Paul Westbury
Paul Westbury (* 1969 ) is a British civil engineer.
Westbury studied civil engineering at Cambridge University (Jesus College) with a bachelor's degree with top marks in 1991 and was initially a trainee at the engineering office Buro Happold from 1991. In 1993 he received his Masters degree from Cambridge. In 1996 he founded the Special Structure Group in Buro Happold for unusual design projects. From 1995 to 2000 he was a project engineer at the Millennium Dome (The O2). He was also responsible for examining the design of the Olympic Superdome for the Sydney Olympic Games in 1998/99. In 2000 he became the youngest partner and director at Buro Happold, coordinated activities outside of Great Britain from 2008 and became Chief Executive Officer in 2011 . In 2014 he became the technical director of Laing O'Rourke.
He specialized in sports halls. His projects include the Emirates Stadium of Arsenal FC, the renovation of the Ascot race track, for Oval Lingotto (speed skating arena, Olympic Winter Games 2006 Turin). In 2003/04 he was responsible for the engineering side of the general planning of the London application for the 2012 Olympic Games.
In 2012 he received the gold medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers , of which he has been a Fellow since 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2003), the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce and the Institution of Civil Engineers (2002) and CBE (2013). In 1999 he received the MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering for his leadership role at the Millennium Dome and in 2008 its silver medal. He also received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
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- ^ Portrait in Ingenia, June 2007
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| SURNAME | Westbury, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |