Arup
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| legal form | Ltd. |
| founding | 1946 |
| Seat | London |
| management | Terry Hill (Chair) Mike Shears (Foundation Chair) |
| Number of employees | 10,000 (2006) |
| sales | £ 572.0m (2006) |
| Website | http://www.arup.com/ |
Arup is an engineering company based in London . It provides services such as engineering , design , planning, project management and consulting for the construction sector . The company has branches worldwide, a total of 92 offices in 37 countries with over 10,000 employees. In Germany there are offices in Berlin , Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main . Projects have been carried out in more than 160 countries.
history
The company was founded on April 1, 1946 by Sir Ove Arup under the name "Ove N. Arup, Consulting Engineers" and in the same year as "Ove Arup & Partners" with the addition of partners Ronald Jenkins , Geoffrey Wood and Andrew Young reformed. In the next few years they took on assignments across the kingdom , including a. the Coventry Cathedral . In 1956 Arup already had 30 employees and Peter Thomas Dunican (1918–1989) was promoted to partner, followed by Ronald Hobbs in 1961 and Povl Ahm and Jack Zunz in 1965 .
Together with the architect Jørn Utzon they started in 1957 with the implementation of the design of their prestige project, the opera of Sydney .
In 1963 they entered into a cooperation with the architect Philip Manning Dowson (1924-2014), who in 1969 also became a partner. After a reform in 1967, the next followed in 1970. The parent company “Ove Arup & Partners” and “Arup Associates” emerged from the “Ove Arup Partnership ”. In the same year Sir Ove Arup set the company's values in a keynote speech. By 1973 Arup had a workforce of 1,500.
As most of the original partners neared retirement in 1977, the company was restructured. The shares of all partnerships were now held in trust .
In 1988 Sir Ove Arup died and in 1989 The Ove Arup Foundation was created in his memory . In 1991 the company already had 3,500 employees and in 1992 the Ove Arup Partnership became a private unlimited company, managed on a trust basis for its employees. In 1999 it became a limited liability company (Ltd.).
Towards the end of the 20th century, the company grew for the first time through mergers (e.g. with Rofe Kennard & Lapworth , Design Research Associates Ltd , BMP Communications , NAPA and Jolyon Drury Consultants ) and takeovers (e.g. Rossmore).
In 2001 Arup Australia and Ove Arup Partnership Ltd. merged and the Arup Group Ltd. which is now simply known as Arup .
The notable engineers at Arup include Duncan Michael (board member 1995 to 2000), Derek Sugden , Peter Rice , Ian Liddell , Mike Glover , Chris Wise , Jo da Silva , John Burland , Brian Simpson , Nick O'Riordan (geotechnical engineering ), Peter Head , Jorgen Nissen (Öresund Bridge), Klaus Falbe-Hansen (Öresund Bridge) and Edmund Happold (he left Arup with other engineers in 1976 and founded the competitor Buro Happold ).
Renowned projects
- Sydney Opera House , Sydney
- Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
- Oresund Bridge , Denmark / Sweden
- 30 St Mary Ax , London
- HSBC Headquarters, Hong Kong
- Channel Tunnel Rail Link , UK
- Millennium Bridge , London
- Angel of the North , Gateshead, England, UK.
- Casa da Música , Porto.
- Allianz Arena , Munich.
- Beyeler Foundation , Riehen
- Royal Opera House (Copenhagen) , Copenhagen Royal Opera House
- Sandridge Bridge , Melbourne
- Canton Tower , Guangzhou
- Beijing National Swimming Center (Water cube), Beijing
- Beijing National Stadium (Bird's nest), Beijing
- China Central Television Headquarters , Beijing
- Metropol Parasol , Seville
- The Shard , London
- Kingdom Tower , Jeddah
- Marina Bay Sands , Singapore
- Stonecutters Bridge , Hong Kong
- Singapore Sports Hub , 2014, Singapore
Awards
They received the Institution of Structural Engineers' 2008 Supreme Award for Terminal 5 at London Heathrow, Stonecutters Bridge 2010 and the Singapore Sports HUB 2015.
In 2006, Arup was named Employer of Choice for Women by the Australian organization Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) for the fifth time in a row , even though fewer than a third of its employees are women. In 2006, they moved up from 67th to 37th in the Sunday Times ranking of the most popular employers in Great Britain.
Furthermore, Arup regularly receives awards in the areas of fire protection, innovation and design for its projects.
literature
- Degenhard Sommer, Herbert Stöcher, Lutz Weißer: Ove Arup and Partners. Engineers as pioneers of architecture: Engineering the Built Environment ; Birkhäuser Verlag 1994; (English); ISBN 3-7643-2954-8
- Christian Brensing and Karl-Eugen Kurrer : 60 years of Ove Arup & Partner . In: Stahlbau 75 (2006), no. 12, pp. 1025-1027.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ownership & finance ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2006 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.8 MB)
- ^ Programmatic speech by Sir Ove Arup
- ↑ a b Profile at Sunday Times (place 37)
- ↑ Innovation key to FSE Design Award winners
- ↑ The Worldaware Award for Innovation ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
