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| x Frank Newby |
Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore,...
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| x Skylon |
The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that apparently floated above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain.
A popular joke of the period was...
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| x Structural engineer |
Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants. Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economic and...
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| x Institution of Structural Engineers |
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The Institution of Structural Engineers is a professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom. It has 27,000 members in 105 countries. The Institution provides professional accreditation for structural engineers. The...
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| x Institution of Civil Engineers |
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Founded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association, headquartered in central London, representing civil engineering. Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are...
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| x F J Samuely & Partners |
The consultant firm founded by Felix Samuely.
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| x Institution of Mechanical Engineers |
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is an independent engineering society based in central London, representing mechanical engineers. It represents over 100,000 members in 139 countries in industries including rail, automotive,...
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| x Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, read I-Triple-E) is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence. It has more than 400,000...
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| x Radius of gyration |
Radius of gyration or gyradius is the name of several related measures of the size of an object, a surface, or an ensemble of points. It is calculated as the root mean square distance of the objects' parts from either its center of gravity or a...
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The second moment of area, also known as "moment of inertia of plane area", "polar moment of inertia","area moment of inertia", or "second area moment", is a property of a cross-section that can be used to predict the resistance of a beam to bending...
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| x Elastic modulus |
An elastic modulus, or modulus of elasticity, is the mathematical description of an object or substance's tendency to be deformed elastically (i.e., non-permanently) when a force is applied to it. The elastic modulus of an object is defined as the...
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Surface area is the total area of the faces and curved surface of the a solid figure. Mathematical description of the surface area is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length or polyhedra (objects with flat polygonal faces) the...
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| x Jaime Ohm |
Undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University
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| x Royal Academy of Engineering |
The Royal Academy of Engineering is the UK’s national academy of engineering. The Academy brings together the most successful and talented engineers from across the engineering sectors for a shared purpose: to advance and promote excellence in...
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| x British Petroleum |
BP p.l.c. (LSE: BP, NYSE: BP) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by 2011 revenues and one of the six oil and...
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| x Rolls-Royce plc |
Rolls-Royce Group plc (LSE: RR.) is a global power systems company headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines (behind General Electric), and also has major businesses...
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| x Freeman, Fox and Partners | ||
| x The Gas Council | ||
| x Post Office Telecommunications |
Post Office Telecommunications was set up as a separate department of the UK Post Office, in October 1969. The Post Office Act of that year was passed to provide for greater efficiency in post and telephone services; rather than run a range of...
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| x Johnson Matthey |
Johnson Matthey plc (LSE: JMAT) is a British multinational chemicals and precious metals company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Johnson Matthey traces...
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| x Oxford Instruments |
Oxford Instruments plc is a United Kingdom manufacturing and research company that designs and manufactures tools and systems for industry and research. The company is headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, with sites in the United Kingdom...
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| x Netlon Limited | ||
| x British Railways Board |
The British Railways Board (BRB) was a nationalised industry in the United Kingdom that existed from 1962 to 2001. Until 1997 it was responsible for most railway services in Great Britain, trading under the brand name British Railways and, from 1965...
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| x Price & Myers | ||
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| x Millennium Bridge |
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The Millennium Bridge (Irish: Droichead na Mílaoise) is a pedestrian bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, joining Eustace Street in Temple Bar to the north quays.
Installed in December 1999, to commemorate the new millennium (2000), the span...
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| x WS Atkins PLC |
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WS Atkins plc (commonly known as Atkins) (LSE: ATK) is a multinational engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services company headquartered in Epsom, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1938 by Sir William Atkins.
Atkins is...
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| x Mouchel Parkman plc |
Mouchel Parkman is a FTSE 250-listed professional support services company that provides a range of highways, rail, water, property, housing, education, energy, waste, environmental and local government consultancy services in the UK and...
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| x Mott MacDonald |
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The Mott MacDonald Group is an employee-owned company management, engineering and development consultancy serving the public and private sectors world-wide. The firm employs more than 14,000 staff and works in 140 countries.
The firm was created in...
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| x Halcrow Group Limited |
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Halcrow Group Limited is an engineering consultancy company, based in the United Kingdom.
Halcrow is one of the UK's leading consultancies, with a pedigree stretching back to 1868. The UK-based consultancy specialises in the provision of planning,...
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| x Capita Symonds |
Structural Engineers.
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| x Arup |
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Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built...
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| x Scott Wilson Group |
Scott Wilson Group plc, with over 5,500 members of staff, is a global integrated design and engineering consultancy for the built and natural environments. With its headquarters in the UK, the Group offers Strategic Consultancy and multi...
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| x WSP Group |
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WSP Group plc (LSE: WSH) is a British-based business providing management and consultancy services to the built and natural environment. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The Company was...
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| x RPS Group Plc |
RPS Group plc (LSE: RPS) is a major British environmental and planning consultancy. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
RPS was started in 1970, as Rural Planning Services, by a team of academics who...
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| x White Young Green | ||
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| x Amey Infrastructure Services | ||
| x Black & Veatch Corporation |
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Black & Veatch is a global engineering, consulting, construction and operations company specializing in infrastructure development in energy, water, telecommunications, management consulting, federal and environmental markets. Black & Veatch is the...
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| x Parsons Brinkerhoff | ||
| x Mace | ||
| x Davis Langdon |
Davis Langdon an AECOM company, is a construction consultancy firm headquartered in London, UK with 62 offices globally. The company has approximately 2,500 employees working in over 18 countries worldwide.
The firm was established by Horace W...
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| x MWH | ||
| x Hyder Consulting |
Hyder Consulting is a multi-national advisory and design consultancy with particular specialisation in the transport, property, utilities and environmental sectors. The firm employs approximately 4,200 people across the UK, Europe, Germany, Middle...
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| x Burj al-Arab |
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Burj Al Arab (Arabic: برج العرب,Tower of the Arabs) is a luxury hotel located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At 321 m (1,053 ft), it is the fourth tallest hotel in the world. Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island 280 m (920 ft) out from...
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| x Jacobs Engineering Group |
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC), a publicly traded company with 60,000 employees and 2011 revenues of more than $10 billion, provides technical, professional, and construction services globally. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, it...
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| x I-35 Mississippi River bridge | ||
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