William Ian Liddell (born 1938
)
CBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
FREng
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FIStructE Hon FRIBA is a
structural engineer
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and the designer of London's
Millennium Dome
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. He was one of the founding partners of
Buro Happold
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and is a Royal Academy Visiting Professor of Engineering Design at
Cambridge University
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School of Engineering. He is now a consultant for Buro Happold.
He studied mechanical sciences at
St John's College, Cambridge
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followed by a diploma in
concrete
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structures at
Imperial College
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,
London
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.
He was project engineer on the
Sydney Opera House
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, playing a significant role in the formfinding of the iconic roofs. He received the
IStructE
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The Institution has over 30,000 members operating in over 100 countries. The Institution provides professional accreditation ...
Gold Medal in 1999.
For his work as Chief Design Engineer on London's Millennium Dome project, he was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
1999 New Year Honours
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.
''New Years Honours: DBE, KBE, CBE civil''
BBC News, 31 December 1999. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
He is a trustee of the Arkwright Scholarships Trust
The Arkwright Engineering Scholarship is an engineering award given to engineering students within the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. It has been running since 1991 and, as part of The Smallpeice Trust, has awarded over 6,000 scholarships to ...
and the Smallpeice Trust
The Smallpeice Trust is a British charity that provides programmes to promote engineering careers to young people aged 10 to 18 through residential courses, Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) days, STEM clubs and STEM teacher trainin ...
.
References
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1938 births
Living people
Alumni of Imperial College London
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
IStructE Gold Medal winners
British structural engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects