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WELCOME6

BACKGROUND

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GOVERNANCEAND GROWTH

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URBANDEVELOPMENT ANDINFRASTRUCTURE

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THE LIVING CITYBURO HAPPOLD AND

Welcometo our new e-journal introducing

Buro Happolds experience and our approach in

the arena of urban regeneration and the seamless

integration of Smart technology.

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The current push for Smart Cities is, no

doubt, a quickly evolving aspect of the

built environment which offers huge

potential to at least mitigate some of

the impacts that our various societies

have on our planet, both now and in

a future that is ever more focused on

urban living. At the same time, we feel

that the term Smart Cities is restrictive

in describing and tackling the major

challenges that need to be addressed

at a city level, and this position isreinforced by the focus that is given

to technology as the answer to all ills.

But we acknowledge the label that has

been stuck on this field and, of course,

we recognise that technology will play

a significant role going forward, albeit

as only one part of a broader solution.

We believe that as engineers we are

ideally positioned to provide evidence

based advice and design in this field.

But we also believe that the real

solutions go beyond pure technology

with issues relating to governance,

sustainable business opportunities,

sense of place, resilience and future-

proofing (to name a few) needing equal

weight and consideration. We broadly

group these issues into the following:

Governance and Growth

Governance and Government

Employment and Growth

Business Development

Urban Development

and Infrastructure

Utilities and Infrastructure

Built Environment and Urban Realm

Mobility and Inclusion

Environment and Natural Resources

Environmental Quality Protectionand Stewardship

Agriculture and Food

Waste and Recycling

Society and Community

Education and Training

Health and Wellbeing

Community
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WE CANT SOLVE PROBLEMS BY USING THE SAME KINDOF THINKING WE USED WHEN WE CREATED THEM.Albert Einstein

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These groups form the basis of our

integrated approach; an approach that

seeks to define and deliver solutions

that create the Living City, and one that

we will discuss in these and subsequent

pages.

At Buro Happold, we consider our

purpose is to enable our clients to

achieve a more sustainable future by

creating solutions that enhance their

business and enrich peoples lives,harnessing the experience and passion

of our people to make places that

deliver more but use less. We support

this approach by undertaking cutting

edge research, either independently or

linked to top tier universities, to ensure

that the need for design against current

policy and delivery of viable solutions

is underpinned by forward thinking

that is able to anticipate and respond

future change.

We believe that this ambition is

essential in facing up to the huge

challenges confronting the planet as

societies develop, urbanisation spreads,

populations grow, climate change

impacts on the environment and the

reserve of natural resources on which

many economies currently depends

reduces at an alarming rate. We believe

that we can and must all play our part in

helping to reshape a healthier, safer and

more sustainable future for mankind.

Living Cities is an arena which requires

all of the many strengths of BuroHappold to be deployed and engaged

in an integrated and holistic way in

order to deliver thoughtful, effective

and valuable solutions. Technology

is moving fast the last great idea is

rapidly overtaken by any number of

innovative new ideas clamouring for

recognition. To ensure that we stay

ahead of the curve we are developing

a number of thought leadership white

papers in-house and in conjunction

with leading academic institutions

that aim to guide and lead the way

in this exciting new stage of urban

development.

We will be publishing our progress in

this field periodically through a series

of e-bulletins and I hope that we have

the opportunity of sharing our urban

development experiences and engage

with you positively on this critical but

exciting journey.

Andrew Comer

Director of Environment

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BACKGROUNDTHE LIVING CITY

Citiesplay a dominant role

in todays world. Over half of

our population now live in

cities and this is predicted toexceed 70% by the second

half of this century.

It can be argued that it is now cities, rather

than nations, that compete. As faster and easier

communication and travel shrink the planet,

these nodes of trade and commerce are the

economic powerhouses; competing across

national borders to attract global businesses,

skilled employees and eager consumers. The

bases of this competition are broad access to

opportunity via education and available jobs,

personal safety and security, effective healthcare,

abundant natural resources, efficient transport

systems, an attractive physical environment and

vibrant communities.

