Buro Happold
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| Limited Liability Partnership | |
| Industry | Construction |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Founder | Sir Edmund Happold |
| Headquarters | Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Mike Cook, Chairman and Senior Partner Roger Nickells, CEO |
| Products | Services, software |
| Services | engineering consulting, construction management and business services |
| Revenue | GB£160 million (2015/16) |
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Number of employees
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1,600 |
| Divisions | Buro Happold Ltd, Buro Happold Ingenieurburo GmBH, |
| Website | burohappold.com |
BuroHappold Engineering is a British professional services firm providing engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of buildings, infrastructure and the environment, with its head office in Bath, Somerset. It was founded in 1976, by Sir Edmund Happold in Bath in the southwest of England when he left Ove Arup and Partners to take up a post at the University of Bath as Professor of Architecture and Engineering Design.
Originally working mainly on projects in the Middle East, the firm now operates worldwide and in almost all areas of engineering for the built environment, with 23 offices around the world.
Edmund, or Ted, Happold worked at Arup before founding BuroHappold, where he worked on projects such as the Sydney Opera House and the Pompidou Centre. Ted Happold was a leader in the field of lightweight and tensile structures and BuroHappold has as a result undertaken a large number of tensile and other lightweight structures since its founding, including the Millennium Dome. Ted Happold died in 1996, but the firm claims to maintain his views on engineering and life.
BuroHappold was founded on 1 May 1976, with its first office on Gay Street in Bath, United Kingdom. The firm started with eight partners:
The King's Office, Council of Ministers and Majlis Al Shura (KOCOMMAS), Central Government Complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was the firm's first major design project in 1976. Initially, BuroHappold offered only structural engineering consultancy, with a particular strength in lightweight structures, but in 1977 it added civil engineering and geotechnical engineering and in 1978 building services engineering. In 1982 BuroHappold started to work with Future Tents Ltd (FTL) on a variety of temporary and recreational structures. The firms combined their operations in 1992, but split again in 1997.
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