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BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 ANNUAL REVIEW SECTOR: CULTURE National 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavilion New York, NY, USA ENGINEERING THE AMAZING I mage: Jeff Goldberg mage: Jeff Goldberg E STO BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 4 7 11 CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S A note from ABOUT INTRODUCTION THE CHAIRMAN BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING 14 19 23 BEYOND ENGINEERING A YEAR OF ENGINEERING HIGHLIGHTS THE AMAZING 61 70 FINANCIAL THE essence OVERVIEW OF BUROHAPPOLD 3 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S INTRODUCTION Our year began with a bang. In fact, our driven, world-leading engineering professionals For the first time in 39 years we revealed a refreshed brand are not only a global community of technical experts for the business, moving from a collection of independent that have mastered traditional specialisms, but are also entities and specialisms called Buro Happold, to a cohesive integrators, who bring people together to lead and body with common goals under the name BuroHappold communicate holistic, ‘total problem’ solutions. The days of Engineering. silo-like engineering thinking are waning. We have moved to a platform of service offers that prompt the client to think The truth is, as engineers, we have been client and project wider, such as Green & Efficient Design, Intelligent Re-use of focused, rather than examining ourselves to ensure we are Buildings, City Diagnostics & Strategy, Integrated Design and building the kind of business we want to be, and indeed, the Inspirational Design to name some. kind of international, multi-disciplinary business our clients expect us to be. Our ingenuity is employed for revitalising failing cities or pioneering master plans for emerging cities. Our people-flow The success of this year has been a testament to the specialists can move a million people across the desert with galvanising force our new brand has signalled. We are on ease. Our innovators engineer facades that absorb pollution, the journey and there is more to come. create performance venues lauded as the best acoustic The foundations to the rebrand were based on our ‘Essence’ experience in the world, or re-engineer a stadium from being formed from client and stakeholder research. In this we single use athletics, to multi-purpose athletics, football and were described by our clients as ‘passionate’, ‘innovative’, rock concerts. We employ economists and planners who can ‘collaborative’, ‘magic’. Marrying these qualities with wider help to create flexible financial strategies, specialists whose societal implications reflecting our culture, our essence is skills range from water management through to material now the mirror we hold up to ourselves. It is there to ensure science, and serial innovators who help us to find our unique that we continue to pursue the simple honest truth in our solutions to our clients’ unique problems. work, and in our dealings with one another. In turn this allows On this foundation, and given the agility of our integrated us to bridge the gap between science and society and forge service provision across the globe, the year ahead looks meaningful and lasting global relationships that benefit all. ever brighter. There is a special magic to the engineering mind. Our teams tackle complex issues head on. We don’t just look for obvious answers; we question, investigate and challenge our clients to look wider than the immediate space of their projects. How can projects yield greater rewards, whether they be financial, societal or environmental, beyond the certain technical ones? It is this combination of innovation and bravery that is helping us to create a future that is Roger Nickells, CEO solution-led, not problem driven. 4 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 5 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 “Our essence is now the mirror we hold up to ourselves. It is there to ensure that we continue to pursue the simple honest truth in our work, and in our dealings with one another. In turn this allows us to bridge the gap between science and society and forge meaningful and lasting global relationships that benefit all.” Roger Nickells, CEO I mage: BuroHappold mage: BuroHappold E ngineering 6 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 A note from THE CHAIRMAN Roger Nickells took on the role of CEO in June 2014 and Another key factor that ensures we provide our clients has delivered a year of spectacular success, with growth, with the very best and most creative solutions is our and a clarity of purpose that inspire a sense of confidence continued commitment to research and development. and ambition. This past year saw a 37% increase in our funding of Our success is built on the quality of the service we research projects to support our project work and provide our clients. Our projects are all led by Partners maintain a leading role in development of new ideas and who own and lead the activities of the business; we are