Jack Kenneth Lemley CBE was an American architect and engineering manager who led delivery of large infrastructure projects across the globe.
16 Facts About Jack Lemley
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Jack Lemley's projects included the Channel Tunnel between England and France, the King Khalid Military City in Saudi Arabia, and a water tunnel in New York.
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Jack Lemley was leading the delivery of the infrastructure facilities for 2012 London Olympics before he resigned citing interference in 2006.
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Jack Lemley was born in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on January 2,1935.
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Jack Lemley's mother was a homemaker while his father was employed with a power company.
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Jack Lemley graduated from the University of Idaho, in 1960 with an architecture degree.
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Jack Lemley later went on to work with American engineering company Morrison-Knudsen and later with American equipment manufacturer Blount His early projects included the Interstate 5 project in Seattle, and other projects in New York.
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In 1989, Jack Lemley joined the TransManche Link, a consortium of British and French construction companies that was tasked with building the 31-mile Channel Tunnel, an undersea tunnel linking France and Britain.
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Jack Lemley was made an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his work on the Channel Tunnel by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996.
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Jack Lemley was hired in 2005 to lead the development of facilities for the 2012 London Olympics and was made the chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority.
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Some other projects led by Jack Lemley included New York's water tunnel, which was earlier plagued with cost overruns and time delays, and the Holland Tunnel.
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Jack Lemley worked in and led projects across 65 countries including Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Nepal, and Zimbabwe during his over fifty-year-long career.
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Jack Lemley retired in 2012 with his last engagement being an assignment with the Istanbul Metro.
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Jack Lemley served as the CEO of American Ecology, a radioactive and hazardous waste disposal company, between 1995 and 2002.
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Jack Lemley married his wife Pamela after a previous marriage ended in divorce.
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Jack Lemley died on November 29,2021, in Boise, Idaho, at the age of 86.