Statement of Qualifications

Tall Buildings
Buro Happold

1. About Buro Happold

2. Technical Capabilities
3. Relevant Project Experience

Buro Happold

Table of Contents

Buro Happold

About Buro Happold

World One, Mumbai, India

Buro Happold

About Buro Happold:

Firm Profile
Buro Happold is a global, integrated, multidisciplinary
engineering firm able to offer a complete range of
services dealing with the built environment. Originally
established as a building engineering consultancy,
it continues to offer the full range of engineering
services; structural engineering, MEP engineering,
environmental engineering, sustainability consulting,
energy engineering, computation & simulation analysis,
master planning, geotechnical engineering, faade
engineering, fire and life safety engineering, lighting
design, and project management services. Buro Happold
practices from a world wide network of 28 offices located
in 12 countries. In addition to our office in New York, we
are located in Abu Dhabi, Bath, Beijing, Belfast, Berlin,
Birmingham, Boston, Cairo, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kuwait City,
Los Angeles, Leeds, London, Manchester, Milan, Moscow,
Munich, Pune, Riyadh, San Francisco and Warsaw.
We provide focused engineering input to projects
through an in-depth understanding of complex building
form and a breadth of experience amassed within our
firm and shared in our global web based intranet system.
Through consultation and industry collaboration we can
introduce sustainable, appropriate, innovative and valueadded solutions at all stages in the design process.
Our practice is a privately owned partnership and is
organized around multidisciplinary groups of no more
than 20 engineers in size. Our organization is horizontal
and flexible, allowing our individuals and company
to quickly and effectively respond to the demands of
complex, global projects. Our staff numbers for 2012 are:

North America
Technical
130
Support
30
Total
160

Other Offices
990
285
1275

Total
1120
315
1435

Buro Happold is a Partnership, which was originally

established by Professor Sir Ted Happold on 1 May, 1976
and today comprises 52 partners. Since establishing the
North American office in New York in 2000, Buro Happold
has grown to five offices in the region. Since its inception,
the New York office has worked on over 200 projects
worldwide.

Company Information
New York
Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, PC.
100 Broadway
New York, NY 10005
USA
Tel: 212 334 2025
Fax: 212 334 5528
Los Angeles
Buro Happold Consulting Engineering, Inc.
9601 Jefferson Blvd, Suite B
Culver City, CA 90232
USA
Tel: 310 945 4800
Boston
Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, PC
319 A Street, Suite 5E
Boston, MA 02210
USA
Tel: 617 419 2284
Chicago
Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, PC
801 West Adams Street, Suite 800
Chicago, IL 60607
Tel: 646 785 3261
San Francisco
Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, Inc.
228 Grant Avenue, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Tel: 415 778 2797
www.burohappold.com

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities

1400 Howe Street, Vancouver, Canada

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities:
Structural Engineering
Engineering for Successful Building
Our role as engineers is to match the opportunities and
constraints of the site with construction methods which
give best value so that the clients needs are realized.
Buro Happolds engineers focus on the client and end user to
ensure that we provide buildings of lasting value and service.
Using Knowledge
We have the depth of knowledge needed to generate the best
solutions and work with the construction industry to ensure
they are buildable and cost effective. We work as part of a
team using workshops to bring to bear the wide knowledge
base of the whole practice. Our clients are guaranteed the
strength and experience of Buro Happold channeled through
specific project teams and communication.
Our engineers keep in contact with clients, fellow designers
and contractors on a day to day basis, listening, advising on
new challenges and contributing to advancing the project
at all times. When helpful we set up project teams on site
to facilitate communication. We invest in state-of-the-art
facilities for computer aided design, 3-D modeling and
object orientated design. These are key tools to enable us
to communicate with the client, the design team and the
constructors.

United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC

And Construction Expertise

We have hands-on experience of a broad spectrum of
structural engineering which enables us to resolve complex
construction issues and find the best value approach to
projects:

The High Line, New York, NY

new build
conservation
high-rise
seismic conditions
sustainable construction
hazardous site development
widespan halls and stadia
temporary structures with specialized engineering
knowledge

Curtis R. Priem EMPAC

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities:
MEP Engineering
Mechanical Engineering for successful buildings
Our aim is to realize our Clients needs by providing the very
best value across the wide range of factors that affect the
environmental behavior of the built form. As engineers we
seek to place the needs of the occupants and function of each
space as an essential goal which must be achieved. As building
physicists we work with the whole design team to inform the
design solution. This will ensure that the building form, orientation and materials satisfy the external and internal design
criteria.
As MEP engineers we seek to provide integrated, efficient and
elegant systems to fine tune the internal environment, while
providing the appropriate degree of flexibility and future
adaptability. As environmental engineers we seek to incorporate a global view of energy consumption, embodied energy
and sustainability into the design. The whole of this process is
an iterative one where we aim to achieve a total solution that
illustrates care, value and elegance.

King Abdullah Financial Center, Riyadh, KSA

Using Knowledge
Our spectrum of knowledge encompasses:
mechanical and electrical systems
public health
lighting design
environmental studies
building transport systems
site supervision of M & E installations
energy reports and advice
mechanical and electrical systems survey reports
facilities management
Communications
Our MEP engineers keep in contact with clients, architects
and other designers on a day to day basis, listening, advising
on challenges and contributing to problem solving technically and efficiently. We define client expectations early in the
design process, and by establishing the level of performance
required of the end product, we can provide advice on the appropriate procurement route.

Garden Street Lofts, NJ

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Technical Capabilities:
Sustainable Building Design
Buro Happold has considerable experience in designing lowenergy buildings and we are recognized as one of the worlds
leading consultants in the field of sustainability thinking. It was
through this commitment that we were awarded the Queens
Award for Sustainable Development in 2001.
Environmental and Sustainable Design Facilitation
Buro Happold has been participating as a sustainable design
specialist on a number of projects in the US recently. As an
external member of the design team, Buro Happold has been
brought in to facilitate a sustainable design ideas generation
process to green buildings.
The elements of this service include:
organizing and running design workshops to
generate sustainable design ideas by all members of
the design team
diagramming environmental concepts for ecological
planning and systems
encouraging clients and designers to consider
alternative ways of achieving appropriate levels of
environmental comfort with minimum use of energy
and water
ensuring low maintenance costs
designing buildings that allow flexibility of use and
can be easy to adapt to new uses
encouraging renewable energy sources
providing buildings that will maintain their value as
governments legislate in favour of green buildings
reducing the energy embodied in materials in the
construction process
use of recycled materials and materials from renew
able sources
reducing waste to minimize the need for landfill sites
reducing water use
specifying locally sourced materials to minimize
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2) and pollution arising
from transportation

Brandeis University Shapiro Science Center, MA

Genzyme Headquarters, MA

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities:
LEED Consultancy
LEED Advisor to Design Team
Buro Happold has the experience and capability to lead design
teams through the LEED certification process from early
conceptual advice through the calculation and documentation
process. Intimate knowledge of the rating system has been
gained through our involvement in a number of LEED certified
projects as primary LEED advisor.
Buro Happold has knowledge of all the arenas of sustainable
design which allows our staff to advise the many types
members of the design team on LEED related issues.
Sustainable design encompasses the disciplines of landscape
design, building technology, architectural specifications,
mechanical engineering, urban planning, project
management, construction technology, and many more.
Being the primary LEED advisor to a design team includes:
running LEED workshops, assisting team members with LEED
calculations, interpreting requirements and rulings, collecting
LEED Letter Templates, liasing with the US Green Building
Council and coordinating the project submission for LEED
certification.

Le Varesine, Milan, Italy

CSOB, Prague, Czech Republic

Sustainable Engineering for Successful Buildings

Buro Happold is a world leader in consultancy for the built
environment. With an international network of offices and a
multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving, we provide
appropriate, economic and environmentally sensitive solutions that are applied across all the physical realms - air, land
and water - for all types of building and infrastructure projects.
Simulation is a tool for innovation. MEP engineering requires
advanced simulation and analysis tools to understand how
high performance MEP designs will perform. Simulation allows
informed collaboration between architect and engineer. Simulation allows clients to better understand the benefits of green
buildings, particularly annual energy savings, daylight levels,
comfort levels, and air quality.
Various high performance MEP design strategies require
simulation too fully understand their performance and annual
energy savings:
natural ventilation (atria, cross-ventilation,
single-sided ventilation, vent stacks)
radiant heating and cooling
underground labyrinth air intake tubes
thermal mass
displacement ventilation
daylight enhancement (light shelves, heliostats,
advanced comfort analysis
Our services for simulation and analysis include:
Energy modeling (DOE2, IES)
Dynamic thermal modeling (TAS, IES)
Computational fluid dynamics (Flovent)
Solar shading analysis (IES)
Daylighting analysis (Radiance)

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities:
Simulation Analysis

Sustainable Development
Growing concern for the environment has resulted in the
phrase sustainable development entering our everyday language. Urban regeneration is now at the top of environmental
and social agendas, and taking environmental issues into account then planning any project is vital to:
minimize the projects impact on the environment
assess and demonstrate its viability
comply with environmental legislation and local
policies
meet the aims of regional and urban development
plans
manage the risks associated with the development of
brownfield sites
meet commitments made in environmental or sustain
ability policy statements
improve public image, locally, nationally, and
internationally
enhance the quality and value of land, property, and
assets
Buro Happold can provide expertise in energy conservation
and sustainability design. One of the pioneers in sustainable
and passive engineering, the firm starts by understanding
the environmental issues in their broadest sense and then
develops a program that will take a building through its life
cycle with the least impact on the environment. It often means
using static components of a building to optimum effect, carefully considering building orientation, window design, shading
and thermal mass, in many respects, seeking to emulate what
happens in the natural world.

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities:
Simulation Analysis

Buro Happold takes full advantage of the benefits of BIM

modeling in order to improve the design process for all
members of the design team and the owner. Buro Happolds
expert use of BIM translates into superior contract documents,
better visualization, decreased production time, and
downstream benefits including less schedule risk and reduced
field problems. We are at the forefront of BIM technologies,
lecturing at conferences on BIM, working directly with
software manufacturers and writing our own in-house scripts
and routines to fill interoperability gaps. Buro Happolds
strength in BIM lies in its many years of experience on a wide
range of projects. That experience translates into an improved
design and delivery process for our clients.

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities:
BIM Modeling

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

Software
From the very first days of a project Buro Happold is constantly
working with a variety of softwares, from structural analysis to
clash avoidance, in order to produce the best design possible.
While REVIT is our preferred BIM modeling software, we are
also experts in other modeling softwares such as Tekla, Digital
Project, Autocad ADT, Rhino, and Inventor to name a few. In
addition, Navisworks and Solibri are used for external clash
checking and visualization tools when appropriate for the
job. Structural analysis software includes: Robot, SAP, ETABS,
SAFE, RAM, RISA and STAAD. We are committed to using our
technology tools efficiently and keeping up to date with the
most current versions. Our custom interoperability translators
have increased our productivity and work flow allowing us to
provide a better coordinated design.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

Fabrication Modeling
Buro Happold has the ability to create tools and write scripts
for any task on any project if there is a need. There are a
number of shortcomings with the industry standard formats
and Buro Happold has the skills to bypass those issues and
easily transfer information between all BIM softwares. For
internal work, Buro Happold has established automation
processes to enable sharing of REVIT models with analysis
programs and vice versa, reducing the amount of time
necessary for design and drafting. 3-D models, including REVIT
models, can be exported directly into TEKLA, allowing our
expert modelers to expedite the preparation of a mill order
model and connection modeling.

United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities:
Faade Engineering
Buro Happold faades engineering progresses the performance of building faades both for the varied activities of the
occupants and also for environmental gain. To do this, we have
gathered a select group of faade experts. Their talents span
knowledge of materials and technologies through to practical
design skills which provide workable, cost effective and lasting
solutions. By understanding the key structural and functional
features our pragmatic solution for the faades enhances the
total building environment.
Team Performers
We place great emphasis on working collaboratively with
clients and other professionals engaged on the project to
achieve a superb result, either by providing stand-alone
consultancy or contributing to the project as a team member. Sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas, we work with
contractors and specialist suppliers to provide faades design
solutions, and to monitor installation and performance.
We offer professional consultancy services in:

Full faades design and engineering

Faades upgrade strategies

Faades audit and value engineering

Cost/benefit analysis

Life cycle assessment

Feasibility studies and procurement strategies

Preliminary and schematic design

System design

Thermal performance and condensation risk

appraisal

Product design and development

Stress analysis

Testing and management

Structural faades components

Diagnostics, inspection and remedial analysis

Comprehensive materials science

Columbia University Medical College, New York, NY

Abu Dhabi Louvre, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Commercial Acumen
Buro Happold faades engineering offers highly customized
services, combining strong technical skills with a firm grasp
of the commercial factors surrounding a projects execution.
The group provides cost-effective design solutions for building
envelopes, making efficient use of materials and energy.
King Abdulaziz Centre for Knowledge and Culture , East Province, Dharan,
Middle East

Buro Happold

Technical Capabilities:
Lighting
Lighting for People
Lighting is part of the ergonomic fabric of the built environment. As lighting designers, we respond to the visual needs of
people in their environments. We invest time to interpret how
space will be moved through and inhabited, and how lighting
can enhance this experience.
Quality and Effectiveness
As a member of the design team from the early programming
stages, we can inform and rationalize building geometry,
massing and orientation, creating a lighting strategy truly integral to the architecture. Through later design stages we refine
fundamental lighting drivers and cement them through solid
specification. At project commissioning we ensure these drivers are materialized and that each lighting detail effectively
contributes to the buildings ultimate persona.
Holistic Design
Our backgrounds in both architecture and engineering give
us the opportunity to provide a complete, integrated daylight and electric lighting service for complex projects where
creative design is balanced with technical acumen. As part of
a multidisciplinary office, we collaborate closely with the mechanical, electrical, faade, security, A/V, IT and sustainability
teams to create efficient harmonized building systems.

Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY

Happold Lighting offers a full range of lighting design services

including:
Interior Lighting Design
Exterior Lighting Design
Lighting Masterplanning
Custom Luminaire Design
Dynamic Lighting Installations
Daylight Consulting for Building Massing
Daylight Consulting for Interiors
Lighting for Art Conservation
Integrated Lighting Controls Design

The Louvre Museum Daylighting Study, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Buro Happold

Relevant Project Experience

PNC Bank Headquarters, Pittsburgh, PA,

World One is a world-class mixed-use urban development

in central Mumbai. The site is approximately on a 17 acre
lot and is currently planned to contain up to 3 million
square feet of residential, 1 million square feet of parking
as well as retail and office space.
The World One site is located in the Lower Parel in an
area of reclaimed land between the original islands of
Worli and Parel. The development site straddles Senapati
Bapat Marg in the area of former textile mills east of the
Worli neighborhood and west of the Western Railway.
This central location affords views to the Arabian Sea and
easy access north and south to other business and cultural
districts of Mumbai.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project Value
Dates

Lodha
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners
$450M
Completion expected in 2014

Services provided by Buro Happold

MEP engineering

Buro Happold

World One
Mumbai, India

Chicago, IL
This 2,000 ft-high tower consisting of 150 floors in a spiral
design, will be the tallest building in the United States when
completed and the tallest residential building in the world.
Key project information
Client

Shelbourne Development Ltd

Architect

Santiago Calatrava

Project value

$1.3B

Dates

Completion expected in 2009

Services provided by Buro Happold

Peer review
Services provided by Happold Consulting
Client Advisor and Project Manager

Buro Happold

The Chicago Spire

Buro Happold, with BIG, is currently working on a mixeduse development in Vancouver at 1400 Howe. The
development is comprised of a 49-story residential tower
with a 9-story podium that will include market rental
housing, commerical uses, and a childcare facility. The
iconic tower will include 600 residential units with retail at
the base.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

Westbank Properties Corp.

BIG
Confidential
Ongoing

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering

Buro Happold

1400 Howe Street

Vancouver, Canada

150 Eleventh Avenue is a modern, innovative, mixed-use

building in the Chelsea Pier District of New York City.
Bordering the gallery district and the recently completed
High Line, the new building will comprise of high end
condominiums, of approximate 177,000 square feet at a
height of 250 feet.
The building program also includes an amenity package
for residents, full basement for parking, mechanical
equipment and storage, and a purpose built art gallery
retail space at ground level.
The project also includes the temporary relocation of
an existing gallery owner to a dedicated purpose built
facility on 24th Street. This is required to allow the
redevelopment of the current site to take place. Balancing
design complexity with an aggressive demolition and
construction schedule, along with meeting the business
needs of a third party gallery owner pose the largest
challenges to this project.

Key project information

Client
Architect

Project value
Dates

SR Capital
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects
Foster + Partners
Confidential
Ongoing

Services provided by Buro Happold

MEP engineering, lighting design, daylight studies, energy
modeling, LEED consulting, faade engineering, low
voltage systems, and acoustic design.

Buro Happold

150 Eleventh Avenue

New York, NY USA

Buro Happold is working with a client who has mandated

that their new headquarters building be the greenest
highrise building in the world. The building will be an
800,000 square foot tower on a three story podium,
with an additional 150,000 square feet of below-grade
parking. Buro Happold is working closely with Gensler to
optimize the use of natural ventilation and daylighting
in conjunction with high efficiency mechanical systems
to target the lowest possible PEUI. Systems currently
being investigated for potential use in the building are
chilled beams, double facade systems, radiant cooling
and heating systems, geothermal systems for cooling and
cogeneration systems.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

PNC Financial Group

Gensler
$400M
Completion expected in 2015

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering, MEP engineering, sustainability,
energy modeling, daylight modeling

Buro Happold

PNC Bank Headquarters

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Buro Happold

Tong Shan
Pudong, Shanghai, China

Tong Shan Street is a prestigious project within the

Pudong Huangpu River Complex Development Area
which comprises a series of highrise buildings for
commercial, hotel, residential and retail use. It is a new
build, 1.8 million square foot development close to
the center of Shanghai including 8 residential towers
providing 700 luxury apartments, and 1 iconic hotel and
serviced apartments tower. The project is being designed
to achieve a LEED Platinum rating.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

PCPA

Vanke Real Estate Company

Pelli Clarke Pelli
RMB 1.2B
Ongoing

Services provided by Buro Happold

MEP engineering, sustainability consultancy / LEED, facade
engineering, traffic engineering, structural engineering

PCPA

The King Abdullah Financial District is a new development

being undertaken by the Rayadah Investment Corporation
on behalf of the Pension Authority of the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia and involves the construction of a new
financial center for the City of Riyadh. The district includes
over one hundred parcels, a new monorail system as well
as numerous civic and infrastructure projects.
Buro Happold was responsible for the master plan of
the district in collaboration with Henning Larsen, out
of Copenhagen. Buro Happold is now involved in the
further development of several of the initial parcels
being developed, including over two million square feet
of mixed use, spread over three parcels with residential
/ office towers, ranging from five to thirty stories. Buro
Happold is acting as the lead consultant, along with
FXFowle Architects and consultants spread across several
countries.
Each parcel includes four levels of below grade parking,
a podium with retail and office and mixed use towers
and is bordered along one edge by a continuous,
Wadi greenway. All parcels being undertaken by Buro
Happold are fast track from Concept Design to completed
Construction Documents in ten months.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

SBG
FXFowle Architects
Confidential
2008 - Present

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering, MEP engineering, project
management, fire engineering, civil engineering, faade
engineering, sustainability consulting, security / IT,
architectural lighting, computation of simulation analysis
(CoSA), ground engineering

Buro Happold

King Abdullah Financial District, Parcels 4.07 - 4.08

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The King Abdullah Financial District is a new development

being undertaken by the Rayadah Investment Corporation
on behalf of the Pension Authority of the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia and involves the construction of a new
financial center for the City of Riyadh. The district includes
over one hundred parcels, a new monorail system as well
as numerous civic and infrastructure projects.
Buro Happold provided full engineering and sustainability
services for the 500,000 square foot commercial and
retail development. The 1.11 parcel includes two towers
situated on a four story retail podium. The project is on
target to achieve LEED Gold. An external shading system
customized for the site conditions minimizes solar heat
gains, while preserving views and daylight, resulting in
aggressive cooling load reductions.
The parcel includes four levels of below grade parking, a
podium with retail and office and is bordered along one
edge by a continuous, Wadi greenway. All KAFD parcels
being undertaken by Buro Happold are fast track from
Concept Design to completed Construction Documents in
ten months.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

