News
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.
Banging the drum for UK Plc
Buro Happold is renowned for delivering innovative and inspiring engineering solutions for world class sports stadia. Our building and infrastructure portfolio includes Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, Dublin’s Aviva Stadium and the...
Categories: Opinion, Sports & Entertainment, Urban development, United Kingdom
Nurturing the next generation of engineers
With our planet under increasing strain from population growth, hunger for scarce resources and the impact of global warming, there is no doubt that the world needs more engineers. For they are the people who understand the...
Categories: Opinion, United Kingdom, India, China, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, United States, Saudi Arabia, UAE
The Heart Tent
When your technical skill lies in the world of building environmental design - where pipe and wire meets architecture, where kilowatt-hour meets human comfort - finding an inspiring image that defines your craft is something of a...
Categories: Opinion, Civic, Saudi Arabia
Back in the University of life
Recently, while waiting on a developer client, I picked up a daily broadsheet and read a piece by the journalist Rowan Pelling. She was heartened to hear about 60 challenges that school librarian Lesley Evans had set herself...
Categories: Opinion
Global warming: The greatest taboo in politics?
To mention global warming has become taboo in American politics, and, at the national level, attempts to promote a responsible approach to reducing our environmental footprint constitute political suicide. What does this mean...
Categories: Opinion
We should value people who make things
Why is it that people who make things for a living get such a hard time about it? “Lord Sugar’s unfortunate words on the last TV episode of the UK Apprentice set the week off to a bad start. It has been encouraging to...
Categories: Press Releases, Opinion
Buro Happold’s sustainability director responds to Innovation and Growth Team report
The construction industry faces the largest change management programme since Victorian times if it is to meet the low carbon agenda, according to an industry report from the Innovation and Growth Team (IGT). The IGT was tasked...
Categories: Opinion, Sustainability
Expert urges step change in ‘urban agriculture’ to cut food miles
On the opening day of an international urban farming conference in West Allis, USA, Mike Duff argues for the scaling up of urban agriculture and a new land classification. With Pittsburgh very recently having joined a...
Categories: Opinion
