President, Environmental Services, CH2M Hill
"Extreme Engineering" and Sustainability Issues at the London 2012 Olympics

The London 2012 Olympics program has an immoveable schedule: the Games will begin on July 27, 2012, with no delay possible, and the budget of more than $15B cannot be exceeded under UK decree. The London Organizing Committee pledged that these would be the Greenest games ever, and the Olympic Park is in one of the most congested and blighted areas of the UK. A city capable of housing 17,000 people had to be built, complete with infrastructure and housing, along with nine major venues, all with the capacity to expand to a daily surge of 600,000 daily visitors during the Games. The challenges of designing and constructing world class facilities- both sporting and for legacy- in the context of a global recession, highly sustainable, with hugely complex environmental and engineering issues on a logistically difficult site under the highest levels of security, will the subject of London 2012: Extreme Engineering.

Michael A. Szomjassy is President of the Environmental Services Business Group and a former member of the Board of Directors of CH2M Hill, a U.S. Fortune 500 company with 30,000 employees worldwide. Prior to his current role, he served for 3 years as the Deputy Program Director for the CLM Delivery Partner, a Joint Venture providing program management to the Olympic Delivery Authority for the London 2012 Olympics.
Mr. Szomjassy’s other work experience includes as President of Williams Environmental Services, Inc., which specialized in environmental remediation; Vice President of Insituform Technologies, the largest U.S. supplier and installer of cured-in-place sewer and water piping; Chief Operating Officer of Aqua Alliance, the U.S. arm of Vivendi’s water business; and Executive Vice President of OHM Corp., at the time the largest environmental contractor in the U.S.
He currently serves on the Advisory Board foe the faculty of Engineering for the University of Georgia and on the U.S-Brazil Joint Initiative on Urban Sustainability.