18 /19 ANNUAL REVIEW CONTENTS

WELCOME

CHIEF EXECUTIVE SENIOR CHIEF OPERATING AND OFFICER PARTNER FINANCIAL OFFICER Neil Squibbs Paul Rogers James Bruce 6 10 14

SPECIALISTS

CAROLINA FLORIAN Associate Lighting Designer 28

DAVOOD LIAGHAT Head of Bridge and Civil Structures 46

CHARIS COSMAS Associate Facades Engineer 54

COVER

The south stand “trees” at Tottenham Hotspur in .

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SECTORS FEATURES Image: NASA Image:

SPORT AND CLIMATE TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITIES PEOPLE ENTERTAINMENT Engineers versus carbon How digital innovation Mass housing design that Why everyone benefits 22 in the race to avert global is enabling exceptional improves quality from our inclusive culture environmental disaster. outcomes. of life. and progressive approach. 18 36 62 72

COMMERCIAL 30

CULTURAL 40 DETAILS

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 48 BEYOND ENGINEERING Stories from around the practice. AIR AND RAIL 82 56

FINANCIAL URBAN INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT The year in figures. 66 90

EDUCATION THE LAST WORD Sir Ted Happold. 76 98

4 ANNUAL REVIEW 18/19 BUROHAPPOLD 5 NEIL SQUIBBS CEO INTRODUCTION

We will always strive to deliver solutions with a sense of economy for our inding solutions is what we This might inform a design solution. planet and its do. What we at BuroHappold Perhaps an alternative solution that resources. know is that the solution to doesn’t require or other a particular problem does intervention might be the answer. not come fully formed. Using all the tools at our disposal, our Consultancy is about making that Fpeople examine each issue from every technical expertise accessible. Our angle before arriving at an answer. Our in-house consultants use their breadth promise to clients is that this answer will and depth of knowledge and serve not only address an issue, but also add it up in an accessible way. We can be real value to your project. reactive and flexible as well as drawing on deep competence and authenticity Excellent engineering design is at the in our advice, based on over 40 years of heart of our business, and always will understanding our clients. be. But we want to create more of a balance. Building and infrastructure To fill the space created by our design currently makes up 68% of our expansion into new areas of business, work, with advisory services at 24% and we need our greatest asset — our consultancy at 8%. We see the future people. We are training a new of BuroHappold as providing more generation of BuroHappold consultants solutions and creating value for our and our advisory services are growing as clients in the advisory and consulting we conduct more in-depth research into streams, as well as design. important current issues and develop tools that offer clients advanced data- Our future also lies in creating scale based solutions. in regions where we have much more potential. In creating a stronger balance, Every person in our firm contributes we position ourselves as better able to to our culture of creative, intelligent provide a comprehensive service to our problem-solving. We will always strive clients, wherever they are located. to deliver solutions with a sense of economy for our planet and its As we reach further out in scale, resources. Choose BuroHappold and expanding our client reach from campus we will transform your business. to city, advisory to consultancy, we develop a richer, deeper offering.

To us, advisory means applying our deep technical or specialist knowledge to the issues being faced by our clients.

Neil Squibbs Chief Executive Officer Image: Harry Borden Harry Image:

6 ANNUAL REVIEW 18/19 BUROHAPPOLD 7 Image: Phil Handforth 8 OUR WORLD acoustics, waste andlogistics. and life safety, specialistlighting, sustainability, mobility, bridges, peopleflow modelling,fire (MEP), , , facade engineering,building services engineering Lead design consultancy, , Services provided by BuroHappold: , UAE THE MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE ANNUALREVIEW 18/19

clients is that this answer willnot from every anglebefore arriving Our peopleexamine eachissue only address anissue,butalso add real value to your project. at ananswer. Our promise to Neil SquibbsChiefExecutive Officer BUROHAPPOLD CEO INTRODUCTION 9 10 PAUL ROGERS ANNUALREVIEW 18/19

Image: Harry Borden climate emergency is akey pillar inour responsible design Responding tothe solutions to offersolutions to example and test example sustainable and We willleadby project work. our clients.

I representative BuroHappold. goal istobuildaconfident, diverse and apply toour own organisation, and our our clients. This principlemustalso that goesbeyond financial return for of demonstrating thatvalue inaway value of our work andtheimportance We have always believed inthesocial challenge thatwe relish. people, clients andcollaborators, itisa natural environment. Together withour ultimate obligation,tocare for our beyond our industry aswell asour technology advancements withinand We mustconsider socialchange, challenges of theday facing our sector. appreciation of the fundamental our peopletodevelop atruly holistic consultancy skillswhileencouraging continually evolve our designand challenge. This meanswe must Each of theseprojects isa remarkable they define for their investment. clients’ expectations andaspirations that achieved our objective —toexceed our these projects we believe thatwe have projects across allour markets. Through consultants complete many wonderful community of engineers,plannersand seen theefforts of our highly motivated last 12months. This isayear thathas of BuroHappold duringour activities andperformance and present toyou the our AnnualReview 2018/19 t isapleasure tointroduce Paul Rogers Senior Partner collaborative year aheadtogether. look forward toasuccessful and Enjoy our AnnualReview, andwe our clients. and responsible designsolutionstooffer will leadby example andtestsustainable also akey pillar inour project work. We Responding totheclimate emergency is emissions aswe undertake our activities. radical actionplantoreduce our own the climateemergency, andhave a skills andknowledge inresponse to We recently committed toutiliseour key challenges thatwe face. BuroHappold thatcanrespond tothe build asustainableandprosperous future. We are actively planningto ambitions thatare essential toour performance tosupporttheinvestment sustained, strong commercial I amdelighted thatwe candemonstrate

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We have always believed in the social value of our work and the importance of demonstrating that value in a way that goes beyond financial return for our clients.

Paul Rogers Senior Partner

BATTERSEA REDEVELOPMENT LONDON, UK Services provided by BuroHappold: Flood risk management and river engineering, civil and structural engineering, highways, ground engineering, facades, fire engineering, inclusive design/DDA. Image: John Cameron on Unsplash Cameron John Image:

12 ANNUAL REVIEW 18/19 BUROHAPPOLD 13 JAMES BRUCE OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Our strategy of growth in target markets, and expansion of our advisory and successful year for Science and Technology has seen strong an export base for engineering and consulting offers, BuroHappold, with an growth as more clients seek out our consultancy on non-UK projects. will ensure that increase in operating technology-based solutions for research This may change, but I am certain BuroHappold profit by 30% to £22.1 effectiveness. Our reputation as reliable, that BuroHappold is prepared for continues to million. This is a fantastic transformative experts is also why any outcome. We have increased our achievement and is down to the skills the Urban Development and Cultural financial resilience by targeting more succeed. Aand commitment of our exceptionally sectors have experienced a jump in international work to reduce our talented employees worldwide. turnover compared to 17/18. Air and exposure in any one market. We hire and Rail has seen a slight increase too. retain the very best people and continue I am happy to report that, in line with to invest in technology while streamlining our strategy to reduce our dependence How are we doing in terms of liquidity? our processes. We remain a strong on our two major markets of the UK and Pretty well. There has been a 16% business with a solid set of results. I am , we saw significant growth in improvement in net cash, largely driven confident that our continued strategy of our targeted European and US markets. by our ability to convert improved growth in target markets, and expansion Buoyant market conditions in the USA profitability to cash rather than it being of our advisory and consulting offers, will helped turnover there increase by 32%. required for ongoing working capital. ensure that BuroHappold continues to Results have been good in Europe, too, Working capital management remains succeed for many years to come. with an increase of 20%. That’s not to a key focus for the group, as evidenced say our UK market is suffering; despite by the 10% reduction in trade debtors all the doom and gloom, UK turnover and reduction in Days Sales Outstanding has increased by 1.5%. The Middle East (DSO) from 122 to 103 days. saw a slowdown as we get to the end of some major projects. However, we Next year is certain to bring some expect to see a turnaround in future challenges. A devalued pound, thanks years as we focus on some significant to Brexit, means that the UK is currently “giga” masterplan projects. In , we a low-cost base for international James Bruce have opened an office in Shenzhen as operations, both in terms of central Chief Operating and Financial Officer part of our Asian expansion. operational support costs and as

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

2019 2018 Change (£’000) (£’000) Turnover 173,300 163,638 6% Operating profit* 22,122 16,984 30% Operating profit margin* 13% 10% 3%

* Operating profit, and operating profit margin are all shown before other operating income/(expense) as this assists with understanding the underlying performance of the group. Image: Harry Borden Harry Image:

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BuroHappold hasincreased international work. We hire James Bruce ChiefOperating andFinancialOfficer and retain the very best people, andcontinue to our financial resilience investin technology. by targetingmore OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE BUROHAPPOLD 17

Image: Darren Soh 18 CLIMATE ANNUALREVIEW 18/19 W in thebox required toidentify, analyse the world. thetools We have manyof make asignificantpositive differenceto to a responsibilityandanopportunity As apractice, BuroHappoldhasboth significant butalsoincreasinglyurbanised. driven by apopulationthatisnotonly hasbeen become extinctsince1970.This specieshave disappearedor cent of manifest. Itisphenomenal–sixtyper biosphere, oceans andsoilhave been the resourcesandpollutionof use of many driving forcesbehindthat,butthe are consumption andpollution.There there isalsounsustainableresource CO emissionsby 2050. gas zero greenhouse fornet commit ustobeingonatrajectory that by theCommittee onClimateChange andadoptedtherecommendations targets UKhasnow recognisedthose The target. aspirational thirds fromthe1.5-degree inParisrise agreed in2015,andtwo- halfway towards thetwo-degree maximum than itwas inpre-industrial times. We are warmer UKisalreadyonedegree The fornetzerocarbonintheUK. targets identified thatthere was aneedtoset also CommitteeonClimateChange The astheysay.change, to“bendthecurve”, climate left toabatetheaccelerationof saying thatwe havea report 12years burgeoning global climate crisis?Withoutadoubtwrites Can engineersreally makeadifferenceas wecombat the Duncan Price, BuroHappold’sDirector ofSustainabilityDuncan Price, 2 hsbe i ato thisbut of hasbeenabigpart A MATTER OFDEGREES on Climate Change released on ClimateChange PanelIntergovernmental change. In2018,theUN accelerate actiononclimate need torapidlyscaleupand the It isarecognitionof hat isaclimateemergency? predominantly be a zero-carbon grid. predominantly be azero-carbongrid. Grid; by 2050we expectthatitwill electricity comingfromtheNational energy, sowe willprobablyhave some building willbeabletohave renewable such asadistrictheating. Notevery distributionsystem, another energy or through eithertheelectricitygrid imported clean, renewable energy then enablingthosebuildingstouse ourbuildings, efficiency of the energy meansimprovingenvironment. That the built do isdecarbonisethewholeof to whatweIn simpleterms, aretrying building sideinasimilarspace. development theproperty and to get with theUKGreenBuildingCouncil, working withinthesector, inparticular action inthisarea.We alsohave been we have been lobbying forgovernment on climatechange. thatgroup, Through alliance advocating forstrongpolicies which isamulti-sector leadership Group, the Aldersgate are membersof solutions forbuildingsandcities. We how BuroHappolddesigns philosophy of efficiency have been key themesinthe low carbonandenergy organisation, our of Right fromthegenesis flows indifferentbuildingtypes. buildings. We alsounderstandtheenergy whatittakes todesignandoperate of because we have understanding adeep in London.We were abletodothat apply toallnewmajordevelopments that efficiencytargets base forenergy example, we developed theevidence decision-makers confidencetoact. For – we canprovide evidencethatgives and resolve complexsystemchallenges 1° above pre-industrial levels 1.5°

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through the IPCC, national recognition through the Committee on Climate Change and the UK government, and we’ve had corporates – many of our private sector clients and public sector clients, such as city authorities – all saying, “Yes, we need to adopt science- based targets, we need to be recognising “It is good to unpack sustainability into that there is a requirement of all sectors different components, different ways of of the economy and all actors to move in unison”. There’s a political space thinking. Essentially, it is about projects that’s been opened up by the school where both people and planet can thrive.” climate strikes and Extinction Rebellion mass movements; the groundswell of Duncan Price, Director of Sustainability public opinion has given politicians the confidence to act. I have never seen this happen before, that mixture of top-down

Image: Connie Zhou Connie Image: and bottom-up. That creates opportunities for new services, new ways of living and new ways of working that, I think, will be better. I am cautiously optimistic. By joining up this agenda across needs of society at the same time. So, It is not just about the design of new National governments and international It takes strong leadership and we are part disciplines, we have found new ways of making sure that we are not consuming buildings; operation and improvement of organisations have set the direction of of a system that needs to change, but, thinking. This includes the work that resources at a rate that is faster than existing building stock is absolutely critical travel, but the action needs to happen as engineers, we have a very influential we have been doing with C40 Cities, the world’s ability to replenish them. too. Now, buildings are important for at a regional level. UK government had voice. We bring science, evidence, which is looking at the air quality, people – they affect our health, happiness its own Climate Change Act, which is and rigour, but we also design spaces health and economic benefits of urban We know from the research that C40 and productivity – but they also have a arguing for an 80% reduction before that affect people so we have a strong climate action. That has yielded new Cities has done that around 40% of the strategic importance in the fight against 2050; local authorities have declared understanding of that relationship methodologies, new insights, new ways Paris Agreement on climate change can climate change. The buildings we are climate emergencies in recognition of between built assets that consume energy of thinking about projects. This helps be delivered through action in cities and designing now have to be fit for the future the fact that the UK government wasn’t and the quality of the experience that lift the aspirations and confidence of towns, the urban environment. Many and be able to withstand warmer climates. reacting fast enough. We need to respond this energy produces. We can engineer city decision makers enacting policies, of our clients are in the process of to the science, and the science tells us the whole system; we can design whole which may not have happened before, declaring their own climate emergencies If we are to meet our targets, then we that we need to be moving quicker. towns, cities and buildings for cleaner, and that may be scaled up as a result of and setting ambitious targets to scale need to fundamentally change the way healthier, more productive lifestyles what we are doing. I am really excited up and accelerate action on climate that we live. That means being aware of There are huge challenges to face. that are also resilient for the future. by that. I see this is as an interesting way change. It was in this context that the impact that we have. Who doesn’t However, I feel like we are at a tipping of capturing the imagination of 1,700 BuroHappold declared our own climate want clean air and communities where point in public consciousness. That As engineers, we have the skills to brilliant BuroHappold engineers and emergency and we are encouraging people thrive in close proximity? To has occurred alongside action from make a considerable positive impact consultants that see a greater purpose in others in the industry to do the same. accomplish that, we need to think governments, cities, businesses and civic on the world. This is exactly the right what they are doing and love a challenge. about where and how we live and society all coming together at the same time to be applying those skills. BHE We have given them a clear challenge Spearheading the adoption of climate work, how we move and the way that time. In the last year there has been an on which to apply their creativity and and biodiversity emergency declarations we engage with our towns and cities. alignment of international recognition problem-solving abilities. Their desire among our peer group is absolutely the to network and do that in a much more right thing to do. This transcends any integrated way helps us to attract, retain individual business need. However, we and nurture the very best talent. are aligning our whole business to this agenda, so if we can get our clients and It is good to unpack sustainability into peers pointing in the same direction different components, different ways of it will lead to new opportunities and thinking. Essentially, it is about projects de-couple economic success from where both people and planet can thrive. negative impact. We want to align It is important to bring some numbers business success with positive social and to that too. So, is it zero carbon? Is it environmental outcomes. This is the clean air? Is it going to provide comfort trajectory that we intend to pursue. in 2050? Is it efficient? Bringing in some science and making sure that the projects At a macroeconomic level, investment in building energy efficiency makes a lot Top we are working on are helping us towards The Tower at PNC Plaza (, that overall objective are ways of giving of sense; it is good for jobs, good for PA) is a BuroHappold project that substance to the concept of sustainability. skills innovation and it reduces imports combines cutting-edge design with The idea originally stems from the Rio of gas. The economic multiplier that the very latest green technology to Earth Summit of 1992. They coined this comes from energy efficiency is better exceed LEED Platinum criteria. phrase “”, which than almost any other infrastructure Right is development that meets the needs of project. It just makes good sense. Think Two St. Peter’s Square (, Duncan Price, Director of today without prejudicing the needs of of it as an investment rather than a UK) is another of our sustainable Sustainability, pictured future generations to do the same. That cost. The benefits are enormous. buildings, mixing retail capacity speaking at Zero Carbon with BREEAM Excellent, Grade A , the , necessitates working within the ecological Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) 3 September 2019. limits of the planet and meeting the office space.

