Byron Stigge

Byron Stigge leads the Environment and Infrastructure group for the North America region of Buro Happold.  Byron has focused his engineering and design career on environmental engineering with the UK-based firm Buro Happold since 1998 and has worked in their London, Bath and New York offices.  His passion for sustainable development of the built environment has offered him the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects around the world from city-scale sustainable master planning projects to LEED Platinum buildings to detailed systems and facade analysis projects.  Recent projects include: Orange County Great Park in Irvine, CA; Tellapur City, Hyderabad, India; CSOB Bank, Prague; Northside Redevelopment Plan, St. Louis, MO; Khed SEZ, Pune, India; Genzyme Center, Cambridge, MA; Pole, Moscow; Lavasa, India; The World Trade Center Competition with "Team Think"; ; Lifestyle Hotel at MGM CityCenter, Las Vegas, Koukeny Design Initiative, Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya.

Byron Stigge has focused his design career on the study and practice of sustainable engineering solutions for the built environment. He has had the opportunity to work at all scales of design from single family homes to large commercial buildings to city-scale infrastructure planning. Byron has worked extensively across the US on projects such as the orange county great park in Irvine, CA, MGM CityCenter in Las Vegas, Genzyme HQ in Boston, and NorthSide regeneration plan in St. Louis. Recently he is focused on large scale master planning sustainable infrastructure work internationally. Projects in 17 countries include Khed SEZ, a 10,000 acre city plan outside of Pune, India, Tellapur New Township in Hyderabad, India, Pole masterplan in Moscow, Jiangwan masterplan in Shanghai, Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, and Soweto East slum upgrading plan in Nairobi, amongst others.