Planning & operations

Planning buildings that work requires integration of a number of areas of expertise, involving people, processes and performance, to achieve cost effective, flexible and efficient spaces.

At Buro Happold, we are constantly learning how to achieve optimal places through post occupancy evaluation, analysing and measuring data to evolve our systems and strategic designs and to take these learning’s with us to the next project.

Our approach allows for barrier free design that is non-intrusive without compromise on aesthetic

By identifying risks and opportunities early on we can use our expert cutting edge knowledge to increase business mobility and productivity. Providing people with accessible, safe places encourages output which is good for business and for individuals. By using sophisticated technology and keeping up to date with regulatory bodies, partnering with universities and investing in research and development our approach allows for barrier free design that is non-intrusive without compromise on aesthetic.

We make buildings work for people, for business, for the future.

Planning & operations

Buro Happold

News

30/04/2013

The base build construction for the new £188 million Library of Birmingham is now reaching completion, following the final commissioning of the energy and life safety systems. With the inspiring aspiration...

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Buro Happold

Project

23/04/2012

Opened to the public in 2011, the Museum of Liverpool is one of the world’s leading city history museums and the largest newly created national museum in the UK for over a hundred years. Situated alongside the Three Graces in Liverpool’s historic waterfront setting, it will showcase Liverpool’s social history and popular culture while setting a global benchmark for other museums of its kind.

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Buro Happold

Project

27/02/2012

Located in the southern part of Turin in the Lingotto district, the venue, features a 400m oval ice track and is the work of Buro Happold, HOK SVE and Studio Zoppini Associati, winners of an international tender for the project.

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Event

21/05/2013

Buro Happold’s fire engineering expert, Peter Stephenson, will be presenting at this year’s Sustainable Design and Construction...

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Blog

09/05/2013

Gulf News recently reported a tragic fire in Abu Dhabi (7/3/13) which claimed three lives. The

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News

08/04/2013

Buro Happold was part of a multidisciplinary team that celebrated the official opening of the new double LEED Platinum facility for GlaxoSmithKline at Philadelphia's Navy Yard with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, April...

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News

11/03/2013

A number of Buro Happold projects received recognition in the recently announced UK Civic Trust awards for 2013. In all seven Buro Happold projects were announced as outright winners of the award with three receiving...

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Opinion

04/02/2013

The Gulf region faces a massive challenge in balancing economic and resource consumption growth against the threat of climate change and finite global resource availability. It can be said that living in the Gulf is living on...

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News

25/01/2013

Buro Happold and Schmidt Hammer Lassen have won an international design competition for a new culture centre and library in Karlshamn, Sweden. The new state of the art cultural centre will include a range of facilities...

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News

04/12/2012

Buro Happold’s specialist consultants work with Wilkinson Eyre Architects to deliver refurbishment and expansion of Wellcome Collection

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Happold Consulting

Project

15/11/2012

Ad’Diriyyah represents a series of stunning historic oasis settlements situated in Wadi Hanifah, itself an area of outstanding natural beauty, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh. The site is both the location for the founding of modern Saudi Arabia as well as the birth of the Wahab school of Islam (the “Oneness Movement”).

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Buro Happold

News

12/09/2012

David Greenwood joins world renowned SMART Solutions team

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Buro Happold

Blog

22/08/2012

Inclusive design consultant Neil Smith takes his family to the Games

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Buro Happold

Blog

21/08/2012

Olympic fever grips Andy Passingham's family

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Buro Happold

News

20/08/2012

... access consultant

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Buro Happold

News

12/07/2012

We are delighted to be partnering with WAN on the Architectural Effectiveness Awards for the second year

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Buro Happold

News

07/06/2012

The construction of a new international airport terminal on behalf of the Government of Gibraltar is now complete.  A phased opening of the new facility began with arrivals late in 2011 and departures will follow as the...

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Buro Happold

News

21/11/2011

Roshantha is a senior engineer in Buro Happold’s Security team. So, what does security cover then? Quite a lot! There’s a lot of misconception about it all really. It’s not just CCTV and keeping an eye on people. The...

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Buro Happold

Project

21/10/2011

Located in the Diplomatic Quarter on the northwest perimeter of Riyadh stands Tuwaiq Palace, a complex originally designed as a diplomatic club but now used by the Saudi government as a hospitality centre. The demands of the...

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Buro Happold

Project

26/05/2011

In March 2007, the Tourist Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi announced that a new Louvre Museum would be completed in the city of Abu Dhabi. The new museum’s dramatic domed roof is undoubtedly the strongest feature...

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Buro Happold

Project

26/05/2011

The new Riverside Museum, Scotland’s Museum of Transport and Travel, is located on a dramatic site at the point where two rivers, the Clyde and the Kelvin meet, close to Glasgow Harbour. As well as providing a permanent home for collections not previously on public display, the new museum exhibits the contents of the old Glasgow Museum previously held at Kelvin Hall. Kelvin Hall was the second most visited attraction of its type in the UK, with half a million visitors a year, so the new Riverside Museum is well placed to become a world-class cultural destination.

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Buro Happold

Project

23/05/2011

The Bard Center for Science and Computation is a dynamic, interactive workspace located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The stunning curved structure is the new academic hub of the campus, with facilities that will draw...

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Buro Happold

Project

18/05/2011

The O2 Arena sits within the former Millennium Dome – one of Buro Happold’s key projects of the late 1990s as a building within a building.

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Buro Happold

Project

11/05/2011

Redefining historical cultural spaces requires a certain set of skills: vision, perception and a delicate touch. The redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre included the creation of a 1,030 seat auditorium with a thrust...

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Buro Happold

Project

05/05/2011

The world-leading Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM) is a brand new, 9000m2 facility which will spearhead the University of Edinburgh’s work into vital stem cell research. A number of innovative renewable...

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Key contact

Buro Happold Peter

Peter Moseley

Partner


Buro Happold Ian

Ian Maddocks

Partner


Regional Leaders

UK

Central Europe

Buro Happold Ian

Ian Booth

Partner


Northern Europe

Buro Happold Mike

Mike Cooper

Partner


North America

Buro Happold Michael

Michael McGough

Principal


Middle East & India

Buro Happold Kevin

Kevin Mitchell

Partner


Asia-Pacific

Buro Happold David

David Littler

Director


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