Arup Group Limited, trading as Arup, is a British multinational

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firm headquartered in

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that provides

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, and advisory services across every aspect of the

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. It employs about 17,000 people in over 90 offices across 35 countries, and has participated in projects in over 160 countries. Arup was established in 1946 by Sir Ove Arup as Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers. Through its involvement in high-profile projects such as the

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, it became well known for undertaking complex and challenging projects. In 1970, Arup stepped down from actively leading the company, setting out the principles which have continued to guide its operation. Arup's ownership is structured as a trust whose beneficiaries are its employees, past and present, who receive a share of its

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each year.

History

Founding the firm

The company was founded in London in 1946 as ''Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers'' by Sir Ove Arup. Arup had established himself in the 1930s as an expert in

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, known for projects such as the Penguin Pool at

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. According to the architectural author Ian Volner, Arup's vision when establishing the company came out of a combination of his wartime experiences and a progressive-minded philosophy broadly aligning with early modernism, was for the organisation to be a force for peace and social betterment in the

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world. To this end, it would employ professionals of diverse disciplines that could work together to produce projects of greater quality than was achievable by them working in isolation, a concept known as 'Total Design'.

Early years

As the company grew, Arup spurned the common practice amongst its rivals of acquiring other companies; instead, it pursued natural growth, opening up new offices at locations where the potential for work had been identified. During 1963, together with the architect

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, a new division of the company, Arup Associates, was formed. Within 25 years of its establishment, the firm had become well known for its design work for the

, acquiring a reputation for its competence at undertaking projects that were structurally and/or logistically complex. Arup himself worked on multiple projects during the firm's early years, including the

, where he was lead engineer, and which author Peter Jones credited with launching Arup into the premier league of engineering consultancies. The Opera House was the first application of computer calculations to an engineering project, using the Ferranti Pegasus computer to generate models. During Arup's lifetime, the company would also work on high-profile projects such as the 'inside-out'

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with Rogers & Piano, and the HSBC headquarters with Norman Foster & Partners.

The Key Speech

1970 was a particularly transformative year for the firm; 24 years after founding the company, Arup opted to retire from actively leading the company. At the time, the firm (then ''Ove'' ''Arup & Partners'') was made up of several independent practices spread across the globe, so prior to his departure, Arup delivered his 'Key Speech' on 9 July in

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to all his partners from the various practices. The speech set out the aims of the firm and identified the principles of governance by which they might be achieved. These included quality of work, total architecture, humane organisation, straight and honorable dealings, social usefulness, and the reasonable prosperity of its members. Arup's philosophy work on influential projects was the subject of a dedicated retrospective at the V&A Museum in 2016.

Scammed

Arup fell victim to a deepfake scam at their Hong Kong office, resulting in a loss of approximately $25 million. Fraudsters used AI-generated video and audio to impersonate senior company officials, deceiving an employee into transferring funds across multiple transactions.

Operations

Arup is an employee-owned business, with all staff owning a stake in the company and part of a global profit share. By 2013, Arup was operating 90 offices across 60 countries around the world. These offices are elaborately interconnected by shared

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-based collaborative working packages and communication systems that can, where required, enable a single project to be worked on by multiple offices across a seamless, 24-hour working cycle. However, it is more common for individual offices to specialise in working on an assigned subsection of a project rather than continuously exchanging. The

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and

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documentary ''The Brits who Built the Modern World'' highlighted Arup's collaboration with architects and described Arup as "the engineering firm which Lord Norman Foster and his peers Lord Richard Rogers, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Sir Michael Hopkins and Sir Terry Farrell most frequently relied upon." The firm has published an annual sustainability report since 2008, and is involved in several projects around the world aiming to cut greenhouse gas emissions, such as Dongtan Eco-City, which is planned to be zero waste, and the

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Interchange Station, which is the first railway station in the world to achieve BREEAM 'outstanding certification. Arup also runs community engagement programmes comprising initiatives to combat homelessness, improve

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in disaster relief programmes, and disaster recovery after earthquakes. They also engage in partnerships with

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s, and other advocacy groups. Arup secured its first Fair Tax Mark certification from the Fair Tax Foundation in 2024.

Notable projects

Africa

* Eastgate Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe (1996) * Letsibogo Dam, Botswana (design and geotechnics, 1997) *

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, Johannesburg, South Africa (multidisciplinary engineers and project manager, 2004, architect: OMM) * Scottish Livingstone Hospital, Molepolole,

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(design and construction supervision, 2007) * Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Johannesburg to Pretoria, Sandton to

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, South Africa (concept studies and independent certification, 2010)

North America

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, United States. * Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, US (mechanical and electrical engineers, 2002, architect: Rafael Moneo) * De Young Museum, San Francisco, US (mechanical and electrical engineers, 2005, architects: Herzog & de Meuron) *

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, San Francisco, US (structural and services engineers, 2008, architect: Renzo Piano) *

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(Hudson River), New York City (concept studies, 2009) * Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Headquarters, Seattle, WA, US (structural and services engineers, 2011, architects: NBBJ) * Fulton Center, New York City, US (structural engineers, 2014, HDR Daniel Frankfurt/Page Ayres Cowley Architects/ Grimshaw Architects/ Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects) * High Roller, Las Vegas, NV, US (structural and electrical engineering, 2014, architects: The Hettema Group and Klai Juba Architects) * Gerald Desmond Bridge Design-Build Project, Long Beach, California (civil, structural, geotechnical design services, ongoing) *

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, New York City, US (tunnel engineering, ongoing) * Lake Mead Intake No. 3, Nevada, US (tunnel engineering) * Champlain Bridge, Montreal, Qc, Canada (bridge design) * Little Island, New York, New York City, US

Asia

* Druk White Lotus School was built to survive the

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i weather. * Kingdom Centre, The third tallest skyscraper in

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, and the second tallest in

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and an icon of it. * Aspire Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Qatar. *

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(civil and structural engineers, 1985, architects: Foster + Partners) *

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, Osaka, Japan (structural and services engineers, 1994, architect: Renzo Piano) * Vattanac Capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia (structural engineers, 2014, architect: Farrells) * Petron Megaplaza, Makati, Philippines (structural engineers, 1998, architect:

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) * International Finance Centre, Hong Kong (structural and geotechnical engineers, 2003, Rocco Design Architects) * National Aquatics Centre (Water Cube), Beijing, China (design and structural engineers, 2008, architects: PTW Architects/ CSCEC/ CCDI) *

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(the "Bird's Nest"), Beijing, China (structural engineers, 2008, architects: Herzog & de Meuron/China Architectural Design & Research Group/

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) * CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China (structural engineers, 2008, architects: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren/ OMA) * Fusionopolis, Singapore (structural and specialist engineers, 2008, architects: Kisho Kurokawa) * Rajiv Gandhi International Airport,

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, India (full engineering services, 2008, architect: Integrated Design Associates) * Singapore Flyer, Singapore (structural engineers, 2008, architects: Kisho Kurokawa/DP) * Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong (bridge engineers, 2009, architect: Dissing+Weitling) * Dongtan, Shanghai, China (design and masterplan, 2010, main designer: Thomas V. Harwood III) *

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, Guangzhou, China (structural engineers, 2010, architects:

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/ Barbara Kuit/ IBA) * King Power MahaNakhon, Bangkok, Thailand (structural engineers 2016, architects: Ole Scheeren) *

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Integrated Resort, Singapore (structural and specialist engineers, 2010, architects:

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) * The Helix, Singapore (structural, civil, maritime, mechanical, electrical engineers, lighting designers 2010, architects: Cox Architects/architects61) * Singapore Sports Hub, Singapore (structural and specialist engineers, 2010, architects: Arup Associates (Arup Sport)/

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) * King Abdullah Sports City (The Jewel), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (structural and services engineers, 2014, architect: Arup Associates (Arup Sport)) * Capitol Development, Singapore (structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, facade, fire engineers, sustainability and vertical transportation consultants 2015, architects: Richard Meier & Partners/architects61) * Tanjong Pagar Centre, Singapore (structural and facade engineers, sustainability consultants 2016, architects:

