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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 the world's leading professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom. It has 23,600 members in 105 countries.. The Institution is a learned body and provider of professional...
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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, based in central London, representing civil engineers. Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are British...
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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 the British engineering society concerned with mechanical engineering. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers....
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| x Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
The IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world, with more than 365,000...
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| x Radius of gyration |
Radius of gyration 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 an axis.
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The second moment of area, also known as the area moment of inertia or second moment of inertia is a property of a shape that can be used to predict the resistance of beams to bending and deflection. The deflection of a beam under load depends not...
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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 measure of how much exposed area a solid object has, expressed in square units. Mathematical description of the surface area is considerably more involved then the definition of arc length of a curve. For polyhedra (objects with...
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| x Jaime Ohm |
Undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University
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| x Royal Academy of Engineering |
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The Royal Academy of Engineering is a British learned society concerned with engineering.
Founded in 1976, the Academy was initially known as the Fellowship of Engineering. A Royal Charter was granted in 1983 and the name "Royal Academy of...
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| x British Petroleum |
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BP plc (Formerly British Petroleum plc) is the third largest global energy company and the 5th largest company in the world. As a multinational oil company ("oil major") BP is the UK's largest corporation, with it's headquarters in St James's, City...
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| x Rolls-Royce plc |
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Rolls-Royce plc (LSE: RR.) is a British aircraft engine maker, and the second-largest in the world, behind GE Aviation. The company has related businesses in the defence aerospace, marine and energy markets.
Rolls-Royce was nationalised in 1971, by...
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| 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 |
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Johnson Matthey plc (LSE: JMAT) is a British chemical company which has its headquarters near Holborn in central London. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Johnson Matthey traces its origins to 1817...
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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, research, education, space, energy, defence and healthcare.
It employs 1,300 people worldwide and has been...
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| x British Railways Board |
The British Railways Board (BRB) was a nationalised industry in the United Kingdom that existed from 1962 to 2001. From its foundation until 1997, it was responsible for most railway services in Great Britain, trading under the brand names British...
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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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Atkins is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services, based in Epsom, United Kingdom. Formerly known as WS Atkins, it was founded in 1938 by Sir William Atkins. Atkins employs...
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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 |
Halcrow Group Limited is an engineering consultancy company, based in the United Kingdom.
The company was founded in 1868 by civil engineer Thomas Meik, and originally bore his name, and later those of his sons, Patrick and Charles. It worked...
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| x Arup |
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Set up in 1963
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| x Scott Wilson Group |
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Scott Wilson Group plc (LSE: SWG), with over 6,000 members of staff, is an international consultancy offering integrated, professional services in the transport, property, environment and natural resources sectors.
The Scott Wilson Group was...
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| x Faber Maunsell | ||
| 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 UK-based environmental and planning consultancy. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The company was founded by Michael A B Boddington in April 1972 as an...
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| x White Young Green | ||
| x EC Harris | ||
| x Amey Infrastructure Services | ||
| x Black & Veatch Corporation |
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Black & Veatch is a global engineering, consulting and construction company specializing in infrastructure development in energy, water, telecommunications, management consulting, federal and environmental markets. In terms of market capitalization...
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| x Davis Langdon |
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Davis Langdon, LLP, known globally as Davis Langdon and Seah International, is a construction consultancy firm headquartered in London, UK with 30 offices throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East, and over 100 worldwide. The firm is headed by...
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| x Hyder Consulting |
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Hyder Consulting is an international advisory and design consultancy with particular specialisation in infrastructure, property and environmental solutions. The firm employs over 5,000 people across the U.K., Europe, Germany, Middle East, Asia,...
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| x Burj al-Arab |
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The Burj Al Arab (Arabic: برج العرب,Tower of the Arabs) is a luxury hotel located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At 321 m (1,050 ft), it is the second tallest building in the world used exclusively as a hotel. However, the structure of the...
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| x Jacobs Engineering Group |
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC), a publicly traded company with over 57,000 employees and revenues exceeding $11.0 billion, provides technical, professional, and construction services globally. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, it was...
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| x I-35 Mississippi River bridge | ||
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