There was also a more liberal sprinkling of honours for women involved in construction this year.
Olympic aquatics centre architect Zaha Hidid was made a Dame, adding to her CBE.
From the frontline contracting world, Ian Galloway, programme director and chief executive at delivery partner CLM was the highest profile contractor award with an OBE.
Galloway is a former Bechtel man who was previously programme director on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
He is joined by Lorraine Baldry, the chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority planning committee; Jerome Frost, head of design and regeneration; and Simon Wright, director of infrastructure and utilities.
Lawrence Waterman, head of health and safety at the ODA, also gets an OBE.
Other construction industry honours
OBE
Dr Peter William Bonfield, chief executive of BRE for services to research and Innovation in the construction industry.
Milica Kitson, chief executive of Constructing Excellence in Wales for services to construction.
Alison Perry, managing director of Triangle Builders in Liverpool and chair of the National Federation of Builders, for services to construction.
Dr Bhaskar Sengupta, reader in civil engineering at Queen’s University Belfast, for services to higher education and international environmental research.
MBE
Martyn Lass, enabling works project manager for London 2012, Atkins, for services to construction.
Robert Hegan for services to economic development and to the construction industry in Northern Ireland.
