Arup Group Limited

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Type	Privately held trust
Industry	Design, Engineering and Business consultation
Founded	1946
Founder(s)	Sir Ove N. Arup
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Number of locations	Offices in 42 countries
Key people	Philip Dilley (Chairman) Andrew Chan (Deputy Chairman)
Products	Consultancy services
Revenue	£ 966.4 million (2011)[1]
Operating income	£ 21.4 million (2011)[1]
Net income	£ 14.3 million (2011)[1]
Employees	10,000+
Website	www.arup.com

Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and has over 10,000 staff based in 92 offices across 37 countries. Arup has participated in projects in over 160 countries.^[2]

Arup is owned wholly by trusts, the beneficiaries of which are Arup's past and present employees, who receive a share of the firm's operating profit each year.^[3]

History[link]

The firm was founded in London in 1946, as the Ove N. Arup, Consulting Engineers by Sir Ove Nyquist Arup. Sir Ove set out to build a firm where professionals of diverse disciplines could work together to produce projects of greater quality than was achievable by them working in isolation. In 1963, together with the architect Philip Dowson, Arup Associates^[4] was formed to offer multi-disciplinary architectural and engineering services. In 1970, the firm reformed as "Ove Arup & Partners" and, in the same year, Ove Arup delivered "The Key Speech", setting out values and a future vision for Arup.^[5]

Notable projects[link]

Angel of the North

Coventry Cathedral, showing the new building by Arup in the background.

It is best known for its design work for the built environment.^[6][7] Projects to which it has contributed include the Sydney Opera House, which is largely credited with launching Arup into the premier league of engineering consultancies.^[8]

Africa[link]

• Letsibogo Dam, Botswana (design and geotechnics, 1997)
• Constitutional Court, Johannesburg, South Africa (multidisciplinary engineers and project manager, 2004, architect: OMM)
• Scottish Livingstone Hospital, Molepolole, Botswana (design and construction supervision, 2007)
• Central Terminal at OR Tambo International Airport (conceptual design, masterplanning and project management, 2009, architect: Bentel Abramson & Partners)
• Green Star (South Africa), a green building rating system based on the Australian Green Star Offices Tool
• Dwabor Kindergarten, Ghana (design and engineering, 2010)
• Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Johannesburg to Pretoria, Sandton to OR Tambo International Airport, South Africa (concept studies and independent certification, 2010)

The Americas[link]

• Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, USA (mechanical and electrical engineers, 2002, architect: Rafael Moneo)
• De Young Museum, San Francisco, USA (mechanical and electrical engineers, 2005, architects: Herzog & de Meuron)
• Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, 2007, architect: Daniel Libeskind)
• California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA (structural and services engineers, 2008, architect: Renzo Piano)
• Y2E2 Building, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA (mechanical and electrical engineers, 2008, architect: Boora Architects)
• New Tappan Zee Bridge (Hudson River), New York, USA (concept studies, 2009)
• Fulton Street Transit Center, New York City, USA (structural engineers, ongoing, HDR Daniel Frankfurt/Page Ayres Cowley Architects/Grimshaw Architects/Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects)
• 2nd Avenue Subway, New York City, USA (tunnel engineering, ongoing)

Asia[link]

CCTV headquarters in Beijing's central business district nearing completion (August 2008).

Marina Bay Sands - Singapore

Beijing National Stadium

• HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong (civil and structural engineers, 1985, architects: Norman Foster)
• Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan (structural and services engineers, 1994, architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop )
• Petron Megaplaza, Makati, Philippines (structural engineers, 1998, architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
• International Finance Centre, Hong Kong (structural and geotechnical engineers, 2003, Rocco Design Architects)
• National Aquatics Centre (Water Cube), Beijing, China (design and structural engineers, 2008, architects: PTW Architects/CSCEC/CCDI)
• Beijing National Stadium (the "Bird's Nest"), Beijing, China (structural engineers, 2008, architects: Herzog & de Meuron/China Architectural Design & Research Group/Ai Weiwei)
• CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China (structural engineers, 2008, architects: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren/OMA)
• Fusionopolis, Singapore (structural and specialist engineers, 2008, architects: Kisho Kurokawa)
• Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (full engineering services, 2008, architect: Integrated Design Associates)
• Singapore Flyer, Singapore (structural engineers, 2008, architects: Kisho Kurokawa/DP)
• Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong (bridge engineers, 2009, architect: Dissing+Weitling)
• Dongtan Ecocity, Shanghai, China (design and masterplan, 2010)
• Canton Tower, Guangzhou, China (structural engineers, 2010, architects: Mark Hemel/Barbara Kuit/IBA)
• Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore (structural and specialist engineers, 2010, architects: Moshe Safdie/Aedas)

