Jack Lemley
Jack K. Lemley (born January 2, 1935 in Coeur d'Alene , Idaho ) is an American civil engineer and manager.
Lemley received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Idaho in 1960. From 1960 he worked for the construction company Guy F. Atkinson, where he became Vice President and was also the manager of various subsidiaries. In 1967 he was the project manager for the Mica dam . From 1977 he worked for the construction company Morrison-Knudsen. From 1979 to 1981 he was General Manager of the King Khalid Military City in eastern Saudi Arabia for Morrison-Knudsen, a $ 1.3 billion project for a military city in the desert for 70,000 residents. This also resulted in the world's largest factory for precast concrete parts at the time. In 1983 he became Vice President of the Heavy and Marine Group at Morrison-Knudsen. Projects he led were the Ok Tedi open pit mine in Papua New Guinea with a volume of 800 million dollars, the Cerrejon coal mine including road and port in Colombia (volume 1.9 billion dollars), and Interstate-90 Bellevue-Seattle. In 1985 he became Senior Vice President of the Construction Department. In 1987/88 he was CEO of the Blount Construction Group in Montgomery (Alabama) .
He was Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority for the London 2012 Olympics until his unexpected resignation in October 2006 . There were later different representations about the cause of the resignation, but there were disputes with the London Mayor Ken Livingstone and the responsible minister Tessa Jowell . According to Lemley, the Department ignored its warnings of escalating costs. The initial estimates would have been unrealistic (e.g. omission of value added tax), bad news about decontaminated soil, for example, would have been ignored, and additional claims would have been made constantly. There was also constant interference from local politicians.
From 1989 to 1993 he headed the British-French construction consortium for the Channel Tunnel (Transmarche, TML). It was the largest private construction project ever undertaken, valued at $ 21 billion. Around 14,000 people were involved in the construction.
From 1988 he had his own project management company Lemley International in Boise . One of their jobs was to evaluate the management of the Massachusetts Turnpike (a $ 14 billion construction project). He was also on the Advisory Board of the Department of Energy for the Superconducting Super Collider .
From 1995 to 2001 he was chairman and CEO of the American Ecology Corporation in Boise, Idaho. They have landfills for low-level radioactive waste in Washington and California and a nuclear waste processing facility in Oak Ridge.
He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Idaho (1998) and Albertson's College, Idaho (1996) and received the OPAL Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 1999, he was named one of the 125 leading civil engineers by Engineering News Record for the past 125 years, and in 1991 he was named Engineering News Record Man of the Year. In 1996 he became a CBE . He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the ASCE.
He is the father of Jim Lemley .
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- ↑ Prabook
- ↑ Sharon Churcher, Tessa Jowell ignored warnings, says 2012 Olympics engineer , Mail Online, December 2, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lemley, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lemley, Jack K. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho |