Future of DesignIABSE British Group Young Engineers ConferenceIStructE Kenneth Kemp Seminar13th September 2012University College London

British Group

The International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers (IABSE) was founded in Zurich in 1929. It is a truly international organisation with members in 80 countries that include the world’s leading bridge and structural engineers. IABSE aims to facilitate the exchange of information on all aspects of structural engineering and organises regular symposia, conferences and workshops.

Ken Kemp, who was Head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UCL from 1970 to 1985, died in 2002. As an enthusiastic Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, his will included a generous bequest to further the understanding of design.

UCL and IStructE together with the IABSE British Group have joined forces to organise a conference for young designers to promote design and inspire future generations. This is the fourth Young Engineers Conference organised by the IABSE after Cambridge in 2001 and 2003 and London in 2006.

We are delighted to welcome you to the Future of Design Conference, a unique opportunity to meet with your peers and be inspired by lead figures in the design world. Hear about cutting edge designs, discuss the future challenges of our profession and get the chance to present your own innovative work.

ChairsDavid Nethercot, Imperial College LondonIan Firth, Flint & NeillIan Liddell, Buro HappoldAngus Low, ArupEd Clark, ArupAntony Oliver, NCE

Future of Design

Organising CommitteeLee Franck, ArupJumana Al-Zubaidi, Mott MacDonaldAlberto Carlucci, ArupIan Liddell, Buro HappoldJohn Eyre, UCL

Young Designer Presentations

John Collins - Arup Humber Bridge main span A-frame Rocker Bearings ReplacementRastislav Bartek + Shajay Bhooshan Buro Happold/Zaha Hadid Architects – 2012 Venice Biennale: Arum sculptureEdward Kwong - Arup The World’s Longest Rope BridgeJames Banks - Mott MacDonald Design of East Croyden Station FootbridgeMark Dowson - Buro Happold Integrating Innovative Retrofit Technologies in BuildingsHarry Tayler - University of Cambridge Tensegrity: Using Sculptures to create Efficient StructuresTom Osborne - Knight Architects Designing with Standards: the Safety and Aesthetics of Footbridges over a Railway EnvironmentStephen Wilson - Ramboll UK The Design of Derby Cathedral Bridge, a unique Cable-Stayed Swing Bridge

Time Chair Room Speaker Company/University Topic

08:15 - 09:00 Registration Foyer

09:00 - 09.05 Opening G06 David Nethercot / John Eyre

09.05 - 09:30 Keynote Lecture 1 Ian Firth G06 Jane Wernick Jane Wernick Associates Engineering Happy Walks

09:30 - 09:55 Keynote Lecture 2 Ian Firth G06 Andrew Harvey / Paul Officer Mott MacDonald Baghdad Public Library – Cable Net Roof

09:55 - 10:20 Keynote Lecture 3 Ian Firth G06 Katerina Dionysopoulou Heatherwick Studio Heatherwick Studio

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee/Tea break Foyer

10:40 - 11:05 Keynote Lecture 4 Ian Firth G06 Martin Knight Knight Architects Bridge Design and Sustainability: An Architect's Perspective

11:05 - 11:30 Keynote Lecture 5 Ian Firth G06 Bill Addis Buro Happold Designing Structures with Lower Environmental Impact

11:30 - 11:55 Keynote Lecture 6 Ian Firth G06 Sir John Armitt ODA Delivering the Olympic Games

11:55 - 12:15 Coffee/Tea break Foyer

12:15 - 12:30 Young Designer Presentation A1 John Eyre G06 John Collins Arup Humber Bridge main span A-frame Rocker Bearings Replacement

Young Designer Presentation B1 Ian Liddell G08 Rastislav Bartek + Shajay Bhooshan Buro Happold/Zaha Hadid Architects 2012 Venice Biennale: Arum sculpture

12:30 - 12:45 Young Designer Presentation A2 John Eyre G06 Edward Kwong Arup The World’s Longest Rope Bridge

Young Designer Presentation B2 Ian Liddell G08 James Banks Mott MacDonald Design of East Croydon Station Footbridge

12:45 - 13:00 Young Designer Presentation A3 John Eyre G06 Mark Dowson Buro Happold Integrating Innovative Retrofit Technologies in Buildings

Young Designer Presentation B3 Ian Liddell G08 Harry Tayler University of Cambridge Tensegrity: Using Sculptures to create Efficient Structures

13:00 - 13:15 Young Designer Presentation A4 John Eyre G06 Tom Osborne Knight Architects The Safety and Aesthetics of Footbridges over a Railway Environment

Young Designer Presentation B4 Ian Liddell G08 Stephen Wilson Ramboll UK The Design of Derby Cathedral Bridge, a unique Cable-Stayed Swing Bridge

13:15 - 14:00 Lunch Foyer

14:00 - 15:00 Discussion Panel 1 Angus Low G06 Paul Sanders Flint & Neill Bridge Design

Martin Knight Knight Architects

Peter Miller Watson Steel Structures

Discussion Panel 2 Hugo Mulder G08 Frank Jensen Soren Jensen Consulting Engineers Transformeable Structures

Nick Cooper Atkins

Niels De Temmerman Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Abdulmajid Karanouh Aedas

15:00 - 16:00 Discussion Panel 3 David Nethercot G06 Sebastian MacMillan University of Cambridge Design Teaching

John Eyre UCL

Mike Cook Buro Happold / Imperial College London

Chris Wise Expedition / UCL

Discussion Panel 4 Ed Clark G08 Hugo Mulder Arup Advanced 3D Modelling Techniques

Francis Aish Foster + Partners

Bruce Davison AL_A

Paul Shepherd University of Bath

16:00 - 16:15 Coffee/Tea break Foyer

16:15 - 16:40 Keynote Lecture 7 Antony Oliver G06 Mike Davies Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Is Structure Born at Concept

16:40 - 17:05 Keynote Lecture 8 Antony Oliver G06 Dervilla Mitchell Arup Realising Design

17:05 - 17:30 Keynote Lecture 9 Antony Oliver G06 Andy Butler Laing O’Rourke The Leadenhall Building - Rising to the Challenge

17:30 - 17:55 Keynote Lecture 10 Antony Oliver G06 Tristram Carfrae Arup Collaboration in a Digital World

17:55 - 18:10 Feedback from Discussion Panels G06 Chairs of Discussion Panels

18:10 - 18:20 Closing + Awards G06 David Nethercot / John Eyre

18:20 - 19:15 Drinks Reception Foyer

19:30 - 23:00 Evening Dinner Bloomsbury Hotel

Time Chair Room Speaker Company/University Topic

08:15 - 09:00 Registration Foyer

09:00 - 09.05 Opening G06 David Nethercot / John Eyre

09.05 - 09:30 Keynote Lecture 1 Ian Firth G06 Jane Wernick Jane Wernick Associates Engineering Happy Walks

09:30 - 09:55 Keynote Lecture 2 Ian Firth G06 Andrew Harvey / Paul Officer Mott MacDonald Baghdad Public Library – Cable Net Roof

09:55 - 10:20 Keynote Lecture 3 Ian Firth G06 Katerina Dionysopoulou Heatherwick Studio Heatherwick Studio

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee/Tea break Foyer

10:40 - 11:05 Keynote Lecture 4 Ian Firth G06 Martin Knight Knight Architects Bridge Design and Sustainability: An Architect's Perspective

11:05 - 11:30 Keynote Lecture 5 Ian Firth G06 Bill Addis Buro Happold Designing Structures with Lower Environmental Impact

11:30 - 11:55 Keynote Lecture 6 Ian Firth G06 Sir John Armitt ODA Delivering the Olympic Games

11:55 - 12:15 Coffee/Tea break Foyer

12:15 - 12:30 Young Designer Presentation A1 John Eyre G06 John Collins Arup Humber Bridge main span A-frame Rocker Bearings Replacement

Young Designer Presentation B1 Ian Liddell G08 Rastislav Bartek + Shajay Bhooshan Buro Happold/Zaha Hadid Architects 2012 Venice Biennale: Arum sculpture

12:30 - 12:45 Young Designer Presentation A2 John Eyre G06 Edward Kwong Arup The World’s Longest Rope Bridge

Young Designer Presentation B2 Ian Liddell G08 James Banks Mott MacDonald Design of East Croydon Station Footbridge

12:45 - 13:00 Young Designer Presentation A3 John Eyre G06 Mark Dowson Buro Happold Integrating Innovative Retrofit Technologies in Buildings

Young Designer Presentation B3 Ian Liddell G08 Harry Tayler University of Cambridge Tensegrity: Using Sculptures to create Efficient Structures

13:00 - 13:15 Young Designer Presentation A4 John Eyre G06 Tom Osborne Knight Architects The Safety and Aesthetics of Footbridges over a Railway Environment

Young Designer Presentation B4 Ian Liddell G08 Stephen Wilson Ramboll UK The Design of Derby Cathedral Bridge, a unique Cable-Stayed Swing Bridge

13:15 - 14:00 Lunch Foyer

14:00 - 15:00 Discussion Panel 1 Angus Low G06 Paul Sanders Flint & Neill Bridge Design

Martin Knight Knight Architects

Peter Miller Watson Steel Structures

Discussion Panel 2 Hugo Mulder G08 Frank Jensen Soren Jensen Consulting Engineers Transformeable Structures

Nick Cooper Atkins

Niels De Temmerman Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Abdulmajid Karanouh Aedas

15:00 - 16:00 Discussion Panel 3 David Nethercot G06 Sebastian MacMillan University of Cambridge Design Teaching

John Eyre UCL

Mike Cook Buro Happold / Imperial College London

Chris Wise Expedition / UCL

Discussion Panel 4 Ed Clark G08 Hugo Mulder Arup Advanced 3D Modelling Techniques

Francis Aish Foster + Partners

Bruce Davison AL_A

Paul Shepherd University of Bath

16:00 - 16:15 Coffee/Tea break Foyer

16:15 - 16:40 Keynote Lecture 7 Antony Oliver G06 Mike Davies Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Is Structure Born at Concept

16:40 - 17:05 Keynote Lecture 8 Antony Oliver G06 Dervilla Mitchell Arup Realising Design

17:05 - 17:30 Keynote Lecture 9 Antony Oliver G06 Andy Butler Laing O’Rourke The Leadenhall Building - Rising to the Challenge

17:30 - 17:55 Keynote Lecture 10 Antony Oliver G06 Tristram Carfrae Arup Collaboration in a Digital World

17:55 - 18:10 Feedback from Discussion Panels G06 Chairs of Discussion Panels

18:10 - 18:20 Closing + Awards G06 David Nethercot / John Eyre

18:20 - 19:15 Drinks Reception Foyer

19:30 - 23:00 Evening Dinner Bloomsbury Hotel

Jane Wernick FREng Hon FRIBA is a structural engineer who worked for Arup, 1976-1998, and then founded Jane Wernick Associates whose work can be seen at www.wernick.eu.com. She has taught at many schools of architecture and engineering, chairs CIC’s Diversity Panel, and is a Cabe Built Environment Expert and a member of the Edge and RIBA Building Futures think tanks.

Engineering Happy WalksCan we design our structures to give delight? This talk is about the development of three projects that aim to do that: the Xstrata treetop walkway at Kew Gardens, a walkway that climbs over a children’s hospice in Kuwait, and a trackway from the top of an ugly footbridge over High Speed One down to the Rainham Marshes.

Katerina trained as an architect in Greece and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. She joined the studio in 2007 as Project Architect on the UK Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. She was the Project Leader of the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron and is currently working on a Gin Distillery in Hampshire which is due to be completed in June 2013.

Heatherwick StudioHeatherwick Studio was formed in 1994 by Thomas Heatherwick to make unique design projects happen. Today a team of over 80 architects, designers and makers work from a combined studio and workshop in King’s Cross, London, UK. Katerina will be speaking about several projects completed in the last eighteen years as well as some current projects, that express the range of scales the studio is involved in.

Jane WernickJane Wernick Associates

Andrew Harvey is a Structural Engineer with Mott MacDonald. He has worked within a multi-disciplined team on a variety of projects including Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Baghdad Public Library and Chu Hai Sixth Form College in Hong Kong.

Paul Officer is an Associate in Mott MacDonald. He has extensive experience in structural design on a number of high profile projects internationally including Wembley, Mbombela Stadium (WC2010), Edgbaston Cricket Ground, London 2012 Stadium and Velodrome, and the Mosaic Stadium in Regina, Canada.

Baghdad Public Library – Cable Net RoofMott MacDonald have been working with AMBS architects on this iconic library building in Baghdad. The design process has used a combination of design software packages. Using Rhinoceros software with the Grasshopper and Geometry Gym parametric modelling plug-ins, the engineering could feed into the architectural form in ‘real time’ and the roof could be modified via the inbuilt variable parameters.

Andrew HarveyMott MacDonald

Paul OfficerMott MacDonald

Katerina DionysopoulouHeatherwick Studio

Martin Knight is one of the leading UK architects specialising in the design of bridges and transport infrastructure. He founded Knight Architects in 2006 following nine years at Wilkinson Eyre Architects, where he was responsible for bridges including the RIBA Stirling Prize-winning Gateshead Millennium Bridge. His practice has completed nine bridges at Stratford City and the Athletes’ Village in London, and current projects include the £600m Mersey Gateway, twin 100m-long footbridges at Leverkusen in Germany and the £15m Hatea River Crossing in New Zealand.

Bridge Design and Sustainability: An Architect’s PerspectiveBridges are engineering structures, yet they are also highly visible forms that have a significant impact on their locality and which establish theidentity of a place. The bridge designer must consider a broad range of ‘architectural’ issues that are as applicable to bridges as to buildings. Central to these is the concept of sustainability, a vital element to ensure today’s infrastructure successfully serves future generations.

Martin KnightKnight Architects

Keynote Lecturers

Bill Addis works in the Infrastructure team at Buro Happold dealing with strategic sustainability issues on masterplanning and major regeneration developments, on projects in China, the Middle East, Northern Africa as well as the UK. This work embraces all aspects of sustainable development and the environmental performance and impact of buildings during their design, construction and operation.

Designing Structures with Lower Environmental ImpactBill will look first at the environmental impacts that designers can reduce - depletion of resources, emissions arising from the energy used to make materials, the creation of waste. He will then outline how the impacts can be reduced, and the processes that must function to ensure that the desired outcomes are achieved - which is not as easy as it sounds!

Bill AddisBuro Happold

John Armitt is Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the organisation responsible for the delivery of the venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Sir John was previously Chief Executive of Network Rail from October 2002 and Chief Executive of Railtrack plc from December 2001. He has extensive experience in the building, civil engineering and industrial construction markets.

Delivering the Olympic GamesSir John Armitt will document the delivery of the largest construction programme in Europe. He will explain the challenges the ODA faced on its creation in 2006 and describe the strategic approach and subsequent implementation to deliver the programme and lessons learnt.

Sir John ArmittODA

Mike Davies, a founding partner of Richard Rogers Partnership, now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, has forty years of involvement in a huge range of projects Including Centre Pompidou, Lloyd’s of London, the Millennium Dome /O2, Terminal 5 Heathrow and Grand Paris. A masterplanner, architect and technologist, he is passionate about conceptual shifts, emergent technologies and systems from the nanoscale, through architecture and mezzo-environments to holistic city planning.

Is Structure Born at Concept? The act of architectural conception inevitably incorporates the values, beliefs and building experience of the architect, in addition to the demands of the brief. Is a structural concept inherent at conception or does it evolve as a later response? Is the engineer an architect and the architect an engineer? The Pompidou Centre, Lloyds of London, the Millennium Dome/O2 and Terminal 5 Heathrow, all engage this issue.

Mike DaviesRogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Dervilla Mitchell is perhaps best known for leading the Arup team at Terminal 5 Heathrow and being the Head of Design Management for this £4bn project. Subsequently she worked on Terminal 2 Dublin and the London 2012 Athletes Village. She is currently the Director responsible for the Q6 Strategic Consultancy which is planning the next regulatory period (2014 -19) for Heathrow.

Realising Design Dervilla will talk about how we realise our designs and how the constraints of particular sites can drive different or innovative approaches to construction.Dervilla Mitchell

Arup

With over 30 years in the construction and property industry, Andy Butler has a diverse proven capability ranging from integrating a development business into the UK’s largest private construction business, delivering large scale prestigious developments from funding, delivery and marketing through to technical delivery as a design consultant. More recently Andy has taken on the role of Project Director for delivery of The Leadenhall Building.

The Leadenhall Building - Rising to the ChallengeThe talk sets out how Laing O’Rourke set to secure the delivery of the Leadenhall building responding to the Key Client drivers and the considerable technical challenges that building beholds.

Paul Sanders is a Director within Flint & Neill. His experience covers a wide variety of bridges, including major bridges such as Izmit Bay Bridge and Forth Replacement Crossing. His experience has also seen him work in collaboration with a number of world renowned architects and in close cooperation with contractors. Paul has led the concept, preliminary and detailed design of a number of bridge projects including the Sail Bridge in Swansea, Tuti suspension bridge in Khartoum and Fabian Way Bridge in Swansea. He is currently managing the detailed design of a new highway bridge across the River Saône in Lyon, France.

Andy ButlerLaing O’Rourke

Tristram Carfrae is a leading structural designer. He has been responsible for the structure of a dazzling array of award winning buildings over his 29 years with the firm, both in Australia and the UK. Tristram has an unswerving commitment to designing better buildings that consume less resources, materials, energy, time and money; yet give more pleasure.

Collaboration in a Digital World“ Buildings used to be their own prototype but we can now build countless virtual prototypes in a digital world before we commit to reality.”

Tristram CarfraeArup

Paul SandersFlint & Neill

Peter Miller has been with Watson for nearly 35 years and in that time has worked in all departments from Design, Fabrication, Erection and is now the Business Development Director. He has worked in many different countries with Watson including Japan / Hawaii / Hong Kong / India / France and Germany. Recent Major projects include: the Olympic Stadium, the Emirates Cable car, the O2 Arena, the Wimbledon Moving Roof, the Millennium Dome and more recently the Leadenhall Tower Project with LOR and Arup.

Peter MillerWatson Steel Structures

Discussion Panellists

Frank Jensen is a structural engineer and the co-owner of Soren Jensen Consulting Engineers based in Aarhus, Denmark. He undertook research on deployable structures at the University of Cambridge, UK, from where he graduated with his Ph.D. in 2005. Of particular interest was the application of retractable pantographic structures to large span structures such a stadium. This lead to the development of a novel group of structures known as Retractable Plate Structures. A number of related though more complex mechanisms and the use of optimization algorithms for determining suitable retractable structures was also proposed in his Ph.D. thesis.

Frank JensenSoren Jensen Consulting Engineers

Nick Cooper has undertaken bespoke design of equipment and products for a broad range of mechanical industries. Before working with Atkins, he was Managing Director and Principal Design Engineer with M G Bennett & Associates Ltd where he was responsible for the mechanical design of some of the most iconic moveable structures such as the Falkirk Wheel and the Gateshead millennium bridge.

Nicholas CooperAtkins

Prof. dr. ir. arch. Niels De Temmerman (°1977) is a member of the Research Lab for Architectural Engineering (AE-LAB) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and is chair of the research group ‘Transformable Structures’. He is an architectural engineer (2002) with a PhD on deployable scissor structures (2007). His main expertise entails the design and analysis of transformable structures (deployable structures and kit-of-parts systems) for architectural applications. Current research interest is parametric modelling of deployable structures and the development of transitional shelters for sustainable development. Teaching activities include topics such as sustainable design, architectural design, parametric design and transformable structures.

Niels De TemmermanVrije Universiteit Brussel

Abdulmajid Karanouh graduated with an MSc in Architecture; Computing & Design and MSc in Facade Engineering and is specialised in Adaptive Design Innovation for large scale complex buildings. He is now an Associate and member of the Research & Development Group at the London office. Abdulmajid has been involved on high profile religious buildings in the Middle East and on a variety of iconic buildings both in the European continent and the Gulf Region such as the Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi. Abdulmajid has been researching, developing, and implementing multi-disciplinary design integration concepts including the fusion of Algorithmic Design, Building Performance, and Adaptive Technologies.

Abdulmajid KaranouhAedas

Sebastian Macmillan trained as an architect at the University of Liverpool and went on to write his PhD thesis on value judgments. After a decade in practice, he formed a research consultancy in Cambridge and worked extensively as a researcher and writer capturing and promoting best practice in energy, sustainability and construction. As well as papers and reports he has edited four books including Interdisciplinary Design in Practice (pub. Thomas Telford, 2001) and Designing Better Buildings (pub. Spon Press, 2004). He joined Cambridge University in 1996 and in 2006 he became Course Director for the IDBE course.