) *

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, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Terminal 3, Taiwan (expected to be opened in 2020) * Aldar Headquarters building, Abu Dhabi, rounded skyscraper (2009) *

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, a non-profit institution for independent research into global energy economics located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. *

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, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Australia

, Sydney (structural engineers, 1973, architect: Jørn Utzon) *

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, Melbourne (civil and structural engineers, 2000, architects: Denton Corker Marshall) * Swan Bells, Perth, (structural engineers, 2000, architects: Hames Sharley) * Goodwill Bridge, Brisbane, (bridge design, 2001, architects: Cox Rayner) *

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, Canberra, (structural engineers, 2001, architects: Howard Raggatt) * Lang Park redevelopment, Brisbane, (masterplanning, civil and structural engineers, 2003, architects: Populous/PDT) *

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, Melbourne, (structural engineers, 2003, architects: Mario Bellini) * State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, (structural engineers, 2004, architects: Ancher Mortlock & Woolley) *

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, Melbourne, (civil and structural engineers, 2005, architects: MCG5) *

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, Melbourne, (specialist engineering, 2007) * Kurilpa Bridge, Brisbane (bridge design, 2009, architects: Cox Rayner) * Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Theatre Company Theatre, Melbourne, (acoustic and theatre engineers, 2009, architects: Ashton Raggat McDougall) * Andrew "Boy" Charlton Pool, Sydney, (structural and services engineering, 2011, architects: Lippmann Associates) * Melbourne Star, Melbourne, (structural engineering, 2013) *

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, Perth, (civil and structural engineering, 2017, architects: Hassell, HKS, Cox)

Europe

* Light House, London, UK (environmental and structural engineering) * Coventry Cathedral, UK (structural engineers, 1962, architect: Sir Basil Spence) * Kingsgate Bridge, Durham, UK (engineering design, 1966) * Preston bus station, Lancashire, UK (structural engineering, 1969) * Greyfriars bus station, Northampton, UK (engineering design, 1976) * Pompidou Centre, Paris, France (structural and service engineers, 1977, architects: Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers) * The Barbican Centre, London, UK (civil and structural engineers, 1982, architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon) * Lloyds Building, London, UK (building engineers and project planners, 1986, architect: Richard Rogers) *

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, UK (advanced structural research, 1998, designer: Antony Gormley) *

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, London, UK (structural engineers, 2000, architect: Marks Barfield) * Millennium Bridge, London, UK (bridge engineering, 2000, architects: Foster + Partners and Sir Anthony Caro) *

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, Denmark / Sweden (planning and bridge engineering, 2000, architects: Dissing+Weitling) * Sony Center, Berlin, Germany (structural and environmental engineers, 2000, architect:

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) * HSBC Tower, London, UK (structural engineers, 2002, architects: Foster + Partners) *

City of Manchester Stadium The City of Manchester Stadium, currently known as Etihad Stadium for sponsorship reasons, and commonly shortened as The Etihad, is the home of Premier League club Manchester City F.C., Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 53, ...

, Manchester, England, UK (Arup Associates architects, 2002) * Selfridges, Birmingham, UK (structural engineers, 2003, architect: Future Systems) *

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("The Gherkin"), London, UK (structural engineers, 2004, architect: Foster + Partners) *

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, Edinburgh,

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, UK (structural, civil, façade, geotechnical, blast and landscaping engineers, 2004, architect: Enric Miralles) *

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, Munich, Germany (structural engineers, 2005, architects: Herzog & de Meuron) * Arnolfini refurbishment, Bristol, England, UK (structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, 2005, architects: Snell Associates) *

Casa da Música The Casa da Música is a concert hall in Porto, Portugal. It was designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2005. Designed to mark the festive year of 2001 in which the city of Porto was designated European Capital of Culture, it was th ...

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(building engineers, 2005: architects: Rem Koolhaas/OMA) * Restoration programme of Brunel's SS ''Great Britain'', Bristol, England, UK (civil and structural engineers, 2005, architect: Alex French Partnership) * Kanyon Shopping Mall,

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(structural engineers, 2006, architect: Tabanlıoğlu Architects) * Nescio Bridge,

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(structural engineers, 2006, architect: Wilkinson Eyre) *

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, UK (rail engineering, 2007) * Terminal 5 at

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, England, UK (civil engineers, 2008, architect: Richard Rogers) * Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center,

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(acoustic consulting, 2008, architect: Tozkoparan Architecture) * Snowdon Summit Building,

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, UK (structural engineers, 2009, Ray Hole Architects) * Donbas Arena,

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(structural engineers, 2009) * Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (acoustic, theatre technical, structural and building services engineers, 2010, architect: Daniel Libeskind) *

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, London, UK (structural and services engineers, 2012, architect: Zaha Hadid) *

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, London, UK (services engineers, 2013, architect: Renzo Piano) *

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, London, UK ( Arup Associates architects, 2013) * Nou Mestalla Stadium,

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(structural engineers, ongoing, architects: Reid Fenwick Asociados) * Seat of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany (building services engineers, ongoing, architect:

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) *

Lakhta Center The Lakhta Centre () is an 87-story skyscraper built in the northwestern neighbourhood of Lakhta, Saint Petersburg, Lakhta in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Standing tall, it is the List of tallest buildings in Russia, tallest building in both Rus ...

, Saint Peterburg, Russia (verification calculation for the underground part, foundation pile base and the superstructure, ongoing, architect: Tony Kettle, RMJM)

Sports

Arup had its own sports division, specialising in designing, consulting and structural engineering for sporting facilities such as stadia. The Bird's Nest Stadium for the 2008 Olympics was complimented for its striking architectural appearance and the

for the

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has stairless entry to the upper tiers through circular ramps outside the stadium. The most notable stadium projects led by Arup remain the

(2002),

(2005), Beijing National Stadium (2008), Donbas Arena (2009) and the Singapore Sports Hub (2014). File:Joe Mercer way in 2011.jpg, The

built for

and now home of

Manchester City F.C. Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Assoc ...

File:München - Allianz-Arena (Luftbild).jpg,

in Germany, home of

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File:Beijing National Stadium 1.jpg, The 'Bird's Nest or

, for

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, Beijing and

national stadium Many countries have a national sport stadium, which typically serves as the primary or exclusive home for one or more of a country's national representative sports teams. The term is most often used in reference to an association football ...

of China

Awards

Awards to group

The firm is consistently placed amongst top performers in Corporate and Social Responsibility rankings such as the ACCSR. Arup's multidisciplinary sports venue design and engineering scope on the Singapore Sports Hub won the 2013 World Architecture Festival Award in the Future Projects, Leisure Category. The

, designed by Arup and Office for Metropolitan Architecture was nominated for the 2007 Stirling Prize. Arup's work with The Druk White Lotus School,

, won them Large Consultancy Firm of the Year 2003 at the British Consultants and Construction Bureau – International Expertise Awards, 2003 building on their triple win at the 2002 World Architecture Awards. Arup was awarded the Worldaware Award for Innovation for its Vawtex air system in Harare International School. Arup won the Gold Medal for Architecture at the

National Eisteddfod of Wales The National Eisteddfod of Wales ( Welsh: ') is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales. Its eight days of competitions and performances are considered the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. Competito ...

of 1998 for their work on the Control Techniques Research and Development HQ, in

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. Arup Fire has won the Fire Safety Engineering Design award four times since its creation in 2001. The 2001 inaugural award was won for Arup's contribution to the

Eden Project The Eden Project () is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay clay pit, pit.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map 107 – Fowey, Looe & Lostwithiel''. . The complex is dominated by two h ...

