This month at Buro Happold – April 2024
Welcome to the ‘This month at Buro Happold’ newsletter. In this month’s issue, we look at highlights from April, including an in-depth look at environmental justice and the life cycle of plastic. Plus, a summary of our recent Young Employees Forum global summit.
Environmental justice in the built environment
Our industry has made – and continues to make – essential strides in addressing critical climate and sustainability concerns. But too often, one area is not given due consideration: environmental justice. Here, we look at what this means – and why the built environment cannot afford to ignore it.
Buro Happold supports the New York Green Economy Action Plan
Buro Happold has played a critical role in developing New York City’s Green Economy Action Plan. Our experts produced a case study that comprises an in-depth analysis of the industry's current state and strategic recommendations to achieve decarbonization.
Human wellbeing is environmental wellbeing: the life cycle of plastics
For Earth Day 2024, Buro Happold graduate sustainability consultant Zoe Voss Lee took an in-depth look at the life cycle of plastics. While plastic pollution is a global issue — it’s found in human bodies, far-flung parts of the ocean and littered across every city in the world — the life cycle impacts of plastics are not evenly distributed.
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AUDE News Awards: Supplier of the Year
We’re proud to share that we were named Supplier of the Year at the 2024 AUDE Association of University Directors of Estates news awards. The judges commended our efforts, saying, “Buro Happold’s take on supporting the sector is to go beyond being ‘just engineers’. They recognise the education sector needs more than transactional relationships. Instead, it needs partners who care about the bigger picture and invest in the long-term betterment of the sector for all.”
Building a vibrant new cultural scene for Jeddah
The Jeddah Opera House will be the first opera house in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A broad multidisciplinary team from Buro Happold worked closely with architects Henning Larsen on the competition-winning design from the concept stage, providing expertise across everything from structural engineering to people flow simulation and constructability.
Sparking connections with the Young Employees Forum
A group of colleagues in the early stages of their careers at Buro Happold recently met in Bath. The summit, arranged by our Young Employees Forum, brought together colleagues from our Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bath, Dubai, Riyadh, London, Leeds, and Edinburgh offices for two days of workshops, networking, early career discussions, and some well-earned fun!
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