Armitt

There was a knighthood for John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, and a CBE for his director of construction, Howard Shiplee.

New Year honours for leading figures in sport, the Olympics and Paralympics 2011

John Alexander Armitt, CBE, chair, Olympic Delivery Authority, for serv engineering & construction.

New Year honours: the full list 2011

Sir John Armitt, chairman of the ODA, said: "To have created Britain's largest urban park for over a century out of a contaminated, industrial landscape has taken both determination and clever thinking."

Olympic site clean-up completed 2012

To win them over, large bands of striking miners have camped near the De Armitt mines, and every morning they march to the pit's mouth, intercepting the men as they are going to work, and urging them to join the strike and help their fellows.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 42, August 26, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

The hermit survives as Armatt, Armitt, with which cf. the Huguenot Lermitte (l'ermite), and the name of his dwelling is common (Chapter XIII); Anker, now anchorite, is also extant.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

Armitt accepts that one major reason for 2012's success was the budget increasing two and a half years after the Games were won.

Evening Standard - Home Mihir Bose 2012

'The real challenge is not what we think of it today but what we will think of it in 2025,' says Sir John Armitt London is counting down the days until the opening ceremony - 171 to be precise - but the man charged with delivering the Olympic stadia and infrastructure is more concerned with the distant future.

Evening Standard - Home Mihir Bose 2012

Sir John Armitt, who already has his Olympic medal after he was knighted in the New Year's Honours list, says: The big opportunity was to take 600 acres of wasteland, a very heavily contaminated, rundown part of the east side of the city and transform it into what is now going to be a new, magical place in London for the next 100 years.

Evening Standard - Home Mihir Bose 2012

John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, says London 2012 will be a "shop window" for UK businesses.

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Having ruled out a 'Stade de France' model, where the seats roll back to convert from a football mode to athletics, Armitt is comfortable with the decision to build an 80,000-seat stadium that, after the Games, can be taken down to 25,000.

Evening Standard - Home Mihir Bose 2012