The latest Employment and skills update, which can be downloaded by clicking here, states that the Plant Training Centre and Thames House Training Centre in Newham has contributed well over a quarter of the 9,164 workforce currently on the Olympic Park and Village.

The Olympic Delivery Authority developed these training facilities in partnership with the National Skills Academy for Construction, ConstructionSkills, the Learning and Skills Council, the London Development Agency and the five host borough councils; Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest.

The workforce will rise to 11,000 later this year and many more will come through the National Skills Academy.

Joan Harris, a third year electrical improver who is part way through a 13 week work placement on the site, said: “You can learn so much in the classroom but this kind of experience is invaluable. I’ve been given the opportunity to try out so many different areas of work and it’s great to work with people with such a high level of technical knowledge and experience, I’m learning so much. What an opportunity to learn on the Olympic Stadium? I’ll be able to tell my grandchildren that I helped build it.”