Faith Helen Wainwright (born 1962) is a British structural engineer, and a director of

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. She has led in the structural design of multiple landmark buildings including the

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and the

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and holds an

honorary doctor An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hono ...

ate from the

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

. Wainwright is the 2018 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 ...

and sits on the Editorial Board of Ingenia (the educational magazine of 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 ...

Education

Wainwright attended

Queen Anne's School Queen Anne's School is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18, situated in the suburb of Caversham just north of the River Thames and Reading town centre and occupying a campus. There are around 450 pupils. Nearly half a ...

and was one of the first female graduates of

St Edmund Hall, Oxford St Edmund Hall (sometimes known as The Hall or informally as Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. The college claims to be "the oldest surviving academic society to house and educate undergraduates in any university ...

, where she earned a degree in engineering in 1983.

Career

Wainwright joined Arup after her graduation. At Arup she has contributed to

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Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in Europe by total assets ahead of BNP Paribas, with US$2.953 trillion as of December 2021. In 2021, HSBC had $10.8 tril ...

Headquarters,

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, Lycée Albert Camus (in Frejus, France) and has worked alongside architects such as

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, and Ken Shuttleworth. Wainwright has been instrumental in transforming the

structural engineering Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man-made structures. Structural engineers also must understand and cal ...

community, including influencing the "Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety" and has served as the first-ever woman on the Joint Board of Moderators (the professional body which regulates accreditation of university degree programmes in

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). In 2014 Wainwright sat on the

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sub-panel 14 (Civil and Construction Engineering) to assess the quality of University-based academic research in the UK. Recognizing the importance of education and structural engineering, Wainwright established Arup University.

Awards

In 2003, Wainwright was in the Arup team who won the International Information Industry Award recognizing their "innovation in knowledge management". She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2003, an

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in 2012 for services to the built environment and engineering professions and an Honorary DEng from Bath University in 2014. In 2015 Wainwright was elected an honorary fellow of St Edmund Hall. She gave her inaugural address as President of the Institution of Structural Engineers on Thursday 11 January 2018.

Personal life

Wainwright lives in

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References

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