Arup Group Limited

Arup

Trading name	Arup
Type	Private, held in trust for the benefit of the employees
Industry	Design, Engineering and Business consultation
Predecessor	Arup & Arup Ltd (1938-1946)
Founded	April 1, 1946 (1946-04-01)
Founder	Sir Ove N. Arup
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Number of locations	92 offices in 42 countries (2016)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Gregory Hodkinson (Chairman) Tristram Carfrae David Whittleton (Deputy chairmen)
Services	Consultancy services
Revenue	£1.13 billion (2015) £1.05 billion (2014)
Operating income	£25.4 million (2015) £40.4 million (2014)
Profit	£19.0 million (2015) £29.7 million (2014)
Total assets	£65.5 million (2015) £88.8 million (2014)
Number of employees	12,143 (2015) 11,355 (2014)
Subsidiaries	Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd, Arup Associates Ltd, and others.
Website	www.arup.com

Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm has over 14,000 staff based in 92 offices across 42 countries, and is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Arup has participated in projects in over 160 countries.

Arup is owned by trusts, the beneficiaries of which are Arup's past and present employees, who receive a share of the firm's operating profit each year.

The firm was founded in London in 1946, as the Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers by Sir Ove Nyquist Arup. Sir Ove set out to build a firm where professionals of diverse disciplines could work together to produce projects of greater quality than was achievable by them working in isolation. In 1963, together with the architect Philip Dowson, Arup Associates was formed. In 1970, the firm reformed as "Ove Arup & Partners".

It is best known for its design work for the built environment. Projects to which it has contributed include the Sydney Opera House, which is largely credited with launching Arup into the premier league of engineering consultancies. The BBC and RIBA documentary The Brits who Built the Modern World highlighted Arup’s collaboration with architects and described Arup as "the engineering firm which Lord Norman Foster and his peers Lord Richard Rogers, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Sir Michael Hopkins and Sir Terry Farrell most frequently relied upon."