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15 Facts About Buro Happold

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

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Buro Happold was founded on 1 May 1976, with its first office on Gay Street in Bath, United Kingdom.

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In 1982 Buro Happold started to work with Future Tents Ltd on a variety of temporary and recreational structures.

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In 1983, Buro Happold opened an office in Riyadh, and has since opened offices around the UK and internationally:.

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In 2005, Buro Happold launched Happold Consulting, a management and overseas development consultancy with expertise in the construction sector, and Happold Media, a subsidiary offering graphic design and media development services.

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In 2007 Buro Happold became a limited liability partnership, and in 2008 appointed 18 new partners.

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Buro Happold has completed the designs of a number of cardboard structures, notably the Japan Pavilion for Expo 2000 in Hanover with Shigeru Ban and Frei Otto, consisting of a gridshell of paper tubes.

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Buro Happold is best known for providing engineering services for buildings, but it undertakes a large proportion of its work in civil, geotechnical and environmental engineering, and an increasing amount of overseas development work.

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Buro Happold is part of the consortium appointed by EDAW to design the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympics.

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In 2021, Buro Happold acquired Vanguardia Consulting Ltd, a leading acoustic and audio-visual consultancy firm, to strengthen their offering in these areas.

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Buro Happold won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Tuwaiq Palace in Riyadh in 1998 and again in 2010 for the design of the Wadi Hanifah wetlands.

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Buro Happold won the Queen's Award for Enterprise twice, for export achievement and again for sustainable development.

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In 2007, Buro Happold won the IStructE Supreme Award for the Savill Building in Windsor Great Park.

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Buro Happold's projects have won two RIBA Stirling Prizes: the Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1999 and the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham in 2001.

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The following Buro Happold projects have been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize:.

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