Anthony James Fitzpatrick FREng HonFRIBA (1951-26 July 2003) was an eminent

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 ...

and director of Arup.

Life and career

He graduated from

Leeds University , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

in 1972 with a first class degree in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

, having won the Holst Prize. He worked for Arup in the UK and in Iran, before joining the design team for the new

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at St Pancras Station in 1978. In 1982 he relocated to

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

where he worked on the Hong Kong Bank headquarters, the Shanghai Hilton and Century Tower in

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. In 1987, when he returned to

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, he was made a director of Arup. He later became a board member of the global Partnership and chairman of the Building Engineering Board. In 2001 he became chairman of Arup’s Americas Division. While in London, he worked on the designs for the new

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and

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as well as the * Shard of Glass,

London Bridge Several bridges named London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1973, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. It r ...

Fitzpatrick took over the

Millennium Bridge Several bridges are known as the Millennium Bridge: * in the United Kingdom **Gateshead Millennium Bridge ** Lune Millennium Bridge, Lancaster ** Millennium Bridge, Glasgow ** Millennium Bridge, London ** Millennium Bridge (Salford Quays) ** Teesqua ...

design following its opening when it was found that it wobbled. He designed the measures to correct the wobble, including

tuned mass dampers A tuned mass damper (TMD), also known as a harmonic absorber or seismic damper, is a device mounted in structures to reduce mechanical vibrations, consisting of a mass mounted on one or more damped springs. Its oscillation frequency is tuned ...

and viscous dampers. In 2003, while working on the design for

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's Terminal 5, Tony Fitzpatrick was killed in a road accident when his bicycle flipped, throwing him under a passing truck."Tony Fitzpatrick"
''theguardian.com'', 8 August 2003. Retrieved 2015-01-13.

Unfinished projects

A number of Tony Fitzpatrick's design have not yet been built. They include: * Tour Sans Fin,

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzpatrick, Anthony James British structural engineers 1951 births 2003 deaths Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects