James Armstrong

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, FREng, FIStructE, FICE, FGS, MASCE was a British

structural engineer Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants. Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economic ...

born in 1947 in Cumbria and died in 2010.

Early life and education

Armstrong was born in Cumbria in 1926 and read Civil engineering at the University of Glasgow.

Career

After graduating in 1946, Armstrong undertook engineering training in Scotland in design and site supervision. He became head of foundations and special structures at Soil Mechanics Ltd (liquidated 2019).) In the early 1960s, he joined Harris & Sutherland (part of

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since 2004) working on a prestressed concrete buoyant foundation for a sugar store in Guiana and the parabolic roof structure of the Commonwealth Institute in London. In 1963, he moved to BDP where he remained until he retired in 1989. He was head of civil and structural engineering and responsible for the Falklands airport, the Channel Tunnel terminal at Folkestone and gave expert evidence to Parliamentary Select Committees. Armstrong was chairman of the buildings committee of the Harris Manchester College, Oxford where he was an Honorary Fellow. As a member of the Education Committee of the

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he played a key role in setting up the Visiting Professors Group. Armstrong was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2009.

Awards and honours

* OBE New Year Honours 1996 for services to engineering and education * Visiting Professor

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, Kingston Polytechnic & the University of Leeds,

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College, New York * Hon DEng Kingston University

Selected publications

* Design Matters: The Organisation and Principles of Engineering Design 2008

References

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