SBG
Behnisch Architekten
Confidential
2009 - Present

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering, MEP engineering, project
management, fire engineering, civil engineering,
sustainability / LEED consulting, security / IT, computation
of simulation analysis (CoSA), ground engineering

Buro Happold

King Abdullah Financial District, Parcel 1.11

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The Landmark Tower is a major high-rise development

located at the intersection of the Corniche Road and
Khaled bin Al Waleed Street in Abu Dhabi. The design
proposals represent an iconic and yet highly effective and
economic design befitting the prominence of the site.
The tower will have an approximate height of 1,000 ft,
over 61 stories, and a total gross internal floor area will
be approximately 2M sf, with 1M sf of leasable space.
The residential accommodation will comprise a blend of
one- to four-bedroom apartments and four penthouse
apartments, designed to reflect the quality of the building
and its architecture.
In addition there will be a health club with swimming
pool, 32,000 sf of restaurants, 53,000 sf of offices, 21,000
sf of retail space and parking for 600 cars. The office space
will provide maximum flexibility to meet the demands of
the market.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

Confidential
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Confidential
Ongoing

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering, civil engineering, geotechnical
engineering, MEP engineering, fire engineering, security
building management systems, security consulting, IT
consulting

Buro Happold

Landmark Tower
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Located on Reem Island, the Tameer Towers development

consists of six high-rise towers located above a 10-story
podium. The tallest of these is a 1,000 ft high commercial
tower housing the largest commercial entrance atrium in
the world (15 stories in height). The commercial tower will
provide world-class office accommodation for the region and
forms the central focal point for the Shams development.
Residential accommodation within the development is
provided in the form of two 60-story and two 40-story
towers as well as luxury elevated town houses on a
stepped terrace overlooking the canal and central park.
A seven-star luxury business hotel is also included within
the scheme combining a full height atrium with large
restaurants at the top and bottom. These open onto the
atrium, offering spectacular views over Reem Island and the
coast of Abu Dhabi. The overall intent is for the commercial
tower to provide a unique signature building as the focal
point of the whole development. The predominant feature
is the diamond module of the exterior structure in the form
of a gridshell. The gridshell extends to the level of the top of
the plant room. The base of the building is divided into two
sections that land on the ground either side of the canal,
creating an Atrium space approximately 15 stories high.
Buro Happold is providing fire engineering on the entire
development. Work involved complex smoke modeling of
both the commercial and hotel atria, people flow modeling
in the high-rise commercial tower and the development of a
bespoke fire fighting strategy. The unique design of the tower
legs that fall either side of the canal will mean the fire service
must transfer between lift groups to reach the topmost levels
of the buildings. This is undertaken on a dedicated transfer
floor, one of the first of this type in the region.
Key project information
Client
Architect
Project Value
Dates

Tameer Holdings
Gensler
$992M
Completion expected in 2011

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering, fire engineering design and risk
assessment (FEDRA), facade engineering

Buro Happold

Tameer Towers
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The commercial office tower in Bilbao, Spain is

approximately 430,000 square feet. The upper floors will
be the headquarters for Iberdrola energy company, and
the middle floors will be speculative office development.
The lower floors will contain a hotel, restaurant and
conference facilities. There are 3 stories of underground
parking.
The project has integrated many sustainable design
strategies including a double-skin faade with high
performance glazing and dynamic blinds integrated
with the BMS for solar control, an energy loop with heat
recovery and a comprehensive grey water and rainwater
reuse system resulting in 45% water savings. In addition
the design allows for retaining and filtering the majority
of stormwater runoff , there will be extensive metering of
energy systems and the building will be powered by 100%
green electricity.
Torre Iberdrola is pursuing LEED CS certification and
was awarded Platinum Pre-certification by the USGBC in
October, 2007.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

Iberdrola
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects / Ortiz Leon
Confidential
Completion expected in 2011

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering, MEP engineering, sustainability,
LEED consulting, facade engineering consulting

