Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a British multinational

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firm headquartered in

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which provides

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, and advisory services across every aspect of the

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. The firm employs approximately 16,000 staff in over 90 offices across 35 countries around the world. Arup has participated in projects in over 160 countries. Arup was originally established in 1946 by Sir Ove Arup as ''Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers''. Through its involvement in various high-profile projects, such as the

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, Arup became well known for undertaking complex and challenging projects involving the

. In 1970, Arup stepped down from actively leading the company, setting out the principles which have continued to guide Arup's activities since in his 'Key Speech'. The ownership of Arup is structured as a trust. The beneficiaries of the trust are Arup's employees, both past and present, who receive a share of the firm's operating profit each year.

History

Founding the firm

The company was founded in London in 1946 as ''Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers'' by Sir Ove Arup. Arup had established himself in the 1930s as an expert in

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, known for projects such as the Penguin Pool at

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. According to the architectural author Ian Volner, Arup's vision when establishing the company came out of a combination of his wartime experiences and a progressive-minded philosophy broadly aligning with early modernism, was for the organisation to be a force for peace and social betterment in the

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world. To this end, it would employ professionals of diverse disciplines that could work together to produce projects of greater quality than was achievable by them working in isolation, a concept known as 'Total Design'.

Early years

As the company grew, Arup spurned the common practice amongst its rivals of acquiring other companies; instead, it pursued natural growth, opening up new offices at locations where the potential for work had been identified. During 1963, together with the architect

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, a new division of the company, Arup Associates, was formed. Within 25 years of its establishment, the firm had become well known for its design work for the

, acquiring a reputation for its competence at undertaking projects that were structurally and/or logistically complex. Arup himself worked on multiple projects during the firm's early years, including the

, where he was lead engineer, and which author Peter Jones credited with launching Arup into the premier league of engineering consultancies. The Opera House was the first application of computer calculations to an engineering project, using the Ferranti Pegasus computer to generate models. During Arup's lifetime, the company would also work on high-profile projects such as the 'inside-out'

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with Rogers & Piano, and the HSBC headquarters with Norman Foster & Partners.

The Key Speech

1970 was a particularly transformative year for the firm; 24 years after founding the company, Arup opted to retire from actively leading the company. At the time, the firm (then ''Ove'' ''Arup & Partners'') was made up of several independent practices spread across the globe, so prior to his departure, Arup delivered his 'Key Speech' on 9 July in

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to all his partners from the various practices. The speech set out the aims of the firm and identified the principles of governance by which they might be achieved. These included quality of work, total architecture, humane organisation, straight and honorable dealings, social usefulness, and the reasonable prosperity of its members. Arup's philosophy work on influential projects was the subject of a dedicated retrospective at the V&A Museum in 2016.

Operations

Arup is an employee-owned business, with all staff owning a stake in the company and part of a global profit share. By 2013, Arup was operating 90 offices across 60 countries around the world. These offices are elaborately interconnected by shared

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-based collaborative working packages and communication systems that can, where required, enable a single project to be worked on by multiple offices across a seamless, 24-hour working cycle. However, it is more common for individual offices to specialise in working on an assigned subsection of a project rather than continuously exchanging. The

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and

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documentary ''The Brits who Built the Modern World'' highlighted Arup's collaboration with architects and described Arup as "the engineering firm which Lord Norman Foster and his peers Lord Richard Rogers, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Sir Michael Hopkins and

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most frequently relied upon." The firm has published an annual sustainability report since 2008, and is involved in several projects around the world aiming to cut greenhouse gas emissions, such as Dongtan Eco-City, which is planned to be zero waste, and the

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Interchange Station, which is the first railway station in the world to achieve BREEAM 'outstanding certification. Arup also runs community engagement programmes comprising initiatives to combat homelessness, improve

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in disaster relief programmes, and disaster recovery after earthquakes. They also engage in partnerships with

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s, NGOs,

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s, and other advocacy groups.

Notable projects

Africa

* Eastgate Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe (1996) *

Letsibogo Dam The Letsibogo Dam is a dam on the Motloutse River in Botswana, built to initially provide water to the industrial town of Selebi-Phikwe and surrounding local areas, with potential for use in irrigation. The dam now supplies Gaborone, the capital ...

, Botswana (design and geotechnics, 1997) * Constitutional Court, Johannesburg, South Africa (multidisciplinary engineers and project manager, 2004, architect: OMM) *

Scottish Livingstone Hospital Scottish Livingstone Hospital, also known as Molepolole Hospital, is a government-run district hospital located in Molepolole, Botswana, from Gaborone. History The hospital was built in 1933 by the United Free Church of Scotland. It opened th ...

Molepolole Molepolole is a large village in Kweneng District, Botswana. The people who reside in Molepolole are called Bakwena, who are one of the eight major tribes in Botswana. The Bakwena Kgosi (Chief), Sebele I was among the three chiefs who went to ...

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(design and construction supervision, 2007) * Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Johannesburg to Pretoria, Sandton to

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, South Africa (concept studies and independent certification, 2010)

North America

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is the

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, Cupertino, California, United States. * 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) *

California Academy of Sciences The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. The Academy began in 1853 ...

, San Francisco, USA (structural and services engineers, 2008, architect:

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) * New Tappan Zee Bridge (Hudson River), New York City (concept studies, 2009) * Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Headquarters, Seattle, WA, USA (structural and services engineers, 2011, architects:

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) * Fulton Center, New York City, USA (structural engineers, 2014, HDR Daniel Frankfurt/Page Ayres Cowley Architects/ Grimshaw Architects/ Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects) * High Roller, Las Vegas, NV, USA (structural and electrical engineering, 2014, architects:

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and Klai Juba Architects) *

Gerald Desmond Bridge The 1968 Gerald Desmond Bridge was a through arch bridge that carried five lanes of Ocean Boulevard from Interstate 710 in Long Beach, California, west across the Back Channel to Terminal Island. The bridge was named after Gerald Desmond, a pro ...

Design-Build Project, Long Beach, California (civil, structural, geotechnical design services, ongoing) * Second Avenue Subway, New York City, USA (tunnel engineering, ongoing) * Lake Mead Intake No. 3, Nevada, USA (tunnel engineering) * Champlain Bridge, Montreal , Qc, Canada (bridge design) * Little Island, New York , New York City, USA

Asia

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was built to survive the

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i weather. * Kingdom Centre, The third tallest skyscraper in

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, and the second tallest in

Riyadh Riyadh (, ar, الرياض, 'ar-Riyāḍ, lit.: 'The Gardens' Najdi pronunciation: ), formerly known as Hajr al-Yamamah, is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the ...

and an icon of it. * HSBC Building (Hong Kong) (civil and structural engineers, 1985, architects:

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) *

Kansai International Airport Kansai International Airport ( ja, 関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) commonly known as is the primary international airport in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and ...

, Osaka, Japan (structural and services engineers, 1994, architect:

) *

Vattanac Capital Vattanac Capital ( km, វឌ្ឍនៈកាពីតាល) is a , 39-storey building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is owned by Vattanac Properties Limited, an affiliate of the Vattanac Bank. Construction started in 2009 and the building topped ...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia (structural engineers, 2014, architect: Farrells) *

Petron Megaplaza The Petron Megaplaza is an office skyscraper located in Makati, Philippines. It previously held the title as the tallest building in the Philippines from 1998 to 2000 when the PBCom Tower was topped-off. It currently holds the title as the 5th t ...

, Makati, Philippines (structural engineers, 1998, architect:

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel A. Owings, Nathaniel Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer Jo ...

) * International Finance Centre, Hong Kong (structural and geotechnical engineers, 2003,

Rocco Design Architects Rocco Design Architects Associates Limited (), led by Rocco Yim, is a design architectural practice based in Hong Kong. It is responsible for the design of many iconic buildings in Hong Kong and Guangdong province, including the Hong Kong Governm ...

) * National Aquatics Centre (Water Cube), Beijing, China (design and structural engineers, 2008, architects:

PTW Architects PTW Architects is an Australian architecture firm founded in Sydney in 1889. In 2013, PTW was acquired by Chinese architecture and engineering consulting firm China Construction Design International (CCDI). PTW has become a highly diversified ...

CSCEC The China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) () is the largest construction company in the world by revenue and the 8th largest general contractor in terms of overseas sales, as of 2020. While most of the assets of CSCEC were flo ...

/ CCDI) *

Beijing National Stadium The National Stadium (), also known as the Bird's Nest (), is an 80,000-capacity stadium in Beijing. The stadium was jointly designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron from Basel-based architecture team Herzog & de Meuron, p ...

(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:

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and

Ole Scheeren Ole Scheeren (born 6 January 1971) is a German architect, urbanist and principal of Büro Ole Scheeren Group with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Berlin and Bangkok and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong since January 2010. Bi ...

/ OMA) *

Fusionopolis Fusionopolis ( Chinese: 启汇城) is a research and development complex located at the one-north business park in Singapore. It houses various research organizations, high-tech companies, government agencies, retail outlets, and serviced apartmen ...

, Singapore (structural and specialist engineers, 2008, architects: Kisho Kurokawa) *

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) is an international airport that serves Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Shamshabad, about south of Hyderabad and it was opened on 23 March 2008 to replace B ...

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, 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, Shanghai Dongtan was a planned development described as an ''eco-city'' on the island of Chongming in Shanghai, China that was never built. Design began in 2005, and by 2010 the development had stalled. Adjacent to booming Shanghai, designers claimed ...

, China (design and masterplan, 2010, main designer: Thomas V. Harwood III) * Canton Tower, Guangzhou, China (structural engineers, 2010, architects: Mark Hemel/

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/ IBA) *

King Power MahaNakhon King Power Mahanakhon ( th, คิง เพาเวอร์ มหานคร), formerly known as MahaNakhon (มหานคร), is a mixed-use skyscraper in the Silom/Sathon central business district of Bangkok, Thailand. It was opened ...

, Bangkok, Thailand (structural engineers 2016, architects:

) *

Marina Bay Sands Marina Bay Sands ( abbreviation: MBS) is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. The resort is owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and at its opening in 2010, it was deemed the world's most expensive standalone casino pr ...

Integrated Resort, Singapore (structural and specialist engineers, 2010, architects: Moshe Safdie/

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) * The Helix, Singapore (structural, civil, maritime, mechanical, electrical engineers, lighting designers 2010, architects:

Cox Architects Philip Sutton Cox (born 1 October 1939) is an Australian architect. Cox is the founding partner of Cox Architecture, one of the largest architectural practices in Australia. He commenced his first practice with Ian McKay in 1962, and ...

/architects61) *

Singapore Sports Hub The Singapore Sports Hub ( Chinese: 新加坡体育城; Malay: Hab Sukan Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் விளையாட்டு மையம்) is a sports and recreation district in Kallang, Singapore. The Sport ...

, Singapore (structural and specialist engineers, 2010, architects: Arup Associates (Arup Sport)/

DP Architects DP Architects Pvt. Ltd. is a Singaporean multinational architectural industrial design firm. It started as Design Partnership in 1967 and was incorporated as a private limited company in 1993. It is a multi-disciplinary design consultancy. It i ...

) * King Abdullah Sports City (The Jewel), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (structural and services engineers, 2014, architect: Arup Associates (Arup Sport)) * Capitol Development, Singapore (structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, facade, fire engineers, sustainability and vertical transportation consultants 2015, architects: Richard Meier & Partners/architects61) *

Tanjong Pagar Centre Guoco Tower is a mixed-use development skyscraper in Tanjong Pagar of the Downtown Core district of Singapore. With a height of , it is currently the tallest building in Singapore, breaking the record held jointly by UOB Plaza, One Raffles ...

, Singapore (structural and facade engineers, sustainability consultants 2016, architects:

) * Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Terminal 3, Taiwan (expected to be opened in 2020) * Aldar Headquarters building, Abu Dhabi, rounded skyscraper (2009) * King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, a non-profit institution for independent research into global energy economics located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Australia

, Sydney (structural engineers, 1973, architect: Jørn Utzon) * Melbourne Museum, Melbourne (civil and structural engineers, 2000, architects: Denton Corker Marshall) *

Swan Bells The Swan Bells are a set of 18 bells hanging in a specially built copper and glass campanile in Perth, Western Australia. The tower is commonly known as The Bell Tower or the Swan Bell Tower. Taking their name from the Swan River, which thei ...

, Perth, (structural engineers, 2000, architects: Hames Sharley) * Goodwill Bridge, Brisbane, (bridge design, 2001, architects: Cox Rayner) *

National Museum of Australia The National Museum of Australia, in the national capital Canberra, preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation. It was formally established by the ''National Muse ...

