Davood Liaghat

Davood has over 20 years experience of design, assessment, inspection and supervision in bridge engineering and has worked on special structures including telecommunication masts and towers and water tanks. He has worked in the UK, Singapore, Sri Lanka, USA and Italy. In the Middle East he has worked in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He previously worked with the University of Bristol, Flint and Neill Partnership, Robert Benaim & Associates and OPUS International and joined Buro Happold in 1999.

Davood established the dedicated Buro Happold bridge engineering group in May 2001. Over the past decade the team has won eight international bridge design competitions. They have won merit awards and high commendations and created over 30 award winning projects in 11 countries in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America working on spans from 20m to the 400m long,

A graduate and post graduate of the University of Bristol qualifying as CEng FICE MIHT PhD BSc DMS Eur Ing, Davood believes the key to delivering vision is working collaboratively with architectural and engineering partners. He serves as an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Reviewer, member of the Concrete Bridge Development Group (CBDG) and CEETG.