Architecture and engineering students and graduates invited to attend the third Building Talks
The Happold Trust will be holding their third Building Talks on 3 July, aimed at giving architecture and engineering students and graduates the chance to hear about and discuss the complexities of planning and building with industry experts. Established in 1995 by Sir Ted Happold and the other founders of Buro Happold, the Happold Trust is a registered charity that promotes education, research and training in the fields applicable to the construction industry, engineering, design, technology and architecture.
July’s talk takes the theme of Sustainable Design and a distinguished panel of Stefan Behnisch and Tony McLaughlin (Buro Happold) will lead the discussion, chaired by Professor Dr. Norbert Fisch (IGS, TU Braunschweig).
Learning to work together
The aim of the discussion is to demonstrate the benefits that can be gained through architects and engineers working together from the beginning of a project. Early cooperation between the two parties can enable a more effective planning process and greatly increase the delivered quality of a job and the talks will be a way of getting the architecture and engineering students used to communicating together.
The students will be encouraged to take part in an open debate on sustainable design lead by the experts, which will be followed by a look at how sustainable energy issues affect architecture. At a previous Building Talks Stefan Behnisch discussed how architecture is being affected by energy planning, similarly to the way it was affected by structural engineering during the formative years of Gustave Eiffel. It is becoming very clear that to ensure the building industry can meet future sustainability needs, architects and engineers must interact more readily to exchange expertise and understanding, then act upon this combined knowledge.
Sir Ted Happold’s legacy
Buro Happold founder Ted Happold believed passionately in integrating different disciplines to create better design solutions. As a professor at the University of Bath, he restructured courses so that students from different design disciplines, architecture, building services and structural engineering, could rub shoulders and study together because they shared courses. During his 18 years at the university, Ted taught at least two generations of young architects and engineers the principles of mutual professional respect.
Aedes am Pfefferberg
This latest Building Talk will start at 6pm at the Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin, the renown architecture and art gallery and will be conducted in English. The event is being held in partnership with the Berlin TFH’s summer school, which is also hosting an exhibition of their and New York universities (the new Parson School of Design, Pratt Institute) students’ work looking at the ways architecture can enable the reduction of emissions in our lives.
Starting on 5 July, the Aedes am Pfefferberg is also hosting an exhibition called ‘Insight USA’, which will give a detailed view on current American architectural developments in this field.
The previous Building Talks were the Development of Designed Form presented by Sven Fuchs (Graft architect) and Wolf Mangelsdorf (Buro Happold) moderated by Benedikt Hotze and Masterplanning with Bill Hanway (EDAW) and Andrew Comer (Buro Happold) moderated by Werner Sewing.
The Building Talks are presented by the Happold Trust in collaboration with TU Berlin and the TFH Berlin.
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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, inclusive design consultancy, project management, urban design and a range of specialist CAD services.