, Canberra, (structural engineers, 2001, architects:

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) *

Lang Park Lang Park, also known as Brisbane Football Stadium, by the sponsored name Suncorp Stadium, and nicknamed: 'The Cauldron', is a multi-purpose stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located in the suburb of Milton. The current facility co ...

redevelopment, Brisbane, (masterplanning, civil and structural engineers, 2003, architects: Populous/PDT) * National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, (structural engineers, 2003, architects: Mario Bellini) *

State Library of Victoria State Library Victoria (SLV) is the state library of Victoria, Australia. Located in Melbourne, it was established in 1854 as the Melbourne Public Library, making it Australia's oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in th ...

, Melbourne, (structural engineers, 2004, architects: Ancher Mortlock & Woolley) *

Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern ...

, Melbourne, (civil and structural engineers, 2005, architects: MCG5) *

Australian Synchrotron ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron is a 3 GeV national synchrotron radiation facility located in Clayton, in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, which opened in 2007. ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron is a light source facility (in con ...

, Melbourne, (specialist engineering, 2007) *

Kurilpa Bridge The Kurilpa Bridge (originally known as the Tank Street Bridge) is a 63 million pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The bridge connects Kurilpa Point in South Brisbane to Tank Street in the ...

, Brisbane (bridge design, 2009, architects: Cox Rayner) * Melbourne Recital Centre &

Melbourne Theatre Company The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre com ...

Theatre, Melbourne, (acoustic and theatre engineers, 2009, architects: Ashton Raggat McDougall) *

Andrew "Boy" Charlton Pool Andrew "Boy" Charlton Pool is an eight-lane outdoor heated salt-water swimming pool on the shore of Woolloomooloo Bay in The Domain in Sydney, Australia, near the Royal Botanic Gardens. The pool is typically closed for four months in the c ...

, Sydney, (structural and services engineering, 2011, architects: Lippmann Associates) *

Melbourne Star The Melbourne Star (previously Southern Star) is a 120 metre tall observation wheel in the Waterfront City precinct in the Docklands area of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. Described by its operators as "the Southern Hem ...

, Melbourne, (structural engineering, 2013) *

Perth Stadium Perth Stadium, currently known as Optus Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Perth, Western Australia, located in the suburb of Burswood. It was completed in late 2017 and officially opened on 21 January 2018. The ...

, Perth, (civil and structural engineering, 2017, architects: Hassell, HKS, Cox)

Europe

BSkyB Wind Turbine, Harlequin Avenue, London 02

* Light House, London, UK (environmental and structural engineering) *

Coventry Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England. The cathedral is located in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The cur ...

, UK (structural engineers, 1962, architect: Sir Basil Spence) *

Kingsgate Bridge Kingsgate Bridge is a striking, modern reinforced concrete construction footbridge across the River Wear, in Durham, England. It is a Grade I listed building. It was personally designed in 1963 by Ove Arup, the last structure he ever designed. ...

, Durham, UK (engineering design, 1966) * Preston bus station, Lancashire, UK (structural engineering, 1969) *

Greyfriars bus station Greyfriars bus station was a bus station which formerly served the town of Northampton, England. It was owned and managed by Northampton Borough Council. The bus station was situated in the Northampton Town Centre between Greyfriars (street) an ...

, Northampton, UK (engineering design, 1976) * Pompidou Centre, Paris, France (structural and service engineers, 1977, architects:

Richard Rogers Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism (architecture), functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. He was a senior partner a ...

) * The Barbican Centre, London, UK (civil and structural engineers, 1982, architects:

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) *

Lloyds Building The Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of ...

, London, UK (building engineers and project planners, 1986, architect: Richard Rogers) *

Angel of the North The ''Angel of the North'' is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998, it is believed to be the largest sculpture of an angel in the world and is viewed by an estimated 33 ...

Gateshead Gateshead () is a large town in northern England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank, opposite Newcastle to which it is joined by seven bridges. The town contains the Millennium Bridge, The Sage, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary ...

, UK (advanced structural research, 1998, designer:

Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; '' Another ...

) *

London Eye The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the Unite ...

, London, UK (structural engineers, 2000, architect:

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) * Millennium Bridge, London, UK (bridge engineering, 2000, architects:

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) * HSBC Tower, London, UK (structural engineers, 2002, architects: Foster + Partners) *

City of Manchester Stadium The City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, England, also known as the Etihad Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is the home of Premier League club Manchester City F.C., with a domestic football capacity of 53,400, making it the 6th-largest ...