Buro Happold

Torre Iberdrola
Bilbao, Spain

Buro Happold provided environmental design consulting

services for the Lotte Super Tower project since the
earliest stages of conceptual design through detail design
documents The project was won through an international
design competition by the SOM and Buro Happold design
team, and the project has evolved to a 550 meter tower in
the center of Seoul, Korea.
Environmental strategies for the project include
displacement ventilation in the office floors, radiant
heating and cooling, mixed-mode natural ventilation
in the lobby areas, and ice storage chillers. Green
materials and finishes also add a feeling of environmental
design while maintaining the elegance of a worldclass skyscraper. The project team is considering LEED
certification and is on track for a Silver level rating.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project Value
Dates

Lotte Corp.
SOM
$500M
Ongoing

Services provided by Buro Happold

Sustainability consulting, advanced simulation

Buro Happold

Lotte Super Tower

Seoul, South Korea

The GWQ Tower project comprises the design development

of a 27-storey residential tower incorporating a complex and
sophisticated double skin facade. The tower is the signature
building on a very large development comprising new build
and refurbishment, known as the Great Western Quarter
(GWQ), which is situated adjacent to the M4 motorway.
Buro Happolds Services group has been involved in the tower
project since the concept design phase (RIBA Stage C), where
we bid competitively to provide strategic advice and design
input in the evolving phases of the design progress. We were
not the cheapest bid but were awarded the work on the
recommendation of the architects Assael, because of our good
performance on a previous project with them.
The cavity of the double skin facade on the tower (described as
the winter garden) is not defined as habitable space and will
comprise a mediating space between the external and internal
environment, providing optimum ventilation and acoustic
separation, creating comfortable and high quality apartments
in a noisy environment.
The plan of the tower is egg-shaped, with faceted units that
create the curvature. This shape has been specially designed
to offer maximum shading from the sun in the areas where it
is most needed, as well as provide the biggest winter gardens
where the views are best.
Buro Happold was able to bring its broad knowledge of
cladding systems, modelling abilities and M&E to support the
architect in developing their sophisticated concept and enable
the client to feel comfortable in taking forward a scheme
whose aspirations go far beyond their usual remit.

Key Project Information

Client
Architect

Barratt West London

Assael Architects

Services Provided by Buro Happold

Building Services Engineering, Facade Engineering, CoSA

Buro Happold

GWQ Tower
Brentford, UK

The Kingdom Center is a 296m high, distinctively sculptural

tower with associated 3-level Podium buildings. once
completed, this project is expected to be the tallest building
in Saudi Arabia. The Tower accommodates a 220 room hotel,
22 residential apartment suites, 44 residential apartments
and 15,000sq-m of office space. An additional 57,000sq-m of
retail space and a 4,400sq-m wedding and banquet hall are
incorporated into the Podium buildings.
The building envelope is separated into three main cladding
zones: The Podium buildings (0 - 25.2m), the Tower (25.2
- 179m) and the Sculpture (179 - 296m). This concrete
construction Tower has an oval floor plate, with a height
of 179m. Above this level, the Sculpture is steel framed,
and supports an observation bridge on top. The Podium
incorporates stone cladding and 10 different types of glass
cladding systems. The Tower portion is a unitised glazed
curtain wall, and the Sculpture is clad with an open jointed
aluminium rainscreen system.
The total surface area of the cladding is approximately
70,000sq-m.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

Kingdom Holding Company

Ellerbe Becket / Omrania & Associates
$300M
Completed in 2001

Services provided by Buro Happold

Facade engineering

Buro Happold

Kingdom Trade Center

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The construction of this prestigious 37-story highrise headquarters office tower in Abu Dhabi, built for
a large Middle East-based company, provided a high
profile showcase for Buro Happolds integrated, multidisciplinary skills. The stunning design, incorporating a
stylish twin wall glass facade and dual curved office wings,
complete with central atrium, was immediately hailed
as an engineering and design success. After originally
constructing a 33-floor tower we added a further four
more floors to the office and increased the building
services capabilities. Careful attention was given to
modifying the external landscape to accommodate the
additional people and car parking - ADIA can now cater
for a population of 2,000 with 800 parking spaces. The 656
foot-high structure is in a premier city center location and
includes restaurant, gym and swimming pool facilities for
employees. Infrastructure innovations include a link from
the car park to the underground train system. Notable
features include a 600 foot high atrium wall and a 98 foot
cantilevered steel grillage canopy.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Dates

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Completed in 2007

Services provided by Buro Happold

MEP engineering, structural engineering, cost consultancy,
project management, ground engineering, civil
engineering, fire engineering

