Environment & Infrastructure

Internationally renowned water expert Alan Travers will be discussing how the regeneration of the Wadi Hanifah wetlands in Saudi Arabia has made a profound effect on the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of Riyadh and...

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...

Construction of Ponte della Musica, a dual purpose pedestrian and public transport bridge crossing the substantial River Tiber in Rome, opened in mid 2011. This major crossing joins the banks of the River Tiber between the Foro Italico and the area of Flaminio. The bridge is a key part of the Rome city plan which involves the development of a new east-west axis along the Via Guido Reni on the east bank of the Tiber. It connects various cultural and sporting facilities of the Flaminio district with the Olympic stadium and other sports facilities on the west bank in Monte Mario. The scheme consists of two inclined steel arches supporting a steel deck.

A shimmering, transparent form sitting on the famous Lansdowne Road site, the Aviva Stadium offers Dublin both a visually spectacular venue and the first truly ‘responsive’ stadium building of its type in the world, its form and...

I was a little taken aback recently by a white paper published by our esteemed non-executive director and professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge, <link...

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...

It may be that you think Buro Happold does not do heavy civil engineering projects. Think again. We have just completed quite a large scale highway bridge in Riyadh. The project is a first in Riyadh, that is because the ma

Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer, director and champion of The Living City, talks to The Raconteur about what the future holds for urban development. Commenting in the article, published on 26th March, he says, “The time frame to...

The recent decision to grant planning permission for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in...

Sebastian Seelig presents at the Cities workshop in London

Delivering clean and reliable water supplies in urban environments is a major challenge that many African nations are facing today. In small towns across Malawi the current problem is not actually the supply itself but how to...

Buro Happold, working in partnership with Philips Lighting, PWBMEDIA and Colliers International, has founded a professional marketing group (CMG) focused on the promotion of sustainable marketing in construction and...

For those who buy in to the Keynesian view of infrastructure and economic development, some of the recent comments by members of the UK Government on infrastructure are a positive sign. For example, Deputy Prime Minister Nick...

The first steps in an ambitious programme to reform the UK’s Strategic Road Network (SRN) have been mapped out. But will the UK government do what’s necessary to offer a better service to motorists and business users? The...

The recent flurry of reports, blogs and commentaries discussing the likelihood of an occurrence of the Peak Car effect in the UK has largely focused on the social implications of us falling out of love with our...

BahnCard 25 mobil plus combines multi-modal mobility service on one card

Middle East Architect (MEA) names Buro Happold the best engineering company in the region for the third time!

The ongoing debacle over the WCML railway franchise competition raises many questions about the whole rail franchising process. The WCML is the busiest mixed traffic railway route in Britain; in terms of population served it’s...

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.

Buro Happold, working with landscape architects Gillespies and urbanists John Thompson & Partners, has won a prestigious competition to plan the future of the City of Moscow

Water expert David Palmer recounts his tales of the riverbank

The M8 Harthill footbridge is a landmark structure situated approximately halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, crossing Scotland’s busiest motorway.  Connecting the M8 Motorway’s first ever service station to the town of Harthill, it replaces an existing overbridge that has fallen into a state of disrepair. The M8 is the main East-West corridor through Scotland with the Heart of Harthill Services providing a well known midway point.  Several interesting sculptures line the route, the new structure will add to this providing an iconic gateway for motorway users passing from one side of the country to the other.

The Sackler Crossing plots a serpentine path over the Lake at Kew Gardens. Buro Happold was commissioned to design a crossing in collaboration with John Pawson Architects, this project was completed in May 2006. Clear visual connections are established between the bridge and the repeating natural forms of its setting – the gently rounded contours of the land, the smooth expanse of water and the powerful vertical lines of the trees.

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...

Stratford Town City Link was a proposal for a new state of the art pedestrian bridge over a railway that links Stratford station in east London to a new shopping complex developed by Westfield.

Designed by architect Thomas Edward Collcutt, The Savoy Hotel opened in 1889 as the dream of Richard D’Oyly Carte who funded his world-class hotel venture with the profits from staging Gilbert and Sullivan in the Savoy Theatre...

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.