The numbers are almost too big to take in: 80,000 tonnes of soil here, 4,000 workers there. There's a lot of quirky detail too though, whether it's the hawker who comes in every fortnight to discourage pigeons, or the "Fish out" programme that involved gently electrifying the river before expansion work began.
I know there are still naysayers out there, the likes of Iain Sinclair. But what comes over more than anything else is the team's real commitment to the environment, the local area and, yes, the "legacy". Random example: they've set a target of having 7% of the workforce being people who were previously unemployed; and they've exceeded that at 10%. Or: 68% of contracts have been awarded to SMEs; not least, us! We're proud to be involved in this project, and it looks like it's going to be a great games.
