Buro Happold excels in human table football competition
A number of companies in Bath have taken part in a fantastic event in aid of the Royal United Hospital (RUH) Forever Friends Appeal, to raise funds for a new sustainable neo-natal intensive care unit.
International multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, one of eight participating teams in the Foresters Human Table Football Competition at Bath Pavilion, raised £500, and came from two goals down to the Bath Sports and Leisure Centre team in the final to equalise and eventually score the winning goal with less than a minute to spare!
Buro Happold is in fact providing building services and structural engineering for the project, which has been designed to more than double the current size of the premature babies unit, providing a safer, calmer and more spacious environment, suited to vulnerable babies’ needs.
Steve Macey, Buro Happold Associate Director and project leader, said: “It was great to participate in this inaugural team event to help raise funds for the RUH NICU, as well as being actively involved in the design and development of this new sustainable facility. And winning was a real bonus!”
Jo Hones, Events & Community Officer for The Forever Friends Appeal, said: “The current unit at the RUH is incredibly cramped, with four incubators in rooms meant for one. There’s barely enough space for essential life-saving equipment, let alone privacy for distressed new parents. All the funds raised through this event will help us further towards our £4.7 million target to build a new unit. So thank you to every team that took part!”
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The teams included:
Buro Happold
Bath Sports and Leisure Centre
Stone King Sewell
First Bus
Civica
Laing O’Rourke
Inventures
The Forever Friends Appeal & Foresters
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Buro Happold is a multi-disciplinary international practice of consulting engineers established in 1976. We now employ over 1,700 staff in 21 offices worldwide and our aim is to produce high quality engineering design in concept, in detail and in execution, on time, to programme and delivering excellent value for money. Our distinctive culture and ethos is still based on the same principles of care, value and elegance that were established when the practice was founded.
We offer structural, building services, civil, infrastructure and façade engineering, as well as a broad range of specialist consultancy services including sustainability, ground and environmental engineering, fire and security design, health and safety management, inclusive and urban design, project management, and specialist CAD and computer simulation provision.