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6% £10.8m B just theplaying surfaces. involvement goesmuch further than pitch, andrightly so.However, our headline project’s ingenioussliding has beenmadeof our concept for this new Tottenham Hotspur stadium.Much This year saw thecompletion of the for all. solution thatenhances theexperience together toprovide asinglecoherent handover. Our technicalteamswork covering every aspect from design to understanding of avenue’s needs, BuroHappold hasanin-depth commercial andvisitor perspective. that maximisesreturns from both a tirelessly todeliver auniquevenue expectations of the fans, we work of theoperational requirements and Upon gainingathorough understanding surrounding community. to life butalsocontributes tothe process not only bringsnewvenues fields toensure thatour tailored upon expertise across multipledesign consultants andspecialists,we draw

As aglobalteamof engineers, not endwiththevenue itself. entertainment venues does in thecreation of sportand uroHappold’s experience

Sector Global Lead Sport andEntertainment Matthew Birchall in theworld. exciting sportandentertainment events for someof themostdemandingand pride inour ability todesignvenues and arenas, BuroHappold takes great some of theworld’s major iconic stadia With anexpansive portfolio containing such astheIndian subcontinent. territories where we already operate, these skillstobenefitnewclients in global practice, we caneasily transpose deliver their masterplan for Lord’s. Asa expertise, whichishelpingtheMCC to The sameistrueof our cricket venue ultramodern stadiumbuilt from scratch. more modestthanhaving anentire clients whoserequirements are slightly advanced disciplineswillbenefit project-specific ensemble,these delivery. Either individually or asa overcoming challengestosuccessful — anddeveloped our capabilitiesin technology, sustainability andMEP broad range of disciplines—including We have helpedtheclient across a to northLondon by incorporating an key objective was to bring the NFL 36,000 to over 62,000.Another increase capacity from approximately as close to the pitchaspossiblebutalso The planwas not only to positionfans venue for playing andenjoying football. No, this had to beEurope’s number one London or the English . to be the best.Not just the bestinnorth aspiration for the project was simple— maintaining designintent. Tottenham’s overcome aseriesof challengeswhile possible by our team’s determination to of this landmarkvenue hasbeenmade grand vision.Successful construction is aprecise realisation of the club’s the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium Providing anexceptional fan experience, LONDON, UK TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM rows sohundreds of seatscannot be obstruct spectator views from the lower players standingon the sidelines are hostedata typical football ground, beneath the stands.WhenNFLgames into three partsbefore rolling away to have afullgrass surface that splits The slidingpitchis the firstin the world structural dynamics. 17,500 peoplewhilecontrolling the slide a70mx110m turf pitchunder hospitality spaces. We alsomanaged to to provide openconcourses and eliminating 40%of the columns structures. Such ingenuity included innovation and the useof longspan contribution hasbeenengineering capability. Crucial to BuroHappold’s uncompromised AmericanFootball

deliver this spectacular project. BuroHappold peopleworked directly to the architect, , over 230 the surrounding area. Working with programme that isreinvigorating centrepiece of abroader regeneration acclaim inApril2019, standsas the This stadium,whichopened to universal takes just25minutes. The entire “pitchswitching” process is identical for football andNFLgames. optimum sightlines, the seatingcapacity first row of seating.As well asproviding retractable pitchsits1.5mbelow the where adedicatedNFLfieldunder the sold. This isnot aproblem at Tottenham, SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT

Image: BuroHappold Engineering 24 into the world-famous Olympic Park. and vertical facade structure, blends of the arena, enhanced by agreen roof up to 11,000seated guests. The design Olympic Park, itwillhave acapacity of of the former velodrome in the München Basketball. Located on the site ice hockey team andFC Bayern the new homefor the Red Bull München The multifunctionalSAPGarden willbe SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT MUNICH, SAP GARDEN ANNUALREVIEW 18/19 ensure that Lord’s remains the bestplace in the world to watch andplay cricket. and how this relates to broader venue objectives, our experts are helping the MCC to new stands from 9,000 to 11,500seats.By understandingclient aspiration for the stands in 1999–at the famous Nursery End. A three-tier arrangement will take capacity of the situated either sideof the distinctive mediacentre –another BuroHappold project, opened the masterplanencompasses redevelopment of the Compton andEdrich stands,whichare increasing operational efficiency toenhance spectator experience. Thesecond phase of approach allows continued hostingof matchesat the north-west London ground while upgrade work to steadily improve facilities inaccordance withastagedmasterplan. This Responding to anincreasingly competitive sportingenvironment, Lord’s isundergoing LONDON, UK LORD’S CRICKET GROUND

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Image: Everton FC sporting venues. be among the world’s mostdistinctive fan experience, this uniquestadiumwill while prioritisingandamplifying the and groundbreaking designfor the city Soccer team’s goalof creating aniconic Cincinnati. Taking this Major League specific stadiumwillbe thehome of FC the new 26,000capacity soccer- Scheduled to openinMarch 2021, CINCINNATI, OH, USA WEST END STADIUM initiative known as The People’s Project. of a transformative community stadium, whichwillbe the cornerstone the construction of this waterfront is consulting on17disciplinesfor advantage. Our integrated team the atmosphere to maximisehome enhance fan experience by intensifying A “Football First”designapproach will uninterrupted views of the pitch. a capacity of 52,000seats,allwith This fully accessible venue willhave LIVERPOOL, UK EVERTON SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT BUROHAPPOLD

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Sports science has revolutionised how we rate and improve player performance. A parallel approach to There’s no place stadium design will enable clubs to get like home the best out of their key asset. Outperform the opposition with Andrew Pottinger, Venue Performance Consultant data-driven venue engineering Image: Getty / OSTILL Getty Image:

eturn on Investment. As a Attracting a top-tier matches but also draws global music influential elements such as experience, generating objective analysis of possible multidisciplinary engineering partner from the outset. acts such as Rod Stewart, Take That bowl behaviour, revenue, dwell time, futures. For example, the synthesis consultancy specialising in Making money on more than 200 and Muse. digital impressions and sponsor appeal. of stadium and arena could be the Sports and Entertainment, days a year. This is underpinned by our Venue way forward for many clubs. This is this metric drives everything In the context of Return on Investment, Performance Rating (VPR) system, particularly true for those targeting that we do. Gone are the days when Let’s consider some examples that clubs can make better expenditure which we created to bring science and a capacity of 20,000–40,000, such Rclients would expect us to handle just illustrate what can be achieved through decisions once provided with a clear substance to the pursuit of outcomes. as AFC Bournemouth. Our predictive the pipes and wires, the sticks and intelligent collaborative design. understanding of how their stadium This approach lets us explore options modelling approach can help co-create bricks. Forward-thinking clubs now Developed with fan experience, revenue could deliver desired outcomes. Of collaboratively and make informed multiple options with the club and realise that the best design teams can and club reputation in mind, the new course, it is all too easy for consultants decisions tailored to client needs. an arena operator. This technology be challenged to deliver a range of Tottenham Hotspur stadium has to talk a good game after the event. Together we can assess how changes empowers clients to make informed measurable outcomes that transcend triggered local regeneration schemes Things are going well? That’s thanks will affect revenue, reputation and plans that achieve defined outcomes. exceptional construction: including new homes, public spaces to our brilliant advice. Not going so results. VPR also works as a tracker that We optimise Return on Investment and civic amenities. The People’s well? That’s down to some other factor indicates how we are doing against a by focusing on agreed goals and only Doubling revenue over the next Project at Everton FC will be similarly that is entirely unconnected to our club’s core principles throughout an making changes that really matter. 10 years. transformative for club and community. brilliant advice. entire project. Creating a stadium that is better Realising these kind of benefits is, Sports science has transformed the Counteracting this culture of hazy than a rival ground. however, not exclusive to big-budget, By assessing and combining thousands way in which we appraise players. accountability, BuroHappold has headline projects; the £45m upgrade of weighted parameters, we can see Through the application of cutting- Expanding demographic and substantiated our offering by going of Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol has precisely how a stadium performs edge technological rigour, Venue Learn more about geographic range of the fan base. beyond the anecdotal. We can devise developing high- created a multipurpose regional venue based on empirical data. Advanced Performance Rating helps BuroHappold performance venues. Being capable of hosting high-profile models that predict construction that not only stages football and rugby computational techniques background do the same for stadium design. BHE touring musical acts. cost and programme along with other much of this work, with 3D models

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“BuroHappold really sees the value of having different specialist disciplines to solve very intricate challenges.” SPECIALIST

Q&A Is light a tricky medium to work with? Is it accurate to say that good lighting Circadian rhythms? It is. You can predict a lot with software is the lighting that you don’t notice? Exactly. That’s a complicated topic modelling and a good technical Yes. I was watching the Coco Chanel because, although we know that there is background, but the reality is that the film and there is a part where she says an effect, it hasn’t been fully proven that outcome may still surprise you. There something like, “If you remember the artificial light influences the circadian are elements that you can never predict woman then the dress is fantastic, but if rhythm in the same way that daylight unless you do a mock-up or physical you remember the dress that’s because does. There is a push for trustworthy model tests. That’s because your eye it wasn’t the right one.” Lighting is the research on this to inform future Carolina Florian perceives an environment differently same. If you notice the light sources, applications better, especially for health Associate Lighting Designer to what photographs or software and you can feel annoyed by them, then projects — like hospitals — and night calculations can show you. An important it didn’t work. shift environments, which could show part of our design process is to get more substantial results. samples from manufacturers to make Is there anything else about lighting sure that their products will deliver what that tends to annoy you? It seems that your work requires an we have promised to clients. Glary light sources on street columns. even balance of technical expertise and Some of them are extremely bright. artistic flair… Are there any recurring challenges in A lot of street lighting was quickly Yes, I enjoy both. Technology in lighting working as a lighting designer? changed to LEDs because it was more keeps changing a lot. At the moment The main one is that, because light is efficient, but now, after a few years of we are having a bit of a revolution with such an available material, most people understanding the effect, you shouldn’t controls and how you can integrate the have an opinion about lighting without have that cooler, whiter light at night. lighting with smart cities. For example, necessarily understanding it. We often Another one is the coloured lights that another project I have is Amaala in Saudi get challenged and have to demonstrate are applied to facades. That can be Arabia. That’s a development on an the value that we add. a nightmare, with green and red and empty coast comprising three massive purple lighting going on. resort plots with new infrastructure How would you describe that value? — so new airport, new roads and We have the expertise to bring projects How have LEDs affected your work? everything. The client vision is for an to life for people to experience them. That was a massive change. Now we can integrated, smart environment that It’s not just the , the use efficient light sources that are very provides the artistic quality and wellness technical performance and the client powerful in terms of controls, colour and all the experience of a seven-star aspirations. We need to combine all range and dynamic effect. So, you go resort. If you focus only on the artistic lighting-related factors, which includes from designing a scheme with static side and don’t keep up with technology, environmental, socioeconomic and white light to being able to change then at some point you will feel left out physiological aspects. the room to different colours or even of the conversation. You won’t know change the colour of the white light, what’s best to propose to the client in What are the big projects that your depending on the daylight parameters terms of what’s out there. team is involved in? and mood. Daylight moves from warmer I’d say Stratford Waterfront is a good white light in the morning to very What’s exciting you about where the example. That’s a great project because crisp around midday; then it goes into specialism is headed? it combines iconic clients and it’s warmer, amber shades again at sunset. The most exciting part for me is that located in a section of London where, That’s kind of how our bodies work. BuroHappold really sees the value of since the Olympics, major things are having different specialist disciplines to happening. There’s a lot of residential The body wants different light at solve very intricate challenges. We bring development there, too, so our work certain times of the day? the confidence to enable client visions. will complement the experience for Yes. Artificial lighting can be designed That has a lot to do with working closely everyone who lives in the area. We have to behave in what they call a “human with the architects, but without the right the BBC building, the V&A, Sadler’s centric” way. Nowadays we understand type of light the project will never be Wells, London College of Fashion and more about how we respond to light, perceived as envisaged. we are doing the lighting in the public not just in aesthetic or mood terms but realm around those buildings. also physiologically. Image: Harry Borden Harry Image:

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36% £62.9m P us withuniqueinsights into human Analytics tool, for example, provides the peoplewithinthem.Our Workplace to useandresponsive totheneedsof design environments thatare intuitive technologies toenhance our ability to As digitalleaders,we embrace emerging value for our clients. multifaceted solutionsthatdeliver real productivity. This allows ustodevelop inclusive design,health,wellbeing and risk andresilience, assetmanagement, offices, infieldssuchas infrastructure, together experts from across our global Key toour success isour ability tobring modern life butalsoactively improve it. not only respond tothechallengesof uniquely placed torealise projects that and pioneeringdigitaldesign,we are consultancy, creative engineering Providing our clients withhigh-level and sociallandscape. developments thatenrichtheeconomic deliver high-performance, sustainable busy retail centres, itisour businessto communities, landmarkskyscrapers or accommodation, thriving residential we are creating premium office BuroHappold. Whether that we undertake at every commercial project driven. This ethosinforms eople-focused, performance- Commerical Sector Leader Andy Keelin footprint onour planet. environment andleave thelightest improve thequality of thebuilt positive interaction between people, solutions. In doingso,we promote three-dimensional engineering community of experts, we are delivering skills andexpertise of our international and combining itwiththeexisting By embracing thedigitalrevolution, actively enhance wellbeing. interaction andcollaboration, and environments thatpromote social to outdoor space –we cancreate daylight, positionof desksor access internal temperature, amount of design –suchasplacement of stairwells, By makingsmalladjustments toour we make affect theuser experience. real time,how thedesign decisions This meansthatwe are abletosee,in used inreality. intended performance andhow they are create, andclosethegapbetween people interact withthespaces we behaviour sowe canunderstandhow 51,000m We transformedgiant, the the UKeconomy. on itsown is set to add£450m to and the surrounding area, which work across Queen ElizabethPark ongoing legacy andregeneration local area. It isoneaspectof our high-valueand employment tothe attracting high-tech creativity vibrant hubof innovation that is regeneration, establishinga the very bestinindustrial legacy plan,Here Eastrepresents part of the London 2012Olympics business and technology. Akey Centre into aboldnew basefor former International Broadcasting LONDON, UK HERE EAST 2 open-planshellof the BUROHAPPOLD COMMERCIAL 31

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BOSTON SEAPORT ÜBERSEEQUARTIER , MA, USA HAMBURG, GERMANY BuroHappold is working with Gensler Set to become the commercial heart architects to deliver a new commercial of HafenCity, this architecturally complex in the heart of Boston’s outstanding development includes a Seaport District. The 18-storey tower shopping mall, multiplex cinema, office will provide 15 floors of modern office buildings, hotels, a cruise terminal accommodation, two levels of retail and bus station. We drew on expertise space and underground parking. Its from our teams in and to architecture is highly articulated yet develop an integrated building services timeless, and behind the stunning strategy that works across this large- facade lies a building that is designed scale, complex project. Our final design with user wellbeing in mind. Features includes a centralised cooling energy include outdoor terraces on alternate centre that meets the differing load floors, a vibrant public promenade lined profiles of the various buildings. We with shops and proximity to the new also harnessed waste heat to generate Harbour Square Park. 250kW of energy for the shopping mall, resulting in a construction cost saving of over $1m. Image: Moka-Studio/URW Image: Image: Gensler Image:

HANOVER HOUSE MANCHESTER, UK This ambitious refurbishment project unites two of Manchester’s architectural jewels to create a prestigious new city centre destination. Revitalising the Grade II listed, Edwardian Baroque House and adjacent New Drapery Warehouse required a meticulous and sympathetic approach. Our structural and building services engineers undertook detailed analysis work before and during design ONE LODHA PLACE development. This let us understand , INDIA how we could reinforce the historic buildings to support striking new This Class A development comprises features such as the mezzanine floor, flexible office accommodation, cutting- the ETFE mansard roof and the edge technology and sustainable dramatic central atrium. building systems. It is intended to attract a diverse mix of businesses, from small start-ups to large companies. Located in Mumbai’s busy city centre, the tower had to be constructed on a constrained site to tight timelines. Supporting a low-energy footprint, we developed an intelligent building management system that provides dynamic feedback on performance. We also created MEP solutions with the flexibility to support future growth, ensuring that One Lodha Place will provide a high-quality working environment throughout its lifecycle. Image: Lodha Group/PCF Lodha Image: Image: BuroHappold Engineering BuroHappold Image:

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Working capital Engineering exceptional office space in the heart of London

ALDGATE EAST Whitechapel High Street is Street, so that we could present the planning LONDON, UK an ambitious, multifaceted consultants and the London Borough of Tower development that will provide Hamlets with proof that our work would not 50,000m2 of high-quality, flexible office space impact the existing infrastructure. 101for blue-chip tenants from across the financial, technology and fintech sectors. BuroHappold Low-carbon design Engineering was selected to provide a range of services across the project, applying our expertise Large-scale developments such as 101 in creative engineering, complex problem-solving Whitechapel High Street can have high energy and sustainable design to realise a landmark demands. As a practice that is committed to new development in the heart of London’s promoting sustainable design, we are exploring financial district. multiple options to find high-performance solutions that are also energy-efficient. As a practice that is committed to People-centred approach Mindful of the London Plan, in which air quality is a promoting sustainable We understand that the success of any key consideration, our building services engineers design, we are development lies in its ability to meet the needs are assessing various means to condition the of the people that will use it every day. That is interior of this large complex. We are considering exploring multiple using a heat pump system, which is more efficient options to find why our specialist in-house analytics team draws on big data to model and assess the spaces we than traditional, gas-fired provision as it allows high-performance create. This enables us to optimise our designs for heating and cooling to occur at low temperatures.

