Fire engineering

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.

Peter Stephenson, associate director for Fire Engineering and based in our Dubai office, recently returned to the UK to receive the Freedom of the City of London. This unusual accolade is one of the oldest surviving...

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

Battery Park’s SeaGlass Carousel, which received the final panel to its nautilus-inspired enclosure at a topping off ceremony on April 18, celebrates New York’s past and future. It’s both a reminder of the original New York City...

A recent fire at the Al Hafeet Tower in Sharjah (April 2013) is the latest in a series of similar incidents that have highlighted what a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Summer may be over but Buro Happold’s New York office is still basking in the glow of recognition as six of its projects were honored with awards from some of the Northeast’s most revered industry organizations. The Municipal...

Buro Happold has been appointed by the Battersea Power Station Development Company to provide multidisciplinary engineering design and consultancy to Phase 1 of the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.

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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...

The Heartlands Project will bring together sound sustainable design principles to showcase a low carbon development and be a leader of sustainability in the UK through celebration of its heritage and being a catalyst for regeneration

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...

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...

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.

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.

Our client TAG (Techniques de Avante garde) Aviation aspires to create the most modern airports dedicated to business aviation in Europe while maintaining a sense of discretion and privacy. TAG Aviation established an...

2013 will be seen as a significant year for the City of Birmingham with the opening of Britain's biggest ever public library. Situated in the heart of the city adjacent to Centenary Square, the new complex will replace the...

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...