http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-37424-john-armitt/topic-rss.do John Armitt RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23767057-first-venue-of-pound-6bn-olympic-park-is-finished-a-tin-shed.do 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 2009-11-10T08:43:20Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23732907-top-hotels-give-up-their-secrets-for-open-house-weekend.do Two Park Lane hotels are unlocking their secrets to the public for the first time 2009-08-17T06:40:15Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23724415-games-will-be-the-greatest-event-on-earth-vows-coe.do London begins three-year Olympic countdown with promises that capital will stage the most memorable Games in history 2009-07-27T08:20:43Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23720416-2012-bosses-give-themselves-60k-bonus.do Bosses at the Olympic Delivery Authority enjoyed average bonuses of £60,000 each in the past 12 months 2009-07-16T14:24:38Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23716290-no-crunch-in-2012-olympic-village-rooms.do Olympic chiefs set out vision for Olympic village and their plan for the legacy of the site 2009-07-07T06:58:29Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23706109-trees-chosen-for-london-2012-olympic-park.do Ash, alder, and birch are among the different trees to be planted in Olympic Park. 2009-06-10T15:11:16Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23666684-2012-track-will-be-the-fastest-in-cycling-history.do The 2012 velodrome will have the fastest track in cycling history, Olympics chiefs pledged 2009-03-25T09:12:40Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23631849-taxpayer-faces-spiralling-bill-for-games-as-funding-dries-up.do The taxpayer may have to fund every Olympic venue because of the credit crunch, 2012 chiefs admitted 2009-01-30T09:01:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23621083-2012-london-olympics-will-provide-a-lasting-legacy.do Despite the current economic downturn, Keith Dovkants found that most experts now agree the Games will be a huge boost for London 2009-01-16T09:10:21Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23606297-taxpayer-may-foot-bill-for-media-centre-games-chiefs-admit.do Olympics chiefs have admitted that the £300million media centre for the 2012 Games will probably have to be paid for by the taxpayer 2008-12-22T08:39:43Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23599172-taxpayers-may-need-to-foot-new-olympics-bill.do Taxpayers may be asked again to bail out the £900 million Olympic Village within a few months, Games chiefs admitted 2008-12-09T14:20:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23590519-post-olympic-push-is-set-to-be-a-private-affair.do <strong>Property:</strong> It is important to decide just what to do with the Olympic Games site post-2012 2008-11-21T08:22:54Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23585481-unflappable-builder-with-a-reputation-for-getting-the-job-done.do <strong>Interview:</strong> 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. 2008-11-12T11:32:14Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23566306-taxpayers-could-foot-whole-bill-for-1bn-olympic-village.do Games chiefs have admitted they may be forced to nationalise the &pound;1 billion Olympic village amid the current economic turmoil 2008-10-08T08:12:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23562527-running-london.do <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/js/image-resizer.js"></script> Running the capital involves many leaders outside City Hall to cater for Londoners' lives, as this list shows... 2008-10-01T10:20:03Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23563020-sport.do <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/js/image-resizer.js"></script> Sport in general has received a major morale boost with Britain's unexpected success at the Beijing Olympics. Already the excitement is building towards the London 2012 Games. 2008-10-02T15:08:01Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23562892-property.do The super-rich still love London, keeping prices at the top end high. Across the city there remains a shortage of homes but building is slowing in the crunch. 2008-10-02T08:52:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23562428-the-lorry-lens-to-stop-cyclists-being-killed.do More than 1,000 safety lenses that help lorries spot cyclists are being given to HGV drivers around the Olympic Park 2008-10-01T08:02:11Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23561731-2012-stadium-will-not-house-premiership-club.do 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 2008-09-29T15:05:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23560072-funding-for-olympic-media-base-in-jeopardy.do The &pound;400million media centre for the 2012 Olympics is caught up in a funding crisis 2008-09-25T08:01:37Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23517266-foundations-dug-for-2012-aquatic-centre.do Construction work on the Olympic aquatics centre has begun in a symbolic milestone for the 2012 project 2008-07-17T08:54:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23502766-banks-asked-to-bail-out-1bn-olympics-village.do The Government is considering plans to rescue the troubled £1billion Olympic village development which include offering guarantees to banks willing to fund it or even paying for it completely 2008-06-30T08:49:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23496987-olympic-village-runs-out-of-cash.do The 2012 Olympics were plunged into a major cash crisis as the firm building the athletes' village admitted it could not raise the money 2008-06-20T08:05:15Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23496990-comment-overspend-on-olympic-scale.do The &pound;9.3 billion budget for the London Olympics was already a substantial increase on the &pound;2.4 billion that ministers initially promised as the cost of 2012 2008-06-20T08:11:57Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23490532-small-firms-sign-up-for-2012-dates.do 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 2008-06-05T08:44:25Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23486531-key-olympic-venues-face-major-building-delays.do Two important venues in the Olympic Park have been hit by months of delays, the Standard can reveal 2008-05-22T08:01:42Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23482922-boris-and-the-2012-legacy.do The 2012 Olympics is one area on which Boris Johnson's mayoralty will be judged 2008-05-07T14:27:46Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23477243-olympic-grand-design-set-for-optimism-stage.do The Olympic park building programme is on the cusp between pessimism and optimism 2008-04-11T13:11:30Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23454566-olympic-pools-could-be-heated-by-solar-power.do London Olympic chiefs are looking into powering the Games with the help of a solar-powered roof on the aquatics centre 2008-03-14T08:21:16Z