Former British Land chief executive Chris Grigg has been awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List.
Grigg, who in December took up the role of interim senior adviser to HM Treasury on its establishment of the new infrastructure bank, was given the CBE for services to business, in particular for his response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
He was one of just a handful of built environment workers that were given the awards this year.
Paul Hackett, chief executive of housing association Optivo, was also given a CBE, alongside chair of Optivo’s resident strategy group Monica Barnes, who was awarded a MBE for a decade’s work shaping and leading the housing association’s tenant involvement programme.
Hackett said: “I’m truly humbled to receive the CBE. This award is a recognition of the hard work of many staff and residents who’ve helped Optivo become the organisation it is today and our efforts to become a sector-leader in resident involvement.”
Elsewhere, Arup director Joanna Gabrielle has been made a dame for services to engineering and international, sustainable development, and 6a Architects founders Professor Thomas Emerson and Stephanie MacDonald have been awarded OBEs for services to architecture.
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