John Armitt
Viewpoint: Hitting our targets
This week marks three years to go until the start of the 2012 Games. It’s an appropriate time to review and celebrate all that we have already achieved on the Olympic Park but it’s also a good time to look forward to the coming year which will see the site change beyond recognition.
London 2012: ‘Big build’ is gathering momentum
“Nothing short of astounding” was how the International Olympic Committee described the progress that we have made on the Olympic Park since we fired the “big build” starting gun over a year ago.
London 2012: two steps closer to completion
Olympic Delivery Authority chairman fills us in on how the Olympic Park is rapidly taking shape
Counting down to 2012
At the halfway point, Olympic Delivery Authority chairman John Armitt looks back at how far his project has come.
John's view: off the starting blocks
Extensive Olympic preparations should start to yield results this year says ODA chairman John Armitt
John Armitt
John Armitt is chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority. He was previously chief executive of Network Rail from October 2002 and chief executive of Railtrack from December 2001. He has extensive experience in the building, civil engineering and industrial construction markets.
John is a civil engineer and joined John Laing in 1966 as a graduate engineer. During the next 27 years he worked on major construction projects in the UK and overseas, spending the last seven as chairman of Laing's International and Civil Engineering Divisions.
From 1993 to 1997 he was chief executive of Union Railways, the company responsible for development of the high speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link. In 1997 he went back to construction as chief executive of Costain, a position he held until 2001 when he joined Railtrack just after it had been put into administration.
