Ken Jones
Director
- BSc, MSc, DIC, CEng, MICE
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- Telephone: +44 1225 320600
- Sectors: Sports & Entertainment
- Disciplines: Structural engineering
Regional Discipline Leader for Structural Engineering in the UK
Ken is Group Director and Sports Sector Leader for our work in Europe & the Middle East. His experience includes significant project experience in designing major sports and entertainment venues including: Emirates Stadium, London; The O2 Arena, London; The O2 Arena, Dublin; Tottenham Hotspur Football Club; Dubai Autodrome; King Saud University Sports Campus and many others. Ken's passion is to bring together the combined creative & technical talents within Buro Happold across many disciplines, to deliver uplifting, sustainable and elegant solutions for clients.
Ken leads the Fabrics/Structures Discipline for the Bath (aka ‘West London’) Office, UK. The Structures Group in Bath delivers complex and significant International, National as well as Regional Projects, with particular strengths in Sport & Leisure, Cultural & Civic, Aviation, Education, & Commercial Sectors. Ken's passion is to bring together the combined creative & technical talents within Buro Happold across many disciplines, to deliver uplifting, sustainable and elegant design solutions. Our approach is to ‘consult’, ‘design’ and ‘deliver’, each of the three activities honed and balanced.
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Arsenal Emirates Stadium
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Aviva Stadium
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Central Stadium for Winter Olympics 2014
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Louvre Abu Dhabi
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 by 2012. The new museum’s dramatic domed roof is undoubtedly the strongest...
O2 Arena and Millennium Dome
The O2 Arena sits within the former Millennium Dome – one of Buro Happold’s key projects of the late 1990s as a building within a building.
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