Buro Happold

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Buro Happold
Type	Partnership
Founded	1976
Headquarters	Bath, Somerset  United Kingdom
Key people	Rod MacDonald, Chairman, Gavin Thompson, Managing Director Padraic Kelly, International Director Sir Edmund Happold, Founder
Industry	Construction management, engineering consulting and business services
Revenue	GB£45.4 million (2004)
Employees	1460
Website	www.burohappold.com

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Sir Edmund Happold 3 History 4 Projects 5 Awards 6 Happold Trust 7 External links 8 Image Gallery 9 See also 10 References

[edit] Introduction

Buro Happold is a professional services firm providing engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of buildings, infrastructure and the environment. It was founded in 1976, by Sir Edmund Happold in Bath in the southwest of England when he left Ove Arup and Partners to take up a post at Bath University as Professor of Architecture and Engineering Design. Originally working mainly on projects in the Middle East, the firm now operates worldwide and in almost all areas of engineering for the built environment, with offices in seven countries.

[edit] Sir Edmund Happold

Ted Happold worked at Arup before founding Buro Happold, where he worked on projects such as the Sydney Opera House and the Pompidou Centre. Ted Happold was a leader in the field of lightweight and tensile structures and Buro Happold has as a result undertaken a large number of tensile and other lightweight structures since its founding, including the Millennium Dome. Ted Happold died in 1996, but his influence on the firm is enduring. Ted Happold was a Quaker, and his deep sense of humanity and principles can still be found in much of the work undertaken by the firm.

[edit] History

Buro Happold was founded on the 1 May 1976, with its first office on Gay Street in Bath, United Kingdom. The firm started with seven partners:

Edmund Happold Peter Buckthorp Michael Dickson Terry Ealey

Ian Liddell Rod MacDonald John Morrison John Reid

Initially Buro Happold offered only structural engineering consultancy, with a particular strength in lightweight structures, but in 1977 it added geotechnical engineering and in 1978 building services engineering. Over the years the firm has added a large range of different services, including FEDRA, a leading fire engineering consultancy. The firm also developed a variety of specialist services to support design and construction, including in-house software for modelling fire and fabric and cable structures.

The King's Office, Council of Ministers and Majlis Al Shura (KOCOMMAS), Central Government Complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was the firm's first major design project in 1976.

In 1983 Buro Happold opened an office in Riyadh, and has since opened offices around the UK and internationally:

1989 Leeds 1990 London 1991 Berlin 1996 Glasgow 1997 Warsaw

1999 New York City 1999 Manchester 2000 Dublin 2003 Birmingham 2004 Dubai

2006 Edinburgh 2006 Los Angeles 2006 Belfast

From its foundation Buro Happold worked on a number of different projects with Frei Otto, a leading expert on lightweight structures and gridshells, such as the Japan Pavillion for Expo 2000 in Hanover. The firm has also historically had close ties with Bath University.^{[citation needed]}

By 1993 Buro Happold had 130 employees and 8 partners. In 1998 this had grown to 300 employees and 12 partners, while in 2000 with over 500 employees the partnership was increased to 23. In 2006 the partnership stood at 25 with over 1400 employees and 14 offices.

Due to this growth and the addition of so many different services the company was restructured in 2003 to consist of multi-disciplinary teams of engineers each with structural, mechanical and electrical engineers supported by specialist consulting groups.

In 2005 Buro Happold launched Happold Consulting, a management and overseas development consultancy with expertise in the construction sector.

Partners:

Neil Billett Steve Brown Andrew Comer Mike Cook Phil Dalglish Mick Green Alan Harbinson

David Herd David Hull Padraic Kelly Ian Leaper Rod Macdonald Rod Manson Tony McLaughlin

Peter Moseley Nick Nelson Eddie Pugh Paul Rogers Craig Schwitter Neil Squibbs Simon Wainwright

Gavin Thompson Paul Westbury David Wookey Jerry Young

[edit] Projects

Buro Happold's early projects ranged from designing giant fabric umbrellas for Pink Floydconcerts to the Munich Aviary and the Mannheim Multihalle, both with Frei Otto.^[1]

More recent projects in the United Kingdom include:

• Arsenal F.C.'s Emirates Stadium in London
• Ascot Racecourse in Ascot
• The Weald and Downland Gridshell
• The Savill Building in Windsor Great Park
• The British Museum Queen Elizabeth II Great Court Roof in London
• The Lowry Centre in Salford
• The Sackler Crossing in Kew Gardens, London
• Sheffield Winter Gardens in Sheffield
• The Eden Project Core in Cornwall
• The Globe Theatre in London

Another recent project which attracted press interest was a the Westborough School cardboard classroom in Westcliff.

Internationally Buro Happold's buildings include:

• The Al Faisaliah Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin

The Genzyme Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• The Danish National Opera House in Copenhagen, Denmark
• The Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in Kazakhstan
• The new Lansdowne Road Stadium in Dublin, Ireland

Buro Happold is best known for building engineering, but it also undertakes a large proportion of its work in civil, geotechnical and environmental engineering, and an increasing amount of overseas development work. Buro Happold is a member of the Consortium for the Eradication of Poverty, which also includes Arup, Scott Wilson and RedR-IHE

Buro Happold is part of the consortium (EDAW) appointed to design the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympics. The team which built the Emirates Stadium, made up of McAlpine, HOK Sport + Venue + Event and Buro Happold is also the preferred bidder for the new Olympic Stadium.^[2]

[edit] Awards

Buro Happold's projects have won two RIBA Stirling Prizees for: the Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1999 and the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham in 2001. Additionally the Evelina Children's Hospital won the public vote for the Stirling Prize in 2006.

Buro Happold won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Tuwaiq Palacein Riyadh in 1998.^[3] Happold also won the Queen's Award for Enterprise twice, for export achievement and again for sustainable development. In 1999 Buro Happold is also the the recipient of the MacRobert Award for their design of the Millennium Dome.

Buro Happold was only the second firm in the world to achieve worldwide Investors in People accreditation.

[edit] Happold Trust

The Happold Trust was founded in 1995 by Ted Happold and the other founding partners in order to promote education, research and training in the fields of engineering, industry, design, technology and architecture. The Happold Trust is a patron of Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief (RedR-IHE)^[4] and a co-sponsor of the planned Dyson Academy in Bath.^[5]

[edit] External links

• Buro Happold official website
• Happold Consulting official website
• What is Engineering site, supported by Buro Happold

[edit] Image Gallery

The Millennium Dome, seen from the Isle of Dogs.	Aerial view of the Millennium Dome	The Faisaliah Center	Front entrance to the 2006 Ascot Stands
The new Ascot Racecourse stand from the track	British Museum Great Court, East Portico of Sir Robert Smirke's building with the new roof above;	Multihalle in Mannheim, wooden gridshell structure designed with Frei Otto.	The entrance to The Lowry
Sheffield Winter Gardens	Sheffield Winter Gardens (exterior)	The rebuilt Globe Theatre in London	The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin
The Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground	Beetham Tower nearing completion in February 2006. Rear view	Looking up the main stairwell of the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds	Tanaka Business School, Imperial College
View of the South Bridge with the Arsenal statue lettering in the foreground and the Emirates Stadium in the background.	Oval Lingotto in Turin	Front view of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge) at the University of Cambridge	The Nomadic Museum in Santa Monica, California in 2006]]
Magna Centre

[edit] See also

• Architectural Engineering
• Building Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Fire Protection Engineering
• Acoustics
• Noise
• Vibration
• Lighting
• Construction Management
• Project Management
• Green buildings

[edit] References

v • d • e Stirling Prize Laureates
Stephen Hodder (1996) • Michael Wilford (1997) • Foster and Partners (1998) • Future Systems/Buro Happold (1999) • Alsop/Störmer (2000) • Wilkinson Eyre/Buro Happold (2001) • Wilkinson Eyre/Gifford (2002) • Herzog & de Meuron (2003) • Foster and Partners/Arup (2004) • EMBT/RMJM (2005) • Richard Rogers (2006)