Olympic legacy role for Grubb

December 2011. The Olympic Development Authority has appointed Sutton Vane Associates director Michael Grubb as its Learning Legacy Ambassador for lighting. The creation of learning Legacy Ambassadors is part of the largest ever effort to gather and share the lessons from a major construction programme in Britain. They will showcase the work of the London 2012 programme through their personal experiences and lessons learned at more than 60 ‘dissemination events’ running throughout 2012.

Sutton Vane Associates created the lighting strategy for the park and public realm (PPR) aspects of the Olympics in 2008 as part of the LDA Design.Hargreaves team. Since then it has also worked on a number of PPR-related ‘workstreams’, including the lighting design in the post-Games Transformation Phase. The practice also designed the seven Memory Masts for the Olympic concourse.
Olympics legacy website ‘first of its kind’

ODA chairman John Armitt recently launched the London 2012 Learning Legacy website (www.london2012.com/learninglegacy). It contains more than 200 documents representing the first time intellectual capital of this scale has been captured by any Olympic Games or UK construction project, and covers aspects such as promoting biodiversity and restoring the Olympic Park waterways.

Michael Grubb’s appointment was revealed during a keynote speech at Ecolight, the sustainable lighting conference running in a parallel with the LuxLive exhibition at London’s Earl’s Court.
‘The creation of Legacy Learning Ambassadors shows that the desire to create real benefits that last well beyond next year’s events is sincere and practicable,’ says Grubb. ‘I am honoured to be asked help spread the lessons learnt from such a enormous and complex project to help ensure that others in future are also a success.’
London 2012 Learning Legacy website

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