Ian Liddell, responsible for the innovative engineering design of the Millennium Dome, has been recognised in the first New Year Honours list of the second Millennium, as a Commander of the British Empire.
Ian Liddell, responsible for the innovative engineering design of the Millennium Dome, has been recognised in the first New Year Honours list of the second Millennium, as a Commander of the British Empire.
Chairman of international consulting engineers Michael Dickson, comments "We are delighted to see Ian's work rewarded with the great honour of a CBE. Ian is one of the most distinguished engineers of our time. It is through his inspirational leadership, skill and knowledge that the design of the Millennium Dome was realised, as an elegant architectural icon to mark the beginning of the new century."
"The Millennium Dome is the result of extensive work by Ian and his colleagues in this specialised field. Everyone at Buro Happold is extremely proud of him. Ian is a fine example to our young engineers."
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Ian Liddell MA DIC FEng FIStructE MICE is a founding partner of the multi disciplinary practice of consulting engineers, Buro Happold.
Born 1938. Studied Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge followed by a post-graduate diploma in concrete structures at Imperial College, London. A founding partner of Buro Happold, Ian works mainly in the fast developing field of lightweight structures. He is Royal Academy Visiting Professor of Engineering Design at Cambridge University School of Engineering, a Fellow of the |Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
A leading World expert in lightweight structures, Ian Liddell often solves the unsolvable. Ian has worked on everything from bicycles, to building products, to the Millennium Dome - the world famous project that became a legend even before being opened to the public. Extremely meticulous, Ian never compromises on the details, bringing both intelligence and inventiveness to every project. Ian's innovative design for the cable net and flat fabric roof of the Millennium Dome was recognised in 1999 by the Royal Academy of Engineering with the presentation by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh of the 1999 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRObert Award, the most prestigious prize for UK engineering. The Dome presents the latest manifestation of Ian's life-long involvement in, and fascination with, lightweight and fabric structures.
Projects in which Ian has played a principal role include: in the UK The Millennium Dome, London; Millennium Tower - Glasgow Science Centre; The Globe Theatre, London. World-wide: The State Mosque, Sarawak; Fabric dams for Rheinmain Donau Canal; The British Embassy, Riyadh; FSH20 Airship; Dolphin Pool Auditorium, Toronto; checking Calgary Olympic Coliseum, Canada; Concert pavilions for the US cities of Baltimore and Jacksonville; lightweight enclosures for the Diplomatic Club, Riyadh; and the huge timber lattice shell, Mannheim Bundesgartenshau, Germany.
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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.