Cities strive to differentiate themselves,

developing individual brands that emphasise

their economic, cultural, physical, even climatic

advantages. In addition to getting the core

services and infrastructure in place and working

efficiently, enhancing the physical aspects of

the city helps make it more attractive more

liveable, and this contributes directly to

economic success.

In this competition some cities are falling

behind and face problems that come with

stagnation and population shrinkage, as

residents and businesses move away to find

better opportunities and a more attractiveenvironment elsewhere. Many more cities

however, are growing rapidly too rapidly for the

infrastructure and services and are struggling

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Education and Training

Governance

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Healthand Wellbeing

Employmentand Growth

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Over the past decade,

through our work with

mayors, city planners, architects,developers, technology

providers and utilities providers,

Buro Happold has been

developing its Living City

approach to sustainable urban

development sustainable

in economic, social andenvironmental terms.

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Urban development is a long-term

and complex affair. Success depends

upon a sustained commitment by

stakeholders to a clear course of

action. At its best, it is characterised

by unified leadership from the top,

defining a clear inspirational visionfor the city, combined with a full

appreciation of its present and

historical context. Focused objectives,

strategies and policies are set, which

cross departmental boundaries and are

clearly communicated across engaged

city stakeholder groups.

The evidence that we have been

collecting, based upon our experience

and projects, strongly suggests that

there are a number of key elements,which need to be integrated for a

city to develop in a truly Smart way

optimising the design and operation

of infrastructure systems, technologies

and buildings in way that meets the

current and future needs of its citizens.

The key elements include:

1 A clear vision and set of welldefined strategies and objectives

covering all elements

of sustainability.

2 A deep knowledge of urban

development, transport and

infrastructure strategies and

regeneration models.

3 A thorough grasp of how

technology can be integrated

across functions and citydepartments to create true

synergies and new insight.

4 A true appreciation of current

and emerging best practice in the

use of Smart systems in different

city services, infrastructure, and

buildings, and the benefits they

can deliver.

5 An understanding of the

perspectives and interests of

multiple stakeholder groups

operating at national, regional,

community and individual levels

together with the creation of

an appropriate and acceptable

governance model.

6 Developing business case and

economic appraisals to quantify

and qualify urbanisation impactwith regard to new development.

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OUR BROAD RANGE

OF EXPERTS HAVE A FULL

APPRECIATION OF THE

CITY FROM A VARIETY OF

PERSPECTIVES, WHICH

HAS SUPPORTED THE

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GOVERNANCE AND GROWTH

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The national, regional, community,

commercial and individual interests

and rights also need to be taken into

account as the fundamental building

blocks of data governance are defined.

Local culture and customs can also

have a big influence on what will beacceptable, necessitating a tailored

approach. Buro Happold is working

with a range of partners to explore

and compare the options around the

ownership and use of data; funding

and return of new (IT) infrastructure;

data safety and security and the

measurement of success and value.

We believe that consulting engineers

are now required, as they once were,

to provide strong leadership within theconstruction industry and to act as the

lynch-pin connecting unbiased applied

technology and infrastructure with

exemplar city planning and design.

We recommend:

Clear communication and unifying

vision through the whole life cycle

between decision makers.

Integration of Living City principles

with policy and governance

structure.

Clear holistic understanding of

how data is transferred and

captured between technologies

and systems and how it is used

by decision makers and the social

and security implications of this

including appropriate mitigationresponses.

Buro Happolds broad range of experts

has a full appreciation of the city from

a variety of perspectives which has

supported the development of our

Living City approach. This approach

allows us to identify the fundamental

issues and challenges, assets andopportunities that will hinder or

support the achievement of the citys

vision, and allows us to work with

city leaders on sustainable strategic

plans, establishing long-term goals

and frameworks, and the guiding the

delivery of well-aligned economically

robust projects.
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Our teams operate across the complete

project lifecycle, from assessing the

physical opportunities and constraints

of a site and considering the viability

of different development options to

working with planners and developers

to design and build the best solution.