Images: Foster + Partners Foster Images: solutions that are also comfort, functionality and revenue generation. We are developing a highly glazed facade that energy-efficient. enables natural light to permeate deep into At 101 Whitechapel High Street, our analytics the building without excessive solar gain. This team reviewed the interior of the building — minimises the need for both artificial lighting and including parameters such as entrance points, internal conditioning. lobby space and desire lines to nearest transport links — to provide evidence-based solutions that Economic vitality will improve the user experience. We are also looking beyond the building to inform the design As well as creating an exceptional working of the public realm and incorporate features environment for a range of businesses — from that create welcoming, safe and enjoyable small start-ups to well-known multinationals – 101 surroundings for locals and visitors alike. Whitechapel High Street will offer an attractive retail space designed to draw tourists and local residents alike to the area. This will create a more Resilient infrastructure diverse community that flourishes beyond the The development’s proximity to Aldgate East tube nine-to-five working day, and ensure the ongoing station and two major roads presents the project economic vitality of this vibrant new area. BHE team with both challenges and opportunities. Initially, it ensures that the new development is well served by existing transport links, which include four nearby Underground entrances and five bus stops.

These assets do, however, make work on an already constrained site increasingly difficult. Our engineers modelled the ground works needed to excavate the basement of 101 Whitechapel High

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reat design places people “We need to review the skillsets we have Building Information Modelling (BIM), at its heart. This has been and adapt them for use in the world Geographical Information System a guiding principle at of tomorrow,” says Tony. “It takes real (GIS), Internet of Things (IoT) sensors BuroHappold since the courage to see that, but by automating and Agent Based Modelling, they have practice was founded over some of the processes we used to carry developed Analytics. This is a powerful 40 years ago. We have out ourselves, we can free up the ingenuity data analysis, predictive modelling and earned a reputation for and intelligence of our engineers. optioneering engine that enables us creating environments This allows them to explore emerging to evaluate the effects of changes and that not only work for people but also technologies and develop new tools that revisions to our designs in real time. Gactively engage and delight them. will broaden our offering for clients.” “Analytics is all about bringing technology That is why we see the digital revolution Having the vision to harness the potential and humans together,” says Shrikant. as the natural next step in our evolution. of new technologies to enhance the “The tool turns data into evidence-based Access to big data provides us with way we work and design, combined insights so that we can make informed greater insight into the way people with the agility to transform our decisions that result in better outcomes. use and interact with the spaces that practice from within, has positioned we design. New technologies equip BuroHappold as digital leaders in our “Working in real time, we can interact us with the tools we need to push the industry. Our willingness to shed old with the engine, or sketch over it, all boundaries of possibility and deliver skillsets in the pursuit of better design while getting live feedback on the effects ever more intelligent solutions that is also testimony to our commitment of our changes. It produces rapid, can adapt to accommodate myriad to a better built environment. clear and engaging visualisations. The user needs for generations to come. interface has simple slider bars and “We still need the human skills of 3D walkthroughs that allow people to “Digital is about using technology empathy, understanding and leadership,” explore different design options.” to create human outcomes that were says Tony. “But now, with the onset of previously unimaginable or impossible,” the digital revolution, we can augment The Analytics engine is rich in data. It says Tony Scott, global technology these and reach beyond our existing contains insights into human behaviour director at BuroHappold. “Already, our capabilities to see, design and shape gathered from years of research adoption of emerging technologies is our world in new and exciting ways.” undertaken by our Smart Space team, driving new ways of working across the together with client data collated on practice, enabling us to break out of The beneficial symbiosis of human past and present projects. This is traditional silos and engage in much richer experience and digital innovation is bolstered by the continued influx of collaboration. As we continue to develop exemplified by our pioneering Analytics information from ongoing analysis our digital capabilities, there is no limit tool. For over a decade, our Smart Space and access to new sources. Every day, to the scope of what we can achieve.” team, led by group director Shrikant more data is added to the engine; as its Sharma, has been collating data around wealth of resource grows, so too does We are always looking for the next human behaviour and the way people its predictive accuracy. This improves challenge to solve. That is why we explore interact with spaces. This work has our ability to realise environments that and incorporate the potential of digital enabled our engineers to visualise the are designed around authentic insight technologies at every level. However, with effects of their design decisions so that into human behaviour and user needs. change comes disruption. As we embrace they can better realise environments digital methods in place of traditional that support people’s needs. Right: working practices – and increasingly The Analytics tool combines several Already groundbreaking in its own software platforms. This enables us use virtual reality, augmented reality and to analyse design decisions in real artificial intelligence to fulfil functions that right, the scope of this work has been time and quickly arrive at accurate, were previously carried out by engineers pushed even further by our team. evidence-based solutions that benefit – we are having to reimagine our role. By combining the capabilities of our clients.

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“Analytics answers what was, for me, It is this premise that underpins another Below: the biggest challenge facing the AEC area of digital innovation within our The BHoM is our response to the industry,” says Shrikant. “That was practice – the creation of an open industry challenge of working together more effectively. It the lack of evidence-based design source Buildings and Habitats Object establishes a common language and, as a result, the lack of focus on Model (the BHoM). Developed by across software so that we can ultimate outcomes. As engineers, we BuroHappold directors Al Fisher and design collaboratively. are responsible for ensuring that the Rob May, the BHoM is an industry- buildings and environments we design wide computational project that aims work for the people that use them. to support greater collaboration Facing page: GIS enables us to create digital That’s why we wanted to take the between AEC professionals by enabling twins of real-world assets to opportunity that the world of data and architects, engineers and contractors to capture valuable performance technology provides to gain a far deeper standardise design data and share code. insight and explore it via an understanding of the impact our designs interactive dashboard. have on people along with their wider “The BHoM is our response to the social and economic consequences.” challenge we face as an industry to work together more effectively,” says Al. “Its This revolutionary tool is being used core purpose is to tackle the problem across our practice to great effect; it of interoperability between software, informs everything from devising an so that we can transfer design models intuitive passenger journey through between platforms efficiently without an airport to realising office buildings losing information. To achieve this, we that encourage collaboration and needed to establish a common language improve employee wellbeing. It is also across the different software that is used strengthening our relationships with to define design objects and features.” clients, as it gives us the opportunity to invite them into our design process. This “The process has been a real learning creates more transparency and allows us to curve,” says Rob. “It revealed that the As well as creating new tools within our “Using data in this way enables us to “As well as enabling us to monitor work together to arrive at evidence-based way we described objects, even within practice, we are looking to transform predict future scenarios, identify potential our designs more precisely, understand decisions that fulfil their requirements. BuroHappold, was different depending existing workflows by integrating issues and rectify them before they occur. their performance and prevent potential on which discipline we worked in. So additional digital capabilities. We have Doing so also improves the efficiency problems, the use of digital twins Analytics provides us with the means we had to release a lot of unconscious used GIS to explore design options more of our designs, minimises downtime, also allows us to establish an ongoing to analyse the past, change the present, bias across the practice to collectively rapidly, develop integrated solutions and makes the built environment relationship with our client throughout the and predict the future. In doing so, it agree on simple, basic definitions of across disciplines and ensure the a more accessible and enjoyable lifecycle of our designs,” says Anthony. ensures we deliver the best experiential objects, and in doing so establish a overall design quality. Now, however, environment for people to exist in.” outcomes for people, the most economic discipline-agnostic base to work from.” we are developing GIS technology for “This changes the role we play in shaping and efficient solutions for our clients, use in a more complex and ambitious “What would normally be done manually the built environment. No longer do and that we can actively shape a From this point, Al and Rob were format, which will reimagine not only and painstakingly over weeks, months we deliver a project over, say, five years, better built environment for us all. able to develop a common language the way we design the urban realm but or years, can now be done digitally, and then step away from it. Rather, we that engineers within BuroHappold also the remit of our role within it. to advance that process,” adds Irfan stand by our work, continually assessing We believe that people work better can use to pass information between Soneji, digital services director. “The the performance of our designs so that together. We also appreciate that we software. They then looked at how to “For the last year, we have been looking use has been somewhat limited, but we can gather ongoing data to inform can only create environments that truly structure the BHoM so that, unlike at ways to expand our GIS footprint,” that has changed now. We’ve expanded our understanding of their efficacy, and perform for everyone if a diverse range of any other building software, it allows says Anthony Tuffour, associate our understanding of how we can build rectify any issues we may discover.” experience, knowledge and perspectives hundreds of people from across director and GIS lead. “Integrating different assets — a dustbin, a lamppost, has contributed to their design. the AEC industry to contribute to more information into our models so a building, or anything in the public By remaining involved, we are able to it. This was key to its success. that we can move beyond creating 2D eye. We use the information available adapt and enhance designs to make maps and, instead, build data-rich 3D for that particular asset, and effectively them increasingly responsive to human “We are not architects, and we are not replicas of assets in the digital world.” replicate that into the digital world. need. Digital twinning provides us contractors,” says Rob. “We don’t have with the capability and proximity to the expertise in these subjects to build These complex 3D models are called “Take an example of a building, or ensure the spaces that we design are out that part of the BHoM. That’s why, digital twins. Comprising intricate layers a mug, or a pen — wouldn’t it be equipped to face multiple challenges. We believe that on 21 December 2018, we open-sourced of data gathered from an array of sensors useful if we could mimic and replicate people work better the code to everyone. Our aim is that, and sources, these twins are linked to that in the digital world, to be able The decisions we make during the early together. We also between us all as an industry, we can work connected technologies that allow for to learn from it, do simulations on it, stages of our design process have a towards a common design language.” real-time environmental and system understand how we would want to lasting impact on the social, economic appreciate that we data capture. This information is used modify and change it, and then see what and experiential outcomes for generations can only realise The BHoM is still in its infancy, but by to adjust and fine-tune the performance effects that has in the real world?” to come. It is this responsibility that establishing a shared design language of physical assets – ranging from street drives us to seize the opportunities that environments that that is cross-discipline, software-agnostic lamps and traffic lights, to bridges and Whether our findings inform switching technologies afford to gather greater truly perform for and location invariant it has sparked buildings, entire cities and even countries. streetlights on at the right time to insight into the effects of our work. everyone if a diverse a new conversation about the way we improve safety, adjusting traffic lights This empowers BuroHappold to deliver work across the AEC industry. Indeed, “The concept that digital twins revolves according to the density of vehicles on solutions that make life better for us all. BHE range of experience, BuroHappold is part of an industry- around is the collection of data, both the road, or monitoring the usage of city knowledge and wide consortium tackling data exchange past and present, and applying it to wide energy grids to understand where perspectives has through open source frameworks. With a monitor the performance of physical resources are being spent and where they £1m grant from Innovate UK, this project assets in real time,” explains Anthony. can be saved, digital twins are allowing contributed to – AEC Delta Mobility – aims to improve us to develop intelligent, responsive and their design. productivity, performance and quality. agile infrastructure across our cities.

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18% £31.4m M Museum of Art. experience attheLos AngelesCounty devise aseamlessandintuitive visitor using bespoke visualisation software to In theUSA, our analyticsexperts are spaces that ignitetheimagination. reading andreflection withoutdoor model by connecting quietplaces for have transformed thetraditional library Museum of theFuture. In China,we first torus-shaped buildingwiththe landscape andcreate theworld’s intelligence todisrupt thearchitectural In Dubai, we have harnessedartificial deliver theextraordinary. expectation anddefy convention to This allows our teamtoreach beyond new experiential analysis techniques. we are now adapting anddeveloping that delight audiences worldwide, of anticipating trends tocreate venues changing. Building onalongtradition our consumption of culture is we are excited by theway inwhich A practice thatthrives onachallenge, dynamic places thatsparkconversation. galleries are nolonger silent spaces, but for theenjoyment of every genre. Art of classicalmusic,butopen halls are nolonger thereserve places of encounter. Concert receptacles for thepast,but useums are nolonger

Cultural Sector Leader Stephen Jolly surrounding communities. social andeconomic growth withinthe value for our clients, andencourage contemporary visitors, deliver real realising world-class venues thatinspire the ever-evolving cultural landscape– allows ustostay onestepaheadin forward-looking approach todesign, This inclusive ethos,coupled withour project we undertake. to assemblethebestteam for every network of built environment specialists drawing expertise from our international collaboration across thepractice, why we continually strive for greater in designandtechnology. That is people thatdrives theseinnovations surroundings. It isthecreativity of our shared experience of truly unforgettable cultural venues thatunitepeopleinthe This vision setsour work apart,creating certain toaddvalue across theboard. are abletoarrive atoutcomes thatare team, our clients andstakeholders, we working closely withthewider design congestion around other amenities.By retail areas, whilereducing queuingand that we know willimprove dwell timesin to arrive atevidence-based solutions variety of designoptions, usingbigdata They allow ustotestandanalyse a that peopleusethespaces we create. by offering uniqueinsight into the way allow ustodeliver more for our clients environments for visitors, thesetools As well asrealising immersive arts programme. to supportadiverse international havein turn flexibility the adapt to variety of dynamicspaces, which them to enjoy andinteract witha sumptuous interior, encouraging the publicin to experience its The result isavenue that invites between insideandoutside. fluid spaces thatblur theinterface cultural centre insociety to realise reimaginingroleof the the in creating this landmarkvenue, BuroHappold have beeninvolved realm. Seven teams from across blends theatre, artand the public lies acultural sanctuary that the Xiqu Centre’s iconic facade Behind the sinuouscurves of CULTURAL DISTRICT, WEST KOWLOON XIQU CENTRE

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Image: Ema Peter 42 Berlin’s Kulturforum. the Philharmonie, whichalready define landmarks the Neue Nationalgalerie and stand alongsideexisting architectural become a modernmasterpiece that can visitors. On completion, NG20isset to internal climate stays comfortable for buffercreatinga ensure to thatthe inside spaces and the outsideworld by This removes the barrier between the museum to throw openitsdoors. an innovative air curtain that willallow services engineers, we have developed that itwillhouse.In our role asbuilding around the 20th-century artcollection spark interaction andinvite dialogue encounter, the NG20isdesigned to Envisaged asaplace of exploration and BERLIN, GERMANY NG20 MUSEUM Image: Cultural Innovations ANNUALREVIEW 18/19