, Manchester, England, UK (Arup Associates architects, 2002) * Selfridges, Birmingham, UK (structural engineers, 2003, architect:

Future Systems Future Systems was a London-based architectural and design practice, formerly headed by Directors Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete. Future Systems was founded by Kaplický and David Nixon after working with Denys Lasdun, Norman Foster, Renzo ...

) * 30 St Mary Axe ("The Gherkin"), London, UK (structural engineers, 2004, architect: Foster + Parners) * Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh,

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, 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 Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropo ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of th ...

(building engineers, 2005: architects: Rem Koolhaas/OMA) * Restoration programme of

Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel (; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history," "one of the 19th-century engineering giants," and "one ...

's SS ''Great Britain'', Bristol, England, UK (civil and structural engineers, 2005, architect: Alex French Partnership) * Kanyon Shopping Mall,

Istanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_i ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

(structural engineers, 2006, architect: Tabanlıoğlu Architects) *

Nescio Bridge The Nescio Bridge (or ''Nesciobrug'' in Dutch) is a cycle and footbridge in the Netherlands. This curved, steel suspension bridge, located in Amsterdam, is the country's first suspension bridge that carries only a cycle track and footway, and at ...

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

(structural engineers, 2006, architect: Wilkinson Eyre) *

High Speed 1 High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a high-speed railway linking London with the Channel Tunnel. It is part of a line carrying international passenger traffic between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe ...

, UK (rail engineering, 2007) * Terminal 5 at

Heathrow Airport Heathrow Airport (), called ''London Airport'' until 1966 and now known as London Heathrow , is a major international airport in London, England. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system (the others be ...

, England, UK (civil engineers, 2008, architect: Richard Rogers) * Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center,

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

(acoustic consulting, 2008, architect: Tozkoparan Architecture) * Snowdon Summit Building,

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...

, UK (structural engineers, 2009, Ray Hole Architects) *

Donbass Arena Donbass Arena ( uk, Донба́с Аре́на ; is a stadium with a natural grass pitch in Donetsk, Ukraine, that opened on 29 August 2009. The facility is located in the center of the city, in the Lenin Comsomol park. With a capacity of 52,18 ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

(structural engineers, 2009) *

Grand Canal Theatre Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor * Grand Mixer DXT, American turntablist * Grand Puba (born 1966), American rapper Places * Grand, Oklahoma * Grand, Vosges, village and com ...

, Dublin, Ireland (acoustic, theatre technical, structural and building services engineers, 2010, architect: Daniel Libeskind) *

London Aquatics Centre The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two swimming pools and a diving pool in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. The centre, designed by architect Zaha Hadid as one of the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympic ...

, London, UK (structural and services engineers, 2012, architect:

Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...

) * The Shard, London, UK (services engineers, 2013, architect: Renzo Piano) * Sky Studios, London, UK (Arup Associates architects, 2013) *

Nou Mestalla Nou Mestalla () is a partially built football stadium in Valencia, Spain, intended as a replacement for Valencia CF's current stadium, Estadio Mestalla. The basic concrete structure of the stadium was built between August 2007 and February 2009, ...

Stadium,

Valencia, Spain Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

(structural engineers, ongoing, architects: Reid Fenwick Asociados) *

Seat of the European Central Bank The seat of the European Central Bank (ECB) is an office building complex in Frankfurt, Germany. It comprises a twin-tower skyscraper and the former Wholesale Market Hall (''Großmarkthalle''), with a low-rise building connecting the two. It w ...

, Frankfurt, Germany (building services engineers, ongoing, architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au) * Lakhta Center, Saint Peterburg, Russia (verification calculation for the underground part, foundation pile base and the superstructure, ongoing, architect:

Tony Kettle Tony Kettle is a British architect best known for designing the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland and leading the RMJM team at the Lakhta Centre, Gazprom Headquarters in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Kettle founded his own international architecture firm ...

, RMJM)

Sports

Arup had its own sports division, specialising in designing, consulting and structural engineering for sporting facilities such as stadia. Many of Arup's modern stadia are designed with a contemporary, distinctive edge and the company strives to revolutionise stadium architecture and performance. For instance, the Bird's Nest Stadium for the 2008 Olympics was complimented for its striking architectural appearance and the

for the 2002 Commonwealth Games has stairless entry to the upper tiers through circular ramps outside the stadium. The most notable stadium projects led by Arup remain the

(2002), Allianz Arena (2005), Beijing National Stadium (2008),

(2009) and the

(2014). File:Joe Mercer way in 2011.jpg, The

built for 2002 Commonwealth Games and now home of Manchester City F.C. File:München - Allianz-Arena (Luftbild).jpg, Allianz Arena in Germany, home of

FC Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...

File:Beijing National Stadium 1.jpg, The 'Bird's Nest or

, for

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

, Beijing and national stadium of China

Awards

Awards to group

The firm is consistently placed amongst top performers in Corporate and Social Responsibility rankings such as the ACCSR. Arup's multidisciplinary sports venue design and engineering scope on the

won the 2013 World Architecture Festival Award in the Future Projects, Leisure Category. The Casa da Música,

Oporto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropo ...

, designed by Arup and

Office for Metropolitan Architecture The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an international architectural firm with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia. The firm is currently led by eight partners - Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van ...

was nominated for the 2007 Stirling Prize. Arup's work with The Druk White Lotus School,

, 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. Arup was awarded the Worldaware Award for Innovation for its Vawtex air system in Harare International School. Arup won the Gold Medal for Architecture at the

National Eisteddfod of Wales The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: ') is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales. Its eight days of competitions and performances are considered the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. Competitor ...

of 1998 for their work on the Control Techniques Research and Development HQ, in Newtown, Powys. Arup Fire has won the Fire Safety Engineering Design award four times since its creation in 2001. The 2001 inaugural award was won for Arup's contribution to the

Eden Project The Eden Project ( kw, Edenva) is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS ...

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 Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The ...

, UK. Arup was

Royal Town Planning Institute The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) is the professional body representing planners in the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It promotes and develops policy affecting planning and the built environment. Founded in 1914, the institute was gra ...

Consultancy of the year in 2008. Arup was awarded the 2010 Live Design Excellence Award for Theatre Design for the integrated theatre and acoustic team's design for the new Jerome Robbins Theatre, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and The Wooster Group. The Evelyn Grace Academy, London designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Arup won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2011. Arup was named Tunnel Design Firm of the Year at the 2012 ITA AITES International Tunnelling Awards. Arup was awarded Infrastructure Architect of the Year at the 2020 Architect of the Year Awards. Arup was awarded Britains Most Admired Company 2021 by Management Today

Awards to Arup employees

Barbara Lane, associate director with Arup, won the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

Silver Medal in 2008 for her outstanding contribution to British engineering on design of structures for fire.

Fellows

Arup Fellow is a lifelong honorary title awarded to selected honorary individuals in the firm. It acknowledges the highest design and technical achievements of people, not only within the firm, but also in the industry as a whole. They are considered role models who possess world-class expertise who put theory into effective practice. The current fellows, as of November 2019, are:

Notable alumni and current staff

* Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (1895–1988), structural engineer and philosopher, founder of the company, recipient of the

Royal Gold Medal for Architecture 1966, Institution of Structural Engineers Gold Medal 1973. * Peter Dunican (1918–1989), structural engineer, first chairman of Ove Arup Partnership (1977–1984), and President of the

Institution of Structural Engineers The Institution of Structural Engineers is a professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom. The Institution has over 30,000 members operating in over 100 countries. The Institution provides professional accreditation ...

in 1977 and 1978. * Sir

Jack Zunz Sir Gerhard Jacob Zunz (25 December 1923 – 11 December 2018) was a British civil engineer and former chairman of Ove Arup & Partners. He was the principal structural designer of the Sydney Opera House. Career Zunz was born to a Jewish family ...

(1923–2018), civil engineer, and principal structural designer of the

, IStructE Gold Medal 1988. * Sir

(1924–2014), architect, founding partner of Arup Associates, Royal Gold Medal 1981, and President of the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

1993–1999. * Povl Ahm (1926–2005), structural engineer, principal engineer for

, 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 Buro Happold (previously ''BuroHappold Engineering'') is a British professional services firm that provides engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure, and the environment ...

in 1976. *

Peter Rice Peter Rice (16 June 1935 – 25 October 1992) was an Irish structural engineer. Born in Dublin, he grew up in 52 Castle Road, Dundalk in County Louth, and spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles' Quay and In ...

(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 Dr Edmund Cadbury Hambly (28 September 1942 – 28 March 1995) was a British structural engineer. Edmund Hambly was born in Seer Green, near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1942.

(1942–1995), structural engineer, and president of the

Institution of Civil Engineers The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, whi ...

1994–1995. *

Cecil Balmond Cecil Balmond OBE is a Sri Lankan–British designer, artist, and writer. In 1968 Balmond joined Ove Arup & Partners, leading him to become deputy chairman. In 2000 he founded design and research group, the AGU (Advanced Geometry Unit). He cur ...

(1943–), structural engineer, founder of Arup's Advanced Geometry Unit, lead designer for the

Centre Pompidou-Metz The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France. It is a branch of Pompidou arts centre of Paris, and features semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions from the large collection ...

, the CCTV tower in Beijing, the Ito-Balmond Serpentine Pavilion, and the

ArcelorMittal Orbit The ArcelorMittal ''Orbit'' (often referred to as the Orbit Tower or its original name, ''Orbit'') is a sculpture and observation tower in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art, an ...

. * Steven Groák (1944–1998) head of research and development at Ove Arup Partnership from 1990 to 1998. * Mike Glover (1946–), civil and structural engineer, technical director for the

Channel Tunnel Rail Link High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a high-speed railway linking London with the Channel Tunnel. It is part of a line carrying international passenger traffic between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe; ...

, and recipient of IStructE Gold Medal 2008. * Tony Fitzpatrick (1950–2003), structural engineer, and leader of the Millennium Bridge damping project. * Sir

Philip Dilley Sir Philip Graham Dilley (born 16 February 1955) is a British engineer, businessman, and public servant. He was the chairman of the Environment Agency in England. Dilley is a former business adviser to David Cameron. Early life Dilley was born ...

(1955–), civil engineer, Arup Group chairman 2009–2014, chairman of London First, chairman of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Community at the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...

. * Professor

Chris Wise Christopher Mark Wise (born 1956) is an English academic and engineer. Wise began his career with Ove Arup and Partners in 1979. After working in UK, Australia and US, he became Arup's youngest Director in 1992, and later became one of five Boar ...

(1956–), structural engineer, and later Professor of Creative Design at

Imperial College Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

. He was one of the founders of

Expedition Engineering Expedition Engineering is a London-based consulting firm, delivering structural engineering services. History Expedition Engineering was founded in 1999 by Professor Chris Wise (engineer for the Millennium Bridge, London) and Seán Walsh, b ...

in 1999. * Nille Juul-Sørensen (1958–), renown global product designer. *

Tristram Carfrae Tristram George Allen Carfrae, FRSA, FREng, FTSE, RDI (born 1 April 1959) is a British-Australian structural engineer and designer. He is currently Deputy Chair of Arup and an Arup Fellow. Carfrae was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institut ...

(1959–), IStructE Gold Medal 2014. *

Tim Jarvis Tim Jarvis AM (born May 1966) is a British-Australian environmental explorer, adventurer, climber, author and documentary filmmaker, with Masters qualifications in environmental science and environmental law. Due to his 2013 expedition recreatin ...

(1966–), environmental scientist, author and explorer. * Jo da Silva (1967–), IStructE Gold Medal 2017. *

Rogier van der Heide Rogier van der Heide (born 1970 in Bennebroek, the Netherlands) is a designer born in the Netherlands who lives in Liechtenstein. He is noted especially as a C-suite design executive and as a lighting designer of public and commercial projects a ...

(1970–), lighting designer, and former leader of Arup's lighting consultancy, and later chief design officer at Philips Lighting.

Related companies

Several 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 left Arup to form

Bath Bath may refer to: * Bathing, immersion in a fluid ** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body ** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe * Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities Plac ...

. *

Mark Whitby Mark Whitby, BSc, FICE, FREng, Hon FRIBA, (born 29 January 1950) is a British structural engineer, and a past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2001-2002). He co-founded the multi-disciplinary engineering practices Whitby & Bird (la ...

left Buro Happold to form

Whitby Bird Whitbybird was a privately owned structural engineering consultancy, founded in 1984 by Mark Whitby and Bryn Bird. It was initially named Whitby and Bird, then Whitby Bird & Partners and finally Whitbybird. The practice was joined in 1984 by Mike C ...

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

in London.

References

External links

Arup official website

Arup Americas online magazine
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