Our involvement in one of the largest development projects London has ever seen, the Olympic Park, began in 2004. From site feasibility and the Environmental Statement to project design and excavation, our expertise was called upon to achieve planning consent and fulfil planning requirements.
Mitigation of the sizeable Olympic Park was carefully planned and successfully delivered within the tight construction programme.
We worked with the London Development Agency and the Olympic Delivery Authority to reduce the impact of development on the archaeology. Geoarchaeological deposit modelling and trial excavation were employed to identify areas of high archaeological potential, allowing for more extensive fieldwork to be targeted. The mitigation strategy included several large scale excavations, which took place successfully within a very tight ground remediation and construction programme. As well as below ground excavation, we recorded a number of buildings and structures ahead of their demolition or refurbishment. Our activities and findings were incorporated into the Olympic Delivery Authority’s programme of community engagement up to 2012.
