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Some colleagues and I recently attended the opening of a wonderful little project on the Tyne in Newcastle. The project is a floating artwork opposite the Baltic called ~Flow, and forms part of the 'Artists taking the lead'...

Buro Happold has won this year’s Consultant of the Year category at the prestigious NCE/ ACE awards, announced last Friday at the exclusive Claridges Hotel in London, UK. The awards mark outstanding business performance by civil...

Xeritown is a dense residential development to be built on 59 hectares of the emerging urban district of Dubailand.

This Thursday (20 June)post graduate students at the Polytechnic of Milan will be exhibiting their work in TAC (Technically Advanced Construction). The post grads’ work is a response to a brief to create a mock-up of an advanced...

On 16 April this year, for the second time in a week, Dubai experienced ground tremors following a significant earthquake in Iran, hundreds of kilometres away. These shakes, though relatively minor, caused significant alarm...

From the 19th to the 21st of June Buro Happold partner InnoZ will host the UN high level dialogue on Sustainable Cities and Transport, in Berlin. This event is a follow up to the Rio+20 conference and will bring together proven...

A number of Buro Happold projects located in the UK have been recognised at this year’s RIBA national awards. This year education projects performed particularly well in the RIBA awards with the <link...

The newly refurbished Central Library in Liverpool opened to the public in May 2013. The library has undergone a stunning £50m renovation, including the restoration of the library’s 150 year old Grade II listed sections such as the facade and the Picton, Hornby and Oak reading rooms. A new repository has also been added, which now provides a home for a historically valuable archive of artefacts dating back over 800 years.

Over the past fifty years China has experienced several devastating earthquakes whilst passing from an undeveloped agricultural economy into a modern, industrialised society. As a result the regulations for seismic design have...

The European Spallation Source (ESS) will become the world’s largest and most advanced facility for neutron-based research. ESS is located in the university city of Lund in southern Sweden.

World Environment Day takes place on the 5th June every year and this year’s theme is food. UNEP, which coordinates the event, is focusing on the environmental effects of food production, consumption and waste, and is...

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...

Mobile applications and social media could be the future of construction and real estate sector marketing communications but as yet the sector isn’t using these communication vehicles in B2B or B2C dialogue, say industry experts...

Creating a capability statement for the Sustainability team hasn’t been as straightforward as we’d first thought....

Comprehensive sustainability design strategies earned Torre Iberdrola a LEED Platinum rating, the first in Europe for a high rise structure.

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...

Renowned expert in lightweight structures Matthew Birchall has become the newest member of Buro Happold LLP. Matthew, an engineering and architecture graduate, joined the consultancy in 2006 and has been instrumental in building...

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...

Two Buro Happold UK projects have tied for first place in the Corporate Workplace category in the North of England heat of the British Council for Offices awards 2013. Wakefield One and 1 Angel Square were joint winners of the...

Buro Happold is pleased to congratulate our client, the Plenary Group, on their selection as preferred proponent for Colorado’s US36 Managed Lanes project. Buro Happold was appointed by the <link...

Internet and Web pioneers win the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Research engineer Natasha Watson is one of five brave engineers who have stepped forward to be in the firing line of questions from would-be engineers of the future, on the educational site - Environment Zone. I’m an...