Edmund Happold

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Professor Sir Edmund Happold was a structural engineer and founder of Buro Happold.

As the head of Structures 3 at Ove Arup and Partners, he worked on such landmark buildings as Sydney Opera House and the Pompidou Centre. Leaving Arups in 1976, he became professor of Architecture and Engineering Design at the University of Bath and founded Buro Happold with seven colleagues.

He was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry, a member of the Design Council, vice-president of the Royal Society of the Arts, and Master of the Royal Designer for Industry. He also founded the Building Industry Council, later to become the Construction Industry Council.

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