Buro Happold scores cash for charity
Practice raises over £2,000 for the Willow Foundation during 30th anniversary party
Buro Happold’s 30th anniversary celebrations at Arsenal Football Club’s new Emirates Stadium raised more than £2,000 for the club’s charity of the season.
Bids for a football shirt kindly donated by Arsenal FC and signed by the current team reached £2,250 during the evening. The event, on 21 September, was attended by more than 500 clients and friends of multi-disciplinary engineering consultants Buro Happold.
The auction proceeds will go to the Willow Foundation, a charity which arranges special days for seriously ill young adults. The charity was founded by former Arsenal and Scotland goalkeeper and TV presenter Bob Wilson with his wife Megs in memory of their daughter Anna who died of cancer. It is the Premiership club’s charity of the season for 2006/7.
Along with celebrating 30 years of innovative engineering, the event was also an opportunity for Buro Happold to showcase its work on the Emirates Stadium – one of its most recent high-profile projects to reach completion. Guests were invited to tour the spectacular 60,000-seat stadium, which is a stunning new landmark for football.
Buro Happold’s appointment to Emirates Stadium, in March 2000 along with architect HOK Sport, was initially for structural engineering but, as the design evolved, the practice was asked to provide more services. These included civil and geotechnical engineering, bridges and building services engineering, infrastructure, fire engineering, disability design and security consulting services.
Leading figures from the Emirates Stadium project team embraced the charity auction, with Buro Happold’s project principal, Paul Westbury, as auctioneer and HOK Sport’s chief architect, Chris Lee, making the winning bid for the signed shirt.
Buro Happold’s managing director Gavin Thompson said: “Our 30th anniversary celebrations at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium made me feel extremely proud to be part of Buro Happold. It was a great opportunity to show the industry how the practice has evolved since 1976, to showcase some of our current flagship projects and to raise money for a good cause.
“Emirates Stadium is a fantastic example of our capabilities and a fitting location to mark the achievements of the practice - enabling clients, friends and staff alike to share in our success”.
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Buro Happold is a multi-disciplinary international practice of consulting engineers established in 1976. It offers 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.
Formed by a partnership of eight, Buro Happold now employs over 1,300 and has worked on countless innovative engineering projects across the world.
Emirates Stadium project team:
Client Arsenal Football Club
Architect HOK Sport
Main contractor Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd
Buro Happold services:
Structural engineering, civil and geotechnical engineering, bridges and building services engineering, infrastructure, fire engineering, disability design and security consulting services.
Steelwork fabricator Watsons Steel
