Buro Happold wins Queen's Award for Enterprise 2001

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(2001), "Buro Happold wins Queen's Award for Enterprise 2001", Facilities, Vol. 19 No. 11/12. https://doi.org/10.1108/f.2001.06919kaf.002

Buro Happold wins Queen's Award for Enterprise 2001

Buro Happold wins Queen's Award for Enterprise 2001Keywords: Awards, Sustainable development, Building engineering

Engineer Buro Happold has won the UK's top award for business performance, a 2001 Queen's Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development. The Award has been conferred in recognition of Buro Happold's continued commitment to the engineering of sustainable buildings, with research and innovation reducing impact upon the built environment.

Managing Partner, Padraic Kelly, comments, "This Award confirms our belief in our approach to providing building and spaces that present minimal impact upon the built environment. It recognises the combined efforts of the expertise of our many multi-disciplinary design teams."

The Queen's Award citation, published in The London Gazette, 21 April 2001, reads: "Buro Happold gains the Award for engineering sustainable buildings. The practice works to reduce the impact of buildings and building developments upon the environment, embracing issues beginning with the construction process, continuing when the completed building is in use.

Buro Happold's multi-disciplinary approach integrates quality engineering and high standards in the responsible use of technology and material resources. Recent projects demonstrate employing engineered timber made from low grade pulp, recycled materials including cardboard, aggregates and concrete, and natural ventilation and control systems designed to limit use of high energy consumption equipment."

Flagship buildings minimising environmental impact include The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum, and Millennium Dome, London; Wessex Water Operations Centre, Bath; Office of the Future Building Research Establishment, Watford; Cardboard Afterschool Club, Westcliff School, Essex; Japan Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover; Timber Gridshell, Weald and Downland Museum, Chichester, as well as a number of buildings on reclaimed sites, including BA Waterside, the HQ of British Airways, Heathrow.

Chairman, Michael Dickson, comments, "Sustainable and economic design lies at the heart of Buro Happold's philosophy, it is the driving force behind our approach to both innovation in the wider sense, and practical engineering application. That winning the Queen's Award comes at the same time as the practice celebrates its 25th anniversary gives us even greater cause to celebrate."

The Queen's Awards are the UK's top awards for business performance and are awarded in three categories: international trade, innovation, and sustainable development.

Continuous achievement in sustainable development, contributing to a substantial improvement in business performance and commercial success, sustained over no fewer than five years, to levels which are outstanding for the goods or services concerned and for the size of the applicant's operations.

Buro Happold is a multi-disciplinary international practice of consulting engineers established in 1976, offering civil and structural engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, quantity surveying, building services and environmental engineering, infrastructure and traffic engineering, geotechnical engineering, façade engineering, fire engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis, access consultancy, project management, urban design and a range of specialist CAD services.

For further information contact Helen Elias. Tel: +44 (0) 1225 320 627; Fax: +44’(0) 1225 320 601; E-mail: helen.elias@burohappold.com; www.burohappold.com

Edited by Jenny PicklesEmerald

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