“…The paper that I found particularly interesting and timely is that by Shiplee et al (2013), who report on the design and implementation of the project for providing site-wide logistics support for the delivery of the infrastructure projects for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The paper traces the development of the methodology for the logistics project to December 2005 when, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the project owner recognized the need for a logistics project to establish programme-wide arrangements for the management of logistics in relation to people, materials, temporary infrastructure, programme-wide issues around very daunting constraints of delivery time, existing infrastructure operating at design capacity, and contiguous residential communities.…”