in Cornwall, UK, the world's largest greenhouse. In 2004, the design for London's City Hall was appointed joint winner. In 2005, the Temple Mills Eurostar Depot won. The 2006 winning entry was for Amethyst House, a nine-storey building with an atrium from the ground to the top, in

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

, UK. Arup was Royal Town Planning Institute Consultancy of the year in 2008. Arup was awarded the 2010 Live Design Excellence Award for Theatre Design for the integrated theatre and acoustic team's design for the new Jerome Robbins Theatre, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and The Wooster Group. The Evelyn Grace Academy, London designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Arup won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2011. Arup was named Tunnel Design Firm of the Year at the 2012 ITA AITES International Tunnelling Awards. Arup was awarded Infrastructure Architect of the Year at the 2020 Architect of the Year Awards. Arup was awarded Britains Most Admired Company 2021 by Management Today

Awards to Arup employees

Barbara Lane, associate director with Arup, won the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senio ...

Silver Medal in 2008 for her outstanding contribution to British engineering on design of structures for fire. Rogier van der Heide, at that time Director of Arup and the firm's global leader of the lighting design business, received the Radiance Award, the world's most prestigious lighting design prize presented by the

International Association of Lighting Designers The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) is a learned society of architectural lighting designers founded in 1969 and based in Chicago. History In 1969, a group of lighting designers — including Ray Grenald and Howard Bran ...

Arup runs its own scheme, Arup Fellows, to recognise excellence in its own employees.

Notable Arup members

Chronology of Arup leaders

IStructE Gold Medal winners

The following members of Arup have been awarded with the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers:

ICE Gold Medal winners

The following members of Arup have been awarded with the Gold Medal from the

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RIBA Royal Gold Medal

The following members of Arup have been awarded with the Royal Gold Medal from the

Royal Institute of British Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...

Other notable members

* Ronald Jenkins (1907–1975) * Peter Dunican (1918–1989), structural engineer, first chairman of Ove Arup Partnership (1977–1984), and President of the

Institution of Structural Engineers The Institution of Structural Engineers is a British professional body for structural engineers. In 2021, it had 29,900 members operating in 112 countries. It provides professional accreditation and publishes a magazine, '' The Structural Eng ...

in 1977 and 1978. * Dr Edmund Hambly (1942–1995), structural engineer, and president of the

1994–1995. * Cecil Balmond (1943–), structural engineer, founder of Arup's Advanced Geometry Unit, lead designer for the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the CCTV tower in Beijing, the Ito-Balmond Serpentine Pavilion, and the ArcelorMittal Orbit. * Steven Groák (1944–1998) head of research and development at Ove Arup Partnership from 1990 to 1998. * Tony Fitzpatrick (1950–2003), structural engineer, and leader of the Millennium Bridge damping project. * Sir

Philip Dilley Sir Philip Graham Dilley (born 16 February 1955) is a British engineer, businessman, and public servant. He was the chairman of the Environment Agency in England. Dilley is a former business adviser to David Cameron. Early life Dilley was born ...

(1955–), civil engineer, Arup Group chairman 2009–2014, chairman of London First, chairman of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Community at the

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. * Nille Juul-Sørensen (1958–), renown global product designer. * Andrew Wolstenholme (1959–) * Tim Jarvis (1966–), environmental scientist, author and explorer. * Dervilla Mitchell (1966–) * Rogier van der Heide (1970–), lighting designer, and former leader of Arup's lighting consultancy, and later chief design officer at Philips Lighting.

Related companies

Companies under Arup Group * Oasys Ltd, established in 1976 as the software house of Arup, providing engineering software for structural, geotechnical and pedestrian movement simulation/analysis software. Several staff have left to form other companies, often with significant parallels with Arup. * In 1976, Edmund Happold (engineer for the Pompidou Centre) and six other engineers left Arup to form Buro Happold in

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. * Mark Whitby left Buro Happold to form Whitby Bird. * In 1999, Chris Wise (engineer for the Millennium Bridge) and Sean Walsh left Arup to form Expedition Engineering in London.

References

External links

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Innovation at Arup
(archived)
Arup Americas online magazine
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