility for occupational health monitoring as a response to poor ground conditions and acute health concerns;
• Assisting the contractor with formulation of safe working practices for work in highly contaminated areas; and
• Formulation of ‘Quality Control’ procedures for data management and reporting.

Benefits

By appointing Temple, our Client benefitted from:

• Extensive experience in managing large and complex contaminated land projects;
• Effective working relationships with Remediation Contractors, leading to more effective work practices, within the construction programme;
• Understanding of occupational hygiene issues encountered on contaminated sites, and the implementation of appropriate mitigation measures;
• Our understanding of the importance of Quality Assurance/Quality Control on such contaminated land projects;
• Experience in High-Volume Data Management with respect to QA/QC procedures, the management of the client’s long term contaminated land liabilities and related issues.

If you require further details or have any questions about our Contaminated Land Management services please contact Donal Fitzgibbon on 02073943700 or donal.fitzgibbon@templegroup.co.uk