Buro Happold

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Headquarters

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The massive 2.6 million square foot mixed-use Al Faisaliah

development in Riyadh is one of the most striking
buildings in the Middle East. Its landmark office tower rises
885 feet over the city, soaring to a tapered point in one
smooth giant arc. At its pinnacle the tower narrows to a
brightly lit lantern topped with a decorative stainless steel
finial.
The complex contains 30 floors of office space, a five-star
hotel with 224 bedrooms, residential accommodation, a
shopping center with 120 stores, a banqueting/exhibition
hall for 4,000 guests, two levels of underground car
parking for 1,700 cars and a restaurant.
The focus on energy conservation presented a major
challenge for Buro Happold due to the harsh climate in
Riyadh. The design makes extensive use of passive energy
control methods: a combination of carefully chosen glass
in the facade, various external shading systems and an airconditioning plant which uses ice in the cooling process
serves to minimize the amount of energy drawn from the
supply grid.
A Building Management System (BMS) controls all
engineering processes, monitoring and adjusting
individual elements to enhance operating efficiency
and living conditions. All these design elements have
meant that the building has a high level of performance
and is considerably cheaper to run than similar large
developments in the Kingdom.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project Value
Dates

King Faisal Foundation

Foster + Partners
Confidential
Completed in 2000

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering, MEP/FP engineering, civil
engineering, quantity surveying, project management.

Buro Happold

Al Faisaliah
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

RWE Tower
Essen, Germany

The RWE Building in Essen is a 162m tall tower,

comprising a 120m tall main building of 29 storeys and
an additional 35m aerial. The building was designed
with a cylindrical plan, to allow the maximisation of
natural ventilation and light to all internal spaces, while
minimising the outer surface to consume the least
energy. A double-skin facade concept was adopted
primarily for building physics considerations to work
with a mixed-mode environmental strategy, as well as to
give a look of transparency.
The construction of the double-skin wall comprises
an inner double-glazed facade, consisting of floor-toceiling height aluminium framed windows which are
openable.
The ventilation concept for the wall relies on
mechanically controlling the passage of external air
through air inlets, which are located on each floor level
and exhausted through air outlets, which are similarly
located on the floor zone above. These inlets/outlets
take the form of what the designers termed fish mouths.
These were designed to prevent the passage of driven
rain into the cavity, while at the same time providing
sufficient ventilation. Additionally, these had to restrict
the passage of sound in a vertical direction. The energy
consumed by the building is estimated to be some 3035% less than for an equivalent conventional building
which utilises a double-glazed single-skin facade.
With such a highly transparent facade, acrophobia
problems were predicted. But it has been reported that
despite the absence of a handrail in the design, the
depth of the facade eliminates the risk of such problems
for occupants.
Key project information
Client
Architect
Project value
Dates

RWE AG & Ruhr Kohl AG

Ingenhoven Overdiek Kahlen &
Partner
$60M
1991 - 1996

Services provided by Buro Happold

Structural engineering, building services engineering,
environmental engineering, facade engineering.

West India Quay is a 33 storey fully glazed tower directly opposite

Canary Wharf in London. The building has a dual usage, with a 6
storey rear podium block and the lower 11 stories of the tower being
a hotel, and the upper storeys of the tower being premium residential
space, with double height penthouses at the top. The feature curved
glazed facade faces due south, so there are considerable thermal
control issues. In addition the Docklands light railway passes very
close, and wraps around two sides of the building, so there are also
demanding acoustic control issues to be addressed in the glazing,
and room-to-room acoustic insulation, resulting in the use of double
glazed units with both skins of 66.2 Acoustic laminate glass in the
worst affected areas.
The design solution was for an externally capped, unitised glazed
curtain wall, with large feature stainless steel bull-nose pressings to
provide a strong horizontal emphasis and a degree of shading. The
upper penthouses have double height units spanning two floor
levels.
The lower hotel elevations are treated differently and solid panels
have terracotta infill, though still in the same unitised curtain wall
construction.

Key project information

Client
Architect
Project Value
Dates

Gleeds Management Services

HOK Architects
$100M
Completed in 2003

Services provided by Buro Happold

Faade Engineering

Buro Happold

West India Quay

London, UK

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