Image: Herzog & de Meuron year round. comfortable environment for visitorsall within the museumandmaintain a both preserve the priceless artefacts devised passive strategies that can world, our buildingservices specialists most extreme climatesaround the low-energy solutionsinsomeof the long history of delivering pioneering its place beside the . Witha architecture andengineeringearns in approach, this remarkable feat of Monumental inscaleyet insightful GIZA, GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM and present work. technical backdrop for artists to create tandem to provide auniquespatialand flexibility tobesubdivided or work in havespaces grid, these full technical the its adjoining theatre. Equipped witha across the large warehouse buildingand interconnected performance spaces workedengineers togetherrealise to structural andbuildingservices as historicrail arches. BuroHappold’s new structure by retaining features such existing character of the area into the Studios site–our team engineered the venue standson the former Granada audience capacity of up to 7,000. The visual artandpopular culture withan The Factory supportsperformance, Manchester International Festival, Building on the success of the MANCHESTER, UK THE FACTORY

Image: Diller, Scofidio + Renfro commercial spaces itcontains. public, performance, educationand along with the complex ensembleof multi-layered concept for the centre ensure that we canrealise the porous, scheme. This collaborative approach will compact siteand the verticality of the strategyrespondsboth the that to efficient, integrated engineering to inform our development of ahighly using in-housevisualisationsoftware heart of London. Our analytics team are within onespectacular venue in the leading cultural institutions together The Centre for Music willbring three LONDON, UK CENTRE FOR MUSIC BUROHAPPOLD CULTURAL 43

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tracks within the building. the bridgescanslidealong backwards or forwards, If thetheatremoves movement joints. rotates onlow-friction left or right, eachbridge If thetheatremoves during anearthquake. can absorbmovement connections thatcustom The three bridgeshave solutions for thetwo buildings. come upwithdifferent yet compatible structural engineerswere challengedto of theneworb-shaped theatre, andour was avital consideration inthedesign Safety intheevent of anearthquake visitor experience. two venues andensure anunforgettable engineering solutionsthatwillunitethe seat theatre, providing integrated realisation of aglitteringnew1,000- of thehistoricSabanBuilding andthe We are working across therenovation the magicof thesilver screen tolife. Museum of Motion Pictures willbring architect Renzo Piano,theAcademy Designed by Prizker Prize-winning design element inthefinalbuilding. this solution,ithasbeenexposed asa earthquake. Such was theelegance of to 30inchesinany direction duringan allows theentire buildingtomove up an innovative baseisolation system that undertaking in-depth analysis todevelop creativity whenitcametothetheatre, earthquake. We were abletoflex our so itcould withstandthe force of an its existing steelandconcrete structure of theSabanBuilding, we strengthened To preserve thecharacter andintegrity BUROHAPPOLD CULTURAL

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“A good bridge is one that shows you what it is. It’s about that beautiful structure.” SPECIALIST Q&A Davood Liaghat What’s your role in the bridge team? Do you subscribe to the romantic idea Where does BuroHappold come in? Head of Bridge I’m the director and I lead the team. It’s that bridges bring people together? That kind of project requires many a fair-sized team that has built up over Absolutely. We did a bridge over the disciplines — not just for the structure, Engineering and the years. There was no bridge group at River Tiber in Rome — the Ponte della it’s also about things like crowd flow, Civil Structures BuroHappold when I joined — 2019 is Musica — which I started in 2000. For safety, security, utilities and drainage. If our twentieth anniversary. various reasons, it took 12 years to do. you’re the owner of a venue you have I developed a great passion for it. Who the headache of sourcing and managing What makes a good bridge? wouldn’t? It was one of the first bridges each of those specialities. We’ve got A bridge’s structure is all apparent. We over the Tiber for a long, long time. the experience to bring that package don’t generally clad it. You can see Enthusiasts and friends who go there together and run it for the client. how a well-designed and executed send us photographs of it being used bridge works in terms of the flow for concerts and fashion shows. People What interests you about where the of forces, how the loads are taken do yoga on it. Some bridges need to bridges specialism is heading? down to the foundations and the best become a place of their own. There are challenges in terms of engineering judgement, which means technology, new materials and delivering making it slender. A good bridge is one Which projects have you found efficiently. The future has to be about that shows you what it is, so it’s about especially rewarding lately? enabling these three matters to that beautiful structure. We’ve recently completed a major piece improve. Take the first point of how of infrastructure in Sunderland. That we can improve our computational So what makes a bad bridge? bridge is called the Northern Spire, work. Software has made the analytical Poor design. Have you ever been on the which crosses the Wear. Last year that process faster. We’ve got quite a lot of M25 going towards Gatwick Airport? was the third biggest bridge being these tools but they don’t necessarily There’s a pedestrian bridge, lots of built in the UK. Another great project talk to each other. They need to be cables. A very clunky mast, necessarily of ours is a moveable bridge across talking to each other more efficiently. huge structure. The proportions don’t harbour, known as the Lille seem right. Langebro, which has just opened to the What is the advantage of that? public. That one is so popular. In July, Improving communication using a Are there recurring challenges for people were diving off it to get cool. It’s common data format means that we can bridge projects? got a sloping side so the kids slide down automate model creation, which saves Bridges tend not to generate income. it and jump into the water. Wonderful. time and cuts human error. We’re doing It’s usually more about providing social code work to facilitate these processes, need and functionality than financial I’ve heard something about the “total so something that would have taken gain. So the challenge is to give every podium offer” that you’re developing… two weeks can now be done in a couple client that comes to us the most Let me explain. “Podium” is a generic of days. That allows us to devote more efficient, cost-effective bridge that we term for the platform leading to and time to the creative side of our work can deliver. surrounding a venue or a development while improving accuracy and safety. I where the building has to overcome must emphasise that, because when you Bridges seem to be quite quick to some obstruction, whether it’s a road, mention it to clients they say, “Great, I construct. Is that because there aren’t railway or tunnel. These days, because of can pay you less and you can do it in half loads of different disciplines involved? lack of space, there’s a lot of pressure the time.” It’s not always about getting That’s one of the things I absolutely to build over those existing assets. To everything done faster, of course. love about bridges! Of course, we use accomplish that, a lot of coordination other disciplines as and when we need and technical analysis has to be done. What’s the next big project on the it, such as support from our ground Podiums are places where you get horizon for the bridge team? engineers and lighting experts. Yes, we people and traffic going – a perfect We’re doing a major bridge over the work as a team — don’t get me wrong, example is the Stadium in north Danube in Budapest. That’s estimated at I love working as a team — but the London – so around it you need to have 180 million euros, which is a different structure, as I explained, is very much roads and platforms to get people in and scale of project for us. I’m looking what it is. out safely. They’re complex structures. forward to that. Hopefully, it won’t take 12 years like the one in Rome. Image: Harry Borden Harry Image:

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QUADRAM INSTITUTE NORWICH, UK Andy Parker Arranged over five storeys, Science and Technology Sector Director the Quadram Institute is a interdisciplinary facility dedicated to food science, gut biology and health. The first of its kind in Europe, the £60m facility opened its doors in 2018 to provide a flexible space for three organisations – the Institute of Food Research, the University of East Anglia and departments from the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital – while providing state-of- SCIENCE AND the-art facilities for NHS patients. Our work has contributed to the creation of spaces that encourage interaction, offer exceptional TECHNOLOGY laboratories and reduce emissions. Image: NBBJ Architects and photography by Nick Gutteridge Nick by and photography Architects NBBJ Image:

hat defines a science that BuroHappold has ever engineered. and technology project? The 23-storey building on the shores of Complexity, and the need the Hudson River will complement the for flexibility over time. high-spec East and West Towers. The complicated nature of laboratory design means providing A huge part of our work in this sector facilities for different scientists and involves securing and cementing researchers, who all have specific relationships with our clients. We have requirements. The Quadram Institute, close links with UCL and The Dyson which opened this year, houses a Institute of Design Engineering at hospital, university and a government Imperial College in the UK; in the US, research institute, all with specific we have similarly strong bonds with needs. Our role as design engineers was Brown and Arizona State University. not only to accommodate these needs Our impeccable reputation has also now, but also to be adaptable enough to allowed us to join the Oxford University evolve our design during the project. Framework, which means that we are KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS guaranteed work on high-budget, Our recent project wins demonstrate high-profile research buildings for years Sector turnover £13.1m the trend for placing scientific to come. As percentage of company turnover 8% institutions within cities. Scientific centres used to be in secure countryside BuroHappold science and technology locations, but increasingly – especially engineers demonstrate, again and in London, New York and Boston – again, their insight, flexibility, skill and research companies and universities tenacity on every project we do. We are building clusters of interconnected design buildings that give scientists the institutions to stimulate innovation and freedom to work in a way that inspires increase productivity. This connectivity them, giving them the space and tools is appealing to researchers and to make a difference to the world. This scientists, many of who prefer to work makes me very proud, and drives me near amenities, transport links and their and the team to design and build better, peers. The Alexandria Centre for Life every year. Science North Tower reflects this trend, and is also the tallest laboratory building Image: NBBJ Architects and photography by Luke Hayes Luke by and photography Architects NBBJ Image:

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WELLESLEY COLLEGE, GLOBAL FLORA COLLECTION AT THE MARGARET FERGUSON GREENHOUSES WELLESLEY, MA, USA A research platform for exploring the interface of biology and the physical sciences in the built environment. This 6,200ft2 greenhouse enclosure includes desert and Mediterranean-type climates, subtropical wetlands and tropical habitats, plus an exterior cold zone. BuroHappold’s goal was to minimise the facility’s carbon footprint and use of potable water supply, while maximising sunlight penetration and minimising heat exchange requirements. ETFE pillow technology minimises structural weight and creates maximum transparency for the plants. SIR MICHAEL UREN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING HUB LONDON, UK The Michael Uren Biomedical

Image: Kennedy & Violich Architecture Kennedy Image: Engineering Hub is a new purpose-built facility on the Imperial West campus at White City, London. The centre houses life-changing research into new and affordable medical technology, helping people affected by a diverse range of conditions. The building comprises a mix of laboratory and office space for interdisciplinary, translational research initiatives at the interface of biomedical sciences and engineering. Image: BuroHappold Engineering BuroHappold Image:

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BUILDING VII TEMPE, AZ, USA A 258,000ft2 research facility and comprehensive addition to Arizona State University’s growing research district AIRBUS WING on the Tempe campus. BuroHappold INTEGRATION CENTRE is providing integrated engineering BRISTOL, UK services for the facility, and one of the key challenges is striking a balance BuroHappold is designing a bespoke between creating sufficient daylight at strong wall and floor for this flagship the same time as minimal solar gain. Our aircraft wing testing facility. Both facade consultants used both the specific elements needed to be designed to form and material of each facade system the highest execution class, which is in the building, which are informed usually reserved for nuclear testing directly by the sun path, to balance the plants. Accordingly, we specified a steel light and heat. modular reaction wall and a floor that features 663 high-capacity anchors held within tolerance by a system of trusses. A 3D model of the floor reinforcement enabled the contractors to install each element accurately and quickly. Image: BuroHappold Engineering BuroHappold Image: Image: Architekton | Grimshaw Architekton Image:

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The Lab Analytics tool being used to model movement and areas of congregation within Meeting of minds a scientific research institute. Creating spaces for big ideas

Good ideas happen when people Studies on workplaces and labs have interact. In a laboratory, university or shown that several factors impact research institute, people tend to have the quality and efficiency of working chance encounters in corridors, at the environments. These factors include the LAB ANALYTICS coffee point or near meeting rooms. quality of the spaces, the organisational What factors affect productivity in a But what if a building could increase structure and culture, communication science or technology environment? that connectivity? What if we could patterns, types and diversity of people “engineer” those chance meetings, employed and operational processes. making them not only more likely to happen, but also increase their depth Combining these factors and studying and meaning? them provides a powerful, holistic assessment of the effectiveness of As part of BuroHappold’s analytics the research environment. When service, our science and technology incorporated into an interactive ENVIRONMENT team have developed a tool that does assessment tool benchmarked by big Temperature just that. By modelling a day-in-life of data, we analyse a diverse range of Humidity your building, we map people flow, options and refine strategic, design and CO2 behaviours and activities, looking at operational decisions that maximise Noise connections and stopping points. outcomes for every client. Light Our new designs then increase the opportunities for these chance Our strategic assessment tool helps interactions, making the environment research organisations to understand more appealing to people, and where they stand and which parameters ultimately increasing productivity and can be leveraged to efficiently maximise quality of outputs. research effectiveness. BHE PEOPLE BuroHappold’s Lab Analytics People location assessment tool Footfall Level of interaction The effectiveness of research Dwell time environments is a complex issue and Productivity easily overlooked as being too difficult Movements to assess, predict or optimise. Each Productivity in a research Diversity year, UK organisations invest billions environment means Culture on research. How to use that budget generating good ideas and wisely is a key question for every acting on them. We want to institution. Should it be spent on increase that productivity people, equipment, capital projects by modelling and then for new refurb facilities or investment adjusting the environment in small, start-up research firms? We to optimise it for every are developing a data-driven approach person who works there. SPACE to facilitate these decisions, which Space utilisation Learn more ultimately improves predictability and Meeting room utilisation about Lab research success. Desk utilisation Analytics. Andy Parker, Science and Elevator vs. stair usage Technology Sector Director Visibility Image: Getty Images/shironosov Getty Image:

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“Taking an advisory role and developing relationships lets us help clients in the best possible way.” SPECIALIST

