Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants and technical specialists, working across every aspect of today's built environment. Together we help our clients solve their most complex challenges - turning exciting ideas into tangible reality as we strive to find a better way and shape a better world. Founded by Sir Ove Arup, a gifted engineer-philosopher with an original and restless mind, our firm has always had a keen sense of purpose. The six aims, means and values Sir Ove identified in his Key Speech (1970) guide us to this day.
Our imaginative and versatile product design team encourage innovative thinking, better product performance, invention and collaboration. We harness a wealth of global and local market knowledge, creativity and technical expertise to develop products that are of benefit to both our clients and the wider public. For our clients, speed to market is key. The CRAFT LED luminaire for Zumtobel was developed rapidly by our product and lighting designers, who worked closely with our client and other Arup teams.
When thoughtfully designed, mechanical services such as ventilation, heating and cooling can go unnoticed - working with our clients we design them to create environments that are comfortable for occupants, economic for owners and efficient with resources. When thoughtfully designed, mechanical services such as ventilation, heating and cooling can go unnoticed. Yet these essential services help make offices and apartments attractive to tenants, and hotels appealing to guests. At their best they are resource-efficient, easy to control and maintain, adaptable and designed with wellness in mind.
Around the globe, Arup's electrical engineers bring specialist expertise to solutions for buildings, transport infrastructure and energy, water and waste utilities. Our comprehensive services include energy audits, demand assessment, supply and system resilience, utilities consultancy and sustainable electrical engineering design. Whether in commercial property, retail, sport, mission-critical facilities, the arts or any market, we meet the creative and commercial demands of designers and developers.
Contemporary landscape design must tackle pressing challenges. So while our landscape solutions help create inspiring places, they are also strategies to produce more liveable cities, greater biodiversity and resilience to climate change, and better resource management. We explore this thinking in our Cities Alive: Rethinking Green Infrastructure publication, which highlights the influential role of green infrastructure in planning and designing better cities and urban environments for people and communities.
Restoring Manchester's derelict waterfront, treating Hong Kong's sanitary sewage in a neighbour-friendly facility and replacing the highway up to the Golden Gate Bridge where it runs through a US National Park - these projects all show how civil engineering can help improve communities. Our civil engineering clients plan, build and own an extraordinarily diverse portfolio from site developments to water systems, and from energy facilities to transport networks. Their needs vary from select civil engineering skills, such as grading and drainage, to full management and execution of civil engineering design.
It is 50 years since Ove Arup identified the central importance of the humanitarian aspect of our work. We continue to prioritise socially valuable outcomes in both our commercial and community-facing work. Today, working alongside a wide range of partner organisations, we use our technical and strategic capabilities to support the most disadvantaged, vulnerable and marginalised people in the world. Our community engagement programme aims to produce a more sustainably developed world, focusing on food security; clean and renewable energy; water and sanitation; improved shelter; and social mobility.
Lighting at Arup brings together art, science and technology. Our truly global team of designers create expressive, sustainable and award-winning concepts in light. We understand the interplay of structural form and lighting, and work with architects and artists to provide original conceptual designs. Our technical knowledge ensures that concepts become viable solutions. We also know how lighting affects people at work, at home, at school and at play - not just inside but for outside spaces too.
The ambitions of structures such as the Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest) and 30 St Mary Axe (London's 'Gherkin') have cemented Arup's reputation for remarkable achievement in structural engineering. Over 65 years, we have continued to pioneer - whether for tall buildings such as Two International Finance Centre or for distinctive creative designs such as Metropol Parasol, one of the largest timber structures ever built. We maintain our reputation because we invest in attracting and developing the most inventive and experienced of structural engineers.
We’ve been appointed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland to research the future of offshore wind development.
We are pleased to launch the Proximity of Care Design Guide, alongside the Bernard van Leer Foundation. It has been developed to support the design and implementation of child and family friendly interventions in vulnerable urban contexts, such as informal and refugee settlements.
We’re working in partnership with the New Orleans Mayor’s Office of Youth and Families to help address systemic inequality and the challenges faced by vulnerable youths in their city.
We worked with the Greater London Authority to develop the Infrastructure Mapping Application, a digital tool that identifies opportunities for utility companies and authorities to collaborate on street work schemes.
If we continue with today's level of rapid urbanisation and economic activity, we may not be able to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. We have reached a point where simply 'being sustainable' in the way we live, work and consume is not going to be enough.
In June last year, the UK Government signed a legally binding target to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. But achieving net zero is about reducing demand for both energy and materials, not just offsetting it.
We were appointed by First State Investments and J.P. Morgan to provide integrated commercial and technical advice for a robust review of Electricity North West.
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