Sebastian MacMillanUniversity of Cambridge

John Eyre is an engineer and an architect. He worked as an engineer at Arup and as an architect at John R Harris Architects where he worked on hospitals, schools, housing, department stores and industrial buildings in roles ranging from competition design to team management and contract administration. Then, with a research degree, he designed and performed destructive tests at the Taylor Woodrow laboratories for the energy industry for their wind power and nuclear power plants. As an academic at UCL he did some research but not excessively because he met lots of fantastic student engineers. His contribution will show what value to design education there may be in this background.

John EyreUCL

Michael Cook studied Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge University followed by a PhD at Bath University in dynamic structural performance. He joined Buro Happold in 1982 where he worked as an engineer specialising in the design of lightweight and membrane structures. In 1994 he became a Partner and in May 2011 became the Senior Partner of the Practice. Michael is particularly active in the education of our future generations. He is Adjunct Professor of Creative Design at the Depart-ment of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College, Chairs the Education Panel of the Institution of Structural Engineers, and a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Education Committee.

Mike CookBuro Happold / Imperial College London

Co-founder of Expedition (1999), former director at Arup (began 1979), former Prof of Design at Imperial College, former Davenport Professor at Yale School of Architecture, now Prof of Design in Civ Eng at UCL. RAEng Silver medal, IStructE Gold medal 2012, IABSE Milne Medal 2012. IStructE Supreme Award with Expedition in 2009 (Infinity Bridge) and 2011 (London Olympic Velodrome). Co-founder Constructionarium (while at Imperial). Former Master of RSA’s Royal Designers. Former Trustee of the Design Council (until last year). Other interests: Our kids, Men of Iron, Rugby and Cricket, Guitar playing, Mountains, Astrophotography, DIY, Abstract Painting. Wants to take up surfing later in life and learn how to bowl reverse swing.

Chris WiseExpedition / UCL

Hugo Mulder is a senior engineer in Arup’s Advanced Technology + Research Group in London. He was involved in projects such as the European Extremely Large Telescope, Singapore Sports Hub and national museum in Qatar. Hugo is specialised in kinetic systems and moving structures and worked on projects globally, including retractable stadium roofs, transformable facade systems, large observation wheels and dynamic art sculptures. Because kinetic systems require non-standard design tools Hugo has a strong focus on developing new and adapted computational techniques for dynamic problem solving and design collaboration. Such tools comprise 3D- parameterisation, scripting, geometric optimisation, prototyping and physical computing.

Hugo MulderArup

Bruce Davison is leading a large media campus development that will redefine the business environment for the twenty-first century. He is also developing a bridge design for a private client at the cutting-edge of steel engineering and fabrication. Davison was the project architect on the award-winning Corian Super-Surfaces installation showcased at the Milan Design Fair in 2009. Davison leads AL_A’s computational research group, integrating this with design development across all the office’s projects. Davison came from a business background in the automotive industry before studying at Syracuse University School of Architecture in New York. He has taught at Syracuse and Columbia University GSAPP.

Bruce DavisonAL_A

Paul Shepherd completed a degree in Mathematics before moving into the field of Structural Engineering. He worked for 8 years with Buro Happold, applying his mathematics knowledge to solve complex engineering problems on many iconic and award-winning projects with some of the world’s leading architects and set up the company’s specialist modelling group known as SMART. He is now Lecturer in Digital Architectonics in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering of the University of Bath, where he combines research into how the power of computing can be harnessed to produce more efficient and sustainable buildings with a passion for promoting the public understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Paul ShepherdUniversity of Bath

Francis Aish is a Partner and Head of Applied Research and Development at Foster + Partners. He studied Aerospace Systems Engineering at the University of Southampton, and is currently completing an Engineering Doctorate at UCL. He joined Foster + Partners in 1999, and is responsible for the research and development of systems to model and solve complex, multi-disciplinary design problems. In the course of this work he has been involved in over 200 projects and competitions, including the Swiss Re HQ, the Smithsonian Institution, and Beijing Airport.

Francis AishFoster + Partners