Buro Happold has extensive

global experience of sustainable

masterplanning and development,

ranging from regeneration projects

to new districts and even cities. Our

integrated, multi-disciplinary approach

ensures that all civil engineering and

planning aspects are covered, including

ground conditions and flood risk,

energy, utilities and waste infrastructure

and strategies, transport and access,

and assessments of the environmentalimpact, and how to minimise it.

Amongst our numerous development

projects a good example of our work

in regeneration is illustrated by the

very large number of projects that we

have been engaged with over the past

decade and more in East London and

Tun Razak Exchange in Kuala Lumpur.

London is one of the worlds great cities

but has suffered from multiple layers

of deprivation and social, economic

and environmental stress for the past

century and more. Of particular interest

are those regeneration projects which

extend along the Greenwich Meridian

from Greenwich Peninsula itself the

O2 Arena and Emirates Air Line (Thames

Cable Car), through Tower Hamlets and

Newham Opportunity Area Planning

Framework and Meridian Water

masterplan taking in Stratford City and

the London Olympic Park and Legacy.Our involvement in this part of London

has been broad and deep as can be

seen in our project portfolio.

Our work has helped the delivery

of a truly remarkable regeneration

programme that has transformed one

of the most deprived areas of the city.

We have had the benefit of working

with the private and public sector

as well as other key stakeholders

over nearly two decades and this hasenabled us to clearly show the benefits

of our understanding of the complex

urban issues and our integrated, future-

proofed approach to planning

and design.

On the other side of the globe, we are

working with our Malaysian client,

helping them to develop and deliver the

initial elements of their Governments

vision to create a modern, sustainable

society. We are engaged as strategicengineers to help plan and design an

exciting new commercial centre in the

heart of Kuala Lumpur, the exciting new

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services that cover sustainability and

infrastructure engineering and urban

masterplanning. A key aspiration for

the client is for the development to

be future-proofed and Buro Happold

has explored the integration of a

metropolitan ICT network with an

urban operating system that links basicdevelopment functions to improve its

adaptive resilience.

In a majority of past and current urban

development programmes, IT systems

have been developed to operate in

functional silos, with their own specific

hardware and software, often by

companies with deep knowledge of

that particular field. Each Smart system

has its own dedicated control systems

and networks of sensors. If a singleshared control system was available

instead of multiple systems, then

not only could much duplication be

removed with huge cost savings but

a far richer picture could be provided

of what is happening, enabling more

informed decision-making and rapid

deployment of measures to avoid

emerging problem situations. There

are a number of problems associated

with the integration of individual

functionally-focused systems, includingthe lack of common interfaces and

operating systems, and the ability

to cope with interpreting the vast

amount of data that could be coming

in every second. However, technology

businesses are alive to the potential and

a number are attempting to develop

integrated City or Urban Operating

Systems that aim to take advantage of

the enhanced intelligent, machine-2-

machine connectivity. It is clear that

open IT architecture with standard

interface protocols and the ability

to plug n play new applications and

hardware would make it much easier

to link systems as well as opening the

market up to new entrants with valuable

fresh thinking and we are supporting

this approach. Indeed, we are pushing

at the boundaries in this field and we

will shortly be publishing a journal

paper relating to the development of

Urban Operating Systems and theirdeployment.

The introduction of ICT technology

to support urban development is

incredibly important and underpins our

Living City approach. We acknowledge

however, that there are very few

working examples of city wide Smart

approaches. Advances in ICT though are

still providing a significant contribution

to city efficiency particularly in

transportation, including trafficmanagement, building and campus

management systems and the provision

of utilities.

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THE INTRODUCTION

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Natural resourcesare being depleted at an alarming and

increasing rate. Oil has played a big role in determining economic

progress of many countries. The advent of peak oil, which some

predict as imminent, will push fuel costs and other carbon

based products to much higher levels, increasing transport

costs, damaging existing logistics chains and economic models

and preventing developing countries from achieving levels of

prosperity and opportunity comparable to the developed world.

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At the same time, the exploitation

of those remaining oil stocks will

mean that carbon dioxide and other

greenhouse gases are pumped into

the atmosphere at unprecedented

levels. The growing acceptance of the

damage to the Earths atmosphere thatthese and other emissions are causing

has been underscored by the resulting

impacts upon the worlds climactic

conditions and increasing volatility of

weather patterns causing droughts,

floods, unseasonal temperature

changes and great ranges of wind

speeds. Some authorities are already

stating that an aim to manage global

average temperature rise to less than

two degrees Celsius is already a lost

cause and the consequences are

likely to impact dramatically on global

societies.

It is incumbent on all of us working

in the built environment to stop this

downward spiral of resource depletion

and waste production and then to

figure out how we can begin to repair

some of the damage wreaked on

our precious environment. A startingpoint is to identify approaches to

urban development which reduce

resource inputs and reduce waste

outputs designing buildings and

neighbourhoods that for instance

require less energy and water than

currently the norm and re-use or

recycle by-products of heat and dirty

water rather than allowing them to

escape and add to urban pollution

and waste. Smart technology is now a

key component of a designers toolkit

in their ability to provide efficient

buildings. Our building teams have

been working in this space for some

time integrating cutting edge design

with building management systems.

An example of this is the Palestra

building in London.

Remediation whether it being ground

or water related is also another area

that requires particular focus to

maximise land value and act as a

catalyst for future growth. The Aga

Khan award winning Wadi Hanifah is

an excellent example of this where

remediation of Riyadhs main Wadi

provided the opportunity for flood

control and improving its water

quality within the confines of a newly

constructed water side public realm.

In general the optimisation

of generation processes and

distribution networks can start

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COMPONENT OF A

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to improve efficiencies of energy

production from primary sources

and reduce transmission losses.

And further improvements will flow

from introduction of renewable

energy sources and recycled water,

introduction of closed-loop systemsand integrated systems engineering,

as well as demand and supply side

matching. An example of realising

these improvements is by taking a

fresh look at the linkage between

mobility and carbon emissions. We

feel that this is a real challenge to

overcome in the future. Our InnoZ

project aims to capture renewable

energy sources into a Smart grid

used to serve vehicles in Berlin. This

research project has only just started

but optimises our environmental

and sustainable approach we refer

to as MEAN LEAN GREEN. This is

designed to establish a cost effective

and logical process to improve the

sustainability of development and

to begin to achieve meaningful

reductions in carbon and water

footprints.

Of course, to be fully effective, this

approach also requires support and

strengthening in key areas. Whether it

is compliance with good development

policy or self-regulation to achieve

corporate governance targets, there

is the need to monitor actual outputs

and encourage ongoing improvements

to facilities in use as well as to

educate and train and help to adjust

behaviours to improve use of facilities.Importantly, at each point in this type

of integrated approach, there is the

opportunity to introduce technologies

to play key enabling roles in sensing,

monitoring, data storage, control

and management, in analysis, self

learning through machine-2-machine

interfaces, and so on.

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InnoZ,Berlin, Germany

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The planet is facing its biggest of several challenges

from urbanisation, a phenomenon which over the

past fifty years has seen an increasing number of the

worlds population move from rural areas into cities.

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The predicted scale of continued

urban drift is startling with already

50% of seven billion human beings

living in cities, that figure is set to rise

by about a further two to two and a

half billion urban dwellers over the

next 25 years. Set in context, we willneed to build ten cities the size of

London each and every year over that

period of time simply to accommodate

this migratory trend and the increasing

population levels.

The reasons behind this mass

movement are manifold but the

primary driver is undoubtedly

economic opportunity. There are,

however, other factors at play,

including access to better educationand health facilities, greater communal

safety and individual self-expression,

improved accessibility and mobility,

and so on. Whilst these perceived

benefits seek to improve personal

situations, the realities are not always

so helpful and can place great stress

on individuals, communities and the

wider society. In many cities, this is

revealed by the growing gap betweenthe wealthy and the poor, by the

growth of ghettos and shanty towns,

by marginalisation of individuals

and groups, and the increase in

many urban areas of crime, disease,

lower educational attainment, and

mortality rates.

One aspiration must be to broaden

the base of those people with

access to a lifestyle that provides a

common level of decency; to provideaccess to education, training and

jobs, to improve the quality of the

environment and thus health and

well-being, and to live in conditions

of reasonable safety and security.

And we shouldnt forget the rural

communities currently still half the

worlds population is to be found

outside of cities and need support.

Projects such as the High Line in NewYork and Orange County Great Park in

Irvine, California highlight our ongoing

contribution to improving both the

urban and rural environment through

high quality public realm.

How do we capture the benefits of

urban living, where scale and density

will make it easier to develop smart,

technology-based progress, and share

with more isolated communities? In

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quality of teaching aids and achieve

higher standards. A focus in some

cities on design to improve mobility

is achieving significant and necessary

improvements to lifestyles and thereby

health. The growth in access to data

and improved communications willalso provide the opportunity not

only for citizens to interact with one

and another with more efficiency

and to the greater benefit of all but

also to establish greater transparency

between them and those that

manage communities, town or cities

on their behalf. PlanIT Valley is one

such urban development focussed

on bridging the link between hi-tech

and urban living. Buro Happold is a

platinum development partner to the

project providing multi-disciplinary

engineering design advice as well as

business and economic planning.

THE MAJOR URBAN CHALLENGES OFTHE 21ST CENTURY INCLUDE THE RAPIDGROWTH OF MANY CITIES AND THE

DECLINE OF OTHERS... EVIDENCE FROM

AROUND THE WORLD SUGGEST THAT

CONTEMPORARY URBAN PLANNING

HAS LARGELY FAILED TO ADDRESS

THESE CHALLENGES.

Ban Ki-MoonSecretary-General of the United Nations

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Urbanisation presentssomething of a dichotomy

the city form represents the most sustainable

model for a large human population to exist on

the planet and yet these very same cities, where

50% of the worlds population lives (and set to rise

dramatically), account for three-quarters of the

global carbon footprint.

With climate change threatening

many cities through rising sea levels,

increasingly volatile weather patterns

and diminishing water resources, the

governments of both developed and

developing countries face the demand

for greater resilience, improved

social conditions, better economic

prospects and healthier and more

environmentally sound city form.

The need therefore to ensure that

the infrastructure and buildings that

create cities are highly sustainable,

energy efficient and low impact in

terms of depletion of resources is

placing a great emphasis on provision

of accurate, accountable and objective

professional advice relating to

commercial viability, engineering and

applied technologies.

We believe that there is a need to

create layers of smartness and that

a future city model should aspire

to; one embracing not just resource

efficiency but promotion of good

health, economic stability, a sense of

shared community and with an ability

to adapt to future challenges. In short,

we need a more sophisticated and

universal language.

The projects that we undertake underthe Living City approach are wide and

varied. As we have highlighted, they

range from a complete city solution

covering infrastructure, transport,

governance, business, economic

and land use planning and digital

masterplanning to individual projects

whether building, campus, district or

public realm. A common thread across

all however is an acute understanding

of how professional services are

interrelated and the opportunity of

bringing them together to work more

efficiently through the application

of technology. This is typified in the

work that we undertook for the ADA in

Riyadh with a custom built technology

application to support their desire for

better integration between agencies.

In addition the opportunity to quantify

the revenue resource from the

infrastructure developed for cities is

an important consideration. This startsto adjust the economics of investment

choices and has the potential to deliver

even greater values to promoters and

investors in infrastructure, opening

up prospects of a major step change

in city performance. A great example

of this is the High Line project in

New York where this one project

has transformed a blighted area of

the city and been the catalyst for

approximately $2bn worth of private

investment, adding thousands of new

residential units, thousands of new

jobs, 1,000 new hotel rooms, and new

restaurants, galleries and shops.

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URBANISATION IS HAPPENING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE AND

WILL AFFECT US ALL NO MATTER WHERE WE LIVE. AS A BUSINESS

BURO HAPPOLD IS COMMITTED TO HELPING CITIES DEVELOP THROUGH

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES.

Andrew Comer

Buro Happold

Some of these future proofed solutions

are exciting and hint of new ways of

approaching urban development. But,

a number of challenges need to be

considered and addressed if genuine

progress is to be made. Some of these

may be summarised as follows:

What types of governance modelsare appropriate for Smart Cities

and how do you measure their

success?

Who funds the investment required

to provide the backbone of

infrastructure necessary to enable

Smart Cities to be created and how

does the funder derive acceptable

returns on that investment?

What guarantees are there ofsecurity of the network and safety

in use?

How do we drive out the most

from Smart grids by linking and

developing an integrated systems

type approach?

Who owns the data accumulated

via the Smart grids and networks?

How do systems adapt to thevagaries of human behaviour and

still deliver the promise of very

high efficiencies?

Through viewing these challenges

as opportunities and through the

collaboration with our academic,

technology and project partners we

hope to provide you with periodic

updates of our progress via our Living

City e-bulletin and through our

published white papers.

We hope that the introduction to our

Living City approach is of interest.

We welcome indeed, encourage

your thoughts on the topics raised

in this document and we are keen to

publish and debate some of these in

future editions of our e-journal (any

contributions can be forwarded via

the email address below). I do look

forward to sharing our experiences and

working with you in the future.

Andrew Comer

Director of Environment & Infrastructure

[email protected]


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Andrew ComerBSc (Hons) CEng FICE FIHT

Director Environment and Infrastructure

Andrew is a member the UK Government Innovation and Growth Taskforce

for Infrastructure and leads Buro Happolds Urban Development sector.

Padraic KellyBA BAI MSc FICE FIStructE FRSAManaging Director Happold Consulting

Padraic is Managing Director of Happold Consulting and has played leading

roles in large scale planning and infrastructure, transport and environment

projects. He lectures on planning at Harvard University and has co-founded

The Working Group on Sustainable Cities there.

Greg OttoBSCE BArch MEng

Director Buildings

Greg leads the Buildings team in our LA office and has been focused on

collaborative working between the architect and engineer and the potential

for innovation. His current research is directed toward computer modelling

and analysis, and manufacturing methods that bring the architect, engineer

and fabricator into a more collaborative and innovative environment.

Robert MoyserMBA MEng CEng MICE

Project Director Environment and Infrastructure

Robert leads the city wide masterplanning workstream within Buro Happold.A key advocate of integrating technology to support urban regeneration he

has led a number of Living City projects on behalf of Buro Happold.

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Andy KeelinBEng MIMechE CEng MCIBSE Low Carbon Consultant

Director Buildings

Andy leads the buildings services team in London. His work covers all

sectors and is a leading voice in the practice with regard to the design and

implementation of building management systems (BMS).

Paul RogersBSc (Hons) CEng MIStructE

Managing Director Buildings

Paul leads the practice in Central Europe and he understands the value of

applying a breadth of knowledge and innovation to a challenge in order to

find its most ideal solution. He is currently leading the InnoZ eMobility project

in Berlin.

Dr Jim ColemanMA MSc PhDHead of Economics - Happold Consulting

Jim is a highly experienced economist: specialising in local and regional

economic development, urban regeneration, labour market analysis,

business & sector competitiveness, inward investment, knowledge transfer &

innovation, poverty alleviation and urban governance.

Paul GoffDip (MS) CTS MIET MBCS

Head of ICT Environment and Infrastructure

Paul leads our ICT team within Buro Happold. He specialises in voice and

data networks for outside plant and the integration of technology with

infrastructure to facilitate Smart City developments.

Colin McKinnonBA MPhil

Innovation Director

Colin leads our innovation and R+D department and co-ordinates our linksand research papers with academic institutions such as Harvard.
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