Alan Harbinson and David Herd have accepted invitations to become Partners of Buro Happold.
Their appointment brings the total number of Partners to 26.
Welcoming Alan and David's decision to join the Partnership,Chairman Rod Macdonald comments:"The addition of their combined skills and experience serves to strengthen Buro Happold as a practice and reinforce the excellence of our multi-disciplinary consultancy."
David Herd,who jointly directs one of the Bath Integrated Building Groups(IBG)1 with Partner,Paul Westbury, comes from a building services background.
He joined Buro Happold in 1999 and since then has been involved in a number of high profile projects including Arsenal Stadium,Wessex Water HQ,National Library of Singapore,Birmingham Hippodrome,Rolls Royce and Eden.Operating under the strategic guidance of Gavin Thompson,David played a major part in growing the Bath studio from 27 to 70 prior to the creation of IBGs.
The appointment of Alan Harbinson,who directs the Bath Infrastructure Transport and Environment group,to the Partnership increases the representation of the civil engineering discipline at management level and is part of the practice's strategic growth plans going forwards.
Alan joined Buro Happold in 1992 bringing significant highway design experience to the practice.When Buro Happold reorganised its civil engineering group in 1994,Alan played a key part supporting Andrew Comer in his task of growing this team.
He rose to become group director of ITE Bath which,over the past five years,he has successfully grown and now leads a team of 32 staff covering a number of disciplines run by individual group managers.
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