Mike Glover (engineer)
Michael John "Mike" Glover is a British civil engineer.
After studying civil engineering at the University of Surrey, Glover was with Arup from 1969 , where the HSBC Hong Kong skyscraper (architect Norman Foster ) was one of his projects and projects in the oil and gas industry. He was also the technical director of the high-speed rail link from London to the Channel Tunnel ( CTRL), one of the UK's largest infrastructure projects at an estimated cost of £ 10 billion , 150 bridges (including the railway bridge over the Medway) and many tunnels (in London alone 50 km of tunnel) and the renovation of St. Pancras station in London. He became a Fellow of Arup in 2006 and is Director of Infrastructure Design.
He also researched cost-optimized construction processes in the planning and implementation of large construction projects.
In 2008 he received the gold medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers . He is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering . In 2009 he received an OBE and an honorary doctorate from the University of Surrey in 2012. In 2004 he gave the Annual Lecture at the Henderson Colloquium of the IABSE (St Pancras - Jewel of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link).
Web links
- Mike Glover, Arup Fellow (webarchive)
- Arup website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glover, Mike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glover, Michael John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |