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For the past year, Buro Happold Associate MEP engineer William Holley CEng MCIBSE has been exploring the field of heat pump technology around the world thanks to winning the prestigious Ken Dale Travel Bursary. The bursary, granted by CIBSE every year, is instrumental in providing young professionals with the opportunity to explore innovative solutions and connect with global industry leaders. It enables them to undertake research in their field of work for the benefit the engineering profession. Will, who is based at our office in Hamburg, has travelled to Finland, China and Japan to investigate the integration of heat pump technology into the built environment. He aims to disseminate his insights and establish design guidance to aid engineers to effectively integrate heat pumps into their projects. The report’s findings will be published in October this year. He says his journey has reignited his passion for engineering and equipped him with the skills to propose groundbreaking solutions. Watch his full interview to discover how the bursary has made a difference. #burohappold #engineering #buildingservices #MEP #heatpumps #CIBSE

Eid Mubarak from everyone at Buro Happold. Wishing our colleagues, clients and collaborators who celebrate a joyous and blessed festival. #Eid2025 #EidMubarak #Peace #Happiness #Prosperity #BuroHappold #Engineering #Design #Consultancy #Advisory

Arizona State University's Rob & Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health stands out as one of the most advanced LEED-certified buildings on campus, achieving LEED Platinum status. Buro Happold's multidisciplinary engineering team worked with ARCHITEKTON, Grimshaw and McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. to develop strategies to achieve ambitious sustainability goals, including minimizing embodied carbon. The structural design incorporates voided slab systems to reduce concrete volume and embodied carbon, complemented by high cement replacement targets throughout the building. Laboratory spaces feature modular planning for flexibility, allowing future modifications for specific research needs. The organized design ensures efficient delivery of MEP services with dedicated equipment for each function. Our energy analytics, lighting, and facade teams worked together to balance daylighting and solar gain, optimizing thermal performance and maintaining excellent daylighting and connectivity to the outside. Learn more about LEED Examples in the US in Green Building and Design magazine: https://buro.im/3DTquAc #BuroHappold #Engineering #BuroHappoldAdvisory #LEED #LEEDPlatinum #ASU #HigherEducation #StructuralEngineering #MEPEngineering #EnergyAnalytics

Planning your next getaway? Before you book, take a moment to consider: how can you travel in a way that leaves a lighter footprint? In this week’s Sandbox FOMO5, taken from our episode ‘Sustainable Tourism: Travelling to a Greener Future’, our expert panel unpacks the small choices that make a big difference. From flights to food to where you stay, discover how to be a more conscious, responsible traveller—without sacrificing the joy of the journey. Joining our regular host Andy Duncan, were Buro Happold experts Graziano Di Gregorio, Associate Strategic Planner, and Gabriel Berti, Graduate Consultant. Our special guest in this episode was Lindsay Hawdon. Lindsay is a former Sunday Times and Telegraph travel columnist and a writer of fiction.  In the FOMO5, our panel of experts explore: 1. How, as visitors to places, we can all choose how we spend our time and money – whether it be buying from local artisans to visiting authentic attractions.   2. Making the journey part of the experience: How can we actively choose alternatives to airplanes that could not only help the planet, but also enhance our travel experiences?   3. Connecting with locals and sharing experiences: How engaging with residents can lead to unforgettable memories and a deeper understanding of the places we visit.    Watch the video below for some quick insights, and visit the links below to listen to this week’s FOMO5. You can also find the full episode on all the usual podcast platforms. ▫️ Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eEAQUQwF  ▫️ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ewSZ-fBt  ▫️ YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eeJWvMp8 #BHSandbox  #travel #sustainabletravel #sustainabletourism #holidays #airplanes #trains #sustainabletravel #UK #London #engingeering #BuroHappold #policy #planning 

Do you want to transform the world? The built environment is how to do it.   Buro Happold allows its people to build a personal and professional legacy. What could be more impactful than physically shaping cities and places for decades to come?   Today, meet Victoria Yanovska.   Victoria, who is based in Berlin, began at Buro Happold working within our HR team in Warsaw. During her time in Warsaw and then Berlin, she developed an interest in the sustainability side of Buro Happold’s work. It was the immersion in the work undertaken by Buro Happold in the sustainability, climate and ESG space that sparked an interest in Victoria. She has now followed that interest to transform her career, and now works as a senior sustainability consultant, and is also a co-founder of the Ukrainian Green Building Council (UGBC).   “I’m passionate about the built environment. Through the course of our lives, we spend so much of our time within buildings, and they are one of the most important areas in our lives. That is why it is important to invest our knowledge and creativity to improve the built environment and make it a ‘happy and healthy’ place.” Victoria Yanovska, senior sustainability consultant at Buro Happold.   Learn more about Victoria's journey and find more career stories on our website.   #BuroHappold #Engineering #Consultancy #Advisory #BuiltEnvironment #Construction #Legacy #Careers #Berlin

Does higher lighting contrast always create better spaces for museum visitors? And how does lighting shape the way they navigate cultural spaces? These are some of the questions to which a recent Buro Happold research project into inclusive lighting design at cultural venues has found the answers. Paula Longato, Buro Happold team lead for Lighting Design Europe and her team, in partnership with the Institute for Design Strategies at the OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe; the DASA Arbeitswelt Ausstellung, Germany’s largest workplace exhibition in Dortmund; Zumtobel Lighting, Sentistic and SOUR, carried out extensive desk research and practical testing in a real museum environment over two and half years. The aim was to gain an understanding of how lighting can create more accessible environments, particularly for visually impaired individuals and potentially those with various neurocognitive profiles. Curious to learn more lighting strategies for inclusive design? Read our research findings in this report: https://buro.im/3DIQi1V #burohappold #lighting #lightingdesign #inclusivity #inclusive #accessiblitly #museums #cultural #research

Did you know that glaciers store 69% of the earth’s freshwater? Today is #WorldWaterDay and this year’s theme is ‘Glacier Preservation’. #Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates due to rising global temperatures which leads to rising sea levels, posing a growing flood risk to coastal regions. Madeline Witney and Matthew Vaughan-Shaw from our water team look in more detail at this precious resource. They emphasise how rising sea levels cause coastal flooding, erosion, and loss of wetlands, making coastal communities more vulnerable. Low-lying regions, like the Maldives, face the risk of becoming uninhabitable. What can we do? ◾Limit global temperature rise to slow glacier melt. ◾Invest in resilient infrastructure and nature-based solutions. ◾Design new coastal developments to account for sea level rise. The United Nations, as promoters of World Water Day, has described glacier preservation as a survival strategy. We know what our survival tools look like, so let’s work together to use them. Read the article to learn more: https://buro.im/41QfZpv Find out more about water #engineering at Buro Happold here: https://buro.im/3iHIO1f Learn more about the challenges we face today around water management in the UK in our Sandbox episode 'Troubled Waters': https://buro.im/4hEnzte #climateaction #sustainablefuture #waterengineering

Sustainable Tourism: ‘It’s a different way of travelling, more of a conscious way’. Grab an iced drink, find just five minutes, and jump ‘aboard’ this week’s ‘Sandbox’ FOMO5 to learn more... With the Spring Equinox upon us and the weather warming up, the summer season is within reaching distance, where many of us will be travelling to destinations abroad via bus, boats, trains and planes.  Our most recent episode of ‘Sandbox’ explores how we can all be travelling more sustainably to minimise our impact across the world.  In this week’s short FOMO5 episode, our ‘Sandbox’ panel defines what sustainable tourism means to them. Joining our regular host Andy Duncan, are Buro Happold experts Graziano Di Gregorio, Associate Strategic Planner, and Gabriel Berti, Graduate Consultant. Our special guest in this episode is Lindsay Hawdon. Lindsay is a former Sunday Times and Telegraph travel columnist and a writer of fiction.  Here’s a quick flavour of the points discussed in this Sandbox FOMO5: 1. How can sustainable travel go beyond environmental concerns to positively impact the communities we visit? 2. What does it mean to minimise our carbon footprint while blending with local cultures and spending locally during our travels? 3. How does traveling more consciously balance various aspects of human existence, including the environment and related structures and systems, to ensure positive impacts? Visit the links below to listen to this week’s FOMO5 and find the full episode on all the usual podcast platforms. ▫️ Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eDNACqGe  ▫️ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eVTxZ-8k  ▫️ YouTube: https://lnkd.in/e5ZhCZtS #BHSandbox  #travel #sustainabletravel #sustainabletourism #holidays #airplanes #trains #sustainabletravel #UK #London #engingeering #BuroHappold #policy #planning  

We have developed a Climate Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) tool for Egypt, commissioned by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. This framework assesses urban climate-related vulnerabilities at the Governorate level, evaluating impacts on infrastructure and communities while measuring adaptive capacities. Our CVA tool includes four sub-assessments: Exposure, Physical Sensitivity, Socio-Economic Sensitivity, and Adaptive Capacity. Successfully piloted in Alexandria, this tool equips stakeholders with the knowledge to address climate-related challenges effectively. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:  𝐓𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: We developed a customised approach for assessing climate vulnerabilities across all governorates in Egypt, ensuring precise and actionable insights. 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬: Our training programmes have strengthened knowledge on urban climate vulnerabilities, empowering stakeholders to address climate-related challenges effectively. 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: By incorporating climate change considerations into GOPP’s planning processes, we have helped create a more resilient urban environment. This project underscores our mission to help clients build resilient urban communities and adapt to climate change impacts. Discover more about our project and expertise in climate consulting on our website: https://lnkd.in/dVT2aGZc #BuroHappold #ClimateConsulting #UrbanResilience #ClimateChange #Sustainability #Egypt 

Rotterdam warmed the house of their new premises together with a growing team as well as clients, architects and close collaborators. The new space is a hub for collaboration and creativity, with open plan desks, meeting rooms, a modern kitchen and the piece de resistance – the agora – a circular space at the heart of the office where all Rotterdammers meet, greet and eat together and build a strong multidisciplinary team.  Dirk Rinze Visser, Partner at Buro Happold, said: “Our Rotterdam team is growing fast. Starting with just 6 desks five years ago, we've expanded to a vibrant team of 40 engineers, designers and support staff. With plans for further growth, it was time for a new office that reflects our Buro Happold spirit: modern, full of daylight and featuring a bold green agora at its heart. This new space is designed to accommodate all our colleagues comfortably and foster collaboration.” The new premises can be found at Stationsplein 45, in 3013 AK Rotterdam. Visit our website for more information: https://lnkd.in/gEMt_3YQ #burohappold #engineering #rotterdam #netherlands #newoffice