Dome Designers mentioned at the House of Commons
Buro Happolds team of engineering designers who created the Millennium
Dome are to be congratulated in the House of Commons this week on winning the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, through an Early Day Motion tabled by Claire Curtis-Thomas, Chartered Engineer and MP for Crosby.
The motion reads:
'That this House congratulates the Bath-based engineering consultancy Buro Happold on winning the 1999 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award the UK's most prestigious engineering prize for its pioneering engineering design of the Millennium Dome; notes that the Dome is an extremely cost-effective solution to covering the Greenwich site and cost less per square metre than a retail warehouse; notes that 'Dome' technology could be used in the future to protect people living in extreme climate zones; and applauds the achievements of the winning engineers Ian Liddell, Paul Westbury, Dawood Pandor and Gary Dagger for developing a revolutionary structure that represents the future of large-span, value-for-money buildings.'
The Buro Happold team, together with Buro Happold's Chairman Michael
Dickson, will receive their £50,000 prize and the MacRobert gold medal
from HRH Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace on the morning of Wednesday 24 November.
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Notes for editors
The Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award is Britain's premier
prize for engineering. It is given annually for outstanding innovation of benefit to the community. First presented in 1969, the award consists of a gold medal and £50,000 prize.
The Royal Academy of Engineering aims to pursue, encourage and maintain excellence across the whole field of engineering in order to promote the advancement of the science, art and practice of engineering for the benefit of the public. The Academy comprises the UK's most eminent engineers and is able to use their combined wealth of knowledge and experience to meet its objectives.
3. Buro Happold is a multi-disciplinary international practice of
consulting engineers established in 1976 offering civil and structural
engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, quantity surveying, building services and environmental engineering, infrastructure and traffic engineering, geotechnical engineering, façade engineering, fire engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis, access consultancy, project management, urban design and a range of specialist CAD services.
