The Learning Legacy website was originally launched by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) in October 2011 as an innovative resource for the industry and the public sector while it was designed to ensure that the knowledge gained from staging the world's biggest sporting event is not lost.

Following the conclusion of London 2012, the website has now become the responsibility of the Cabinet Office's Major Projects Authority and has now grown to more than 450 papers across an increased range of subjects that include transport and the staging of the Games.

It is a major showcase for the UK as the Government looks to capitalise on the positive effect of London 2012 while it marks the first time that a British construction project has captured intellectual capital on this scale.

"Learning Legacy was created with a view to being expanded over time so as to record the depth of lessons learned across the project, both in building and staging the Games," said ODA chairman Sir John Armitt.

"The inclusion of areas such as transport and the focus on sustainable delivery of the event will benefit future projects, particularly large sporting and cultural occasions that attract significant numbers of people."


The website, which now includes significant contributions London 2012 in addition to new material from the ODA, consists of ten themes while it builds on the shared ethos of setting targets well above industry benchmarks, and in many cases exceeding these.

Both the ODA and London 2012 held themselves against a demanding set of standards, in some cases creating a standard where none had previously existed, and met all of them.

"This is a tremendous resource the ODA has created and one that will be enormously helpful to businesses large and small," said London 2012 chairman and the Prime Minister's Legacy Ambassador Sebastian Coe.

"We all learnt a vast amount as we built and delivered the Games.

"I am proud of the many initiatives and industry standards we set along the journey and am delighted that this resource keeps growing and is being shared and, I hope will be built upon, in the future.

"British business and know how has never been in more demand."

New Learning Legacy lessons discussed include raising the bar for the UK's construction industry after the ODA worked closely with contractors, industry partners, Government bodies and academia to capture the lessons learned and best-practice examples and innovations for use by future construction and engineering projects.

They also include raising the bar for sustainable major events after London 2012 contributed more than 80 papers on areas relating to the staging of the Games, such as sustainability, equality and inclusion and health and safety.

In addition, there are key lessons on raising the bar in the UK's transport industry in terms of planning, building and operating a transport network able to meet the challenges presented by the Olympics and Paralympics.

Transport legacy reports were produced by the ODA with support from the main transport delivery partners while there are documents discussing how transport for the Games was achieved with papers on transport mapping, analytics and pedestrian and crowd modelling.

The website is available by clicking here. 

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