Australia[link]

Sydney Opera House

30 St Mary Axe ("the gherkin")

Kurilpa Bridge Brisbane

• Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia (structural engineers, 1973, architect: Jørn Utzon)
• Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, Australia (civil and structural engineers, 2000, architects: Denton Corker Marshall)
• Swan Bells, Perth, Australia (structural engineers, 2000, architects: Hames Sharley)
• Goodwill Bridge, Brisbane, Australia (bridge design, 2001, architects: Cox Rayner)
• National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia (structural engineers, 2001, architects: Howard Raggatt)
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (structural engineers, 2003, architects: Mario Bellini)
• Suncorp Stadium Lang Park redevelopment, Brisbane, Australia (masterplanning, civil and structural engineers, 2003, architects: Populous/PDT)
• State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (structural engineers, 2004, architects: Ancher Mortlock & Woolley)
• Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia (civil and structural engineers, 2005, architects: MCG5)
• Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne, Victoria (specialist engineering, 2007)
• Kurilpa Bridge, Brisbane, Australia (bridge design, 2009, architects: Cox Rayner)
• Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Theatre Company Theatre, Melbourne, Australia (acoustic and theatre engineers, 2009, architects: Ashton Raggat McDougall)
• Andrew Boy Charlton Pool, Sydney, Australia
• 30 The Bond, Sydney, Australia
• Parramatta Transport Interchange, Sydney, Australia
• Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
• Queen St. Mall Central Structure, Brisbane, Australia
• SAFElink Ipswich Motorway Upgrade, Brisbane, Australia
• K2 Sustainable Housing, Melbourne, Australia

Europe[link]

The Millennium Bridge in London.

• Coventry Cathedral, UK (structural engineers, 1962, architect: Sir Basil Spence)
• Pompidou Centre, Paris, France (structural and service engineers, 1977, architects: Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers)
• The Barbican Centre, London, UK (civil and structural engineers, 1982, architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon)
• Lloyds Building, London, UK (building engineers and project planners, 1986, architect: Richard Rogers)
• Angel of the North, Gateshead, UK (advanced structural research, 1998, designer: Antony Gormley)
• The London Eye, London, UK (original design with Marks Barfield Architects taken to tender stage as a 150m diameter wheel with 36 capsules 135m^[9])
• Millennium Bridge, London, UK (bridge engineering, 2000, architects: Foster + Partners and Sir Anthony Caro)
• Øresund Bridge, Denmark / Sweden (planning and bridge engineering, 2000, architects: Dissing+Weitling)
• Sony Center, Berlin, Germany (structural and environmental engineers, 2000, architect: Helmut Jahn)
• City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England, UK (Arup Associates architects, 2002)
• 30 St Mary Axe ("The Gherkin"), London, UK (structural engineers, 2004, architect: Norman Foster)
• Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (structural, civil, façade, geotechnical, blast and landscaping engineers, 2004, architect: Enric Miralles)
• Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany (structural engineers, 2005, architects: Herzog & de Meuron)
• Arnolfini refurbishment, Bristol, England, UK (structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, 2005, architects: Snell Associates)
• Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal (building engineers, 2005: architects: Rem Koolhaas/OMA)
• Restoration program of Brunel's SS Great Britain, Bristol, England, UK (civil and structural engineers, 2005, architect: Alex French Partnership)
• High Speed 1, UK (rail engineering, 2007)
• Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, England, UK (civil engineers, 2008, architect: Richard Rogers)
• Snowdon Summit Building, Wales, UK (structural engineers, 2009, Ray Hole Architects)
• Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (acoustic, theatre technical, structural and building services engineers, 2010, architect: Daniel Libeskind)
• London Aquatics Centre, London, UK (structural and services engineers, 2012, architect: Zaha Hadid)
• Nou Mestalla Stadium, Valencia, Spain (structural engineers, ongoing, architects: Reid Fenwick Asociados)
• Shard London Bridge, London, UK (services engineers, ongoing, architect: Renzo Piano)
• European Central Bank Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany (building services engineers, ongoing, architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au)

Sports[link]

Arup Associates had its own sports division, Arup Sport, specialising in designing, consulting and structural engineering for sporting facilities such as stadia.^[10] Many of Arup's modern stadia are designed with a contemporary, distinctive edge and the company strives to revolutionise stadium architecture and performance.^[10] For instance, the Bird's Nest Stadium for the 2008 Olympics was complimented for its striking architectural appearance^[11] and the City of Manchester Stadium for the 2002 Commonwealth Games has stairless entry to the upper tiers through circular ramps outside the stadium.^[10] The most notable stadium projects led by Arup remain the City of Manchester Stadium (2003), Allianz Arena (2005), Beijing National Stadium (2008) and the Donbass Arena (2009).