Q&A When you tell people that you’re a How important is technology in getting What would you say is a facade crime? facades engineer, what tends to be the best results? I’d say a facade that is not created their next question? We’ve been using computational analysis holistically with the building, which is What’s that? I’ll usually explain that and scripting to enable what we do for when the design is crowbarred in later I take what an architect has dreamt a long time. More and more now, we’re and achieves less elegant and efficient up and make it feasible. Also, there’s collaborating with architects on this. If results. Also, glass quality. It’s got typically a variety of requirements that we have a script, then we share that with better over the years, but getting that the client wants, whether it’s residential architects or we link the two together. glass quality can be difficult to achieve Charis Cosmas or commercial, and all of them have Once you start and get into a rhythm or hard to control without the right Associate Facades Designer a slightly different emphasis. Cost is with it, that can be really powerful. specification. That’s something we really often a large factor, but always balanced hone in on – we have a very strong by the performance and technical Can the simplest facade sometimes be specification. Another thing about glass requirements. It’s considering all of the most challenging to realise? is that it’s supposed to be transparent, these various things. Definitely. is my big project so if it’s not – or it has weird reflections at the moment, which is a £1 billion – that tends to stand out, I find. I guess a common assumption might development of an iconic heritage be that facade engineering is all about building in west London. There’s a Are there common challenges for how the building looks… retained facade and then there’s a facade engineering wherever you are in It is important, how it looks, but the whole masterplan of new buildings and the world? facade is a complex part of the building. facade elements. Even though it looks We’re a global team. I lived and worked We collaborate with most disciplines – a simple and crisp, the facade is actually in Hong Kong and for three big one is acoustics, especially on urban very complex. It’s a steel window system years. It doesn’t matter where you are residential projects. When a building is on a large scale. That’s rare, but we’ve in the world, each client has a different surrounded by traffic and railway lines learnt a lot from similar work that we’ve story and something central that really there are strict noise requirements, but done on , which matters to them. It’s about listening you also want to have a delicate facade has proved beneficial in making this and responding to that. One client that can be ventilated and looks good project a success. Assisting the client in might just want the building done really with lots of light coming in. The more understanding the procurement routes quickly. For another, it’s all about getting open you make something, the more and which contractors could deliver it the quality but keeping costs down. Then noise ingress you’re going to have, so was one piece of the puzzle. There’s a you’re looking at repetition, how you it’s about looking for the magic space lot more complexity to it than meets the can get the most out of materials and where that tension comes together and eye… which has been fun! the best reduction in the depth of the we can create something great. facade. More internal area usually means Is it accurate to say that facades are more value. Where does the facade begin and end? subject to trends? Does the front door count? Yes. At the moment precast concrete So the odd centimetre here and there Yes. When you look at a building, is in. There was a time when terracotta adds up across an entire building? everything you see on the outside to was fashionable. Glass is always popular. Exactly. the internal – what you touch on the What’s becoming a trend – well, not inside – is a facade. The full wall build-up a trend, more of an impactor – are What do you think is special about what and the insulation all count. The glazing. energy performance and sustainability the facades team offers our clients? The frame holding the glazing. The solid requirements, which are getting more Obviously, we are technically on top wall. You’re layering on components stringent as climate change becomes of our game. We also work within the that overlap and affect each other. a dominant global issue. Meeting those wider specialists group so we can draw Something that benefits you in one while maintaining the visual is becoming upon other expertise. Most importantly, area might negatively affect another. increasingly challenging. Finding ways to we develop close relationships with It’s that marriage of the different make all that work and really deliver the our clients by listening to their needs. components and performances that best value is the new frontier of how to Understanding what they want lets us you’re trying to find. push things forward. deliver the best possible advisory role. 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5% £9.1m A Aviation Sector Director Karl Lyndon energy consumption. design, resulting ina50%reduction in and sustainablepractices throughout its engineers were abletoweave passive capacity toexpand to75million.Our passengers uponopeningwiththe terminal intheworld, serving 45million facility issettobecome thelargest International Airport. This landmark Take, for example, Beijing Daxing lightest impact onour planet. exceptional facilities thathave the that enableustodesignanddeliver pioneering computational programmes Air andRail sector, we are developing all aspectsof our practice. Withinthe and emerging technologiestoenhance environment, we are embracing new As leadersinthedigitalbuilt performance, world-class transit hubs. the earlieststage,we canrealise high- market needs.By shapingprojects at travellers andincreasingly complex changing expectations of international aspirations of our clients withthe 40 years, we have beenaligningthe for commercial exchange. For over and openupvital gateways countries andcontinents, connect peopleacross cities, places of possibility. They irports andrail stationsare Rail Sector Director Justin Phillips travellers for years tocome. Center —willremain inthememoriesof Regional TransportationIntermodal as West Kowloon Terminus andAnaheim Heydar Aliyev —andrail stationssuch such asOsloGardermoen andNew and delight. Across theworld, airports continue todeliver projects thatamaze over years working inthissector, we our knowledge andexpertise gained By marryingmoderntechnology with unrivalled passenger experience. optimise financial return andensure an and designoptions toreduce risk, space, sowe canrapidly testscenarios that mappeoplemovement through a uses datatogenerate real-time models Our uniquePassenger Analyticstool evidence-based engineeringsolutions. consequences of our designs and deliver models thatallow usto fully explore the generate multidimensionalvirtual We are alsodrawing onbigdatato the future of sustainableaviation. terminal that setsahighbar for impressive, the result isaniconic functional andaesthetically desired by our client. Highly us to render the spacious areas design into the form, allowing to integrate the engineering closely withZaha Hadid Architects our concept. We worked extremely were key in the development of and intuitive easeof navigability Environmental drivers, adaptability unique passenger experience. Daxing International delivers a to sustaingrowth, Beijing and builtwith the flexibility User-focused, energy-efficient, BEIJING, CHINA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BEIJING DAXING

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Image: Getty Images/ansonmiao 58 AIR AND RAIL passenger flow, whichsaved overall building costs. floor area andnumber of ticket gates could be reduced withoutimpacting planning of the retail concourse. Our work alsoshowed that the internal on everything from the placement of stairs,liftsandescalators, to the to ensure itprovides aseamlessandcoherent passenger experience, advising Our analyticsexperts mapped the movement of people through the station comprise the Metro system. It isalso oneof the largest andbusiest. Olaya isoneof three architecturally significant stationsamong the85 that RIYADH, KINGDOM OF OLAYA METRO STATION ANNUALREVIEW 18/19

Image: BuroHappold Engineering gateway to Hong Kong. spectacularaddition tothis visual through the maincomplex andastriking main station,creating acohesive route walkways that radiate outfrom the bridge engineersdesigned the seven the vast, 200m-wide terminus roof. Our realising the uniquefree-form shapeof boundaries of structural engineeringin offices pushthe worldto around the We drew onexpertise from 11of our that we have worked oninrecent years. the most technically demandingprojects West Kowloon Terminus Station isoneof DISTRICT, HONG KONG WEST KOWLOON CULTURAL STATION KOWLOONWEST TERMINUS

Image: Gerber Architekten/bloomimages the world. efficient andmostsustainableairport in Heathrow as the best-connected, most establishprogramme aims to that and deliver anambitious expansion as partof anintegrated team to design with the UK’sbusiest airport,working been selected to continue our journey satellite pier at Terminal 2.We have of anew transport interchange and Terminals 3and4, to the realisation from the complete redevelopment of complete over 300projects –ranging has spanned25years, andseenus Our relationship withHeathrow Airport in economic activity for the region. generate approximately $1.66million life of the airportby 40years and project isexpected to extend the outdoor plazas.On completion, this while creating attractive indoor and and security andbaggageoperations will consolidate check-in, ticketing, terminal with51departure gates the region. Addition of anew tourists andmore businesses to that attracts more flights, more performance, cost-efficient facility will provide the city withahigh- the modernisationof itsairport establish itselfon the world stage, As Pittsburgh continues to LONDON, UK PITTSBURGH, PA, USA TERMINAL MODERNISATION PITTSBURGH AIRPORT BUROHAPPOLD AIR AND RAIL 59

Image: Gensler + HDR in association with luis vidal + architects Blue sky thinking delivers real world benefits How engineeringin the virtualrealm and withinalive airportenvironment. solutions according toademandingprogramme way, we could deliver elegant, cost-effective challenge andrefine theinitialbrief. In this stakeholders andwider project teamto BuroHappold worked closely withtheclient, As civil, structural and facade engineers, and anintuitive passenger experience. 80,000m 2 isbeingextended andreconfigured over storey car parkare beingcreated, and Terminal in passenger numbers,newpiersandamulti- million peopleayear. To accommodate thisrise UK’s third busiestairport from 28millionto55 increase theexisting runway capacity of the This £1bntransformation programme will 60 AIR AND RAIL ANNUALREVIEW 18/19 2 todeliver high-performance facilities MANCHESTER, UK MANCHESTER AIRPORT without compromise. have allowed ustodeliver our client’s vision a succession of outcome-driven solutionsthat support totheon-site team. This hascreated reduced riskonsiteandprovided valuable achieved considerable timeandcost savings, drive benefitsacross theproject. We have technologies ensured thatwe were ableto This boldandintelligent useof thevery latest rectify problems before work startedonsite. contractor inthevirtual world toidentify and agile withour designsandwork alongsidethe the evolving airportinBIMenabledustobe and maintaining ahighly accurate modelof extension withinonecoherent model.Creating test our structural design for the Terminal 2 programmes thatallowed ustoanalyse and We developed innovative computational

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lateral forces. blast, gravitational and of withstandingimmense deliver astructure capable of steelwork required to 8,000 tonnesanalyse the data. In this way, we could process large amounts of enabled us to rapidly softwaredesign. This which to develop our coordinated modelin tools to create acombined, together multiple analysis programmepulled that write anew computer we usedGrasshopper to structure of the extension, To realise the complex Facing pageandright. Image: BuroHappold Engineering ensured that we were able to drive benefitsacross theproject. This boldandintelligent useof the very latest technologies Discover more aboutour groundbreaking work at Manchester Airport. BUROHAPPOLD

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housands of Hong Kong around what mass housing means to the citizens live in “coffin built environment,” says Wolf. “The urban apartments” half the size form is not the goal. It’s an outcome, of a parking space. Over yes, but the goal is the performance.” 500,000 people are on the growing waiting list for rented The broad objective of Wechselwirkungen accommodation in Stockholm is to create mass housing with a sense – many of those hoping to be of place. Pleasant public spaces and centrally located will not move in before the bustle of street life are central to T2040. A 2016 survey by the Royal College achieving this goal. In accomplishing of Nursing claimed that 40% of London this via parametric modelling, Wolf nurses plan to leave the capital within five proposes breaking down blanket quality years solely due to the cost of housing. of life parameters, such as “Safety and Spiralling unaffordability is a quandary Security”, into their defining components. faced by booming cities the world over. In the case of “Safety and Security”, this The answer is to build lots more homes might include visibility, lighting, policing, as quickly as possible, right? Not entirely. walkability, mix of use, hours of activity and so on. “All of them, to a greater “Successful metropolitan areas suffer or lesser extent, have an influence on from the same problems,” says Wolf how safe and secure a place is,” Wolf Mangelsdorf, group director for structures explains. “But none of them solve the based in BuroHappold’s New York office. problem individually.” The same process “Too little housing, enormous price is applied to desired outputs, for example increases and rents that price people out a “Lively Street Space”. Among the of living there. All these places that are integral elements here are mix of use, doing well economically have a housing hours of activity, lighting, visibility, public shortage and a house price problem.” The transport, density, street level retail and answer to these woes is typically expressed walkability. Evidently, there is overlap as a numerical target attached to a “Successful between the constituent parts of “Lively deadline. However, quantity and speed of Street Space” and “Safety and Security”. construction are, Wolf explains, only part metropolitan The model takes this into account, of a viable long-term solution. “Target areas suffer linking all of the individual parameters numbers carry the risk of being the only to objectives and outputs before using focus,” he says. “We must not neglect the from the same data to analyse overall performance as quality of the urban neighbourhoods that problems. Too adjustments are made to the design. The we are going to build or radically alter, little housing, net effect is that every consequence of nor can we afford to disregard those who any change, however small or improbable, live there.” Quality of life for residents, enormous price is captured and communicated. then, also needs to be evaluated as part increases and of the mass housing design process. rents that price “We connect everything to everything,” Defining, measuring and demonstrating says Wolf. “I explained this to a friend this potentially nebulous concept is a people out of of mine in Germany who was very much complex procedure made possible by living there.” into this sort of placemaking. He said, a computational modelling approach ‘Yes, it’s all about the Wechselwirkungen’. that Wolf calls Wechselwirkungen. Wolf Mangelsdorf It’s a German word that doesn’t really Group Director, Structures translate into English. The interrelation The seeds of this notion were sown in of seemingly unconnected things, that’s 2014, when Wolf was asked to mentor the connotation. Once you look at all one of the teams participating in a these interconnections – or the reciprocal THE LINKS EFFECT workshop convened to rethink modular effects between different things – then design. This week-long exercise took you start grasping the bigger picture.” place at Domaine de Boisbuchet, a leafy How a new computational approach called French estate with minimal distractions. Aided by a meticulously assembled The result was a parametric design tool PowerPoint presentation, Wolf provides Wechselwirkungen can analyse mass housing’s for modular architecture. This system a comprehensive rundown of the interconnected design aspects to improve can create unique buildings tailored to Wechselwirkungen modelling process. site conditions, aesthetic demands or “There’s this idea that you make it very quality of life for residents environmental performance criteria; utilitarian, this almost mechanistic view maximised off-site prefabrication keeps of the world,” he says. “Then these ideas costs low while maintaining quality. “That of place come in.” On his laptop, Wolf led, somehow, to more in-depth thinking calls up images of deserted communal gardens embellished with sharp hedges Image: Getty Images/BuroHappold Engineering Images/BuroHappold Getty Image:

BUROHAPPOLD 63 COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES and desultory water features. “No one which would have necessitated time, there’s transparency that allows Wechselwirkungen is a would ever go there. This is not a place bulldozing 14 blocks and displacing us to open the process to stakeholders computational modelling for people. You go somewhere like Soho, over 2,000 families. A similarly strong and start meaningfully engaging them in approach that emphasises street interaction and quality of life New York, or Kreuzberg in Berlin and desire to maintain and nurture a vibrant shaping their own built environment.” in urban mass housing design. you feel that they work. They’re not connection between building and street This allows consensus to be reached on pretty, necessarily, but they have a good is what underpins Wechselwirkungen. the objectives and aspirations of the mix of people living there and using the stakeholders, from which quality of life street. Some buzz. Where life spills out Subjectively speaking, the basics of parameters can be weighted. From there, on the street, where you have people Wechselwirkungen are easy to grasp but the environment and existing urban feeling safe and secure, you create liveable – for a non-technical audience – the fine context – such as the climate and the spaces. I kind of linked that back to detail is slightly trickier to glean. “Yes, it is landscape – set the project’s immovable Jane Jacobs and eventually got to this.” a reasonably complex sort of approach,” boundary conditions and calibrate the Wolf agrees. “I have presented this at model. This is where the design process Jane Jacobs was a writer and activist who numerous conferences and the response begins; buildings, infrastructure and strongly believed in a community-based has always been very positive. People space configurations can be trialled and style of urban development. In her 1961 get the basic idea but really looking at the effects on performance, as shown by book, The Death and Life of Great American what’s under the bonnet can be rather the quality of life parameters, evidenced. “We’re delivering the Cities, she identified four conditions that difficult.” What is clear, however, is that For residents, the information could necessary transparency are indispensable for a city’s streets and this method allows a sensible degree not be more straightforward – this is districts to “generate exuberant diversity”: of stakeholder input without detriment what any given scenario will look like, and allowing decisions mixed primary uses, short blocks to to delivery. Urban planning tends to and this is how it will affect your life. to be tested while the make neighbourhoods more walkable, follow a traditional top-down process, process of design buildings that vary in age and condition, whereby a single design is presented as “Theoretically, I can model an infinite and sufficient population density. As all but the finished article. Subsequent number of different versions of the remains firmly in the a resident of New York, Jacobs was discussion really only countenances minor same thing but I can only build one,” space it should occupy, reacting to the wilfully top-down urban modifications. This can disenfranchise Wolf continues. “That’s the key piece. which is between science, Moka-Studio/URW Image: renewal of the city’s master builder Robert the community, though the lack of I have to choose one. The more that Moses. An unelected but hugely powerful deliberation does keep the project under I can engage the community in that art and intuition.” public official from the 1920s to the control and moving forward. Conversely, selection process, the more likely it late 1960s, Moses shaped NYC through widespread consultation via a pure is that I arrive at that decision with ambitious works including bridges, parks, bottom-up process, while democratic, as broad a buy-in as possible. highways and landmark construction is not only difficult to manage but projects such as Shea Stadium. Jacobs, also risks glacial progress that could “It’s also about leaving enough room to who lived in Greenwich Village, first stall investment. Wechselwirkungen grow, which is quite important, I think. came up against Moses in 1955 when offers a practical compromise. Not everything must be designed and she involved herself in a planning battle predetermined. A sociologist at LSE, it, but the whole thing is sterile. It fell doctrine, clusters of tall, single-use blocks that normally happens so it’s totally over a proposed four-lane road through “Through this model that we’re Richard Sennett, calls it loose fit cities. If into social disrepair. That was built in stand isolated from the street; the vertical compatible,” he explains. “What we’re Washington Square Park. One notable proposing, we offer a middle way where you look at somewhere like the Heygate 1974 and, 40 years later, it’s torn down. plane is claimed for living space while the lacking as engineers, very often, is the subsequent clash helped to shelve plans you get the security of the top-down Estate [vast neo-brutalist development This is not a sustainable model”. horizontal is given over to car usage, and wilfulness of the designer, the thinking for the Lower Manhattan Expressway, planning because everything is predictable, in south London], every route has lots of it. The most famous example of around just making a decision because we electronically,” says Wolf. “At the same been predetermined and all the rest of Indeed, Sennett’s 2009 essay, The this scheme is Le Corbusier’s provocative like something. I don’t think we should Public Realm, touches on how over- 1925 Plan Voisin, an unrealised proposal be trying to occupy that intuition and determined visual forms and social that recommended levelling two square wilfulness kind of area – I’ve seen stuff functions prevent city structures from miles of central Paris to make way for that was designed purely by engineers. adapting when conditions change. He eighteen cruciform high-rise buildings. It is often aesthetically horrendous.” refers to such rigidity as giving rise to Symmetrical and standardised, this ascetic a “dinosaur effect”, whereby buildings blueprint has proved extremely influential Rather, by offering Wechselwirkungen as The Stuyvesant Town–Peter are either torn down or – in extreme a collaborative tool, we have a vital role to Cooper Village development upon city planning. In his aforementioned in exemplifies cases – simply abandoned because they essay, Richard Sennett prefaces his play in the timely creation of sustainable the modernist “towers in the cannot be repurposed as the city evolves. thoughts on the Plan Voisin by saying that mass housing where people actually want park” style that isolates Born in in 1943, Sennett saw a he does not wish to engage in “the critic’s to live. “We’re delivering the necessary housing from the street. promising career as a cellist ended by a pleasurable exercise of architect-bashing.” transparency and allowing decisions to hand injury before becoming a leading Nonetheless, Sennett subsequently be tested while the process of design social thinker. As a boy, he lived in the makes it plain that he is no fan of Le remains firmly in the space it should Cabrini-Green public housing project. Corbusier’s disdain for the impurity of occupy, which is between science, art and This estate would eventually deteriorate disordered street life as expressed by intuition,” says Wolf. “Designing is very into one of the most notorious, crime- over-determined buildings that sacrifice much about making choices. By enabling ridden slums in the entire United adaptive capacity for purity of form. architects to make more informed States before being systematically choices, what we can accomplish demolished between 1995 and 2011. In addressing the past and present together only becomes stronger.” BHE problems of mass housing via highly Cabrini-Green was an archetypal sophisticated means, it might appear example of the modernist “towers in that Wechselwirkungen smudges the line the park” style as conceived by Swiss- between architect and engineer. Not so, born French architect Le Corbusier. It says Wolf. “Architects might feel that we is precisely this type of development are sort of encroaching into their territory

