Chris Wise

Infinity Bridge

Chris Wise (* 1956 in London ) is a British civil engineer.

Wise studied at the University of Southampton and had been with Arup since 1979 , becoming its youngest director in 1992. In 1999 he founded the engineering company Expedition Engineering with Seán Walsh and Chris Smith. In 2008 they transferred their shares to a company (Useful Simple Trust) which manages it for the employees (around 75).

His projects include the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt (architect Norman Foster ), the American Air Museum in Duxford and the Torre del Collaerola , the Millennium Bridge in London (head of the original design), from the Olympic Velodrome in London, the Infinity Bridge in Stockton-on-Tees . He worked a lot with the architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers .

In 2012 it received the gold medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers , and in 2009 Infinity Bridge received its Supreme Award and again in 2011 for the London Olympic Velodrome. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering , whose silver medal he received in 2007. In 2008 he became a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers . He is a Master of the Royal Designers for Industry .

He was Professor of Creative Design at Imperial College London and has been teaching structural engineering at University College London since 2012 . He also taught at Yale University .

literature

• Portrait of Jackie Whitelaw in Structural Engineer, August 2016, Online

Remarks

1. ↑ He finished all plans. At that time he had decided to leave Arup and open his own engineering office. When the bridge had its known problems with vibrations caused by pedestrians after the inauguration, he offered to correct this for free, but his old employer Arup waved that you could do it yourself. This was then done by a team led by Tony Fitzpatrick. Interview by Arup for the portrait in Structural Engineer, August 2016.