Keith Tucker Lectures

KEITH TUCKER MEMORIAL LECTURE 2011

The 2011 Keith Tucker Memorial Lecture was given by Martin Brackpool, Business Development Director of ISG plc on the subject "The Olympic Velodrome Story - from procurement to handover".

This annual lecture was set up in memory of the much loved former Hon. Secretary of the Society, Keith Tucker and in recent years has been organised in conjunction with the University of Kent at Canterbury.

The event is attended by members of the Society and the University and is also open to the general public.

A dinner for Society members is held afterwards on university premises.

The speaker had an inspiring story to tell, with lessons of value to all areas of our profession, on the merits of preparation, teamwork, organisation and attention to detail.  ISG were a key part of a consortium which bid for, won, and produced, 27 weeks inside time and on budget, one of the most attractive and interesting structures on the 2012 Olympic Park. The Olympic Velodrome project had a construction value of £65,000,000 (excluding the BMX track and legacy works), and 2,500 workers.

Martin was an engaging speaker and a master of extraordinary facts and statistics, which included the revelation that every length of Siberian pine that made up the track was nailed into place by hand, as nail guns were prohibited - 300,000 nails in all.

For size and complexity of the task, sustainability and waste minimisation, functional and aesthetic design, leading-edge construction techniques and inspired co-operation with community stakeholders, the project has been a huge success.

DISTINGUISHED PAST SPEAKERS

In October 2010, Professor Joanna Conaghan, Head of Kent Law School, spoke on the subject "Do we need a diverse judiciary?"

In October 2009, Mike Bowron, Commissioner of Police for the City of London, spoke on the subject "Economic Crime and Fraud - Cinderella shall go to the Ball!"

In October 2008, Mike Kennedy C.B.E., the former president of Eurojust (2008), entitled his lecture "Eurojust - its role in tackling transitional crime in Europe and elsewhere".

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Sir Geoffrey Nice QC (former senior attorney to the Yugoslavian War Crimes Tribunal)

Ken MacDonald (Dir Public Prosecution)

Lord Weatherall (Speaker House of Commons)

Lt Gen Sir Martin Garrod (NATO Operation Bosnia)

Richard Sturt (Senior Coroner)

Sir Alan Donald (Ambassador to China & Hong Kong)

Chief Constable of Kent, David Philip

Sir Richard Scott (Arms to Iraq Enquiry)

Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay

Mr Justice Mitchell

Mr Anthony Scrivener QC (Chair of the Bar)

Dr Thomas West CBE

Sir Oliver Wright (Ambassador US & Germany)

Lord Deedes

Allan Green (Dir Public Prosecution)

Lord Hailsham

Lord Grimond

Mr Walter Merricks (Pub Rel Law Society)

Lord Bishop of Rochester

Lord Benson