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Staging the London 2012 Olympic Games requires completion of one of Europe’s biggest-ever and most innovative construction projects. A consortium of three industry-leading construction companies called CLM was contracted by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) as delivery partner for construction of the 202-hectare Olympic Park.

From zero IT capability on day one, CLM and the ODA needed to rapidly develop technology structures and systems that usually take years to evolve. After an intense mobilisation phase CLM needed consulting expertise to help establish a more strategic framework for joint delivery of the programme with the ODA. IT had to improve performance and rapidly meet the needs of the business. Any lack of cohesion would seriously threaten construction of the Olympic Park.

In very high-pressured and intense conditions, Atos Consulting helped CLM work with the ODA to create an accelerated high-performing, robust and agile IT function. The scale of the challenge was to establish all the IT infrastructure and systems for a FTSE 250-sized company – from a standing start.

All this was achieved in a uniquely complex and demanding stakeholder environment, with an immovable deadline and against a backdrop of the UK’s highest-profile project. IT has made an inestimable contribution to the success of the construction programme and continues to be an invisible enabler. Integrated systems contributed to the construction of the Olympic stadium starting three months ahead of schedule and at a forecast saving of £30 million, and to the construction of the aquatics centre starting two months ahead of schedule.