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Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, UK which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm has over 11,000 staff based in 92 offices across 42 countries, and is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Arup has participated in projects in over 160 countries.[2]
Arup is owned by trusts, the beneficiaries of which are Arup's past and present employees, who receive a share of the firm's operating profit each year.[3]
The firm was founded in London in 1946, as the Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers by Sir Ove Nyquist Arup. Sir Ove set out to build a firm where professionals of diverse disciplines could work together to produce projects of greater quality than was achievable by them working in isolation. In 1963, together with the architect Philip Dowson, Arup Associates[4] was formed. In 1970, the firm reformed as "Ove Arup & Partners".
Central Terminal at OR Tambo International Airport (conceptual design, masterplanning and project management, 2009, architect: Bentel Abramson & Partners)
Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, 2007, architect: Daniel Libeskind)
Beijing National Stadium (the "Bird's Nest"), Beijing, China (structural engineers, 2008, architects: Herzog & de Meuron/China Architectural Design & Research Group/Ai Weiwei)
Lakhta Center, Saint Peterburg, Russia (verification calculation for the underground part, foundation pile base and the superstructure, ongoing, architect: Tony Kettle, RMJM)
Arup had its own sports division, Arup Sport, specialising in designing, consulting and structural engineering for sporting facilities such as stadia.[11] Many of Arup's modern stadia are designed with a contemporary, distinctive edge and the company strives to revolutionise stadium architecture and performance.[11] For instance, the Bird's Nest Stadium for the 2008 Olympics was complimented for its striking architectural appearance[12] and the City of Manchester Stadium for the 2002 Commonwealth Games has stairless entry to the upper tiers through circular ramps outside the stadium.[11] The most notable stadium projects led by Arup remain the City of Manchester Stadium (2003), Allianz Arena (2005), Beijing National Stadium (2008) and the Donbass Arena (2009).
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.
Arup's work with The Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, 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.[13]
Arup was awarded the Worldaware Award for Innovation for its Vawtex air system in Harare International School.[14]
Arup Fire has won the Fire Safety Engineering Design award four times since its creation in 2001.[15] The 2001 inaugural award was won for Arup's contribution to the Eden Project 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, UK.[16] More recently, Dr Barbara Lane, Associate Director with Arup, won the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal[17] for her outstanding contribution to British engineering on design of structures for fire.
Arup was also awarded Royal Town Planning Institute Consultancy of the year award 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.[18]
The Evelyn Grace Academy, London designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Arup won the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize 2011.
Arup was named Tunnel Design Firm of the Year at the 2012 ITA AITES International Tunnelling Awards.
Arup Fellow is a lifelong honorary title awarded to very few individuals in the firm. It acknowledges the highest design and technical achievements of an Arup person, not only within the firm, but also in the industry as a whole. They are considered role models with world-class expertise who put theory into effective practice.
The current fellows are:[19] Davar Abi-Zadeh,
Cecil Balmond, Tristram Carfrae, Mark Chown, Fiona Cousins, Pat Dallard, Graham Dodd, Craig Gibbons, Peter Gist, Mike Glover, Alistair Guthrie, Rob Harris, Goman Ho, Naeem Hussain, Paul Johnson, Peter Johnson, Florence Lam, Barbara Lane, Chris Luebkeman, Martin Manning, Alisdair McGregor, Duncan Nicholson, Jack Pappin, Nick O'Riordan, Mahadev Raman, Rudi Scheuermann, Andy Sedgwick, Jo Da Silva, Brian Simpson, Malcolm Smith, Richard Sturt, Timothy Suen, Corinne Swain, Chris Twinn, Tony Vidago, Michael Willford, Raymond Yau and Atila Zekioglu.
Peter Rice (1935–1992), structural engineer, responsible for the roof geometry of the Sydney Opera House and the build project for the Pompidou Centre.
Sir Duncan Michael (1937–), civil engineer, chairman of Ove Arup & Partners 1997–2000, honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, trustee of the Ove Arup Foundation, IStructE Gold Medal 2000.
Terry Hill (1948–), civil engineer and economist, Arup Group chairman 2004–2009, Chairman of the Arup Trustees from 2009, Chair of the Infrastructure UK Steering Group in HM Treasury, President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2013 and 2014.
Sir Philip Dilley (1955–), civil engineer, Arup Group chairman 2009–2014, Chairman of London First, Chairman of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Community at the World Economic Forum.
Professor Chris Wise (1956–), structural engineer, and later Professor of Creative Design at Imperial College.
Tim Jarvis (1966–), environmental scientist, author and explorer.
Rogier van der Heide (1970–), lighting designer, and former leader of Arup's lighting consultancy, and later Chief Design Officer at Philips Lighting.
^"The Singapore Flyer and design of Giant Observation Wheels"Brendon McNiven & Pat Dallard, IStructE Asia-Pacific Forum on Structural Engineering: Innovations in Structural Engineering, Singapore, 2 – 3 November 2007