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A network andcontinuing our 100RC we are developing ’s transport County ontheir actionplan.In Asia, cities; we are alsoworking withLA tackling climatechangeinAmerican 80x50 planissettingtheagenda for principles. Our work inNew York onthe on car-free anddigitalsustainable residential masterplanwith anemphasis development inGermany, anambitious projects includethe Gartenfeld emergency. Urban Development committed totacklingtheclimate Every teamatBuroHappold is growth andimproves quality of life. infrastructure, accelerates economic and build. This creates efficiencies in and dataisbeingusedtoplan,design ground-breaking intermsof how tech and theAl-Ula cultural masterplanis “giga projects” suchasNeom, Amaala over thenext five years. Our work on billion and£663per annum is forecast togrow tobetween £250 demand for “Smart Cities”technology How we buildcitiesischanging. The focused on fulfilling thatdemand. has never beengreater. BuroHappold is urban development andregeneration demand for high-quality, sustainable billion peoplewilllive incities. The billion of theworld’s 8.1 a year. By 2030, nearly five growing by 60millionpeople world’s urbanpopulationis ccording totheUN, Managing Director –Cities Alan Harbinson consistently exceed expectations. technology, our engineeringdesigns widen our knowledge andembrace use them.By continuing todeepenand offer ahighquality of life for thosewho and citiestobesmart,sustainable We want allof BuroHappold’s buildings Budapest hasbegun on anewbridgespanningtheDanube in delivered. Looking ahead,designwork in Arkansas hasbeensuccessfully Providence River Pedestrian Bridge Langbro, hasopened.Similarly, the swing bridgeinCopenhagen, Lille Elsewhere, thenewdouble-opening technical andfinancialperspectives. alternative land-usescenarios from both work inreconfiguring Detroit, testing markets. One example intheUSisour Indian, AmericanandMiddle East particularly important inour Asian, Urban regeneration hasbeen Bangalore Airport. and themultimodalinterchange at project, Embassy Knowledge Park, we are working onanewtownship work inMelaka. Meanwhile, inIndia,

budgets atevery stageof life. will offer ahighstandard of living for all of green space. This “connected city” buildings, aswimming pooland28acres units there willbeshoppingareas, public developments. Aswell as7,000 residential are usually applied to muchsmaller criteria for districtcertification, which to meet the 30strictDGNBsustainability Hamburg city centre. BuroHappold aims 124-hectare development close to This isalarge-scale masterplanfor a HAMBURG, GERMANY OBERBILLWERDER BUROHAPPOLD URBAN DEVELOPMENT 67

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adopted infuture project phases. maypioneering technologiesthat be and challenges,we have identified some of the sustainability opportunities solutions donot yet exist to address this uniquearea. Where technical enhancing the ecological balance of BuroHappold iscommitted to facilities, andsupportinginfrastructure. a yacht marina,leisure andlifestyle inland resorts, aswell asanairport, 14 hotels across five islandsand two 2022, willsee the construction of of the project, due to complete in tourism development. Phase One masterplan for this uniqueluxury complete anoverall andaPhase One WATG Architects, Irvine, USA to BuroHappold worked alongside KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA RED SEA PROJECT

Image: Mumbai Port Trust/HCP Design structural depth. helped minimise the bridge’sprimary between the movable spans,which incorporated amoment connection fabrication. Anengineeringinnovation standards of designdetailing and sweeping form demandedprecise watercourse for shipping. The bridge’s swinging spans to provide anavigable crossingincorporateslying that two The concept was for anelegant, low- bridge across Copenhagen Harbour. Consulting to designanew movable BuroHappold, WilkinsonEyre andEadon competition, Realdania appointed Following aninternational design COPENHAGEN, DENMARK LILLE LANGEBRO

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Image: BuroHappold Engineering area and the wider Royal Docks. between the Lea Valley regeneration station. It willmake akey strategic link walkway, two riverside parksandaDLR includes aprimary school,river restaurants andbars. The masterplan workspace and75,000ft²of shops, 5,000 homes,200,000ft²of industrial/ to submitaplanningapplicationfor GLA LandandProperty Ltd (GLAP) working withKeystone London and of the Thames. BuroHappold hasbeen use development on the northbank Thameside West isa40-acre, mixed- LONDON, UK THAMESIDE WEST BUROHAPPOLD URBAN DEVELOPMENT 69 What’s thebigidea? selected 20talented individuals from brightest mindsintheindustry, we to recruit, retain anddevelop the to thiscause.Asapractice thatstrives and development initiative, is dedicated Urban C:Lab,our pioneering research A catalyst for change challenges thatwe face together. find new ways totacklethe complex we need to disrupt theoldorder and precarious thanever. Collectively, are makingour existence feel more urbanisation andunstablegovernance a climateemergency, increasing turbulent times. The needtodeclare relevant or important thanintoday’s Never have theseprinciples felt more possibility anddeliver real change. practice, tostretch theboundariesof co-creation withpartners outsideour global community of experts, andseek experience andknowledge across our we work together. That iswhy we pool We know thatwe are stronger when facing society. to theseemingly intractable problems use them,we thrive onfindingsolutions environments for thecommunities that commitment todesign positive urban foundations and fuelled by a 40 years. Standing onsustainable shaping our builtenvironment for over that hasbeenatthe forefront of BuroHappold isaprogressive practice 70 URBAN DEVELOPMENT ANNUALREVIEW 18/19 complex issues and tackle someof society’s most working to challengeconvention programme ischampioningcollective BuroHappold’s pioneeringUrban C:Lab urban challenges.” we canfind ways toaddress emerging strategic planninganddesign,sothat together topushtheboundariesof We allshare acommitment toworking global offices andour externalnetwork. by unitingindividuals from across our any barrierstocollaborative working “This supportsour aimof removing of Urban C:Lab,Gavin Thompson. practice,” says Partner and founder range of disciplines from withinour “The 20participants represent adiverse change astheconsultants of tomorrow. hierarchies toinfluence meaningful smash through silosandhurdle over partners toquestionthestatusquo, experts andengagingwithexternal of two years, they are working withour intensive programme. Over thecourse across BuroHappold toembarkonthis that willdeliver positive change. develop itinto aproposition or project of interest withinthesethemesandto is encouraged tochoosea focus area capital andgovernance. Eachmember of resource, regeneration, natural commercialisation, design,scarcity the climateemergency, urbanisation, of guiding key themes. These include C:Lab group isinvestigating aseries Within thisoverarching aim,theUrban Exploring thebigissues the globe. the safety of women incitiesaround unconscious biasof urbanplannerson economic forecasting, toexploring the occupation rates to allow for better assets, tofinding ways of predicting development potential of stranded creating toolstoevaluate the fromrangeemerging. These areas of exploration are Already, someinteresting Academy of Urbanism. and apartnershipagreement withthe strategic advisors totheprogramme, Care Medicine atUCL,asexternal Montgomery, Professor of Intensive architect Reinier deGraaf, andHugh the engagement of acclaimed urban development. These include interdisciplinary approaches to relationships that encourage by developing partnershipsand co-working beyond thepractice Urban C:Labseekstopromote organisational procedures. deliberately unconstrained by routine within anenrichedenvironment thatis external collaborators andclients agenda. This includesworking with ideas withinanagileandsupportive by exploring andimplementing the builtenvironment isunderpinned meaningful andbeneficialchangein This bigthinkingaround ways totrigger A collective approach

Gavin Thompson, planning anddesign,so that emerging urbanchallenges. we canfind ways toaddress the boundariesof strategic We allshare acommitment to work togetherto push to Partner and founder of Urban C:Lab those inattendance. Emergency hadaprofound effect on entitled Hugh Montgomery, whoselecture Another recent talkwas given by low-income urbanandrural areas. infrastructure toalleviate poverty in water andenvironmental sanitation his groundbreaking work around using Himanshu Parikh spoke tousabout award-winning structural engineer lecture onthe future of architecture; Reinier deGraaf delivered our first important andprovocative issues. to share their opinionsonarange of at whichguestspeakers are invited C:Lab hasinitiatedaseriesof events and amongour external partners,Urban To sparkdebatethroughout our practice Challenging preconceptions Engineering theClimate Change the future of our planet. people across the world andsafeguard so thatwe cantruly improve life for is committed tomakingchangehappen, deliver tangiblesolutions.Urban C:Lab we transform theway we work and Only by changingtheway we thinkcan and newsolutionstotheproblem.” and creating new paradigms, newideas, hasn’t been.We shouldallbestriving change relatable, and for alongtime it think Hugh found away tomake climate engineer andUrban C:Labmember. “I says Mohamed Gaafar, infrastructure I’ve ever heard onclimatechange,” “It was themostimpactfullecture about Urban C:Lab Find outmore activities here BUROHAPPOLD URBAN DEVELOPMENT

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What we do and how we deliver is evolving. Misti Melville, Global HR Director, discusses the application of neuroscience, the impact of technology and how BuroHappold’s clients benefit from our multifaceted skills base hat makes a great engineering How has BuroHappold Tell me about neuroleadership. firm? It used to be enough to evolved in recent years? Why is it so important? create exceptional buildings and cities. Now, however, BuroHappold has changed a lot in the The neuroscience of leadership, increased competition, higher time I have been with the practice. We neuroleadership, is the study of global building standards have made great strides across all our leadership and development from the Wand increasing urbanisation means that regions in adapting and growing our perspective of what happens in the firms have to offer their clients much business. One of our key changes has brain. It focuses on neuroscientific more than a standard design service in been to introduce neuroscience and research and knowledge in the areas of order to succeed. A deep understanding neuroleadership factors into the business leadership development, management of each client’s needs, truly sustainable and how we do things, which you can see training, change management, education, solutions, and specialist knowledge and in the My Career Plan and Objectives (My consulting and training. Dr. David Rock experience are all expected, at every level. CPO) portal. We also focus on a growth first coined the term “neuroleadership” mindset in our Career and Development in 2006 in his research on looking at Misti Melville is confident that and Key Objectives programme; by leadership from a biological perspective. BuroHappold Engineering fulfils that owning your own career you will have the expectation. She believes that this desire and confidence to learn new skills. Understanding neuroscience and is due to our people – the practice neuroleadership can really help people employs hundreds of extraordinary, Digitalisation is a key focus in our strategy to develop their full potential. Once we talented professionals who bring for the business; we are committed to understand what happens in the brain, transformative change to every continually improving and streamlining it can help us to deal with people in one of our clients’ businesses. our current processes. In order to be a more effective manner. The greater ready for changes in our markets, we need the understanding of the brain and Where do you see the future to adapt, to future-proof the business. how it operates, the more effective of work progressing? We have a number of initiatives including we will become at leading change, Project Digital 360◦, headed by Irfan communicating, managing relationships A recent report from detailed Soneji, to kick-start BuroHappold’s and achieving our business strategy. the risk businesses are facing with skills digital journey, as well as the appointment Other benefits gained from a better shortages. At BuroHappold, we are not of Tony Scott, global technology understanding include improved alone and are facing this very issue head- director, to turbocharge and refine the engagement, greater productivity, on. To future-proof the business, we need implementation of our digital strategy. to embrace technology to ensure we can change effectiveness, improved retention keep at pace with our changing external BuroHappold is committed to providing rates and a reduction in the costs environment. According to Capita’s multiple opportunities and channels associated with employee turnover, Digital Opportunity Report, 57% of jobs for our people, whatever their role, learning to lead and manage yourself and others. This understanding is are vulnerable to automation. Embracing location or grade. We want everyone imperative during highly stressful technology such as artificial intelligence to have the opportunity to be heard, situations such as periods of change. (AI) and robotic process automation gain feedback on how we can improve (RPA) can help to free up our time to and feel free to suggest creative or really focus on the more interesting and innovative ideas. One way we do this is insightful areas of everyone’s roles. We through Rungway, an online platform are already utilising a hybrid workforce that enables knowledge sharing across combining human and digital labour in the business. It’s a great way to encourage the BHoM (Buildings and Habitats object debate and discussion on issues people Model). I am certain we can push this feel strongly about, or when they want further and much faster than we have advice on any number of matters.

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A LEARNING CULTURE Five initiatives that help BuroHappold’s people to excel

