Weather Tonight: 3°c Partly Cloudy Night Morning: 6°c Cloudy

News

RSS

John Armitt

Related pictures

Consultants bank £500m for work on Olympic Park

Latest articles

The Standard makes a splash in £269m Olympic pool

27.07.11
Exclusive: Today the aquatics centre is declared open. With a year until the 2012 Games begin, Jasmine Gardner is the first to take the plunge... more

Jessica Ennis: Home support will be worth a head start

27.07.11
Ennis backs Team GB to strike gold a year from now at London Olympics... more

Consultants bank £500m for work on Olympic Park

19.07.11
Consultants on the Olympic Park have been paid £500 million before the project is complete, it is revealed - but the Government also confirm the Games will come in under budget... more

On your marks, get set for London 2012 - the greatest show on earth

07.01.11
As preparations for the 2012 Games hurtle towards the finishing line, our expert reveals all you need to know about this epic London sporting event... more

Gold-medal job on the 2012 Olympics site

12.11.10
City Comment: The Games site is one of Europe's biggest construction projects, and it is on time and on budget... more

Sports centres share £10m for athletes' training in 2012

01.10.10
Up to £10 million is up for grabs for London sports venues that want to attract Olympic athletes in their training for 2012... more

Olympics chiefs named on list of top quango salaries

02.07.10
Olympics bosses feature heavily on a six-figure salary list of 160 quango heads published by the Government... more

Another high light for the 2012 Olympic stadium

26.03.10
Fourteen lighting towers have been lifted into place on top of the Olympic stadium... more

First venue of £6bn Olympic Park is finished: a tin shed

10.11.09
It may not win any architectural prizes but a lime-green building made of old shipping containers has become the first London 2012 Olympic Park venue to be completed... more

Top hotels give up their secrets for Open House weekend

17.08.09
Two Park Lane hotels are unlocking their secrets to the public for the first time... more

Trees chosen for London 2012 Olympic Park

10.06.09
Ash, alder, and birch are among the different trees to be planted in Olympic Park.... more

2012 track 'will be the fastest in cycling history'

25.03.09
The 2012 velodrome will have the fastest track in cycling history, Olympics chiefs pledged... more

Taxpayer faces spiralling bill for Games as funding dries up

30.01.09
The taxpayer may have to fund every Olympic venue because of the credit crunch, 2012 chiefs admitted... more

2012 London Olympics will provide a lasting legacy

16.01.09
Despite the current economic downturn, Keith Dovkants found that most experts now agree the Games will be a huge boost for London... more

Taxpayer may foot bill for media centre, Games chiefs admit

22.12.08
Olympics chiefs have admitted that the £300million media centre for the 2012 Games will probably have to be paid for by the taxpayer... more

Taxpayers may need to foot new Olympics bill

09.12.08
Taxpayers may be asked again to bail out the £900 million Olympic Village within a few months, Games chiefs admitted... more

Post-Olympic push is set to be a private affair

21.11.08
Property: It is important to decide just what to do with the Olympic Games site post-2012... more

Unflappable builder with a reputation for getting the job done

12.11.08
Interview: John Armitt had planned to go fishing after building the Severn Bridge and the Channel Tunnel train link. Then came the call to run the Olympic Delivery Authority.... more

Taxpayers could foot whole bill for £1bn Olympic Village

08.10.08
Games chiefs have admitted they may be forced to nationalise the £1 billion Olympic village amid the current economic turmoil... more

Running London

08.10.08
Running the capital involves many leaders outside City Hall to cater for Londoners' lives, as this list shows...... more

The lorry lens to stop cyclists being killed

01.10.08
More than 1,000 safety lenses that help lorries spot cyclists are being given to HGV drivers around the Olympic Park... more

2012 stadium 'will not house Premiership club'

29.09.08
Olympic chiefs have insisted it would be "fundamentally wrong" to demolish the main 2012 stadium after the Games to make way for a Premiership football club... more

Funding for Olympic media base in jeopardy

25.09.08
The £400million media centre for the 2012 Olympics is caught up in a funding crisis... more

Foundations dug for 2012 aquatic centre

17.07.08
Construction work on the Olympic aquatics centre has begun in a symbolic milestone for the 2012 project... more

Olympic village runs out of cash

20.06.08
The 2012 Olympics were plunged into a major cash crisis as the firm building the athletes' village admitted it could not raise the money... more

Comment: overspend on Olympic scale

20.06.08
The £9.3 billion budget for the London Olympics was already a substantial increase on the £2.4 billion that ministers initially promised as the cost of 2012... more

Small firms sign up for 2012 dates

05.06.08
Up to 18,000 companies have signed up to a business "dating agency" aimed at matching them to contracts linked with the London 2012 Olympics, it was announced... more

Key Olympic venues face major building delays

22.05.08
Two important venues in the Olympic Park have been hit by months of delays, the Standard can reveal... more

Olympic grand design set for optimism stage

11.04.08
The Olympic park building programme is on the cusp between pessimism and optimism... more

Olympic pools could be heated by solar power

14.03.08
London Olympic chiefs are looking into powering the Games with the help of a solar-powered roof on the aquatics centre... more


Don't Miss