Richard Walder

Richard joined Buro Happold in 2005 and leads our UK Science & Technology portfolio. He became a Buro Happold Partner in 2023.

Throughout his career, Richard has gained experience covering the design of a broad spectrum of facilities including numerous speculative commercial laboratory developments and end-user R&D buildings. In addition to technical expertise ranging from design of CL2 & CL3 laboratories to cleanrooms and translational research facilities, Richard has advised numerous major institutional science clients on decarbonising their estates.

At Buro Happold, Richard has led the engineering on schemes on a wide range of projects including the RIBA-Award winning Michael Uren Biomedical Research Hub in White City. He is presently developing Europe’s largest multi-let speculative life sciences facility which will set the benchmark for commercial science buildings in terms of both functionality and sustainability.

He is passionate about integrating cutting-edge engineering design with high-quality architecture to deliver outstanding sustainable buildings which inspire users whilst building in the flexibility which is so critical to organisations working in changing scientific environments.