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Arup
Company typePrivate, owned in trust
IndustryDesign, Engineering and Business consultation
Founded1946 by Sir Ove N. Arup
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Key people
Philip Dilley, Chairman
Terry Hill, Chair of the Trustees
RevenueGB£880 million (2009)[1]
Number of employees
ca. 10,000
Websitewww.arup.com

Arup is a British professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and now has over 10,000 staff based in 92 offices in 37 countries. Projects have been undertaken in more than 160 countries.[2]

History

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

The firm was founded in Ireland 1946, as the Danish 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[3] 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.[4]

Ownership

Arup has no shareholders or external investors, and is owned wholly by trusts whose beneficiaries are its past and present employees who receive a share of the firm's operating profit each year.[1]

Fellows

30 St Mary Axe ("the gherkin")

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[5]: 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 and Raymond Yau.

Notable projects

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]

Notable projects in the Americas

Notable projects in Africa

Notable projects in Asia

Beijing National Aquatics Centre at night

Notable projects in Australasia

Sydney Opera House
CCTV headquarters in Beijing's CBD district nearing completion (August 2008).

Notable projects in Europe

Awards

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.[10]

Arup was awarded the Worldaware Award for Innovation for its Vawtex air system in Harare International School.[11]

Arup Fire has won the Fire Safety Engineering Design award four times since its creation in 2001.[12] 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.[13] More recently, Dr Barbara Lane, Associate Director with Arup, won the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal[14] 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.[15]

Criticism

The Millennium Bridge, London

In 2000, the newly opened GB£18-million Millennium Bridge over the Thames in London immediately developed a disconcerting lateral movement which caused it to be popularly known as "the wobbly bridge". After a two-year closure of the bridge and expenditure of a further £5 million, Arup was able to correct the problem with a system of damping. [16][17]


Arup was prominent in the design of Dongtan, and its role has allowed it to bid for other prestigious projects in China. However, planning permission for the proposed site has now expired, and there are doubts over the future of the project.[18]

The company has also promoted its eco-credentials in workshops and conferences around the world. However, it has begun to distance itself from Dongtan - a spokesman for the firm was quoted in 2008 "We are simply the engineers of a project and work to the programme given to us by our client."[19]

Arup was one of the first engineering consultancies to adopt a holistic multi-disciplined approach to engineering design. Over the years, a number of its staff have left to form other companies, often with significant parallels with Arup.

In 1976, Edmund Happold (engineer for the Pompidou Centre) and six other engineers from the group left Arup to form Buro Happold in Bath. Mark Whitby in turn left Buro Happold to form Whitby Bird.

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

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See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Arup Structure". The Arup Group. Retrieved 2009-11-25.
  2. ^ "Arup Ownership & finance". The Arup Group. Archived from the original on 2007-03-25. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
  3. ^ Arup Associates
  4. ^ The Key Speech
  5. ^ http://www.arup.com/About_us/Making_a_difference/Arup_Fellows.aspx
  6. ^ Ove Arup & Partners 1946-1986. London: Academy Editions. 1986. ISBN 0-85670-898-4.
  7. ^ Campbell, Peter; Allan, John; Ahrends, Peter; Zunz, Jack; Morreau, Patrick (1995). Ove Arup 1895-1988. London: Institution of Civil Engineers. ISBN 0-7277-2066-X.
  8. ^ Jones, Peter (2006). Ove Arup, Master Builder of the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11296-2.
  9. ^ "The Singapore Flyer and design of Giant Observation Wheels" Brendon McNiven & Pat Dallard, IStructE Asia-Pacific Forum on Structural Engineering: Innovations in Structural Engineering, Singapore, 2 - 3 November 2007
  10. ^ "World Architecture Awards" (Press release). Arup. 05 Aug 2002. Retrieved 2007-03-27. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ "The Worldaware Award for Innovation". Worldaware. 2002. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
  12. ^ "Innovation key to FSE Design Award winners". FSE: Fire Safety Engineering. 2006-11-15. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
  13. ^ "Fire Safety Engineering Design Awards". Arup. 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
  14. ^ "Less is more for fire protection". Royal Academy of Engineering. 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  15. ^ "Live Design's Excellence in Live Design Award (Theatre)". Live Design/Penton Media. 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  16. ^ Millennium Bridge at BBC
  17. ^ Fitzpatrick T et al. Linking London: The Millennium Bridge Arup's explanation of the problem and its solution
  18. ^ Simon Montlake In China, overambition reins in eco-city plans Christian Science Monitor 23 December 2008
  19. ^ Malcolm Moore China's pioneering eco-city of Dongtan stalls at UK Daily Telegraph
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