What expertise and skills should we managers will always provide hands-on How does that strategy be growing across the business? guidance and support. Ultimately though, affect our people? Early Careers Development we all need to own our own careers, but Our core business has always been at BuroHappold, we want to provide a Our aim is to always remain sustainable A framework that provides a clear path from onboarding through engineering. However, we need to grow doorway to the opportunities available. and provide roles for people in the tough to the first three years of graduates’ professional careers. Offering on this fantastic foundation to provide times. We must remain attuned to our business and technical skills development, this includes a blended additional value to our clients with a How is tech changing our work? markets and continue doing what we mix of virtual education, on-demand digital learning and on-the- more multifaceted skills base. As Sarah are doing, not by reducing our project Rettker, vice president of investor Research company Insight Avenue has work but by growing where there is job experience supported by regular one-to-one review meetings. It engagement at the Georgia Chamber of found that L&D leaders are already capacity and the right opportunities. incorporates our existing ICE- and CIBSE-accredited training schemes. Commerce, says: “We are moving into deploying digital extensively within their an unprecedented and unpredictable learning environments, with an emerging Start-ups are true disruptors in the future where you must challenge focus on artificial intelligence, virtual market, and continue to shake up the Learning to Lead yourself to continue to gain new skills... reality and wearable technology. I believe traditional nine-to-five job market. embrace positive discomfort in order technology is great. However, I do not McKinsey found that about 30% of the An accelerated six-month blended learning programme for senior to evolve and to advance your career.” see it superseding human interaction. working-age population in Europe and and associate staff who are direct line managers. The course requires Our people need to continue to develop the United States engage in some form significant personal commitment in terms of time, energy and practice. So, we must develop our offering in strong relationship skills so that we not of gig work, and, according to Intuit, engineering, technology and consultancy, It is aimed at those who are about to be – or who have recently become only understand our clients’ needs but by 2020 approximately 43% of the – line managers and want to develop a long-term career in this direction. but also look to grow in areas such also elevate our services by offering workforce in the US will be freelancing. as relationship skills, knowledge valuable, far-reaching business insight. networking, digital and consulting, project We acknowledge that we will have to Leadership Development Programme management, negotiation, commercial What is our strategy in adapt our strategy and working practices acumen, collaboration and leadership. terms of growth? to reflect external market factors; we Designed to develop and support the next generation of senior leaders are currently trialling new agile working I always encourage our people to keep Gone are the days when companies held policies across various parts of the firm. of BuroHappold. The programme aims to fast-track the development looking at all the Opportunities pages on complete control and employees would of selected Directors (Principals) who have demonstrated they My Career (internal development tool). “We are a pearl in the remain with the same company for their What do people say about have the potential to become a senior leader in the near future. A secondment or transfer opportunity engineering world and entire career. These days it is far more life at BuroHappold? might be the best way for someone to sometimes underestimate about the employee experience. We broaden their skills and learning and know, as a business, recruitment of new Following the results from our 2019 Urban C:Lab we are always keen to assist with this. how good we are. I want talent and retention of our employees Culture Survey, we have taken on board to help our organisation are difficult and is a continuous journey. the feedback and are strengthening a How can employees own their careers few areas including management and Urban C:Lab, a two-year research and development programme that and our people to reach bypasses routine organisational procedures at BuroHappold. The aim and continue their professional and exceed their potential, For recruitment, the phrase often quoted leadership, communication, and career and career development now? is finding the right people with the right and development. Our people are our is to equip each “C:Labber” with the knowledge and skills required to enhance thought leadership, skills at the right time. Retention also business. Our culture and sense of influence real change in the communities we live and work in each day. CEO Neil Squibbs says, “Learning is a help shape exciting and presents a fine balance with recruitment, collaboration is why people like working priority”. We are so fortunate to have a and there are many reasons why people at BuroHappold, an opinion that is clearly CEO who is genuinely invested in people’s personally satisfying careers, and ensure that choose to stay or go, so we simply cannot supported by comments in the survey. Hackademies development and a continuous learning neglect the existing teams. In a way, we Employees highly rate our breadth of culture. Our L&D team has been working BuroHappold continues to should be re-recruiting them every day expertise and knowledge, our projects, A series of global events, getting under the skin of visual programming, hard to make learning more accessible, lead at the cutting edge of by empowering them to develop skills the freedom to get on with work, the including a rollout globally of virtual and other activities that are bringing our computational engineering our industry.” not just for now, but for a fast-changing overall culture, attention to diversity and courses. The My Career portal allows future, providing access to interesting our commitment to move forward. activities alive. With the explosion of data being generated with BIM anyone, graduate to Partner, to view all Misti Melville, Global HR Director work and projects, balancing work with technologies and engineers being challenged with some of the biggest learning opportunities, with programmes family and personal needs, providing agile So, what’s your final piece of advice? global mega trends ever like climate change and population growth, has such as Early Careers Development (first or flexibility of work and making sure there ever been a more exciting and important time to be an engineer? three years of graduates’ professional our culture and values resonate with our Never stop learning. Put your hand careers, offering business and technical people. We are taking steps to enhance up to grab opportunities even if skills development), Learning to Lead our brand to attract new recruits in our you are not sure if you are ready. (support people management and growth areas as well as improving our Take your continuing education and leadership skills for senior and associate employee experience to retain our top learning into your own hands. BHE grades) and our Leadership Development talent. We are pleased that 80% of our Programme (fast track development for hires are recruited by our in-house team. selected directors or principals). Line

74 ANNUAL REVIEW 18/19 BUROHAPPOLD 75 EDUCATION 76 EDUCATION ANNUALREVIEW 18/19 W create abuildingthatworks withinitsenvironment. Wherever thecampus,our globalteam canhelpto use, low carbonusageor minimalrunningcosts. whether that isstrikingdesign,flexible building clients tomeetthespecificneeds of eachproject, From there we work withour collaborators and quality ventilation, daylight, andsimplecontrols. The “basics”are always our startingpoint: high- vocational studiesandperforming arts. support specialist facilities suchassport,science, we canbring inexpertise from other sectorsto Our projects cover allrequired buildingtypes,so the needsandexpectations of every stakeholder. work with our clients todeliver solutionsthatmeet understands thatbudgetsare often tight, sowe for money becomes ever greater. BuroHappold student-centred spaces providing excellent value financial andacademicpressures, theneed for With universities andstudents facing increasing by theneedtorecruit world-class researchers. outcomes; for many of our clients thisisparalleled undergraduates andenhance learningandpersonal the quality of “thestudent experience” toattract business driven. The emphasishasshiftedtowards with many universities becoming increasingly become aparticular focus for us. This hascoincided Over thelastdecade, higher educationhas help students toachieve their full potential. can transform educationallife, stimulatemindsand in how effective their learningis.Goodbuildings that where peoplelearnisakey factor BuroHappold Engineering. We know portfolio, Education isakey sector for even more schools,inour global ith over ahundred universities, and caring community. for everyone whilehelpingtoestablishastrong and students, staffand visitors. This improves outcomes Optimising theenvironment canbenefitall to bereceiving theattention thatitdeserves. contributing tomental health, thisdoesnot seem sector. Whilethebuiltenvironment isakey factor view of the future withinthisrapidly developing and direct investment whiletakinga“whatif?” outcome-driven methodscanhelp to optimise and happy student lifestyle. Our data-fuelled and many of theissuesthatcanhelpwithaproductive of tools for studying,analysing, andpredicting wellbeing. BuroHappold hasdeveloped anumber environment canassistwithstudent mental We continue toinvestigate how thephysical revered institutions. solving challenges for someof theworld’s most Whatever thescale,BuroHappold persistsin Kimberly K.Querrey Biomedical Research Center. facilities of Chicago’s Louis A.Simpson and in Bath tothemagnificent high-rise research Kingswood Preparatory SchoolandNursery from newtimber buildingssetinwoodland for Engineering. Schemesinthisdiverse sector range Award inBuilding Design for theBrown Schoolof Scottish Property Awards andanAEC Excellence Engineers, the Judges Award of Excellence atthe from theChartered Institution of Building Services projects thisyear. Award winsinclude recognition As ever, we have delivered a fantastic range of Global Lead Education Sector Mike Entwisle Sector turnover of company turnover As percentage KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

8% £12.8m

sustainability isachieved by not only environment; ahighmeasure of by harmonisingwith the natural built to embody the centre’s ethos The structure hasbeendesignedand modelling andsustainability consulting. providing MEPengineering,energy designLAB architects, withBuroHappold interventions by the team ledby been achieved through innovative world. Net zero water andenergy have and the 23rd in the the fourth suchcertified project in a 9,000ft Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Challenge achieved the ambitiousLivingBuilding centre inMassachusetts, recently AMHERST, MA, USA HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 2 TM environmental education certification. This is open to allages. environmental educationprogrammes learning tools, andanopenstudiofor an filled withlive exhibits andinteractive classroom spaces, aresource centre The new buildingoffers improved composting. waste issignificantly mitigated through gained from traditional sources and derived from solar surpassesenergy locally sourced materials.Energy the useof environmentally friendly, of water —andnatural ventilation with rainwater — the building’sonly source solutions include the collection of like nature. Net zero water andenergy working withnature butalsoworking

conservation easement. facility occupies to permanent land thattheirofamount the new is committed to dedicatinganequal Challenge In accordance with the LivingBuilding the natural surroundings. systems to emphasize aconnection with gardens,pavilions,and trail teaching — alongwithvarious demonstration the “nest”space and the “den”space includes two signature courtyards — study of natural systems, the project solutions throughsustainable the on focuseda teachingtool be Designed to TM , the Hitchcock Center BUROHAPPOLD EDUCATION 77

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Image: Patrick W. Price Photographer Image: Alan McAteer savings throughout itsextended lifetime. that the project achieves highenergy rated appliances andlighting, ensuring maintenance team to selectEnergy Star worked with the university’s facilities and systems, andrenewable energy. Our team passive measures, cutting-edgeactive The highperformance designincludes serve 2,500peopleaday. 800-seat dininghallwith the capacity to staff. The 25,000ft²buildingincludesan amenities andhousingfor faculty and students alongwithadditionalstudent on-campus accommodation for 1,000 This provides UCSanta Barbara withnew the larger San Joaquin development. The Portola Dining Commons ispartof SANTA BARBARA, CA, USA PORTOLA DINING COMMONS SAN JOAQUINVILLAGES, UC SANTA BARBARA, exceptional standards for the university. earlier in the project, continuing to set Centre benefitsfrom lessonslearnt consultants. The designof the Bayes despite strong competition from local BuroHappold for this concluding stage phases, the university chose to stay with After the successful completion of two architectural form. appropriateconstructionsafe tothe technical solutions to achieve robust, Our team provided innovative of natural light andventilation. to promote interaction whilemakinguse staff and researchers. This space needed multinationals, businessdevelopment somewhere suitablefor start-ups, major challenge for BuroHappold was to create excellence. Thetechnological and position asagloballeader indata affirming the University of ’s of ITandinformatics disciplines,and the Bayes Centre, housingarange — provides animpressive homefor buildings, courtyards andstreetscape has replaced acar parkwithamixof Potterrow development —which The third andfinalphase of the EDINBURGH, UK EDINBURGH BAYES CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF

buildable solution. requirements, ensuringacost-effective stakeholders to refine the project’s key architect, MEPconsultant andfaculty with the engaged engineering team maritime design.Our civilandstructural tank for cutting-edge research into spans, andincludesa140m-long towing of specialiststructures involving long This project encompassed anumber main university. on arevitalised campusremote from the is setwithin the Solent maritimecluster, innovation, businessandeducation. This Maritime Centre of Excellence for Shipping was to create anoutstanding University andLloyd’s Register of The client visionfor Southampton building services design,we helped to create aneducationalhub to inspire students for years to come. high-performance materials to reduce energy consumption. Through our innovative structural work and considerations acentral factor, we proposed apassive designapproach that usesnatural ventilation and an integrated solutioninvolving the buildingstructure as the mullionfor the glazing.Withenvironmental The buildinghasadramatic glassfacade that wraps around the front elevation, for whichour team devised modern auditorium, teaching spaces andacafe. girls’ schools–hasundertaken inrecent years. This three-storey structure includesalibrary, galleries,a The Murray Centre is the mostsignificant new buildingproject that Downe House –one of theUK’s top SOUTHAMPTON, UK UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON BOLDREWOOD CAMPUS, BERKSHIRE, UK THE MURRAY CENTRE, DOWNE HOUSE SCHOOL BUROHAPPOLD 79 Image: Grimshaw Architects

Image: Design Engine Architects Image: Getty/Deagreez 80 EDUCATION ANNUALREVIEW 18/19 environment andcommunity inprotecting encouraged to understand the roleofencouragedunderstand the the to University students andstaffneed tobe mental health. challenges around student mental health. range of disciplines to address specific BuroHappold’s designsprints enableabroad within andbetween buildings,across are thatconnectivity iskey: connectivity whether for goodor bad.Our findings affect themental health of students; how thephysical environment can has beenresearching andexploring Over thelast few years, BuroHappold knew it—quickly feels alientothem. living expense loansandlife —asthey burden of university fees alongwith lonely andafraid. Mix inthefinancial friends canleave students isolated, structures suchas family andschool movingaway from familiarsupport and makingtheir way intheworld, For children headingoff touniversity and wellbeing issues. isolation, inturntriggeringacademic these buildingscancontribute tosocial lifetime. Conversely, ifpoorly designed, establish friendships thatmay last a crucial role inhow first year students The physical environment plays a affects student mental health BuroHappold continues to research how the builtenvironment Making theconnection universities are takingstudent wellbeing From our research, itisclear that promote asenseof belonging. initiatives totackleloneliness,and also clearly communicate andsupport seek it. The universities themselves must awareness of supportandtheability to life needstoincludeimproving the start. Part of thepreparation for student university community feels like agood understand how toconnect withthe and after university. Helping teenagers necessary skillstothrive before, during needed toequipstudents withthe is clear thatwe shouldtake thetime There are noquickfixes —however, it some cases,another partof theworld. in another partof thecountry —or, in moving away andbeginningstudent life and identifies whatis often lostwhen speaks clearly toaneed for community which universities are located. This campuses andthrough thecitiesin protecting mental health. of theenvironment andcommunity in be encouraged to understandtherole university students andstaffneedto the bigger picture —whichisthat however, they allcontribute to Each intervention may feel insignificant; choice of whenand where tointeract. promotes both interaction andthe and developing accommodation that university andstudent accommodation route of publictransit between the elements suchastheavailability and university masterplanstoinclude have beenexplored for city-based sprints ledby BuroHappold, options Through therecent seriesof design to enrichstudent wellbeing. reconfigure their estatesandcampuses thinking critically onthebestways to and interventions. Universities are also investing inspecialistsupportstructures extremely seriously, withmany of them BUROHAPPOLD

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Beyond engineering Stories from around the practice

LGBTQ+ INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

Our LGBTQ+ employee network groups are active in BuroHappold is determined to continuously improve as supporting underrepresented people. They are global in an organisation. We are a diverse and inclusive practice, reach and open to all employees. They provide an inclusive which reflects the varied cultures of the communities and safe environment for employees to share ideas and and clients that we serve. Ours is a culture wherein each offer support. We marked Pride 2019 by confronting person — irrespective of gender identity, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, bystander culture. Our LGBTQ+ community Allies support pregnancy, race, age, religious belief or disability — has equal civil rights, gender equality and LGBTQ+ social the support and opportunities to reach and exceed their movements, as well as challenge non-inclusive behaviour. potential. By looking at our business activities through a diversity “I believe that we must actively challenge any lens, we will continue to address bias while supporting form of discrimination that we encounter in order the development and visibility of underrepresented to progress successfully.” employees. We aim to further promote the rich diversity of SHARE OUR SKILLS our employees’ experiences, talent and ideas. Through our Neil Squibbs, CEO diverse teams, we provide innovative and relevant solutions BuroHappold’s Share Our Skills programme provides employees with the opportunity and to our work and culture. In doing so we create a sense of support to apply their talents to causes they are passionate about. To date, we have awarded “When it comes to creativity, people need a work belonging for every one of our people. 925 days of our people’s time for 50 projects across the globe. In 2019, we celebrated five environment where they can be themselves. We want years of Share Our Skills. Here are five milestone projects that really exemplify the enormous diversity of perspective – and anything that stands as a beneficial impact that our teams can make upon communities all around the world. barrier to that, I stand against.” Gavin Thompson, Director GENDER EQUALITY 2014: St. Mary’s C of E School, and functional short-term space for use healthcare facilities. To date, the “I really want to create a business that feels happy, that UK GENDER PAY GAP REPORT 2018 UK GENDER PAY GAP REPORT 2018 Manchester, UK while the wider complex is designed and scale of BII’s training facilities has is supportive, and where people can thrive and fulfil BuroHappold worked with the children, successfully completed. meant they can only instruct young their potential. We need to step up and make What is the Gender Pay Gap Report? families and teachers of this primary men and women from three or four it happen.” school to deliver a new Key Stage One localised communities each year. UK Our people underpin everything we Our Gender Pay Gap reporting, focuses on hourly pay 2016: Kibera Flood Risk Reduction, do. Respecting individual difference and bonuses paid to both male and female employees (recognising that Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs Duncan Price, Partner whilst ensuring everyone has the same A new Centre for Excellence will GENDER PAY does not currently include all gender identities). This chance to reach their potential is key report examines: playground. Our aim was to create to the success of our collective efforts. Kenya Mean and median hourly pay GAP REPORT The UK Gender Gap Report allows us to Mean and median bonuses continually assess our aims for greater allow BII to offer a greater range of Proportion of males and females receiving bonus gender equality in our practice and the a space that not only promotes the 2018 Pay distribution by gender. wider engineering industry. Suffering from biannual floods, Kibera “I want to come to work somewhere where everyone happiness and wellbeing of the children training modules for a larger number Hourly pay rates and bonus payments Proportion of employees receiving a bonus is the largest informal settlement and brings their whole self into the office, and they are but also enriches creative learning. By of people. The BuroHappold team DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES & FEMALES WOMEN MEN Mean Median slum in Nairobi. The poorest residents Average Middle provided masterplanning, structural Hourly pay 22.1% 22.6% collaborating with pupils throughout comfortable doing that.” 75.9% 79.8% Bonus paid 25.3% 20.0% have no choice but to live in areas with the design development stage, we and sustainability guidance, as well Emily McDonald, Partner The gender pay gap shows the difference between the In accordance with the regulations, the calculations average earnings of male and female employees and are taken from the 12 month period ending 5th the lowest rent, which are those most is expressed as a percentage of male earnings (e.g. April 2018, hence they are bonus payments made in as technical and on-site support females earn X% less than male employees). The data November 2017. were able to base our design around is taken as per the regulations’ requirements, from a ‘snap shot’ date of 5th April 2018 and so does not represent our current position. prone to flooding. BuroHappold’s water their needs, while also contributing to throughout the construction process. BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING group worked in close collaboration a shared understanding of making and with local non-profit Kounkuey Design shaping places. Initiative (KDI) to deliver a hydraulic 2018: Agri-Tech Centre, Samaraong, We have made considerable progress in recruiting and model that simulates a range of rainfall Cambodia retaining female employees, hiring over industry standards 2015: Homeboy Industries, events. This can be used to assess the This sustainable agricultural training in many of the countries in which we operate. , USA current risks to local residents, how school created jobs for local farmers Our UK Gender Pay Gap Report (soon to become a global Statistics show that young offenders these are likely to change with the and builders while students learn report) provides a useful benchmark as well as showing are highly likely to be rearrested within effects of urbanisation and climate efficient, low-cost farming methods and us the need for further measures to help improve female a few years of their first offence. change, and how they can be addressed. technological practices. The Samraong representation at our senior grades. This, along with positive Homeboy Industries is changing this economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, with many people migrating role modelling through the work of our Women’s Business by enabling ex-gang members to learn 2017: Build It International Centre for skills that help them find employment. to nearby Thailand for work. The Agri- Network, continually reviewing our promotion processes Excellence, Zambia and accessibility of career development activities and The social enterprise purchased a plot Tech school teaches new skills, such as working with our senior leaders on inclusive behaviours, of land and buildings under renovation, Build It International (BII) is a learning to grow different crops and helps ensure equality of opportunity for all. with the long-term objective of creating non-governmental organisation raise animals to sell at nearby markets. a new campus. BuroHappold initially (NGO) working in underdeveloped This allows people to continue living Improvements to our maternity returner process and family focused on transforming an outdated areas of Zambia to improve skills near their homes and families. leave policies, coupled with flexible working arrangements building into The Annex – a welcoming and deliver essential education and allows all our employees to manage their work and family responsibilities.

