Construction bodies support UK's Olympic bid

Building and managing infrastructure groups across the UK have offered their skills, advice and undivided support to the British Olympic Association's bid to host the 2012 event.

In a joint letter to chairman Craig Reedie, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Institution of Civil Engineers outlined the ways in which winning the right to stage the event would benefit the built environment and what they can contribute to the strategic analysis and bidding process.

Peter Fall, president of the RICS, and one of the signatories of the letter, said: "We are inviting the British Olympic bid to tap into the huge range of skills and relevant experience which our professions are able to offer, including management consultancy, project management, development, planning, urban design, construction economics, architecture and engineering.

"Undertaking a task of the size and complexity of the Olympics will require a large amount of human and economic resources, but we believe that, if invested wisely, it has the potential to provide long-term infrastructure and regeneration benefits across the country."