Engineering the Olympics

The UK is preparing to host its biggest sporting event in decades, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with a new purpose-built park in east London.

Behind the preparation for the Games is an incredible array of engineering and technology, creating a world class environment of construction, infrastructure, transport, hospitality, tourism and more. In all these areas, it is engineers and technicians who have enabled a successful delivery.

The construction of the venues is reaching a climax. There have now been four intensive years of engineering and building work to transform the 640-hectare brownfield site into a stunning centre for 2012.

After the Games, it will be transformed into a beautiful park and a place to live in the heart of London. Once again, engineers will be called upon to turn the plans into a reality.

In order to celebrate this once in a lifetime occasion and highlight the important contributions of engineers and technicians towards the 2012 Olympics, the IET and our partners are organising a range of initiatives during 2011 and 2012.

They include the following...

Events Information on Olympics related lectures and local network events
E&T News articles from E&T magazine on Olympic related topics
IET.tv Olympics related material produced for IET.tv, the IET's broadband television service
IET Faraday Inspiring students by demonstrating the application of science, design and technology, engineering and mathematics
Archives Information on the Olympics from the IET Archives

 

(All Olympic venue images in this section are credited to London 2012).