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Arup
Location
Main Office:
13 Fitzroy Street,
London W1T 4BQ, United Kingdom
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Additional Offices: Over 90 offices across 35 countries
Number of employees: 15,608 (2020)
Additional US Offices:
Boston, Massachusetts
Chicago, Illinois
Dallas, Texas
Houston, Texas
Los Angeles, California
New Jersey
New York
Oakland, California
San Francisco, California
Seattle, Washington
Washington D.C.
Also see Arup Advanced Geometry Unit
Engineering Specialties:
Acoustics
Advanced Technology and Research
Aerodynamics
Architecture
Bridges
Civil Engineering
Communications
Corporate Resilience
Electronic Data Man
Systems
Facade Engineering
Facilities Management
Research and Development
Materials Science
Fire and Environmental Engineering
Structural Engineering and Design
Mechanical and Electrical
Infrastructure
Financial Services
Fluid Dynamics
Geographic Information
Geotechnics
Microclimate Design
Offshore Engineering
Property and Construction
Public Health and Engineering
Offshore Engineering
Property and Construction
Public health engineering
Rail
Seismic Engineering
Tunnels
History:
Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) was established in 1946 by Sir Ove Arup, and it is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London which provides design, engineering, architecture, planning, and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment. The firm employs approximately 16,000 staff in over 90 offices across 35 countries around the world. Arup has participated in projects in over 160 countries.
Engineer Spotlights:
Ove Arup
Hüseyin Darama
Erin McConahey
Selected Projects:
National Aquatic Center (Water Cube)
Updated Oct. 2021 by Ryan Dennis
McConahey, Erin
Engineering Specialties:
Structural Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Spotlight: Erin McConahey
Erin McConahey began her structural career with degrees in both mechanical and structural engineering. Erin’s extensive technical knowledge of innovative and energy saving solutions combined with a strong commitment to the complete design cycle approach. She’s involved from the very beginning of the concept design all the way to the construction sequence of a project. Her passion and understanding has helped aid in the success of many Arup projects including museums, high-rises, laboratories, and school. (1)
Selected Projects:
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Federal Building, San Francisco, California
Sources:
(1) Larson, Matt. Architectural Engineering World, University of Texas at Austin
Arup, Ove
Engineering Specialties:
Structural Engineering
Spotlight: Ove Arup (1895-1988)
Born in Newcastle, U.k., Sir Ove Nyquist Arup began his education in philosophy and mathematics at Copenhagen University. He later went on to receive an engineering degree at the Technical University of denmark. Once graduated in 1922 he began working as a structural engineer for Christiani and Nielsen, a danish civil engineering firm, and moved to London.(1)
In the early 1930’s, he worked as a consultant to the Tectron partnership where he worked with senior partner Berthold Lubetkin.
During this time, Ove Arup applied structural concrete ideas that had never been done before in residential housing. After the war in 1946, he founded his now highly successful company, Arup. (1) Sir Ove Arup’s aspiration for ‘Total Architecture’ was that great things can result when “all relevant design decisions have been considered together and have been integrated into a whole by a well organised team”. (2)
Selected Projects:
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Kingsgate Bridge, Durham, England
Sources:
(1) Siegfried, Ryan. Architecture Engineers of the 20th and 21st Century, University of Texas at Austin
(2) http://www.arup.com
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