Neil Harvey

Neil is a director in the Cities group and leads the Infrastructure team in Bath. He has designed civil infrastructure around the world since 2000, and after joining Buro Happold in 2004 has led large scale, multi-disciplinary commissions for a wide variety of clients.  

Neil is looking to build on his team’s successful projects in the south west and has recently taken on the role of Cities Regional Development Lead locally.

Neil is leading the technical delivery of a new city in the Middle East, at a city framework definition scale alongside Albert Speer and Partners. The team from Buro Happold are covering many aspects of the city planning and Neil’s role is the technical project director. In parallel Neil has also been leading the concept masterplanning of one of the early urban districts with Roger Stirk Harbour and Partners.

Neil has gained engineering experience across a varied portfolio of past projects. He has significant highway engineering experience that he has effectively applied to major transport hub and aviation schemes, along with utility design and planning skills that have helped with tackling some major city masterplanning projects. Neil led the civil engineering teams to deliver the landside transport interchanges at Heathrow (T3 and T2) and more recently Manchester Airport (T2), acting as the contractor’s designer for these major UK infrastructure design and build projects.

In 2015, Neil led a complex masterplan project in the centre of Doha that defined the phased development of a vast inner-city medical quarter. Neil’s team developed the infrastructure elements into full schematic design packages, and drew up a comprehensive design standards framework to guide future design phases and projects in region. He has recently led the masterplan of a brand new healthcare district for Hamad Medical Corporation, in parallel with a year-long research project with OMA architects to define the Hospital of the Future. This exciting and rewarding work looked to break apart the typical hospital and to piece it together in a new way, to ensure it would be fit for the healthcare needs of the future.

Through his work as a Trustee for the Feilden Foundation, Neil has developed a passion for international development and aims to transfer the principles learnt around the strict budgeting and sustainable use of local materials from these modest projects to all aspects of his work.