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  The City of Manchester Stadium in the UK, for 2002 Commonwealth Games and home to Manchester City F.C.

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  The Allianz Arena in Germany, home of FC Bayern Munich

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  The 'Bird's Nest or Beijing National Stadium, for 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing, China

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  Beijing National Aquatics Centre at night

Awards[link]

Casa da Música

The Casa da Música, designed by Arup and Office for Metropolitan Architecture was nominated for the 2007 Stirling Prize.

Arup's work with The Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, won them Large Consultancy Firm of the Year 2003 at the British Consultants and Construction Bureau - International Expertise Awards, 2003 building on their triple win at the 2002 World Architecture Awards.^[12]

Arup was awarded the Worldaware Award for Innovation for its Vawtex air system in Harare International School.^[13]

Arup Fire has won the Fire Safety Engineering Design award four times since its creation in 2001.^[14] The 2001 inaugural award was won for Arup's contribution to the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK, the world's largest greenhouse. In 2004, the design for London's City Hall was appointed joint winner. In 2005, the Temple Mills Eurostar Depot won. The 2006 winning entry was for Amethyst House, a nine storey building with an atrium from the ground to the top, in Manchester, UK.^[15] More recently, Dr Barbara Lane, Associate Director with Arup, won the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal^[16] for her outstanding contribution to British engineering on design of structures for fire.

Arup was also awarded Royal Town Planning Institute Consultancy of the year award in 2008.

Mike Glover is the recipient of the 2008 Institution of Structural Engineers' Gold Medal.

Arup was awarded the 2010 Live Design Excellence Award for Theatre Design for the integrated theatre and acoustic team's design for the new Jerome Robbins Theatre, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and The Wooster Group.^[17]

The Evelyn Grace Academy, London designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Arup won the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize 2011.

Fellows[link]

Arup Fellow is a lifelong honorary title awarded to very few individuals in the firm. It acknowledges the highest design and technical achievements of an Arup person, not only within the firm, but also in the industry as a whole. They are considered role models with world-class expertise who put theory into effective practice.

The current fellows are^[18]: Cecil Balmond, Tristram Carfrae, Pat Dallard, Naeem Hussain, Alisdair McGregor, Mike Glover, Andy Sedgwick, Harry Hansen, Brian Simpson, Adam Stojanovski, Michael Willford, Corinne Swain, Peter Johnson, Martin Manning, Alan Burge, Jack Pappin, Davar Abi-Zadeh, Raymond Yau and Chris Twinn.

Notable alumni and current staff[link]

• Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (1895-1988), structural engineer, and founder of the company.
• Peter Dunican (1918-1989), structural engineer, first chairman of Ove Arup Partnership (1977-1984), and President of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1977 and 1978.
• Sir Jack Zunz (1923-), civil engineer, and principal structural designer of the Sydney Opera House.
• Sir Philip Dowson (1924-), architect, founding partner of Arup Associates, recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture 1981, and President of the Royal Academy 1993-1999.
• Povl Ahm (1926-2005), structural engineer, principal engineer for Coventry Cathedral, and chairman of Ove Arup & Partners 1984-1992.
• Professor Sir Ted Happold (1930-1996), structural engineer, executive partner for the Pompidou Centre, and founder of Buro Happold in 1976.
• Bodil Kjær (1932-), architect and furniture designer.
• Peter Rice (1935-1992), structural engineer, responsible for the roof geometry of the Sydney Opera House and the build project for the Pompidou Centre.
• Dr Edmund Hambly (1942-1995), structural engineer, and president of the Institution of Civil Engineers 1994-1995.
• Cecil Balmond (1943-), structural engineer, founder of Arup's Advanced Geometry Unit, lead designer for the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the CCTV tower in Beijing, the Ito-Balmond Serpentine Pavilion, and the ArcelorMittal Orbit.
• Mike Glover, civil and structural engineer, and Technical Director for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
• Tony Fitzpatrick (1950-2003), structural engineer, and leader of the Millennium Bridge damping project.
• Clive Wilkinson (1954-), architect and interior designer, designer of the Googleplex after leaving Arup.
• Professor Chris Wise (1956-), structural engineer, and later Professor of Creative Design at Imperial College.
• Tim Jarvis (1966-), environmental scientist, author and explorer.
• Rogier van der Heide (1970-), lighting designer, and former leader of Arup's lighting consultancy, and later Chief Design Officer at Philips Lighting.
• Rob Leslie-Carter (1970-), civil engineer, project manager for the Laban Dance Centre and the Beijing Water Cube. UK 'Project Manager of the Year' 2003.