new technologies. This investment embraces partnering engineers, consultants and specialists – some of the with Universities around the world as well as supporting best in the world. We all have a close working knowledge internal research communities that connect our people of our industry, our clients and our people, working around crucial practice-wide research projects. Such in partnership to make sure we deliver our vision. projects range from development of numerical modelling Partnership is core to achieving the quality of service that tools that allow us to predict the technical performance BuroHappold provides, the commitment to excellence of clients’ projects well ahead of execution, to developing and responsiveness to market opportunities and enables ways to better assess the health and wellbeing of people us to operate an international business characterised by in the buildings and spaces that we create. This allows us innovative, effective and high value solutions. to serve our clients in ways that have not been possible before and raises the quality and value of our service. This success comes of course from our people, who bring energy and passion to all they do. This year we initiated the “Essence of BuroHappold Awards” to recognise individuals and teams who have shown exceptional spirit in the way they have collaborated, striven for excellence, innovated, or simply blown us away with their achievements. It has been a joy to read all the nominations that come in from far and wide and to read the stories. Our people select Mike Cook, Chairman the final winners – and they are both diverse and inspiring. This year we also saw Young Engineer Forums spring into action in all our offices – our young people are showing us just how keen they are to make a difference in society and we are keen to support them with time and money to get into society and share their skills. We established a “Share our Skills” programme to lead this. 7 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ENGINEERING BUROHAPPOLD 8 SAN FRANCISCO 15 52 LOS ANGELES CHICAGO 9 B UROHA 161 NEW YORK A BOSTON 19 NNUAL REVIEW 2015 REVIEW NNUAL PP OLD ENGINEERING ENGINEERING OLD UK 905 staff 1 MILAN DENMARK 11 GERMANY 65 num POLAND 117 B ERS AROUND 55 KSA KUWAIT 14 108 UAE QATAR 1 THE WORLD 94 INDIA 1 MALAYSIA BEIJING 18 104 HONG KONG BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 9 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 “So it has been a great year both in terms of building our essential commercial strength, and also for building our inner strength, that comes from the motivation and passion of our people and their growing skill base.” Mike Cook, Chairman I mage: BuroHappold mage: BuroHappold E ngineering / James Cheadle ngineering 10 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 11 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 BuroHappold Engineering is an international, multidisciplinary engineering consultancy operating in 24 locations worldwide, with over 50 partners and 1,750 staff including some of the world’s leading consulting engineers. For 40 years we’ve been building our reputation for delivering creative, value led building and city solutions for an ever changing world. 12 BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 BEYOND ENGINEERING SHARE OUR SKILLS PROGRAMME Young ENGINEERS Forum BuroHappold has a long history of supporting those less Set up by our younger engineers and technicians, Young fortunate than ourselves. We understand that our staff Engineers’ Forums now exist in all our offices to help and have sought to deliver support through internal groups support all junior BuroHappold staff in their professional such as the International Development Community and personal development. Forums are run locally (IDC), through project work when the opportunity and connected globally to provide a focus for activity arose, and indeed in their own time. The BuroHappold throughout the entire organisation. community support involvement in, and championing The Young Engineers Forum is here to: of, development activities. • Act as a support and communication network for all This programme allows employees to carry out non-fee junior staff paying work, during BuroHappold time. The aim being to offer our skills and services to those who need it most. • Be a forum for sharing knowledge and experience • Promote BuroHappold’s young professionals externally. HAPPOLD Foundation essence OF BUROHAPPOLD awards The Happold Foundation was established in 1995 by In January 2014 we launched the Essence of the late Sir Ted Happold and the founding partners of BuroHappold awards: a programme created to BuroHappold. celebrate our people and projects around the globe Ted and the founding partners had always believed and sponsored by our chairman, Mike Cook. that a firm such as BuroHappold exists to support The awards were inspired by the refreshed brand and the needs of society beyond its immediate activity as an in depth look at the values of the practice which a professional practice in the built environment.
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