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IStructE Gold Medal
The Gold Medal is an award presented by the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) to distinguished members of the structural engineering community in honour of the achievements in their work.
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Filter this CollectionLeslie E. Robertson
Leslie Earl Robertson (born 1928) was one of the chief engineers of the World Trade Center in New York, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and was responsible for the design of the buildings' sway-reduction features. He has since...
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Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of...
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Eugène Freyssinet
Eugène Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete.
Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France. He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in...
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Pier Luigi Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 - January 9, 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61. He is renowned...
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Hardy Cross
Hardy Cross, 1885-1959, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, was a U.S. structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural calculation of large buildings. The method was in general use from c.1935 until c.1960 when...
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Jörg Schlaich
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Drs.h.c. Jörg Schlaich (born 1934) is a German structural engineer. he later founded his own firm Schlaich Bergermann und Partner.
Jörg Schlaich studied architecture and building engineering from 1953-55 at Stuttgart University before...
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Michel Virlogeux
Dr. Michel Virlogeux (born 1946, La Flèche, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire) is a French structural engineer and bridge specialist.
Michel Virlogeux graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1967 and from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1970....
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Ove Arup
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered to be one of the foremost engineers of his time....
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Nathan M. Newmark
Nathan Mortimore Newmark (September 22, 1910 - January 25, 1981) was an American structural engineer and academic. He was awarded the National Medal of Science for engineering.
Newmark was born in Plainfield, New Jersey to Abraham and Mollie Newmark...
Félix Candela
Félix Candela Outeriño (January 27, 1910 – December 7, 1997) was a Spanish architect and structural engineer. He was born in Spain. He worked from the 1930s to the 1960s, and played a significant role in the development of Mexican architecture....
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Olgierd Zienkiewicz
Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, CBE, FREng, FRS (18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009) was a British academic, mathematician, and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham, England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method. Since his first...
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Edmund Happold
Professor Sir Edmund Happold (1930 - 12 January 1996), better known as Ted Happold, was a structural engineer and founder of Buro Happold.
Happold was the son of Frank Happold, Professor of Biochemistry at Leeds University. After a grammar school...
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Ian Liddell
William Ian Liddell CBE FREng FIStructE Hon FRIBA is a structural engineer and the designer of London's Millennium Dome. He was one of the founding partners of Buro Happold and is a Royal Academy Visiting Professor of Engineering Design at Cambridge...
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Fritz Leonhardt
Fritz Leonhardt (July 12, 1909 - December 30, 1999) was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book Bridges: Aesthetics and Design is...
John Baker, Baron Baker
John Fleetwood Baker, Baron Baker OBE (19 March 1901 – 9 September 1985) was a British scientist and structural engineer.
Baker was a son of J.W. Baker and Emily Westwood. He was educated at Rossall and Clare College, Cambridge and married Fiona...
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Riccardo Morandi
Riccardo Morandi (1 September 1902 - 25 December 1989) was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Amongst his best known works were the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, an 8 km crossing of Lake Maracaibo...
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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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Gerhard Jack Zunz
Sir Gerhard Jack Zunz, BSc, FREng, FIStructE, FICE (born 25 Dec 1923) is a structural engineer and former chairman of Ove Arup & Partners. He was the principal structural designer of the Sydney Opera House.
Jack Zunz obtained a degree in civil...
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Oleg Kerensky
Oleg Aleksandrovich Kerensky (16 April 1905 - 25 June 1984) was a Russian civil engineer, one of the foremost bridge designers of his time.
Kerensky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky, who...
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William Glanville
Sir William Henry Glanville CB CBE (1 February 1900 – 30 June 1976) was a British civil engineer. He was educated at Kilburn Grammar School before joining the British Army in the last year of the First World War. Following the war Glanville studied...
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Mike Glover
Michael John Glover, FREng, is a British Engineer and a director of Arup and technical director of 'Rail Link Engineering'.
Mike Glover joined Arup as a graduate in 1969 having trained as a civil and structural engineer. He worked on Foster and...