24 June 2003
Four Buro Happold buildings win RIBA Awards
Four buildings involving multidisciplinary consulting engineers Buro Happold were rewarded with RIBA Awards at a special dinner in London on 18 June. Buro Happold's winners are:
Sheffield Millennium Galleries and Winter Garden, Sheffield
The Millennium Galleries provide a new art venue for the city of Sheffield. The adjacent Winter Garden is a spectacular glazed public space, extensively landscaped with exotic trees and plants. Working with architects Pringle Richards Sharratt, the design and construction of the project has been full of interesting challenges for the structural, services and fire engineering consultants in the Leeds office of Buro Happold.
The Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Designed by Edward Cullinan Architects the new Centre comprises a series of individual pavilions placed in the centre of a large open site, creating between them a shared central space. The buildings are sunk into the ground by one storey to reduce their visual impact. Buro Happold's role encompassed structural, traffic and transportation and geotechnical engineering, BREEAM assessment, and site supervision.
Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, Oxford
The Rothermere American Institute is a place of research, teaching and discussion: a forum for the exchange of ideas between visitors, academics and students. Buro Happold's building services engineers worked with architect Kohn Pederson Fox Associates (International) to create a user friendly environment with maximum use of natural daylight and individual environment control.
Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum, London
To create more space, the Museum has made its historic round Reading Room the centrepiece of the largest covered courtyard in Europe, designed by Foster and Partners and engineered by Buro Happold. A spectacular glass and steel roof encloses the courtyard. The integrated Buro Happold team provided structural, building services and geotechnical engineering, fire safety design, planning supervision, and site supervision.
All RIBA Award-winning buildings will be considered for the Stirling Prize, awarded annually to the architects of the building that has made the greatest impact upon British architecture in the past year. The winner of this year’s Stirling Prize will be announced on 12 October.
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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, health and safety management, infrastructure and traffic engineering, ground engineering, façade engineering, fire engineering, computational fluid dynamics analysis, disability design consultancy, project management, urban design and a range of specialist CAD services.
