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