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As a world leading engineering consultancy Buro Happold constantly features in the news around the globe. We provide updates on our projects, expert commentary on industry issues and legislation, as well as insight and ‘what-ifs’ about our latest technical and practical innovations in the built environment.
To find out more about how we’re changing the world in which we live, work and play, browse our archive of news stories and research below. You can filter the list to see just what you’re after, and if you need to know more contact a member of our press team or email us at enquiries@burohappold.com.
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Buro Happold on team to design Europe’s largest research project
Buro Happold is part of the team chosen to design the European Spallation Source research centre (ESS), Europe’s largest facility for materials research in Lund, Sweden. After winning an international contest the team
Categories: News, Scientific, Nordics
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Winners! Royal Shakespeare Theatre and London 2012 Olympic Stadium strike gold at the Structural Steel Design Awards
Two of Buro Happold’s recent major projects have been selected from a shortlist of 29 UK based entries to win a coveted Structural Steel Award 2012. The acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon and the...
Categories: News, Awards, Culture, Sports & Entertainment, Transport, Urban development, Structural engineering, Sustainability, United Kingdom
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Andrew Best on judging panel for WAN 21 for 21 awards
Leading lights of architecture for the 21st Century identified
Categories: News, United Kingdom
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Polytechnic North Campus Achieves LEED for Schools Gold
Buro Happold is the sustainability consultant to the Polytechnic School and their North Campus project, a six building, 34,000 ft² development in Pasadena, California. Polytechnic School is a top rated private college...
Categories: News, Education, United States
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Emerson College’s Los Angeles Center breaks ground in Hollywood
The striking new Hollywood, California campus for Emerson College broke ground in December. Designed by Morphosis, this new 125,000ft² ten storey residential college is being built in the shadow of the world famous Hollywood...
Categories: News, Education, United States
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Post Oil City exhibition goes international
The German exhibition, ‘Post Oil City’, contains a wealth of information on current, complex questions and possible answers to a wide range of urban planning and environmental issues. The designs and approaches range from...
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UK Prime Minister visits Saudi Arabia
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah invited British Prime Minister David Cameron to visit the Buro Happold project at Atturaif, as part of his recent short visit to Saudi Arabia.
Categories: News, United Kingdom
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BeMobility: Buro Happold Partners Berlin Elektromobil 2.0
With an increasing world population and all the strains it brings on our planet’s finite resources denser urbanisation is key in the drive to become more sustainable. Buro Happold is committed to understanding and applying our...
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London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - Inspiring through education
Established in 1995 by the founders of Buro Happold, the Happold Trust is a registered charity that promotes education, research and training in the fields applicable to the construction industry, engineering, design, technology...
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Unique GPP Business Park development wins CEE Green Building Award
This November Warsaw played host to the inaugural CEE Green Building Awards. Organised by the Association of Green Building Professionals (Central & Eastern Europe) and Europaproperty, the awards attracted an audience...
Categories: News, Sustainability, Poland
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The UAE celebrates 40 years as a nation
The United Arab Emirates is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its formation on the 2nd December, through a series of special events and festivities across the region. Formed in 1971 the UAE is a federation of seven emirates;...
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Working in partnership - Buro Happold and the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology
Buro Happold has a long tradition of working with academia and has forged many such links around the world; the consultancy focuses on collaboration and partnership at this level in order to actively shape the built environment...
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Buro Happold joins the Polish Partnership for Sustainable Construction
The Partnership for Sustainable Construction aims to raise awareness of sustainable construction and horizontal cooperation between all players in the sustainable building life cycle. As part of the project, a...
Categories: News, Sustainability, Poland
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Paul Westbury talks to Channel 4 News
Buro Happold’s CEO champions innovation and the engineer Hear Paul Westbury discuss how engineers make the world go round, their importance to the UK economy and how we need to redefine our understanding of the world of...
Categories: News, United Kingdom, United States
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Pollux Tower achieves world first
First ‘existing building’ to achieve Gold DGNB certification Having already achieved the status of the first office building in mainland Europe to be awarded BREEAM In-Use ‘Excellent’ rating, the Pollux Tower in...
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Washington University reaps significant benefits from Buro Happold’s innovative design
Buro Happold is the lead engineer in the design phases for the Olin Business School, a 147,000 square foot faculty and teaching education building on the Washington University campus in St. Louis, Missouri. Considering itself an...
Categories: Awards, News, Education, United States
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Net-Zero Energy: What does it really mean?
Framed by Stuart Magruder, VP/ President-elect, AIA Los Angeles and moderated by David Abel - publisher and editor-in-chief of THE PLANNING REPORT, the discussion drew participants from across the Los Angeles architectural and...
Categories: News, Energy, United States
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Concerns over contaminated land
10,000 contaminated land sector professionals call for safeguards in NPPF – EIC to launch campaign The Environment Industries Commission (EIC) Contaminated Land Working Group has expressed serious concerns to the...
Categories: News, Environment, Urban development, Geoenvironmental, United Kingdom
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Energy Conversations
The Building Centre, London9th November18.30 Finding the answer to climate change is no easy task. Many of the solutions involve deep underground storage, but the question is, is it safe? Is it viable? What...
Categories: Events, News, United Kingdom
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David Hull, Buro Happold principal and building services expert to retire after twenty year’s service
International engineering consultancy celebrates Hull’s contribution to the practice Renowned building services expert David Hull is to retire from international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold,...
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