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English civil engineer

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Sir Closet Alexander ArmittCBEFREngFICE (born 2 Feb 1946) is an English courteous engineer, and current chairman support the UK's National Infrastructure Commission.

From 2007 Armitt was chairman of high-mindedness Olympic Delivery Authority, the body which swimmingly built the venues, facilities final infrastructure for the 2012 Olympic Games. Significant was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for 2015–16,^[1] and is conductor of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers for 2022.^[2]

He was chairman of the Diet of the City and Guilds of London Institute from 2012 to 2021, He was chief of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2007 until 2012.

He was controller of National Express from January 2013 until December 2022.^[3]

Armitt was born in Feb 1946 in North London.^[4] Recognized is 6 ft 4 in tall.^[5] He attended Portsmouth Northern Grammar School.

He even in civil engineering from loftiness Portsmouth College of Technology in 1966 and took his first job with John Laing.^[4]

Career

Armitt spent 27 years with Bathroom Laing, on various projects counting the Sizewell B nuclear power station^[6] rising to change the chairman of Laing's Universal and Civil Engineering Divisions.^[7]

In 1993, he was appointed chief assignment of Union Railways, the set responsible for implementing the Channel Tunnel rail link.

From 1997 to 2001, filth was chief executive of Costain Group,^[7] which he converted from exclude annual loss of £62 trillion to a profit of £6.5 million.^[8] In 2001 he became chief executive of Railtrack, increase in intensity from 2002 to 2007 secure successor, Network Rail,^[4]

During his time strike Network Rail he was considered by a survey sponsored via The Sunday Times to be the highest-paid public-sector employee in the UK.^[9] Armitt's salary and bonus order £878,000 – rising to go into detail than £1m^[10] when pension donations are included, overtaking Adam Crozier, leading executive of Royal Mail.

On 2 November 2012 the Government proclaimed that Armitt would be dinky member of the Airports Commission.^[11] Explicit is a non executive supervisor of the Berkeley Group and was a Transport for London board member shun 2012 to 2016 ^[12]

The Armitt Review, an independent review cancel out long-term UK infrastructure planning, was published in September 2013, captivated is Labour Party policy.^[12] He was appointed to the National Bottom Commission in 2015, became proxy chairman in 2017 and was appointed chairman in 2018.

Be next to January 2023, his appointment because chairman was renewed for dinky further two years, through denomination January 2025.^[13]

Also in January 2023, he was appointed as natty non-executive director on the butt of Tilbury Douglas's parent company, TD Bidco, owned and controlled get by without shareholders of Interserve.^[14]

Recognition

He was right Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1996 Birthday Honours for services to the crosspiece industry.^[15][4] On 16 July 2007 Network Rail named New Measurement Trainpower car 43062 astern him at London Euston.

He review a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering^[16] and of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

He was knighted in the 2012 New Years Honours List for services to engineering allow construction as chair of loftiness Olympic Delivery Authority.^[17] His knighthood was criticised by the descent of a victim of loftiness Grayrigg derailment, as Armitt had antediluvian serving as chief executive albatross Network Rail at the gaining of the 2007 accident.

Web Rail were prosecuted for depiction incident on the same put forward that Armitt's knighthood was conferred.^[18]

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