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VISUALISATION

Visualisation is the next best thing to standing in the building. Our Above left: experts can deliver highly immersive experiences that are not only “Gamification” expanding stadium design options. visually engaging but also technically useful in understanding how a building will look and feel before a single brick is laid. Above: Augmented reality development. Interactive, augmented, and virtual reality enables BuroHappold to bring unbuilt environments to life. While these devices are just part of our engineers’ technological “toolbox”, they are increasingly useful in displaying projects in an engaging way and communicating complex design issues to colleagues and clients. See how our 360° AR and VR allow a deeper level of refinement and adjustment, Tottenham Hotspur new stadium tour brought which enables our clients to achieve truly visionary, transformative the venue to life. outcomes.

Read the Happold Foundation’s Our Impact in 2018 report. CHRISTMAS PRESENCE

The giant advent calendar that lit up our Bath head office in December was the brainchild of office director Claire Smith, “It has always struck me that our beautiful building, THE HAPPOLD FOUNDATION that sits in the heart of Bath Quays, looks like an advent calendar,” she recalls. “When I counted the windows and The Happold Foundation is dedicated to using engineering “The next 12 months will see us evolving, with our intention there were 24, the decision was made!” skills and experience to make a positive impact on people’s to bring the foundation to the forefront of the thoughts of lives. The organisation works with young people, educators and engineering professionals,” says Ian Maddocks, Partner and Claire’s vision was brought to life by Senior Designer researchers to shape a community that wants to improve the current Chair. “By making the path to a career in our sector Steve Jennings, with the professional expertise of Senior built environment. The charity’s story began in 1995, when more accessible, we can show how engineering directly links Lighting Designer Amy Rennie and the practical support Ted Happold, along with BuroHappold Engineering’s founding to everyday life. This will help us to make a greater impact on of architectural LED lighting specialists acdc. This festive partners, started a charity that would support engineers in projects across the globe and make even more of a difference gesture triumphed in the Innovation category at 2019’s understanding the needs of our global society. The Foundation to people’s lives. I am looking forward to continuing to create a Creative Bath Awards. provides financial and practical help across four focus areas: solid basis from which the charity can develop and flourish.” futures, education, thinking and human development.

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2018/19 AWARDS

Here is a selection of the accolades that BuroHappold’s projects and people have collected this year.

CEO Magazine, India Lighting magazine ICE Publishing Awards 2019 Company of the Year, 2018 40under40 Award 2019 Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize BuroHappold Engineering Carolina Florian Robert Cooke, ICE Journal Paper: Urban and landscape design in the Arabian Gulf WELL Certified™ Gold status Hong Kong Institution of Engineers region: a new paradigm for sustainability Los Angeles and Warsaw offices Structural Excellence Award 2019 Passenger Clearance Building, ACEI Design Excellence Awards 2019 NCE100 Impact in Climate Hong Kong Overseas category Resilience Award, 2019 Northern Spire Bridge, Sunderland, UK BuroHappold Engineering Construction Compliance Award 2019 Gold Category CIBSE Building Performance Awards NCE100 Top 10 Companies, 2019 Dubai Development Authority, 2019 – Building Performance BuroHappold Engineering Museum of the Future Consultancy (over 1,000 employees) ESSENCE OF BUROHAPPOLD Deltek Insight Most Valuable Projects BuroHappold Engineering Yorkshire Property Awards 2019 Awards 2018 – Architecture, Game Changer Award CIBSE Building Performance Awards Engineering & Construction The Essence Awards celebrate the very design, and generating a buzz around Above: Thorpe Park, , UK 2019 – Project of the Year – Public Use best of BuroHappold by recognising the subject with patience, enthusiasm Laia Carpena, winner of BuroHappold Engineering the individual Essence of Newcastle University Urban those who really reflect our culture of and passion. The RICS Awards, North West – Building Stratford Waterfront BuroHappold Award. Big Project ME Awards 2018 Sciences Building, Newcastle, UK collaboration and excellence. Senior won the outstanding team prize. Conservation Project of the Year 2019 team Project of the Year Revit MEP Coordinator Laia Carpena Consisting of 19 different disciplines Above left: Manchester structures team for ArchDaily Some of the Stratford The , UAE was our individual winner – she was from four different offices, the team Waterfront team, thrilled at Hanover House, Manchester, UK Building of the Year 2019 praised for her commitment to was described as “amazing” by Partner winning their award. Building Awards 2018 Morpheus Hotel, Macau, China Women in Construction and upskilling her team in computational Emily McDonald. International Project of the Year Engineering Awards 2019 Msheireb Museums, Doha, Qatar Best Woman Structural Engineer, Pascal Award 2019 Sallyanne Lewis Spark C office building, Warsaw, BuroHappold is fully committed to tackling the twin crises of climate CLIMATE EMERGENCY breakdown and biodiversity loss. We have declared a climate emergency MSHEIREB HERITAGE MUSEUM SALLYANNE LEWIS and will take decisive action: International Project of the Year, Building Magazine. Best Woman Structural Engineer, Women in Our team was enlisted to help transform four historic Construction and Engineering Awards. Produce a more radical action plan buildings into modern-day museums that will showcase key elements of Qatari history and culture. to reduce our own emissions that we can truly deliver against. This will help us lead by example and help us test solutions that we can offer to our clients.

Place the climate emergency as a key pillar of all our project work. For example, through placing this in all project kick off/execution plans and creating a structured approach to realising appropriate outcomes aligned to this.

Providing funding to develop a service offering and marketing material for a climate change

strategic consulting service for the Grace Paul Image: Image: Getty/A330Pilot Image: built environment.

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CLIENT FEEDBACK

We take the care of our clients and collaborators very seriously and believe it is important to continually improve the services that we offer. As part of our commitment to those we work for, we appoint independent consultants to survey our clients and measure various aspects of service delivery. This ensures that we meet the specific needs and expectations of the people we help. Across the practice, we gather feedback formally through our Customer Survey Programme, and informally through our day-to- day working relationships. By monitoring how our performance is judged, we are able to draw out common themes and make any necessary improvements. Our executive board regularly reviews this feedback and implements changes accordingly.

“Their ability to see the broader issues and link them across technical disciplines truly sets them apart and makes them an essential asset to our design team.”

Tomas Rossant Partner, Ennead Architects 1 “I like their cultural style. There’s OPENINGS an ease of working that means you can overcome any performance Here are just a few of the many issues that arise as the relationship BuroHappold projects that is good.” opened this year: Ian Williamson Chief Project Delivery Officer, The Red Sea Development Company Morpheus, China. [1] The Kensington billboard, UK. YOUNG ENGINEERS The David A. Tepper Quadrangle, USA. “BuroHappold has lots of really talented individuals. When you Xiqu Centre, Hong Kong. 2 3 Fox JeffImage: The Young Engineers’ Forum encourages and promotes the growth of staff across all of our offices. It is an inclusive community, open work with them, you feel like you Zalando Headquarters, Germany. to all, that connects junior members of BuroHappold through their are tapping into people that are Tottenham Hotspur new stadium, UK. [2] shared interests, deepening bonds and new friendships. interested in – and are specialists Kingston Station Footbridge, UK. 2018 was the Year of Engineering in the UK. YEF UK hosted in – their fields. You get the sense Coca-Cola Arena, UAE. [3] children from local schools through Enabling Enterprise and held that they invest in research and Maid of the Bridge, UK. [4] workshops with some of London’s brightest 16-year-olds from the innovation and so have lots to The Providence River Pedestrian Bridge, USA. Arkwright Foundation. This has led to the formation of a STEM draw upon. Coalition Group, which allows BuroHappold to have a cohesive The House at Cornell Tech, USA. and integrated approach to outreach activities. Many members of When designing, they are forward- Pacific Visions Aquarium, USA. [5] the YEF have now become STEM Ambassadors. Other global YEF activities this year included TED talks, expert discussions, site visits, looking and explore the options. the formation of Skype Call a School, hack nights and a series of This gives you confidence.” events surrounding Diversity Week. The YEF also enjoyed a ski trip Carol Lelliott 4 5 Photography Bonner Tom Image: to Slovakia and a surfing excursion to Devon. Partner, Nicholas Hare Architects

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FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

Turnover (£m) Operating profit (£m) Operating profit margin 173.3 22.1 13% UP 6% UP 30% UP 3%

Average number Based in of employees 23 1,698 GLOBAL OFFICES UP 2% UP 9%

BuroHappold has had a Turnover per employee Cash (£m) Net asset value (£m) successful year with a 30% (£’000) increase in operating profit. This fantastic achievement is down to the skills 17. 4 37. 4 102 and commitment of our UP 5% UP 9% UP 4% exceptional people.

James Bruce Chief Operating and Financial Officer

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PERFORMANCE GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

The group experienced a successful year, generating turnover The group has a significant international presence, continuing of £173.3m (2018: £163.6m) and an operating profit of to generate turnover in over 70 countries during 2018/19. £22.1m. This is an increase of 30% on the prior year. The most significant proportion of turnover was generated The increase in the group’s turnover was driven by market from projects located in the UK (36%). Turnover from projects conditions in the United States (+21%) and European business located in the United States increased to 22% (2018: 17%) as a units (+38%), partially offset by decreases in the Middle East result of growth in the market, while turnover from the Middle (-18%) and Asia (-36%). Eastern market fell from 28% to 25%.

18/19 £173.3m 18/19 £22.1m 17/18 £163.6m 17/18 £17.0m 16/17 £171.9m 16/17 £22.8m 15/16 £160.9m 15/16 £20.3m

14/15 £148.5m 14/15 £17.7m £14.1m £16.9m

13/14 £128.1m 13/14 £15.2m Europe Europe 12/13 £111.8m 12/13 £11.7m 9% 9% 11/12 £116.8m 11/12 £11.8m £12.9m £13.7m

10/11 £119.8m 10/11 £8.0m Rest of world £46.5m Rest of world £42.7m 8% 8% TURNOVER OPERATING PROFIT Middle East Middle East 28% 25% TOTAL: TOTAL: £163.6m £173.3m £28.5m £37.5m

United States United States 17% 22% 18/19 13% £61.6m £62.5m 17/18 10% UK UK 38% 36% 16/17 13% TURNOVER BY REGION 2017/18 TURNOVER BY REGION 2018/19 15/16 13% 14/15 12% 13/14 12% 12/13 10% 11/12 10% 10/11 7%

OPERATING PROFIT MARGIN

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SECTOR ANALYSIS LIQUIDITY

Our routes to market through our client sectors of Culture, The group’s liquidity position strengthened during the year, with Commercial and Urban Development remain as strong and a 16% improvement in net cash and the bank overdraft being balanced as ever. Clients are increasingly calling for our fully repaid. This was largely driven by the group’s ability to expertise, experience and insight to be applied in the Science convert the improved profitability to cash, rather than it being and Technology sector. Holding a multi-sector portfolio required for ongoing working capital. is of strategic importance as it allows us to understand a targeted selection of clients and their core business needs, while simultaneously allowing those experiences, insights and innovation gains to be cross-fertilised. This enriches our contribution to each and every sector.

18/19 £17.4m 18/19 £0 17/18 £16.6m 17/18 (£1.6m) 16/17 £32.1m 16/17 (£0.4m) 15/16 £26.0m 15/16 (£1.5m) £7.8m £8.7m £13.1m £9.1m 14/15 £17.2m 14/15 (£1.6m)

Science and Technology Air and Rail Science and Technology Air and Rail 13/14 £12.9m 13/14 (£7.6m) 5% 5% 8% 5% 12/13 £6.9m 12/13 (£9.3m) £13.1m £12.8m 11/12 £5.0m 11/12 (£11.0m)

Education Education 10/11 £2.0m 10/11 (£10.8m) 8% 8% CASH OVERDRAFT AND LOANS £14.7m £10.8m

Sport and Sport and Entertainment TOTAL: Entertainment TOTAL: 9% £163.6m 6% £173.3m £61.4m £62.9m 18/19 £17.4m 18/19 0% £31.1m Commercial £33.2m Commercial 38% 36% 17/18 £15.0m 17/18 5% Urban Development Urban Development 19% 19% 16/17 £31.7m 16/17 1% £26.8m £31.4m 15/16 £24.5m 15/16 5% Cultural Cultural 16% 18% 14/15 £15.6m 14/15 5% TURNOVER BY SECTOR 2017/18 TURNOVER BY SECTOR 2018/19 13/14 £5.3m 13/14 32% 12/13 (£2.4m) 12/13 40% 11/12 (£6.0m) 11/12 58% 10/11 (£8.8m) 10/11 56%

NET CASH/(DEBT) DEBT TO EQUITY RATIO

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WORKING CAPITAL PEOPLE

Working capital management remains a key focus for We are dependent on the skills and commitment of our the group, as evidenced by the 10% reduction in trade people. Throughout the year, we have been extremely debtors and 16% reduction in DSO from 120 to 103 proud to be able to attract and nurture exceptional talent days. This has contributed to the increase in cash held at all levels. Through development, succession planning by the group from £16.6m to £17.4m. and strategic recruitment we aim to ensure our leadership capabilities are focused where they are most needed, facilitating sustainable growth throughout the business. We engage employees through our Young Engineers Forum, Share our Skills and other programmes, which help to inspire the next generation of engineers and professionals.

18/19 103 18/19 £48.9m 18/19 1,698 17/18 120 17/18 £54.5m 17/18 1,672 16/17 107 16/17 £50.3m 16/17 1,669 15/16 105 15/16 £46.1m 15/16 1,643 14/15 91 14/15 £36.9m 14/15 1,562 13/14 107 13/14 £37.7m 13/14 1,354 12/13 107 12/13 £32.9m 12/13 1,268 11/12 108 11/12 £34.4m 11/12 1,320 10/11 124 10/11 £40.8m 10/11 1,348

DSO DAYS TRADE DEBTORS AVERAGE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) represents the average number of days in which trade debtors are paid.

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